Warren Armando Pope

SEATTLE, WA

artist event

Bellwether 2022 Digital Residency
Friday, September 23 – Thursday, September 29

Warren Armando Pope (b. 1990) is an artist, illustrator, public artist, and architectural designer based in Seattle, WA. As an artist, he hybridizes physical and digital techniques informed by architectural studies to explore themes of otherness, plasticity, and transformation as they relate to his multiracial and queer identity. These explorations most often take the form of paintings, drawings, and digital works. Warren has shown work at the Vashon Center for the Arts, Kerf International Exhibits, and Northwest African American Museum. 

In addition to studio art practice, Warren currently works at a small Seattle architecture firm on residential, aviation, and public art projects. He most recently completed and installed ‘Together Ascend’ in Homer, Alaska and is currently working on a large sculpture to be installed in Pierce County later this year. Prior to practicing architecture, he supported Koryn Rolstad Studios for 4 years, installing 15 public art projects in 11 states. He frequently brings his public art experience to the classroom as a guest speaker, reviewer, and occasional teacher at the UW Summer Youth Program introductory architecture studio. 

PROJECT SYNOPSIS

With my digital residency, I seek to engage Bellwether's online audience in mutual feelings of abundance, overwhelm, and transience, as they relate to our digital condition. These are the feelings that arise in me while infinitely scrolling walls of content, leaving tens of thousands of emails unread, or opening a 1000th new browser tab. I will be showing a new series of chaotic and serene digital work alongside a curation of works in progress, archival selections, and past works.