The Telephone Room will remain Drunk until April

Drunk Dialing by Kristen Ramirez, that is... Come see the show for the first time, or make an appointment to fall in love with it all over again. If you need more information about the artist, check out this Q & A from the Seattle Times. Hot off the press!

If you'd like some Drunk Dialing inspiration of your own, the Telephone Room recommends the following recipes (courtesy of the Bartender's Guide by Trader Vic, 1947 edition). Try them all, and remember to call...The Telephone Room Gallery!

Do Be Careful Cocktail

1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. cointreau
1/2 tsp. grenadine
1/2 tsp. lemon juice

Shake with fine ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass

Artist's Special Cocktail

1/2 oz. bourbon
1/2 oz. dry sherry
1/4 oz. lemon juice
1/4 oz. Groseille syrup (you can use currant or raspberry syrup)

Shake with cracked ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass

Oh Oh Mac Cocktail

1/2 oz. brandy
1/2 oz. lillet
1/2 oz. lemon juice
1/2 oz. cointreau

Shake with cracked ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass

Each recipe serves one.

Drunk Dialing by Kristen Ramirez is on view at the Telephone Room Gallery until March 26, 2010 and is always viewable by appointment at thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.

What will you do this summer?

Upcoming November 2009 Telephone Room exhibiting artist Kristen Ramirez was selected by the City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs to be the artist in residence in Seattle's Fremont Bridge tower.
While some of us will be draped across kiddie pools in the throes of Otter Pop induced brain freeze, Ramirez will be creating a public art project inspired by the venerable drawbridge. Find out more in this article and this episode of Art Zone from the Seattle Channel.
Here at the Telephone Room Gallery, we'll be using our trusty namesake rotary dial to leave our Fremont Bridge thoughts and memories for Kristen's consideration at 206-455-9983.

UPDATE: Kristen's blog about the residency can be found here, or bend an ear to her feature on NPR's All Things Considered!

Zack at Gallery4Culture

Zack Bent is currently on view at Gallery4Culture in Seattle for the month of May.

Buffalo Trace
May 7 - 29, 2009
"Home and family are the epicenter of Zack Bent's photographic and video works ... The scenes reference the behaviors of other tribes and communities ... Buffalo Trace focuses on the Boy Scouts, an iconic American institution."
...read and see more at www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery and http://zackandgalabent.com/index.php?id=159,0,0,1,0,0

Zack was a part of the Telephone Room's inaugural Hello! show (February 18 - April 30, 2009).
The Telephone Room is always viewable by appointment at thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.

Congratulations to...

Matt Johnson – for receiving one of seventeen 2009-2010 Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP) grants.

Started in 1999, the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program (TAIP) is a biennial program to support individual artists who reside in Tacoma in their creation of new artwork.
...details at www.tacomaculture.org/arts/funding.asp

Jeremy Mangan – who currently has a show at The Helm gallery in Tacoma and an upcoming solo show at the Telephone Room in June.

March 19 - April 9, 2009 at The Helm
"...my current work is a series of drawings and paintings of barn or shed-like structures elevated and supported by stilts. I hope these images allude to the strength, usefulness, and beauty, but also the hubris, precariousness, and ridiculousness, of human ambition."
...more at www.thehelmgallery.com/?page_id=155

Nicholas Nyland – who currently has a show at the brand new OHGE Ltd. gallery in Seattle.

Nowhere, Anywhere, Everywhere
New work by Nicholas Nyland
March 21 - May 9, 2009
"Nowhere, Anywhere, Everywhere includes works in a range of media (painting, works on paper, paper mache and ceramics) that are a world apart."
...read and see more at www.ohgeltd.com/Ohge_Ltd/Past/Entries/2009/3/26.html

Elise Richman – who currently has a show with four other artists at SOIL in Seattle.

Forces and Formations
Kevin Bernstein, Jonathan Bucci, Claire Johnson, Chauney Peck, Elise Richman
April 1 - May 2, 2009
"Natural forces and formations provide a jumping off point, a reference that inspires each artist’s highly personal visual logic and evocative manipulation of materials."
...read and see more at http://soilart.org/archives/apr2009

Gala Bent – who currently has a show at Gallery4Culture in Seattle for the month of April.

Overgrown
April 2 – May 1, 2009
"In a dozen or so works on paper, Bent has produced an enchanting primer on the role of imagination in our understanding of reality."
...more at www.4culture.org/publicart/gallery/2008_2009/bent.htm

Shannon Eakins and Marc Dombrosky – who have an upcoming show at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma.

Phantasm Chasm
April 23 – May 31, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 23rd 6-10 pm
Fulcrum Social/Artist Talk: Sunday, May 10th 6 pm
"Phantasm Chasm uneasily unites some of the failed opportunities, tragic events, and myths in Tacoma’s past."
...more at www.fulcrum.oliverdoriss.com

All of these artists were nice enough to be a part of the Telephone Room's Hello! show (February 18 - April 30, 2009).
Viewable by appointment at thetelephoneroom@gmail.com.