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Henry Art Gallery (University District)

4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-2280
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Seattle's leading contemporary art museum, at the University of Washington.
Hours: Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
Categories: Auditorium, Bookstore, Cafe, Gallery, Museum

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Upcoming Events at Henry Art Gallery
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty

Green star Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty

Wed–Sun. Through July 7.

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.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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Premonitions of the Bauharoque

Green star Premonitions of the Bauharoque

Wed–Sun. Through Sept 29.

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.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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Sanctum

Green star Sanctum

Through Nov 30, 2015.

Free
Sanctum: For this installation you don't even need to go indoors. Six surveillance cameras capture you as you walk by the museum. If you get within 12 feet (as you are warned by signs), you'll be profiled—sensors will scan the "landmarks" of your face, as the artists Juan Pampin and James Coupe describe them, and you'll appear on the video screens in the windows. Text taken from volunteers' Facebook posts (anyone can sign up to donate their status updates) will appear as a story on your image. You'll get a story the system thinks represents you demographically, and the voice in the speakers above modulates accordingly, too (male/female, slow/fast for older/younger). Creepy or entertaining?
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces

Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces

Wed–Sun. Through June 2.

Sean Scully: Passages/Impressions/Surfaces: A portfolio of a dozen photographs from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland will be paired with a large-scale oil painting by the artist—who's far better known for his paintings. This time, we'll get to see what he brings to photography.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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James Turrell's "skyspace" Light Reign

Wed–Sun.

543-2280
James Turrell’s “skyspace” Light Reign is the only thing that’s really on always-and-forever display at the Henry. It’s an outdoor room that lives like a barnacle on the side of the museum, with an opening in the ceiling so that you can sit and watch the sky go by. The experience is mind bogglingly more fascinating than you’d think, which is why Turrell has “skyspaces” all over the world. The Henry’s is furniturey, ringed with wooden bench seating.
Henry Art Gallery
206-543-2280
4100 15th Ave NE
Seattle (University District)
Thurs-Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-4 pm
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