Amalgam Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo are Lead Pencil Studio, an art and architecture super duo.
As Lead Pencil, they are equally at home making buildings, designing interior spaces and creating site specific conceptual art. Their aesthetic is clear and elegant, practicing conservation of material and form.
Han and Mihalyo met at UofO in architecture school. After school they traveled the West, photographing the abandoned hulks that once made fortunes grinding trees into wood. One result was Mihalyo's 1997 book "Wood Burners", photographs of giant furnaces for burning lumbering leftovers, and a show at Blue Sky Gallery. Another result: those giant scale ruins have informed their use of space in making installations today.
Tonight they show their work and talk about it.
Lead Pencil has been selected for residencies at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah; the SF Exploratorium; and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin. Shows include the Henry; COCA, both Seattle; the SF Exploratorium; Miami Aqua; Disjecta in the Columbia Gorge, Art in General, NYC; and SF MOMA. They have also received The Stranger Genius Award, the Architecture League of NY Emerging Voice Award, Artists' Trust and Creative Capital Awards, Seattle and NYC respectively.
See their show too themed on "light" at the Lawrimore Project in Seattle May 3- June 30.
W+K Atrium 224 NW 13th 7PM Free
