Critical Line is a contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 exhibition

Art exhibition

Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" or...

 center which opened May 5, 2006. It is one of two major projects of the nonprofit art organization ArtRod

ArtRod

ArtRod is a nonprofit arts organization located in Tacoma, Washington. It was originally founded in 1958 and went through several name changes including Allied Arts and Artists Exchange. The mission of ArtRod is to facilitate art exhibition in nontraditional public arenas...

. Critical Line opened in the St. Helens section of the Theatre District of Downtown Tacoma, Washington. The inaugural exhibition of the space was titled Found Space and included the work of Ido Fluk, Kevin Haas, Matthew Keeney, EJ Hercyz, and Ann Kendellen. Critical Line's following exhibition was Keeping Score featuring new work by Anna Huff (better known by her performance name of Anna Oxygen

Anna Oxygen

Anna Oxygen is the stage name of an American musician and actress from in and around Olympia, Washington, Anna Jordan Huff.After graduating from Evergreen State College with a music degree, Huff began her musical career in the late 1990s with the novelty synth-pop group the Space Ballerinas...

, Kate Bingaman, Joanne Kim, and video artist Patrick Rock. A new exhibition is planned for early 2007 which will be a four-way curatorial effort by Wynne Greenwood

Wynne Greenwood

Wynne Greenwood is a lesbian feminist performance artist who works in various media such as installation art, photography, filmmaking and music.Wynne currently works out of Seattle, Washington...

 (better known for her work as Tracy + the Plastics

Tracy + the Plastics

Tracy + the Plastics is the name of the electro-pop solo project of Wynne Greenwood, a lesbian feminist video artist based in Olympia, Washington. The music consists of a Boss DR-5 drum machine, an Akai 612 disc sampler and anything else Tracy, Nikki, and Cola feel like using...

), Bridget Irish, Michael Lent

Michael Lent

Michael Lent is a visual artist and curator. He was the creator and publisher of Toby Room which featured interviews and work by contemporary artists. His direction of the arts organization ArtRod led to the creation of the Tollbooth Gallery, which he curated with fellow artist Jared Pappas-Kelley...

, and Jared Pappas-Kelley

Jared Pappas-Kelley

Jared Pappas-Kelley is a curator, writer, and artist. He was co-creator and publisher of Toby Room magazine. His direction of the arts organization ArtRod led to the creation of the Tollbooth Gallery, which he co-created and curated with fellow artist Michael Lent.Pappas-Kelley studied at The...

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External links

• www.ArtRod.org - The official website of the organization.