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Jen Graves

Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, at places like Cornish College of the Arts and Centrum. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 14 years.

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Date

  • Visual Art

    Art-Eating Park

    The Art That Was Swallowed by Carkeek Park
    Posted on 07/11/2012
  • Suggests

    Andrew Dadson

    Andrew Dadson pushes what’s normally in the center of a painting to the edges, and your attention with it.
    Posted on 07/04/2012
  • Visual Art

    Artists and Engineers Solve the World's Problems

    Speed Dating at the Project Room
    Posted on 07/04/2012
  • Film

    Le Chat Noir

    A Genre-Hopping Cartoon About a Crime-Solving Cat
    Posted on 07/04/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Happiness Rides Wide’

    Seattle artist Mike Simi’s sculptures and videos are funny, but they have a jolty edge; you don’t want to touch them.
    Posted on 06/27/2012
  • Visual Art

    What We Lost That We Never Had

    The Ghost of 26th Avenue and the Artists He Haunts
    Posted on 06/27/2012
  • Visual Art

    The Unfamiliar

    Nothing Is Where It Should Be in Keith Tilford's Paintings
    Posted on 06/27/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Louder Than Bombs’

    This Independence Day, a painting show in Pioneer Square goes to show that all explosions of color are not created equal.
    Posted on 06/20/2012
  • Visual Art

    Blart

    Britta Johnson at Lawrimore Project
    Posted on 06/20/2012
  • Suggests

    Olympic Sculpture Park

    Sandra Cinto’s Encontro das Águas (Encounter with Waters) is inside the pavilion at the top of the park.
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Visual Art

    Summer Art Calendar

    Everything Happening in Art This Season
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Music

    Summer Classical Calendar

    Everything Happening in Classical Music and Opera This Season
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Genius Awards

    Visual Art Shortlist

    Visual Art Shortlist
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Genius Awards

    Music Shortlist

    Music Shortlist
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Visual Art

    Buzzing, Glorious World

    You Must See the Amazing Cosmology at SAM
    Posted on 06/06/2012
  • Suggests

    Seattle Erotic Art Festival

    They say it will be the biggest ever. Size queens.
    Posted on 05/30/2012
  • Suggests

    Soly Cissé

    All of Soly Cissé’s juicy, confident, expressionistic paintings begin with a black background.
    Posted on 05/30/2012
  • Visual Art

    Oil Doesn't Go Away

    A Not-Entirely-Successful Attempt at Summoning the Past of Suyama Space
    Posted on 05/30/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Can’t Get There From Here’

    This exhibition set in a tall, glowing gallery that seems like a chamber of heaven probes what you want from art: transcendence? Transport?
    Posted on 05/23/2012
  • Features

    Class Art

    How to Explain Why You Feel How You Feel When You’re Standing in Dale Chihuly’s New Museum
    Posted on 05/23/2012

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