Seattle, WA.- The Bellevue Arts Museum is proud to present “Cathy McClure: Midway”, on view at the museum until January 22nd 2012. Music, flashing lights, and whirring motors… toys buzzing about, or lined up like prizes on the wall waiting to be won…. The air is thick with the excitement of the carnival—an enveloping sensual feast of light, sound, and movement. If the primary goal of an artwork is to attract attention, the work of Seattle artist Cathy McClure is a tour de force. Taking her scissors to anonymous playthings and pop culture icons alike, and stripping them of their identities (and attendant commercial roles), McClure delves into the comedy and tragedy of an increasingly fast-paced automated culture. Here, the long neglected carnivals of yesteryear seamlessly morph into a sleek, efficiently mechanized future world.