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Fine Arts Exhibition

John Grade: Middle Fork

At Seattle Art Museum

Downtown Seattle, Seattle

🌲Built from thousands of salvaged wood pieces
📏Over 90 feet long, suspended overhead
🎒Bag storage available at SAM lobby

John Grade's "Middle Fork" suspends a 140-year-old western hemlock in midair: not the tree itself, but a perfect hollow cast built from thousands of tiny wood scraps. The Cascade Mountains live inside a downtown museum.

Large-scale sculpture
Nature-inspired art
Immersive installation
Contemporary art