Seattle, Washington - Shift Collaborative Studio is proud to present Worth Remembering, a solo exhibition of new work by Terra Fine. In a society where elders are no longer cherished for their wisdom or stories, Terra Fine seeks to bridge that chasm using charcoal, interviews, and installation to explore the elusiveness of memory, the frustration of forgetting, and what we hold on to in the end.

Based on interviews with women living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, this series highlights the need within us all to tell our stories and the importance of taking the time to truly listen. Using the strongest memories from these interviews, Fine combines the elder’s current physicality with visions of the past to create intimate portraits in charcoal. In addition to these portraits, the voices of the women themselves can be heard, as well as “To Catch a Shadow”, an installation using elements of shadow play to illustrate the elusiveness of memory.

The artist will be in attendance the first and last Saturdays during the show. Shift Studio is located at 306 S. Washing­ton St, #105 in the Tashiro Kaplan Building in Pioneer Square. Regular gallery hours are Friday and Saturday 12pm-5pm.

Shift is a collaborative artist’s studio that opened in the fall of 2004 in the renovated Tashiro Kaplan Arts Complex. Shift was established as an artist-run space with the primary goal of supporting emergent, practicing, Northwest artists.