emily ann pothast

Selected Press

2011

"Q&A: Emily Pothast of Midday Veil." City Arts Magazine, Sept. 26, 2011.
"Third Eye's the Charm: Gearing Up for Escalator Fest's Psychedelic Summit Meeting" (feature). Dave Segal, The Stranger, Sept. 20, 2011.
"Midday Veil,'Subterranean Ritual II' tape" (album review). Dave Miller, Foxy Digitalis, Sept. 2, 2011.
"Midday Veil's Subterranean Ritual II" (album review). Dave Segal, The Stranger's Line Out, July 26, 2011.
"Shepherds of the Abstruse" (interview/photo shoot). Cairo Vintage Blog, June 29, 2011.
"Two New Vinyl Releases from Translinguistic Other" (album review). OMG Vinyl, May 17, 2011.
"Midday Veil at Rhinoceropolis, 5/13/11" (show review). Tom Murphy, Denver Westword, May 14, 2011.
"Midday Veil - Eyes All Around" (album review). Chris Estey, Three Imaginary Girls, March 1, 2011.
"High Wolf, Hair & Space Museum, Megabats @ Cairo, Feb. 4" (show review). Dave Segal, The Stranger's Line Out, Feb. 6, 2011.
"Interview with Emily Pothast of Midday Veil." Ryan Muldoon, Revolt of the Apes, Jan. 1, 2011.

2010

"Midday Veil's Transcendental Psych Visions." Travis Ritter, The Portland Mercury's End Hits, Nov. 17, 2010.
"Midday Veil & The Arrington de Dionyso Experience @ The Comet" (show review). Bobby Malvestuto, Seattle Subsonic, Nov. 15, 2010.
"Asymptotes Epic: Midday Veil's Oracular, Spectacular Psychedelia" (feature). Dave Segal, The Stranger, Nov. 9, 2010.
"Midday Veil - Eyes All Around" (album review). John Gillanders, Redefine Magazine, Nov. 3, 2010.

Reviews of "Eternal Return," solo exhibition at Grey Gallery, 2009

  • "There's a surprising, pleasurable depth in these relatively flat surfaces. Some of the cutout and colored-in shapes sit slightly higher on the paper than others—some are simply thicker than others, I assume—and this creates in the two dimensions of the collage an actual three dimensionality that telescopes the whole thing. And then there are the real-world surfaces these cutout strips resemble and represent. Standing in front of the single work shown above last night, I spotted the following surfaces: a basketball, human hair, cottage cheese, wood, a topographical map, linoleum, pure paint, sand, Jagermeister, grass, tightly wound carpeting, water, popcorn, night sky, knitted yarn, heavy night rain, and arts and crafts wallpaper. My mind was traveling along with my eye. As far as I know, this is Pothast's first solo show in Seattle (she graduated from UW with her MFA in 2005). It's a quiet, assured, and promising beginning."

    - Jen Graves, Currently Hanging. The Stranger's Slog, Jan. 13, 2009.

  • "But the three minutes I did have to look at Emily Pothast’s collages were lovely. I felt like I was peering into a personal cosmogony. They are much different in person than on screen; more topographical, mapping out a physical landscape as well as an intellectual/spiritual one. On the screen, they struck me as quiet and meditative, and in person they are bold with intensity barely contained in the tiny cut shapes. Really great both ways, actually."

    - Susanna Bluhm, Emily Pothast's Eternal Return at Grey Gallery and Lounge. Getting to Know You Better, Jan. 29, 2009.

Artist Interviews

Selected blog posts and other visual art press

More Music Press

  • "I once saw a sign in a New York City storefront that read "ALL IS BLISS." It was one of the most beautiful--if illusory--axioms I've ever seen. And it just might be Midday Veil's guiding principle. Vocalist Emily Pothast has affinities for country music, soul, and blues, but her alluring earthiness comes equipped with an equally ravishing ethereality, which complements the band's more kosmische tendencies."

    -Dave Segal, The Stranger, August 18, 2009.

  • "Seattle's Midday Veil stops off in Portland for the first date of a West Coast tour, a jaunt that will likely squeegee clean a number of third eyes along the way. Its brand of mind-expanding psychedelia rarely gets above a snail's pace, allowing you to experience every spiraling guitar run and droning bleat of the band's vintage synthesizers, as well as the fluttering arc of Emily Pothast's space-mother vocals. It's a sound custom designed to coax you down the rabbit hole, leaving you blissfully lost in wonderland."

    - Robert Ham, Willamette Week, November 14, 2009.

  • John Gillanders, Midday Veil, Moon Duo, Du Hexen Hase (live show review). Redefine Magazine, Feb. 18, 2010.
  • Deaf Sparrow, Midday Veil (review of CDRs Subterranean Ritual and Queen of the Void). Deaf Sparrow Zine, Feb. 2010.
  • Brian Cook, Up and Coming. The Stranger, Feb. 16, 2010.
  • John Gillanders, Albums of the Year 2009. Redefine Magazine, Dec. 31, 2009.
  • Eric Grandy, Up and Coming. The Stranger, Dec. 15, 2009.
  • Joey Veltkamp, Midday Veil New Releases & Tour. Best Of, Nov. 13, 2009.
  • Dave Segal, Up and Coming. The Stranger, Oct. 27, 2009.
  • Dave Segal, Psyching Up Seattle. The Stranger, July 7, 2009.
  • Robert Kirkpatrick, Scores Performance. A Spiral Cage, June 16, 2009.
  • Eric Lanzillotta, Midday Veil. Dissonant Plane, March 31, 2009.
  • Sara Brickner, Last Night: Spindrift at Comet Tavern. Seattle Weekly's Reverb, Nov. 17, 2008.

Press for blog Translinguistic Other