Visual Art Search
University of Washington MFA and M.Des Thesis Exhibition
Starts May 25. Wed–Sun. Through June 23.Museums
University of Washington MFA and M.Des Thesis Exhibition: Y'all know what it is already. Student work from artists surviving in the warrens of a giant research university.
$10 suggested.
Mark Calderon
Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Mark Calderon: Some of his sculptures are more than 12 feet tall, but the ones in this show are his (much) smaller ones, of snakes and turtles and other creatures in bronze and lead, including a man bent over and appearing to give himself a very happy time.
Free.
Sherry Markovitz
Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Sherry Markovitz: This artist has been living in Seattle and making art for decades, and at this very moment she’s up for a Stranger Genius Award.
Free.
Bruce Clarke, Battlegrounds
Starts May 30. Tues–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Bruce Clarke, Battlegrounds: Clarke paints the human body in order to liberate it. Free.
Cass Nevada: The Secret Life of Birds
Wed–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
The Secret Life of Birds: Paintings and mixed-media works from Cass Nevada.
Free.
Jessica Dodge: Our Ordinary Lives
Wed–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Our Ordinary Lives: oil paintings on glass from Jessica Dodge. Free.
Sarah Jones: Ghosts of a Girlhood
Wed–Sat. Through June 29.Gallery
Ghosts of a Girlhood: Mixed media from Sarah Jones. Free.
Alden Mason
Thurs–Sat. Through June 30.Gallery
Alden Mason is a retrospective of the recently departed local legend's work, curated by his former student Greg Kucera of Greg Kucera Gallery and Phen Huang of Foster/White. Free.
Chromatic Fantasies
Mon–Sat. Through July 3.Gallery
Chromatic Fantasies: Betsy Eby's paintings appear to be the result of stuffing handfuls of butterflies into a wood chipper. In a good way.
Free.
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.
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.
Meadow Starts with ‘P’: I love you, but you’re too loud!
Starts May 31. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Damien Gilley: AXIS INDEX
Mon–Fri. Through Aug 9.Gallery
AXIS INDEX: Damien Gilley's installation of foam core and blue tape forms a blueprint within the Space that disorients by taking liberties with scale, perspective, and vanishing points Free.
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.
Music is My Life
Starts May 30. Tues–Sun. Through Aug 29.Gallery
Music is My Life: Homeless youths imagine musical devices to help with the experience of homelessness. The devices are represented in drawings and stories. Free.
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.
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