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Talented Seattle artist Isaac Layman’s "Paradise" at the Frye Art Museum

SEATTLE, WA.- One of Seattle’s most talented contemporary artists, Isaac Layman (b. 1977), will be celebrated at the Frye Art Museum November 19, 2011 through January 22, 2012. In his first solo museum exhibition, Paradise, Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged, photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his Seattle home. Curated by the director of the Frye Art Museum, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Paradise includes more than twenty new photographic constructions created especially for the exhibition. Layman’s most recent constructions, small-to-epic photographic re-orderings of objects, tools, materials, doors, windows, surfaces, and debris in his home, explore the shared cultural desire to fabricate escapes, destinations, and monuments and examine the role discontent plays in driving the need to create imagined perfection. The