Innovative paintings find unusual studio

Gregory Euclide creates landscapes that fold actual places into the process. For his latest piece, "I Have Been Remembering: Half-Lives Half-Truths," the Minneapolis-based artist spent a week in a renovated machine shop on Ballard Avenue.

The space, OKOK Gallery, is the perfect fit for a site-specific installation. Owners Amanda and Charlie Kitchings have been offering one of the most supportive independent spaces for artists to explore ideas outside of their established practices.

For some of his previous drawings, the artist has buried the paper and then used the stains and decay to dictate and direct the outcome.

The delicate results often are fluid lines looping past happenstance marks: Cy Twombly meets John Cage.

His installation at OKOK expands on the ideas of landscape and how it's packaged and remembered. He transformed the gallery using hundreds of 1-inch drawings and photo transfers of Seattle's landscape and geography.

Each piece is mounted in bubble wrap that snakes around the rear walls of the gallery in two parallel lines.

In the center of the space hangs a sculpted piece of paper with a 360-degree graphite rendering of the gallery's exterior. For Euclide, landscape includes the front door.

The show runs through Aug. 7 at OKOK Gallery, 5107 Ballard Ave. N.W.; 206-789-6242. Tuesday-Saturday noon-6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

-- Nate Lippens