Dark Entries Robert Yoder and Michelle Kloehn

January 2 to February 1, 2025
Artists’ Opening, Thursday, January 2, 6 to 8PM

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Dark Entries features the work of Seattle-based Robert Yoder and Brooklyn-based Michelle Kloehn. Robert has recently begun drawing both directly with paint from the tube onto canvas, and on paper, directly and indirectly with simple transfer processes. The work is graphic, hard, and unapologetic in subject matter and intention as an exploration of the painterliness of paint. In contrast, Michelle’s interests lie in questioning the limits of photography and its processes. She shoots both studio-made objects and light using the wet plate collodion method, a 19th century photographic technique which produces an instant image. The works in the exhibition are abstract tintype photos—results of a process primitive, physical, and open to chance.

Michelle received her MFA from Bard College. Her work has been exhibited in galleries on both coasts as well as the Milwaukee Art Museum. She was featured in BLIND SPOT Issue 36, Fall Portfolio, and has been written about in The New Yorker, ARTnews, and New York Arts Magazine. Her photographs are in the collection of the National Media Museum in Bradford, England and in various private collections. This is her first exhibition at Platform.

Robert has been exhibiting for over 25 years. He holds an MFA from the University of Washington and his work is in over 30 public and corporate collections including Amgen Corporation, Boeing Corporation, The City of Seattle Public Art Collection, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Hallmark Corporation, Henry Art Gallery, Hewlett Packard Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Swedish Health Services, Tacoma Art Museum, and Vulcan Incorporated. This is his second exhibition at Platform.

Left image: Michelle Kloehn, Untitled, 2009, unique tintype, 20 x 16 inches
Right image: Robert Yoder, Untitled (Anthony), oil and acylic on canvas, 10 x 8 inches