Visual Art Search
Drawing Line into Form
Wed–Sun. Through May 26.Museums
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Drawing Line into Form is an exhibition of 2-D objects by artists who usually make 3-D objects. The pieces, from the Bank of New York Mellon collection, are by Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Jim Dine, William Kentridge, Anish Kapoor, Huma Bhabha, Louise Bourgeois—the list goes on. There is also a sketch by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, whose psychadelic video installation, A la belle étoile, is currently disorienting audiences at the Henry Art Gallery.
$10.
Mosaic Arts International 2013
Wed–Sun. Through May 26.Museums
Mosaic Arts International 2013: Nearly 50 artists working with materials ranging from glass and ceramic to dinosaur bones display their work in this juried exhibition. $12.
Plastics Unwrapped
Through May 27.Museums
Plastics Unwrapped expands upon the prescient sentiment of Mr. McGuire in The Graduate: plastics. Unwrapped acknowledges that this prevalent and troublingly useful substance is thoroughly integrated into every aspect of our lives, and asks us—through works presented in a variety of mediums—to make thoughtful choices. $10.
Punctum/Poetry
Mon–Sun. Through May 27.Museums
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Punctum/Poetry: Seattle high-school students working with Arts Corps share poems inspired by photos from MOHAI’s archive.
$14.
Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces
Wed–Sun. Through June 2.Museums
Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces: A portfolio of a dozen photographs from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland will be paired with a large-scale oil painting by the artist—who's far better known for his paintings. This time, we'll get to see what he brings to photography.
$10 suggested.
CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps
Mon–Sun. Through June 9.Museums
CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps made by Art Spiegelman, the legendary comic artist whose graphic novel, Maus, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Free.
Scissors for a Brush
Tues–Sun. Through June 16.Museums
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Scissors for a Brush: Remember the paper snowflakes you made in kindergarten? Karen Bit Vejle’s large-scale pieces are what you dreamed you could make before you confronted the limitations of your attention span and hand-eye coordination, not to mention those dumb safety scissors. The exhibition also features some never-before-seen-in-the-US paper cuts by Hans Christian Andersen.
$6.
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty
Wed–Sun. Through July 7.Museums
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Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty extends New York scholar Deborah Willis’s journey to the heart of photography. This new exhibition, created in residence at the Henry and especially for the Seattle museum, looks at artistic and ethnographic photography—comparing the images collected by the Henry Art Gallery and the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. The result is a surprise bulldozing of the distinctions between high and low, ideal beauty and medical health, sex and sales.
$10 suggested.
Beyond Books: The Independent Art of Eric Carle
Wed–Sun. Through July 7.Museums
Beyond Books: The Independent Art of Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar guy is also a painter, glass sculptor, costume designer, street photographer, and poster artist.
$10.
Paper Unbound: Horiuchi and Beyond
Tues–Sun. Through July 14.Museums
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Paper Unbound: Horiuchi and Beyond: Work by the acclaimed Japanese collage artist Paul Horiuchi and the contemporary artists he’s inspired.
$12.95.
Legends, Tales, Poetry
Wed–Sun. Through July 21.Museums
Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art: An exhibition at the intersection of visual art and Japanese literary traditions that are thousands (!) of years old.
$7 suggested.
Book of the bound
Wed–Sun. Through July 28.Museums
book of the bound is Carletta Carrington Wilson’s latest series of collages, which meld text and image to create narratives that touch on silence and language, on freedom and oppression.
$6.
Maneki Neko: Japan’s Beckoning Cats—From Talisman to Pop Icon
Tues–Sun. Through Aug 4.Museums
Maneki Neko: Japan’s Beckoning Cats—From Talisman to Pop Icon: So. Many. Little. Waving. Kitty. Paws. One hundred and fifty five of them, to be precise, in mediums ranging from stone to papier-mâché. This exhibition traces the Maneki Neko’s evolution from source of luck and protection to something more readily recognized as the door greeter to Japanese restaurants. $10.
Uprooted and Invisible
Tues–Sun. Through Aug 18.Museums
Uprooted and Invisible looks at the phenomenon of “hidden homelessness” from an Asian American perspective. $12.95.
Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies
Mon–Sun. Through Sept 8.Museums
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Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies: MOHAI cracks open its archive to show us our old theaters, including photographs of the chaps in caps and oversize coats who used to watch movies in them.
$14.
The Hudson Flows West
Tues–Sun. Through Sept 8.Museums
The Hudson Flows West: Multiple generations of the Hudson River School are represented in this exploration of the Hudson River as a natural symbol of manifest destiny. Paintings from the museum and loans from private Seattle collections. Free.
Bearing Witness from Another Place
Wed–Sun. Through Sept 29.Museums
Bearing Witness from Another Place marks the 25th anniversary of James Baldwin's death with an exhibit of Sedat Pakay's photographs of the social critic's self-imposed exile in Turkey.
$6.
Premonitions of the Bauharoque
Wed–Sun. Through Sept 29.Museums
Premonitions of the Bauharoque: Paul Laffoley makes layered, mandala-like paintings but also throws out big ideas. He attended Brown and Harvard and worked with Andy Warhol and on the World Trade Center. His best-known piece, THE KALI-YUGA: THE END OF THE UNIVERSE AT 424826 A.D. (The Cosmos Falls in the Chaos as the Shakti Orohoros Leads to the Elimination of all Value Systems by Spectrum Analysis), looks like the love child of the board game Sorry and a Pokémon card. This exhibition samples his output from 1965 to today.
$10 suggested.
Northwest Artists Collect
Wed–Sun. Through Oct 19.Museums
Northwest Artists Collect: The culmination of a year-long collaboration between UW-Tacoma students and the Museum, this exhibition showcases the original work of 7 Pacific Northwest glass artists-including Martin Blank, Joseph Gregory Rossano, and Richard Royal-alongside pieces from their personal collections. $12.
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Wed–Sun. Through Oct 27.Museums
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The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection is the stuff of (art) legend. Dorothy was a librarian and Herbert a mail clerk in New York City in the early 1960s. Together, they amassed a collection of thousands of objects—some by famous headlining artists and others the charming and idiosyncratic creations of ordinary mortals—that took over their tiny apartment. This exhibition is part of their "50 Works for 50 States" initiative to pollinate our country's art institutions with pieces from their collection.
$15 suggested.
Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century
Through Nov 17.Museums
Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century: Race, that unstable category, must always be considered critically and with great care. In Under My Skin 26 artists confront their experiences with race and interactive elements allow visitors to confront their own.
$12.95.
Sanctum
Through Nov 30, 2015.Museums
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Sanctum: For this installation you don't even need to go indoors. Six surveillance cameras capture you as you walk by the museum. If you get within 12 feet (as you are warned by signs), you'll be profiled—sensors will scan the "landmarks" of your face, as the artists Juan Pampin and James Coupe describe them, and you'll appear on the video screens in the windows. Text taken from volunteers' Facebook posts (anyone can sign up to donate their status updates) will appear as a story on your image. You'll get a story the system thinks represents you demographically, and the voice in the speakers above modulates accordingly, too (male/female, slow/fast for older/younger). Creepy or entertaining?
Free.
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