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.
Natural Science
Tues–Sat. Through July 7.Gallery
Natural Science: Group show of paintings and prints inspired by plants and animals. Free.
Native American Artwork in Seattle Public Utilities’ Collection
Mon–Fri. Through July 8.Gallery
Native American Artwork in Seattle Public Utilities’ Collection: A show of masks, combs, and prints by 14 artists. Free.
Tyna Ontoko, Absence in Between
Through July 8.Gallery
Tyna Ontoko, Absence in Between: "Thrilling" and "haunting" are good words for this 12-by-15-foot installation of lithographs. Free.
Amanda James Parker
Mon–Sun. Through July 9.Gallery
Amanda James Parker: A series of photos depicting herself as a tent. A tent.
Guy Anderson, William Cumming, Joseph Goldberg
Tues–Sat. Through July 10.Gallery
Guy Anderson, William Cumming, Joseph Goldberg : These titans of the Northwest come together to form a veritable supergroup of Northwest Masters. Free.
Sound-based artwork for Elliott Bay Seawall project
Deadline Thurs July 11, 11 pm.Calls to Artists
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$200k to the artist (or artists) who can give the Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and SDOT a sound-sensitive seawall installation.
Meadow Starts with ‘P’: I love you, but you’re too loud!
Mon–Fri. Through July 12.Gallery
Meadow Starts with ‘P’: I love you, but you’re too loud!: Meadow Starts With ‘P’ is a family and an art collaborative and a band of mad tinkerers that has constructed a machine that uses marbles to make a lot of semi-pleasing sounds. Free.
The Landscape Evoked
Wed–Sat. Through July 13.Gallery
The Landscape Evoked: Six artists consider the trickier aspects of depicting space in non-objective landscapes. Free.
Louise Hoeschen-Goldberg
Fri–Sun. Through July 14.Gallery
Louise Hoeschen-Goldberg: Paintings and work on paper that are cruddy and juvenile in a good way, as well as a range of works from the artist's collection. Free.
Over the Line
Tues–Sun. Through July 14.Gallery
Over the Line: The Coen Brothers are deserving of endless adulation. In this exhibition, over 40 artists swear their fealty to the writer/director pair. Free.
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.
Life is OOD
Starts June 21. Wed, Fri. Through July 15.Gallery
Life is OOD: Sean Alexander and "mysterious drifter" Henry Lee Walls debut collaborative work inspired by found (or stolen) objects from around the Hilltop neighborhood. Free.
Thesis Exhibition
Through July 15.Gallery
Thesis Exhibition: Graduates of the Certificate in Fine Art Photography display their thesis work. Free.
CityArtist Projects
Deadline Wed July 17, 11 pm.Calls to Artists
Seattle-based visual, literary, and media artists (but no playwrights, got it?) are invited to apply for grants of up to $8,000 to support projects during 2014. Traditional, ethnic, and multidisciplinary projects may also apply. Free.
Whitewashed
Mon–Fri. Through July 19.Gallery
Whitewashed: acclaimed glass artist Joseph Gregory Rossano’s discomforting installation of old-growth pillars and sculptures of extinct species, all bathed in white paint.
Free.
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.
How to Stay Alive in the Woods
Starts June 20. Tues–Sat. Through July 27.Gallery
How to Stay Alive in the Woods: Naturalist painting, dioramas, and science projects collide and erupt in sculptures and paintings by Patte Loper.
Free.
Otherworld
Wed–Sat. Through July 27.Gallery
Otherworld: Group invitational featuring 18 artists and counting. Free.
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