Seattle Art Museum Next: Oscar Tuazon And Eli Hansen

Eli Hansen and Oscar Tuazon are brothers from Tacoma who have worked as artists collaboratively as well as independently, for several years. Hansen is a practicing glass blower who works at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma and has apprenticed with well known artists in the field such as Sonia Blomdahl. Tuazon attended the prestigious Whitney Independent Study Program and runs a gallery called Castillo/ Corrales in Paris; he recently won the 2007 Betty Bowen Award. Collaborations by the two brothers have revolved around do it yourself architectural concepts and utopian, off the grid communities. In objects and installations (often utilizing hand blown glass), their work offers intriguing proposals for new forms and structures.

One of their works, titled Crystal Math, entered Seattle Art Museum's permanent collection in 2007. Tuazon and Hansen's work is the first to be the focus of SAM Next a new exhibition series that rotates three times per year, introducing audiences to emerging or underappreciated artists working in the Northwest, around the United States and internationally. The brothers have built an architectural fragment called Kodiak in the Grinstein Gallery. This structure alludes to another fragment in a remote location in Kodiak, Alaska and the viewer is called upon to imagine the differences and commonalities between these two fictional places.

Museum Hours:

Tuesday – Sunday: 10 am. – 5 pm.
Thursday & Friday: 10 am. – 9 pm.
Monday: closed

Tickets: Suggested General Admission.

$13 adults
$10 seniors (62 and over)
$7 students (with ID) and youth (13–17)
Free for children 12 and under
Free for SAM members.

Date: April 19 – October 26, 2008

Location: Seattle Art Museum Third Floor Galleries.