Visual Art Search
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. This is the second time TAM has had a big show of his work, inexplicably. He’s TAM’s idea of Picasso.
$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.
Together Again: Nuxalk Faces of the Sky
Wed–Sun. Through July 14.Museums
Together Again: Nuxalk Faces of the Sky: Keen-eyed researchers and Nuxalk observers figured out one of SAM’s treasured masks was in the wrong corona (the thing that holds a mask)! Turns out, the right mask was up in Canada the whole time. Now they’re both where they belong: in the hands of the Nuxalk people. Joking! They’re at SAM. $15 suggested.
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.
In the Spirit: Contemporary Northwest Native Art
Wed–Sun. Through Aug 18.Museums
In the Spirit: Contemporary Northwest Native Art: The 8th annual showcase of over twenty Northwest native artisans in partnership with the Evergreen State Longhouse Education and Cultural Center. $9.50.
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.
Industrial Effects
Wed–Sun. Through Sept 1.Museums
Industrial Effects: A survey of how photographers’ attitudes towards industry have changed over time. $10 suggested.
Mood Paintings of the North
Starts June 28. Tues–Sun. Through Sept 1.Museums
Mood Paintings of the North: Norway’s most “distinguished” landscape painter, Ørnulf Opdahl, shows new work influenced by Norway’s western coastline. Actually pretty dope for distinguished landscapes.
$6.
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.
Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power
Through Sept 22.Museums
Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power: An exhibit dedicated to the “foremothers” of rock and their offspring. Organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, unmissable items include Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour Bustier and Lady Gaga’s meat dress. $20.
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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.
Buster Simpson // Surveyor
Tues–Sun. Through Oct 6.Museums
Buster Simpson // Surveyor: We can already thank Buster Simpson, elder of public art, for making bearable the Seatac rental car garage with his new and luminous Carbon Veil, and now he’s working on the seawall renovation that will not only look good but also keep the city from falling into the Salish Sea. This exhibition is a retrospective for Simpson, detailing his immense contribution to public art and good citizenship. Free.
Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection
Wed–Sun. Through Oct 6.Museums
Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection: A history of recent Northwest art beginning with the 1962 World’s Fair. $10.
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.
Benjamin Moore: Translucent
Wed–Sun. Through Oct 19.Museums
Benjamin Moore: Translucent: Minimalist glass vessels from a Washington native. $12.
Encontro das Águas
Through Oct 20.Museums
Encontro das Águas: envelops the walls of the pavilion in a drawn sea of sinuously winding waves. The scale of Sandra Cinto’s piece is such that you drown in the work, happy to be going down with the ship as the silvery lines pull you under. Free.
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.
Empowering Women - Artist Cooperatives That Transform Communities
Through Oct 27.Museums
Empowering Women - Artist Cooperatives That Transform Communities: Behold the power of artists to make lives better! This exhibition details the efforts of women artisans in ten different artists cooperatives around the world. Photos, narratives, and art pieces from the cooperatives on display. $10.
Minimal Art and its Legacy
Wed–Sun. Through Nov 3.Museums
Minimal Art and its Legacy: Primo quality work from the likes of Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt, Alan Saret, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, and Keith Sonnier, plus Lucy Lippard's legendary exhibition 557,087. And all displayed with the same subtle and smart installation enjoyed by its sister exhibition, From Abstract Expression to Colored Planes. $15 suggested.
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