I was sold on BLOW UP: An Inflatable Art Show one nanosecond after reading the title. A whole room full of inflatable art? Yes. Please. Save me. For at least 10 minutes of my life, let me walk around a room full of bubbly, delightful objects full to bursting with the life-sustaining nothingness of air.
But then, as is usually the case, a conversation with Colleen Louise Barry (the brain behind the small press Mount Analogue), who co-curated the show with Megan Harmon, deepened my understanding of the concept and therefore my enjoyment of life.
Barry told me that visitors will enter the Factory—where the show will be installed this Thursday, July 13, only—through a long, illuminated, translucent, inflatable tunnel created by Seattle Design Nerds, one of four artists presenting work that responds to the idea of “blowing up.”
