"Bill Traver, founder and owner of Traver Gallery, has been championing artists, many from the Pacific Northwest, since 1977. Now working with his daughter Sarah Traver, the gallery’s director, Bill continues to play an active role in the art scene he has supported for over four decades. Currently showing at Traver Gallery is “Unearth,” a spectacular exhibit from artist Cathy McClure. See it through September 30, 2023." - Art Zone
"Join us on an exhibition tour led by the current featured artist Cathy McClure and Gallery Director Sarah Traver. McClure earned her BFA from Texas Tech University in 1995 and her MFA from the University of Washington in 1997. The same year, she received the Seattle Art Museum’s prestigious Betty Bowen Memorial Award. She has also garnered several residencies, grants, and awards, including Le Quai Fete in Paris, an Artist Trust Fellowship, and multiple AIR positions." - Traver Gallery
"We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Cathy McClure to Traver Gallery for her first solo exhibition, Unearth. A self-proclaimed anti-disciplinarian, McClure works with materials and techniques in radically unconventional ways. With a strong background in metal design and propelled by a boundless curiosity, she explores materials, spaces, and processes that push the boundaries of what art can be." - Traver Gallery
Mickey Hardwired is an enigmatic series of animatronic Mickeys that have been rewired to a single control button. Beginning in synchronous motion, as the drama unfolds the functional forms of these stuffed animal innards quickly falter and disent spreads as they whirr, click and ratchet further and further out of sync. As we watch the army of self-choreographed cluster and disperse, we begin to attribute individual personalities and relationships into these identical forms.
"A walking metal dog got the attention of a flesh-and-blood dog, not much larger than itself, which advanced and retreated on an alternating current of curiosity and alarm." - Anthony Haden-Guest
"Midway references the traveling carnivals of Seattle-based artist Cathy McClure's youth -- complete with music, whirling lights, futuristic mechanized toys, a buzzing 10' ferris wheel and working carousel." Nora Atkinson, Renwick Gallery
"You'll never look at those cute little mechanical stuffed bunnies the same way again. On Thursday, Moss unveils Remains, an exhibition by the artist Cathy McClure, whose particular passion is taking these mass-produced, eminently disposable items and redesigning them as precious objects. If the movie Mad Max had had a toyshop, these half-whimsical, half-disturbing animals would have fit right in." - Pilar Viladas, New York Times
"An installation of three zoetropes features ear-flapping, trunk-waving elephants slowly circling stainless-steel Ferris wheels and merry-go-rounds—the flashing strobe lights and minor-key music leaven big-eyed cuteness with glitzy dystopia." -R.C. Baker, Village Voice
"If visual magic is her goal, McClure is 100 percent successful. Her three installations using motion, light and sound are astonishing, a visual and aural three-ring circus that scares and delights equally. They are so effective that they could bring even a curmudgeon to a state of childlike wonder." - David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner
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