Charles Krafft is familiar to Northwest audiences, having exhibited widely throughout the region for nearly four decades. A self taught painter and ceramicist, Krafft is now best known for his Disaterware™ plates, porcelain weaponry, and SPONE™ reliquaries made of human bone china, which have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe. This exhibition will focus on new works created during a residency last fall at the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Appropriating motifs associated with Delft souvenirs, Krafft created a series of cow creamers, windmills, ashtrays and vases, employing his signature style of Satanic irony. "The Dutch are very proud of their ceramics tradition and weren't thrilled with the way I play with it," the artist reveals in the current issue of Coagula arts journal. The work went over well, however, during its debut at the Copro Nason Gallery in Los Angeles in June. "The Devil's Hobby Hut" will also include new pieces created at his studio in Seattle, which pay homage to the imagery of his co-exhibitor, Frank Kozik.

Frank Kozik was born in Madrid, Spain in 1962. At the age of 14, he moved to the United States and settled in Austin, Texas. Credited with single handedly reviving the "lost" art of the concert poster, Kozik's creative career grew largely out of his enthusiasm for Austin's growing alternative rock scene in the mid-eighties. Starting with black and white flyers for friends' bands posted on telephone polls, his reputation rapidly grew as an artist whose work was graphically compelling as well as culturally gripping. He has designed hundreds of full-color, limited edition, silk-screened posters for such renowned artists as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Beastie Boys. He has also been the subject of many magazine articles including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, and Details. His contribution to "The Devil's Hobby Hut" will feature an installation of 100 evil Kozik designed Japanese "Dunnies" (robot-like toys), as well as recent works on paper. Currently based in San Francisco, Kozik's poster art will figure prominently in "The Art of Modern Rock" exhibition at Bumbershoot over Labor Day weekend.

This exhibit will feature a large toy installation by Kozik as well as other assorted ephemera.

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