Visual Art Search
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Grade: After the Wawona
Tues–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
After the Wawona: Following the immense, weather-sensitive radness that is Capacitor (a past work) and his arresting installation at MOHAI (a 64-foot wood sculpture made of rescued beams from the old Wawona schooner), John Grade brings transformation of the microscopic to the human-scaled with this new series of sculptures.
Free.
The Landscape Described
Wed–Sun. Through June 1.Gallery
Artist and Prographica founder Norman Lundin has this idea that all paintings lie somewhere on a spectrum ranging from descriptive to evocative. The Landscape Described—featuring Darlene Campbell, Kimberly Clark, Josh Dorman, Kathy Gore-Fuss, Laura Hamje, Michelle Muldrow, and Andrew Yates—explores the descriptive end of that spectrum. The next show will explore the evocative end.
Free.
New Members' Show
Wed–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
New Members' Show: Julie Alexander, Julia Freeman, and Shaun Kardinal present new work investigating material, process, and narrative.
Free.
The Other Gun Show
Wed–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
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The Other Gun Show: Gallery 110 artists reserve the right to bear arms. No, the other bear arms.
Free.
Within Without Me
Wed–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
Within Without Me: The first exhibition at Roq La Rue's new Pioneer Square location—the gallery had been in Belltown for 15 years!—is Stacey Rozich cheerful, sinister, and menacing paintings. Even as her beast/human figures frolic by jumping rope or having a cookout, they seem to be moments away from bodily harm.
Free.
Ginny Ruffner
Tues–Sat. Through June 2.Gallery
Ginny Ruffner: Continuing her "Aesthetic Engineering" series, Ruffner uses glass and other media to engage with the changing practices of genetic engineering.
Larry Calkins
Tues–Sat. Through June 2.Gallery
Larry Calkins: the man whose super-skinny, super-flat outfits (his and hers) haunt the walls of this region on the regular. Free.
Nichole Rathburn and Ron Lambert
Through June 7.Gallery
Nichole Rathburn's hand drawn animations in 1000 Ports and Ron Lambert's overlapping urban grids in City Order and his fragmented landscapes in Land Slices.
Free.
(Un/Re) Attached
Wed–Sat. Through June 7.Gallery
(Un/Re) Attached: John Osgood and Miguel Edwards reveal their months-long collaborative investigation of the forces that separate and connect. By exchanging pieces back and forth between each other, they employ a variety of media and a cyclical concept and process.
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.
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.
Everything Right and Anywhere Now
Wed–Sat. Through June 15.Gallery
Everything Right and Anywhere Now: dense and tangled landscape paintings from Peter Scherrer.
Free.
Weird Sisters
Wed–Sat. Through June 15.Gallery
Weird Sisters: Kate Lebo, Kat Larson, and Kate Ryan are looking to disrupt systems of meaning involving the feminine, stabbing things with hat pins and poisoning the soup (figuratively). Cooking shows, alchemy, milk, and blood are employed in the melee.
Free.
Robert Hardgrave
Wed–Sat. Through June 22.Gallery
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Robert Hardgrave: Drawings and other paper-based, wild-pattern-happy work for this Seattle artist’s first solo exhibition at Cullom. 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.
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.
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.
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