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owners, Erik Hall and Amy Spassov, will exhibit their personal collection
publicly for the first time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over more than a decade the pair have
grown the gallery side by side and during that time have amassed a collection
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Gretchen Gammell, Jeff Peters and Jérôme Poirier, as well as work by Seattle
artist Dylan Neuwirth, tapestry artist Erin M. Riley and Street Artist,
Swoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The couple will also be
sharing a sculpture by the late artist, Cheryl Ekstrom, their custom motorcycle
builds and custom furniture pieces built by Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-65781445655605600232017-01-14T15:14:00.000-08:002017-01-14T15:14:03.933-08:00NEW STUDIO 2017Our first space located on 2nd street in Downtown Bellevue is being developed into a high-rise early this year so we've been in the process of building a new studio space. This time from ground up! We've been involved with every aspect of this project from the design, to the drawings and the complete build. Here are some progress shots.<br />
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This is our Living in Style booth in participation with the Bellevue Collection. We view many things as art, including our collection of vintage paintbrushes as well as our custom vintage motorcycles. Artwork on view by Cheryl Ekstrom, JD Hansen, Stallman, Erik Hall, Jeff Peters, Daniel Ochoa and neon by Dylan Neuwirth. Contact the gallery for more information. </div>
HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-23517287939309589032015-08-04T19:19:00.001-07:002015-08-04T19:20:41.112-07:00Studio Location <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">The Studio is a multi-use facility for Hall Spassov Gallery. The 2500sqft space is home to a full wood shop, painting studio, custom vintage motorcycles and over three hundred works of art from as far away as Barcelona and as close as Seattle. The space is located three blocks South of the gallery in Old Bellevue and is open to the public by appointment. </span></div>
HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-42008786646602310922015-08-04T19:15:00.000-07:002015-08-04T19:22:49.922-07:00Featured Artist <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist duo Jason Hallman and Stephen Stum
have gained recent notoriety for their distinctive canvas-on-edge sculptures,
and they continue to find ways to innovate within this unique medium. In their
most recent body of work, color takes the spotlight; however, in a bold new
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the Heart</i>) bring fiery sensibilities to the foreground. Charcoal, embers,
molten metals and smoke come to mind when we consider this abstracted sculptural
cardiogram. Never predictable, always changing, its rises, falls, and twists
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to its appreciation as its design; the two artists (partners in business and in
life) work on each tableau together. Filling it in from the sides toward the
center, they unify their intentions by meeting in the middle. Their work is, at
its core, about collaboration and partnership—between colors, between people,
between humans and nature—and their innovative technique renders each piece a
collaboration of mind as well as body. Each Stallman work is a tandem journey
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undulating composition we could as easily see a river lit at midnight by a
harvest moon, a vein of shimmering gold in the depths of a coal mine, or the
time-lapsed vista of a darkened highway. The palette certainly brings fire and
metal to mind, but may hearken also to flesh and charcoal, to the hard-worn
surface of a tarnished vessel, the dirt of eons rubbed away to reveal the
gilding underneath. In</span><i style="color: #666666;"> Rhythm of the
Heart,</i><span style="color: #666666;"> we find the shimmer of audacious beauty in the tangles of a dark
grey vortex; a hopeful gleam that tantalizes us from deep in the shadows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">A 1971 Honda CB350 Twin called "Thumper"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We maintain that a successful piece of art conveys the message it was
meant to convey and that a successful artist is, indeed, trying to say
something with their art. That is to say that if one creates a piece of
art that was meant to convey fear and that fear is never felt by the viewer
then that art is not successful.
Of course it is more complicated than that. It relies heavily on the viewer’s personal experience,
education and open-mindedness.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does it need to have broad appeal or reach just one person?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are its meanings varied?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deduction of these questions leads me
to believe, and I whole-heartedly do, that an artwork is successful if it
cannot be ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does not
have to be loved or believed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
may be hated or even feared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
inability to disregard the art becomes the measure of the art’s success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s even better when it calls into
question the very personal choices we make for our own lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in this place that we have found
the success of Dylan Neuwirth’s work titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You
Might Live, You Most Certainly Will Die</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gallery in Seattle did not have ideal windows
to display traditional paintings. We tasked ourselves with finding
artwork that would come to define our Seattle gallery and us. It would
make relic of the traditional sign and speak to our personal beliefs.
After meeting with Neuwirth it became clear to us that he was the right artist
to produce such a piece. <i>You Might Live,
You Most Certainly Will Die, </i>is a reminder that focusing intently on personal
choices, pursuing passions and embracing risk are necessary in ones comfort
with the inevitable and as such represents our gallery and our purpose
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<span class="field-content"><a href="http://www.seattlemag.com/profiles/brangien-davis" style="color: #006699; text-decoration: none;">Brangien Davis</a> | July 2014 | FROM THE PRINT EDITION</span></div>
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Behind the scene shots at our second location in Seattle's Pioneer Square. On June 1st we took over the space formerly occupied by Grover Thurston Gallery, located at the corner of 3rd Avenue South and South Jackson Street. Since then, we've been working hard at making some changes; putting our stamp on it so to speak. If you are familiar with the space you'll recognize the updates that have been made and we're very excited to show you. Come for a visit on July 3rd for our grand opening during the First Thursday Art Walk. We'll introduce you to our new digs, as well as our talented roster of artists during our first group exhibition in Seattle titled, <i>User Profile. </i></div>
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We shook hands with Richard Thurston and Susan Grover who ran one of Seattle's most respected galleries for over two decades, received our keys and the space officially became ours that day.</div>
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I have a state-of-the art easel I use daily for painting. I have arranged my studio with attention to how I work, move and feel in it. The best investments I make are the ones I make in the equipment I use for my art. My easel, what I use to hold my canvas, was by far the most important. </div>
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It was the glorious Super Bowl last year (Ravens 34 vs. Niners 31) that I decided to build Jay a new "Easel". I did tons of research to figure out what a fly tier might need in the way of tool storage, structure and workability. What I discovered was that most fly benches are stable, but that stability had a downside. The generally accepted designs offered nothing in the way of adjustability. I thought for months about how I wanted to approach the build so that I could balance adjustability with stability.</div>
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I got some wheels off of a funky old lamp. Wheels on a lamp are strange, wheels on a fly ting bench… more strange.</div>
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I added in a few other innovations. The magnetic strip in the front right side is my favorite. I watched Jay tie many flies and always noticed him setting scissors, pliers and other tools down and awkwardly reaching for them again as he held a fly. This keeps the tools front and to the right near his working hand.</div>
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Adjustability came in the form of multiple tool holder sizes, but was most apparent in the rolling tool arms. The bench expands from 0 inches to 72 inches allowing plenty of room to spread out feathers, furs, tools and thread. It can also divide into two separate work stations. The wood is White Maple and Zebrawood. The thread dowels are made out of polished aluminum.</div>
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HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-57576516701222637412014-01-04T16:10:00.002-08:002014-01-04T16:10:57.433-08:00Blondie BenchOur good friend, Paul collects vintage cars. He has an affinity for old Citroens. During the course of restoring one of these beautiful cars he ordered blue leather that when viewed in person was clearly the wrong color for the car. It was, however, the perfect color to make some "left of center" benches. This highlights the first of them.<br />
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Like the <a href="http://hallspassov.blogspot.com/2013/09/beast-bench-2013.html" target="_blank">"Beast"</a> bench previously documented in our blog. This bench was intended to mix the old and new. The intention was to develop a modern shape, but add in classic details in the cushion. What I came up with Amy named the "Blondie Bench".</div>
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I used deep tufting on the cushion to create the early classical feel. It was interesting to see what would dominate the look, the color or the tufting.</div>
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The height of the glass lines up generally with that of the leather.</div>
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The risers were constructed in three pieces. Each has a bolt, polished metal sleeve and a pad.</div>
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HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-83266222935060577972013-11-02T17:25:00.004-07:002013-11-02T17:30:13.459-07:00Affordable Art Fair Seattle 2013<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Join us at the fair, November 6th - 10th, 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">Hall Spassov Gallery is participating again in 2013. We will feature new work from our existing roster of artists such as James Key, Daniel Ochoa, Mars and Pony and Amy Spassov among others. The Affordable Art Fair is a great forum to introduce new artists that have shown great potential. Raul Campos, from Mexico, paints poignant, striking human imagery devoid of non-essential information and Sherri Gamble, from Washington, is a glass artist whose work is a salient reminder of our connection with nature.</span></span><br />
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This week we have been chatting to Erik Hall and Amy Spassov, the husband and wife duo who run the <a href="http://hallspassov.com/about/" style="border: 0px; color: #df0a76; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hall Spassov Gallery</a>. Erik and Amy started the gallery in 2006 in Bellevue, WA. Here they reveal why collecting art is all about the hunt, as well as give their top tips for starting a collection from scratch. <span style="color: #818285; font-family: pragmatica-web, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">The Affordable Art Fair is returning to Seattle for its second year. The AAF is an internationally recognized art fair that produces exhibitions in New York, Hong Kong, Milan and London. </span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amy:</strong> I share the same sentiment with Erik, though my emotional connection with a piece of work plays a huge role in why I collect and the majority of time this rules my decision to purchase a piece.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pink" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(223, 10, 118) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What advice would you give to someone wanting to start a collection?</span></strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik:</strong> Take your time! Those walls don’t need to be filled up today, tomorrow or even in the next ten years. Your taste will inevitably change and if you go too hard too fast you are going to waste money and time. Acquire pieces that haunt your thoughts and let one or two get away so you can understand how bad it feels when they do. It will help guide your future purchases.</div>
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“We have a piece being done by Gretchen Gammell for above our buffet, who is one of my personal favorites, and we have a few of her other works in our collection including this piece which is called ‘A Complicated Sounding.’” (Amy)</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pink" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(223, 10, 118) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What was the very first piece of art you bought?</span><br /><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amy:</strong></strong> My first piece was purchased from a photographer named Amy Postle. She and I admired one another’s work and we collectively decided to do a trade. Her piece hangs in our bathroom and my affection for it is still as strong as when I received it years ago.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik: </strong>The first piece of art I purchased was from an artist who had her work up in a coffee shop. It was a big piece that belied its price, as it was only $800. I still have it and I still like it.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pink" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(223, 10, 118) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Any top tips for displaying your art?</span></strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik:</strong> This is where I become forcefully opinionated! Creating a union between two of the most personal things in your life, your home and your art, is as important a task as any. I give each piece room to breath. I make sure each piece has been lit correctly and is at a height were an average size person can access the middle of the painting at eye level. It is always a disappointment to see works crammed together, dark and at heights that don’t allow a viewer to engage and connect with it.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Amy:</strong> Erik and I have hung a lot of artwork in our lifetime. These guidelines are very helpful. Finding a good center on a piece is the key and will make it easier as you add work to your walls. Of course there are times when the rules can be broken. Some pieces of art were meant to be rebels and you can have a little more fun with placement.</div>
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“Another piece we love by Daniel Ochoa, ‘Moreno and Blanco.’” (Amy)</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="pink" style="border: 0px; color: rgb(223, 10, 118) !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you have favorite piece in your collection?</span></strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: NeuzeitGro-Bold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Erik:</strong> At the risk of sounding politically correct, I like them all equally. If someone said I had to pick one…a portrait of Waris Ahluwalia by my wife, Amy Spassov. It is equal parts cool, sexy and inventive…I love it!</div>
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Amy and I will often go to antique stores on Sundays. On a recent Sunday I found an older fireplace guard and all I could see was a bench. This is the sketch I made after purchasing the piece.<br />
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A few weeks later Amy and I found ourselves in yet another antique store. This time we were after an old chair or table we could steal some legs from. This poor chair had no idea that its life was about to end. I pulled the legs and stripped the finish to reveal some nice looking mahogany.<br />
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Once the legs were off the challenge quickly became how to fit them to the new wood. The frame of the bench left few options to attach the legs, but this is how it went down.<br />
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This is what the side would eventually look like. The whole idea of the bench was to be classic and antiquated in the back (the claw foot) and modern in the front (clean line maple).</div>
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More fitting and mock-ups...</div>
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I had to make a template based on the shape of the fireplace guard. It was not easy as the fireplace guard was not symmetrical, but the bench needed to be. Clamping the round edge was no picnic either.</div>
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This got really tricky as I had to keep the legs parallel to each other and perpendicular to the bench top as I clamped the sides on. This is some serious duct tape and peanut butter stuff here, but it worked until the glue set up.</div>
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Here is the bench pre-sanded and pre-stained. Now the fun stuff starts...</div>
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I wanted the back to be black and the front to be more stained wood. I dyed the entire bench with a black aniline dye. After it dried I sanded the wood back where I did not want the black to be.</div>
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<br />HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-63052759472292945712013-04-07T15:17:00.000-07:002013-05-17T17:29:15.339-07:00Studio visit with Cheryl Ekstrom <!--StartFragment--><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We recently took a trip to Los Angeles and spent a day with sculptor <span style="color: #0b5394;"><a href="http://www.cherylekstrom.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Cheryl Ekstrom</span></a> </span>getting to know her and her work. It was easy to loose track of time once we stepped inside. Every corner of her space seemed to tell a story with plenty more for you to discover on your own. She is an exquisite woman and artist. We are thrilled to have a show scheduled with a selection of her work opening July 11th, 2013.</span></span></div>
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HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-77237872156736050342012-07-26T16:33:00.001-07:002013-05-17T17:31:47.061-07:00A New Name<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">In August of 2006 Hallway Gallery opened its doors in Bellevue, Washington with an opening exhibition of new work by artist Gretchen Gammell. It has been six years since and every year in August the gallery has featured Gammell’s work. The gallery changed locations twice consistently expanding and upgrading each time. The current location on Bellevue Way and 8th, the economic hub of the greater eastside of the state, is a brilliant, bright and sophisticated spot to showcase the international talent that comprises our roster of artists and Gretchen Gammell is no exception. This August we welcome Gretchen Gammell back to the gallery along with a new name.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Hallway Gallery will now be conducting business as Hall Spassov Gallery. Every successful gallery has a developed aesthetic and Hall Spassov Gallery certainly has theirs. Husband and wife owners Erik Hall and Amy Spassov made the difficult decision to change the name in order to define that aesthetic and clearly state the direction of the gallery. Representing such world-class talent as Rein de Lege, Ellwood Risk, Robert Chapman and JD Hansen the gallery brings a progressive selection of art to new and established collectors through out Washington and the United States.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;">Look for exciting exhibits throughout the rest of 2012 that include Los Angeles based Ellwood Risk, French artist Gerard Cambon, Italian phenom Emilio Valerio D’Ospina and Robert Chapman, assistant to mid-century master Willem de Kooning for the final years of his career.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 20px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 20px; color: #3f3d41; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><br />
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For our June exhibit we installed two candy colored "bubble cars" on loan from a private collector and friend of the gallery. The vehicles are very fitting given the nostalgic and seemingly "Hitchcockian" flare of Amy Spassov's 2012 exhibition. Messerschmitt was originally known for the famous German Aircraft built for the German army, Messerschmitt AG, designed by Willy Messerschmitt. After World War II, and for the obvious reason the company was not allowed to produce aircraft so they came up with an alternative design. These 1956 three wheeled "bubble cars" or "cabin scooters" known as Messerschmitts will be on display for the duration of Amy Spassov's exhibit "Re: Figments" for the month of June at Hallway Gallery. </div>
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Erik Hall's solo show at <a href="http://www.gilmancontemporary.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Gilman Contemporary</span></a> Sun Valley, ID</div>
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A road trip tradition for us. A stop to admire these beautifully designed wind turbines. </div>
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HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-53235572023008269122012-03-01T10:36:00.000-08:002012-03-01T10:36:04.423-08:00Judith KindlerIt is a rare occurrence that we will purchase a piece of artwork for display in the gallery. Most works are consigned by the artist. However, of late we have purchased more and more works. Of those works is an exquisite piece titled <i>Random Acts and Laws</i>. It was completed by much lauded artist Judith Kindler and sold originally in 2001. <br />
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We had brushes of fate with this piece as it had come across our desk twice before in 2010. Finally, at an auction in 2011 looking to acquire another work by a different artist we had yet another brush of fate. This time was different than the previous encounters. Something about the piece spoke with more clarity on this occasion and the beauty and importance of this work was at once very clear.<br />
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We purchased it. What once was the treasure of a downsized collection was now front and center in our personal collection. It is in the gallery every day and every day we marvel at its mystery. It is a wonderfully executed piece by a loved Northwest painter. The first of what would be a long line of encaustic works by which Judith Kindler would become famed for, it is a work of historic importance.<br />
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We decided to make the desk using the wood from old pallets. The aged slabs of a pallet are not the best wood for structural use on their own, but when adhered to a custom fabricated frame made of oak ply they become not only strong, but stylish as well. Because we are not throwing out the pallets... less trash!<br />
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We decided after much deliberation (mostly Erik's) that purchasing a desk made in this fashion would be wildly expensive. We also threw out many other ideas that were not versatile enough, not as environmentally conscience and just plain unattractive. Because we were not spending more on inferior design and poor construction.. more cash!<br />
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</div>HALL/SPASSOVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07571415542453788628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6377729235745723202.post-72284913975112808582011-12-21T12:40:00.000-08:002012-01-16T19:10:23.249-08:00Shop and DestroyThe economy is in a slump, a recession... a slow down. How do we know? The news said so. We were out and about last week and it did not look like anyone watched the news. In fact people were out buying stuff at a furious pace. Their social awareness and tact seemed to vanish with every item selected. No one held doors or bothered to look behind them. Eye contact and courtesies were at a minimum. The only thing anyone seemed to care about was getting the obligatory present in a fashion that seemed to say "check it off the list" and not "I'm thinking about you". <br />
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We are wildly optimistic and filled with love and affection for those around us... even the strangers at the mall who let the door slam on us. We are aware of the misfortunes in the world and it makes us even more appreciative of the gift of friendship and the love of family. Here is the thing... It's the holidays. Who doesn't like receiving a present. But when we can't see the menorah or the tree for all the presents it may be that we have lost our way. It is true that it is better to give than to receive. Give... not lavish. Receive... a gift. Not stuff. A gift.<br />
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From us to you... Ellwood T. Risk "Shop and Destroy"<br />
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Here is the thing. Original art is original art and by virtue of this there is only one. Once it is gone it is often gone for good. Here, we would much rather regret the things we did than things we did not do so our message is this: When moved, you better move. These are ones we moved on...<br />
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