Visual Art Search
The Birds and the Beasts
Through June 11.Gallery
The Birds and the Beasts: Todd Horton's motion-blurred paintings and charmingly lumpy Bill Evans's sculptures make up this exhibition/menagerie.
Free.
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.
Botanical Exotica: A Monumental Collection of the Rare and Beautiful
Tues–Sun. Through Sept 11.Gallery
Botanical Exotica: A Monumental Collection of the Rare and Beautiful: Local glass artist Jason Gamrath's show of very large flowers and "venus flytraps which could easily ensnare a small pet."
$4.
Brandon Vosika
Mon–Sun. Through June 9.Gallery
Brandon Vosika's portraits of sailors with large mustaches and accordions. Vosika "employ(s) drunken sentiments mostly with watercolors," which doesn't make much sense, but still somehow fits.
Free.
Broken Mirror/Evening Sky
Wed–Sat. Through June 15.Gallery
Broken Mirror/Evening Sky: New York-based Bing Wright (yes, of the Seattle Wrights) takes pretty pictures of sunsets, then busts them up. His lovingly fractured large-scale color photographs are not digitally manipulated. Instead, each sunset is shot, projected on a broken mirror, and that's shot and blown up to make the final print. Their broken surfaces are strangely pristine and glossy, restored to smooth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Celluloid Seattle: A City at the Movies
Mon–Sun. Through Sept 8.Museums
Website
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.
Central District Artwalk
Every second Saturday.Event
Website
Beer tastings, letterpress and painting demos, plus LIVE at Garfield Community Center, an exhibition of paintings created during the artwalk.
Free.
Chihuly Garden and Glass
Ongoing.Museums
A promenade of rooms, an outdoor garden, and a café chronicling Dale Chihuly’s series and packages over the years. It’s not the definitive Chihuly experience, despite the sales pitch, but there are highlights, like the café, where the artist reveals himself as a master hoarder, and the Macchia Forest. $19.
Christine Sharp “RE:scape” Paintings with Gallery Artists
July 5–28.Gallery
Christine Sharp “RE:scape” Paintings with Gallery Artists: painted deconstructions of PacNoWe landmarks. 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.
The City and the City
Open by appointment.Gallery
The City and the City: a collaboration between LxWxH owner Sharon Arnold and Portland artist Daniel Glendening. Free.
Civic Partners Funding Program
Deadline Wed June 1, 11 pm.Calls to Artists
Website
The Office of Arts and Culture's Civic Partners program seeks to strengthen the arts community by offering two years of funding to "Seattle-based arts, cultural and heritage organizations of all sizes and disciplines with a minimum three-year history of continuous operation and programming and a not-for-profit business structure (does not have to have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status)." Visit the website or contact Kathy Hsieh at kathy.hsieh@seattle.gov for more information.
Clare Belfrage: Threads
Tues–Sat. Through May 31.Gallery
Clare Belfrage: Threads of woven glass.
Free.
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.
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.
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