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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.

Articles by Jen Graves

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Date

  • Visual Art

    Is It Safe?

    Art That Profiles You
    Posted on 05/15/2013
  • Visual Art

    Dematerialized

    The Exhibition So Good It Becomes an Artwork
    Posted on 05/08/2013
  • Suggests

    Late-Night at SAM

    Have you ever wanted to yell in an art museum? Here's your chance!
    Posted on 05/01/2013
  • Visual Art

    Cents and Sensibility

    Sean Johnson Breaks Apart the World and Puts It Together Again
    Posted on 05/01/2013
  • Film

    Renoir: An Artful Film About a Wildly Uneven Artist

    Renoir: An Artful Film About a Wildly Uneven Artist
    Posted on 05/01/2013
  • Suggests

    ‘Whitewashed’

    A heartfelt love letter to dead animals.
    Posted on 04/24/2013
  • Visual Art

    You Are in Montana

    Ruth Marie Tomlinson's Art of Mountains, Postcards, and Coffee
    Posted on 04/24/2013
  • Suggests

    'How Goes the Battle?'

    Tessa Hulls survives a breakup by creating women warriors and confessional comic books.
    Posted on 04/17/2013
  • Suggests

    Nicolai Fechin

    Born in Russia in 1881, Nicolai Fechin was a painter who traveled the world showing his art...
    Posted on 04/10/2013
  • Visual Art

    Gossip Chair

    Extracting History from Cubbyholes at the Frye
    Posted on 04/10/2013
  • Suggests

    ‘Now Here Is Also Nowhere: Part II’

    Intangibility comes in many forms. It’s the force holding the thousands of straight pins in their cube formation...
    Posted on 04/03/2013
  • Visual Art

    A Vast Empathy

    One Man's Life's Work, Uncovered
    Posted on 04/03/2013
  • Suggests

    ‘Pieces of a Whole’

    Sean Johnson is the allegorical sculptor who tapes couches to gallery walls, turning them into anxious monuments...
    Posted on 03/27/2013
  • Visual Art

    Fog and Screaming

    Art That Changes As It Goes
    Posted on 03/27/2013
  • Visual Art

    Diet of Worms

    Reading the Wordless Stories of Barbara Earl Thomas
    Posted on 03/27/2013
  • Suggests

    David Byrd

    David Byrd is a painter in his 80s who has simply never stopped making art...
    Posted on 03/20/2013
  • Features

    The Message on Aurora

    Grrrl Army's Latest Mural Kicks Open a Conversation on Prostitution
    Posted on 03/20/2013
  • Visual Art

    Interlocking Objects

    The Belly People, the Heap of Kittens, and the Death Shrouds
    Posted on 03/20/2013
  • Film

    Ginger & Rosa: Sally Potter’s Flawlessly Executed Melodrama

    Ginger & Rosa: Sally Potter’s Flawlessly Executed Melodrama
    Posted on 03/20/2013
  • Suggests

    ‘xoxo’

    Lorraine Barlow knitted a shroud that her husband, Howard, will be buried in.
    Posted on 03/13/2013

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