Visual Art Search
Canton Alley Family Reunion
Wed May 22, 5-8 pmEvent
Get together alley-style to make friends, eat a picnic dinner, and talk about how to make our alleys fun-filled and not gross-stuff-filled. Free.
Illusion & Visual Thinking
Thurs May 23, 7 pmEvent
Professor Norman Lundin discusses the various aspects of creating a persuasive illusion of space. In conjunction with The Landscape: Described and The Landscape: Evoked. Free.
Psychedelic Phantasm
Through May 23.Gallery
Psychedelic Phantasm: Dobro player, polyglot, former farmer, and octogenarian Betty Sander displays her electric drawings on the second floor of the Broadway Market.
Free.
Meg Murch: Coloring Outside the Lines
Tues–Fri. Through May 24.Gallery
Coloring Outside the Lines: Meg Murch presents recent work that focuses on the use of color in ceramic sculpture.
Free.
As We Go Up We Go Down
Fri, Sat. Through May 25.Gallery
As We Go Up We Go Down: Joe Wardwell's landscape paintings would be subtle and quiet, if lyrics like "REBEL SOULS" and "COME ON FEEL IT" were not outlined in bright colors all across them.
Free.
Expressions in Haida Mythology
Tues–Sun. Through May 25.Gallery
Expressions in Haida Mythology: Argillite Works of Lionel Samuels: Carvings in the traditional Haida black slate by a contemporary native Canadian artist. Free.
Inside-Out
Fri, Sat. Through May 25.Gallery
Inside-Out: An exploration of street art with new work from Daya Astor and curation by Liz Patterson. Free.
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.
Love Me Tender
Tues–Sun. Through May 26.Museums
Love Me Tender: Punny! James Charles, Maximo Gonzales, Barton Lidicé Benes and Mark Wagner, and others use money as both a medium and a symbol to ask questions about value, commodity, and identity. $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.
Easton Richmond and Mike Monaghan
Mon–Sun. Through May 27.Gallery
New work by local photographers Easton Richmond and Mike Monaghan.
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.
Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers
Mon–Sun. Through May 28.Gallery
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Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers: Photographers tell stories using diptychs, titles, grids, timelines, installations, abstraction.
Free.
Barb Campell and Javier Cervantes
Through May 30.Gallery
Barb Campell and Javier Cervantes: Functional and sculptural ceramics. Free.
Out of the Silence: Ending Bullying for LGBTQ Youth
Mon–Sun. Through May 31.Gallery
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Out of the Silence: Ending Bullying for LGBTQ Youth features more than 60 pieces by 39 calligraphers from across the U.S. and Canada. Proceeds from the show go to Pizza Klatch—the funnily named organization that does seriously important work, providing anti-bullying training and free pizza to high schoolers during their lunch period.
Free.
Carol Charney
Tues–Sat. Through May 31.Gallery
Carol Charney: Photographs of liquids in transitional phases turn out to look very much like oil paintings. Free.
Cats and Dogs
Mon–Fri. Through May 31.Gallery
Cats and Dogs: Paintings, photographs, and mixed-media collages of man's best friend. And cats.
Free.
Clare Belfrage: Threads
Tues–Sat. Through May 31.Gallery
Clare Belfrage: Threads of woven glass.
Free.
Gust Burns
Mon–Fri. Through May 31.Gallery
Gust Burns: a triptych composed of a disassembled piano, an erased score, and a record that deteriorates a little more every time it’s played. Free.
Historic Fellows Show
Mon–Fri. Through May 31.Gallery
Historic Fellows Show features paintings and sculptures by artists who have been active with the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters—"America's oldest fraternity of professional artists"—for at least 25 years.
Free.
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