Lynn Schirmer

Call for Art: After Dinner Party

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The After Dinner Party Project

http://afterdinnerparty.com
*Site contains anatomical terminology and images.*

The purpose of the After Dinner Party project is to use creativity to familiarize the public with once obscure but newly rediscovered, and empowering, information about female anatomy.
After Dinner Party consists of two kinds of activities: a curated art exhibit and celebration; and a loosely coordinated series of individual and/or mass public actions.

I would like as many artists as possible to participate!  

Artists, please visit the site, review the project and criteria, and then fill out the Call for Art submission form.

Feel free to forward this call.

The exhibit and party are scheduled for First Thursday, May 3, at the Tashiro Kaplan artist lofts.

And thank you Jen Graves…

 

The Art After Dinner Party: Mass Public Clitoral Action

Posted by on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:30 PM

The clit of Lynn Schirmer.

  • The clit of Lynn Schirmer.

Seattle artist Lynn Schirmer today announced a new project called After Dinner Party. The title is a reference to Judy Chicago’s early feminist masterwork The Dinner Party, which is on long-term display at the heart of the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The Dinner Party is a vagina thing. After Dinner Party is clitoral, a body part that’s inherently more politicized, more feared, more misunderstood, more ignored, more attacked, more everythinged. It’s time to clitoralize.

At this point, After Dinner Party is just a web site—but one with drawings of the clitoris that already make you remember its shape when you close your eyes. (I did not already have a 3D projection of the clitoris in my brain; maybe you did.)

The project has two upcoming (ahem, upcoming) phases, set to begin during Pioneer Square’s First Thursday Art Walk in May:

At present, After Dinner Party consists of two kinds of activities: a curated art exhibit and celebration; and a loosely coordinated series of individual and/or mass public actions. The form and scope of the second portion is entirely dependent upon the energy and creativity of participants. The goal is to represent the shape of the clitoris, in as many art forms and in as many venues or public spaces as possible, all over the city.

You’ve really gotta check this out.

50 Schirmers

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Where ever I go, I always take a sketchbook with me. My little obsessive purges seemed to be getting more interesting lately, so I thought I would post them on my site. Since my recent  studio moves (and losses) I’ve been working far less on major, large scale work, and intently scribbling more. I often draw when I’m at the local pub, a cafe, or whenever I have to wait somewhere.

A few years ago I showed a collection of these that I had drawn in the pub. I laid them out in a large graph form, the upper left corner representing the most sober, the bottom right corner, the end of the evening. It was fun to see the progression, and made a good argument for sobriety.

I am also selling these online, so if you find one you like, please consider supporting an independent artist!

See them here:

50 Schirmers

(For some reason, the motools script is only counting 49, but there are 50… aren’t there?  Am I missing something?)

A Confirmation of OWS

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Occuapy Seattle sign

Occupy Seattle sign

Sign Slogan credit: Wintler2 on the Rigorous Intuition Discussion Board

Just for the record, and if there were any doubt, I support Occupy Wall Street, and all other occupy or occupation protests. I have physically supported the Occupy Seattle actions.  The economic and governmental systems that hold  sway on national and global levels are demonstrably corrupt.  I could very well have taken out my signs from the WTO protests over a decade ago and used them today, as nearly everything we warned against in those actions has come to fruition. What we warned against back then is even more prescient today. Our very survival as a species depends upon a massive intervention against the corruption of unregulated, global capitalism.  We live in auspicious times.  I hope that human beings are up to the challenge. My heart is lightened by the myriad scenes of protestors gathering in cities across the world. May we not be too late in our interventions, may we not be too shallow in our efforts.

Revenant Limbs, TK Open House

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New Drawings and Paintings

October 6 – 30, 2011

Extended through November 26

See me on the next First Thursday, November 3, 2011

Reception: First Thursday, October 6, 6 – 9 pm


Trabant Coffee

(Next door to the former Howard House Gallery)
602 Second Ave
Seattle, 98104
Open weekdays 6:30am – 6pm
Weekends 9:00am – 5:00pm No longer open on weekends
Little John

Little John, Colored pencil on layered drafting film 10 x 8 inches 2011

Sheila & George Colored pencil on layered drafting film 10 x 8 inches 2011

Curator:  Willow Fox.
Revenant means one that returns after death or long absence.  In this latest series of figurative works, Lynn Schirmer focuses on the process of reconnecting with and re-inhabiting her limbs after long dissociation.

Schirmer says:
“The way we move our bodies, our limbs, is loaded with subtle communication. You can see the product of love in the movement of a hand; you can detect it by a lack of hesitation, unselfconscious spontaneity, and the degree of celebrated idiosyncrasy.  Likewise, subtly hesitant or restricted movement can denote weakness, fear, or insecure beginnings.”

 

Poor Horsey
Poor Horsey, Oil on canvas, 32 x 60 inches, 2011

 

Also, do not miss the

Tashiro Kaplan Annual Open House

First Thursday, October 6, 5-11pm

Visual and live performing arts.
Several of my works will hang outside my door on the 5th floor.
Perhaps an after-party will ensue!

Performances begin in the VRC (community room) at 8:30pm.

TK Open House Postcard

More info: TKLofts.com

Upcoming Summer Shows

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Lynn Schirmer | Robert Yoder on First Thursday

Thursday, July 7 · 6:00pm – 10:30pm
X17 Studio
619 Western Ave. 4th Floor South

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=214179828626337

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10 x 10 x 10 x Tieton Juried Art Exhibition

August 13 through October 2

Mighty Tieton Warehouse

608 Wisconsin, Tieton, WA

The tiny town of Tieton has been partially taken over by portions of the Seattle art community.  It’s a fun place to visit, especially during its Community Days in mid August.

The show opens Saturday, August 13, noon until 5pm. The exhibit runs until until Sunday, October 2. Regular gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, noon until 3pm.

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