Critical Line is a contemporary art exhibition center which opened May 5, 2006. It is one of two major projects of the nonprofit art organization ArtRod. Critical Line opened in the St. Helens section of the Theatre District of Downtown Tacoma, Washington. The inaugural exhibition of the space was titled Found Space and included the work of Ido Fluk, Kevin Haas, Matthew Keeney, EJ Hercyz, and Ann Kendellen. Critical Line's following exhibition was Keeping Score featuring new work by Anna Huff (better known by her performance name of Anna Oxygen, Kate Bingaman, Joanne Kim, and video artist Patrick Rock. A new exhibition is planned for early 2007 which will be a four-way curatorial effort by Wynne Greenwood (better known for her work as Tracy + the Plastics), Bridget Irish, Michael Lent, and Jared Pappas-Kelley.
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“You took my heart in your hand
With a friendly smile,
With a critical eye you scanned,
Then set it down,
And said: It is still unripe,
Better wait awhile;”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,—to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,—almost any timber will give way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)