Visual Art Search
Chamber Music
Tues–Sun. Through May 19.Museums
Chamber Music is Scott Lawrimore’s first exhibit as the Frye’s curator is a series of translations with an archive in the middle. It’s 36 Seattle artists, each responding to one of the poems in James Joyce’s first published work, Chamber Music, which was put out in 1907—the year Charles and Emma Frye began collecting art. (Lawrimore wins the Most Attenuated Connections award.) In the center of the exhibition is a piece of furniture with benches and cubbyholes, where each artist can house a changing display of whatever’s most important to them. Free.
Nicolai Fechin
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Nicolai Fechin: The last time the Frye did a major exhibition of this eccentric Russian painter’s portraits was in 1976. Nordstrom had gone public five years earlier, Microsoft was a year-old start-up, and Jeff Bezos was an 11-year-old human. The paintings are bright and sometimes very, very weird.
Free.
Love Me Tender
Tues–Sun. Through May 26.Museums
Love Me Tender: Punny! James Charles, Maximo Gonzales, Barton Lidicé Benes and Mark Wagner, and others use money as both a medium and a symbol to ask questions about value, commodity, and identity. $10.
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.
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.
Feminist Form
Mon–Sun.Calls to Artists
This monthly screening series seeks submissions of feminist and queer video from the Northwest. Contact Stranger Genius Wynne Greenwood for info. Free.
Storefronts Seattle
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In 2010, Storefronts Seattle started matching empty commercial spaces in Belltown, Chinatown, and Pioneer Square with local artists. The project has since expanded to Bellevue, Auburn, and Mount Vernon. Storefronts Seattle starts off 2013 with new installations by Meghan Trainor, RSVR visual research, and Ryan Everson.
Free.
Painting and Sculpting the Land
Mon–Sun.Gallery
Opening ceremony for Elizabeth Connor's rain garden/water feature with plants, Painting and Sculpting the Land, and her rows of colored concrete contour lines that indicate the depth of the original reservoir, Drawing the Land. Free.
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