Handforth Gallery 
2010 Exhibitions

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Works of Light
Unnatural Light - Jessica Spring
Blue Midnight - Victoria Bjorklund
June 21- August 7, 2010

Victoria Bjorklund - Blue Midnight
"For this series I walked down empty sidewalks and dormant streets that bustled with life just hours before. Large black trees loom overhead, their twisting branches scratching the inky blue sky. As I wander the shadowy and mysterious nightscapes, I invite the viewer on my little adventure to observe and experience the urban splendor of Blue Midnight. These photographs are printed on transparency film to enhance the luminosity within the prints."

Victoria Bjorklund is a photographic & book artist based in Tacoma, Washington. Her interests lie in both natural and urban landscapes. Inspired by writers and how they use words to describe the world around them, she strives to create a photographic narrative within each image.

Bjorklund is a graduate of the Fine Art Certificate program in Photography at The Maine Media Workshops and a graduate of the EDGE program for visual artists through Artist Trust in Seattle. The creation of this series Blue Midnight was funded by the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP) through the Tacoma Arts Commission.

Jessica Spring - Unnatural Light
"There is something different about the light in the Pacific Northwest that provokes contemplation-from the lack of it in winter months to the cyan skies in summer that overtake the night. Unnatural Light reflects a lifetime of illumination through stories and wordplay with text that is challenging reading in daylight, but literally glows in the dark. The collection of prints is letterpress printed on handmade cotton paper."

Jessica Spring is the proprietor of Springtide Press in Tacoma where she designs, prints and binds artist books, broadsides and ephemera incorporating handmade paper and letterpress printing. Small finely-crafted editions consider historical topics and popular culture from a unique perspective. Jessica has an MFA from Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper and teaches at Pacific Lutheran University's Elliott Press and The School of Visual Concepts in Seattle.

Calm Spirit
Contemporary art Korea
August 12 - September 8, 2010
Handforth Gallery @ the Main Library

Opening reception: Thursday, August 19 @ 6 p.m.
Many of the artists will be present.

Nineteen acclaimed Korean artists reexamine their identity in the context of the American landscape. "The purpose of the exhibition," explains exhibition curator Jung Ho Kim, "is to introduce Korean contemporary art and its unique harmonization of grace and power to the wider American public in order to spread greater awareness of the progressive contemporary movement within the Korean art world."

Presented by the Korean American Artists Association of Washington in celebration of their 20th anniversary.