CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY ART (CoCA)
1420 11th Ave, 728-1980.
* BLURRED
Architects, game designers, graphic designers, and other non-traditional practitioners in a series of site-specific installations. Featuring ABBP, Iole Alessandrini, Michelle Arab, Make Barrette, Michael Culpepper, Marc Dombrosky, James Harris, John Jenkins III, Mark Johnson, lead pencil studio, r-b-f architecture, Alex Schweder, SHED, Philip Thiel. Through Sept 13.
HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, 543-2280.
* SHORT STORIES
In splendorform, Seattle artist Elizabeth Jameson contrasts exaggerative fashion elements of the past (corsets, bustle cages, etc.) with her own absurdist works. The Photographic Impulse utilizes works from the collection of Joseph and Elaine Monsen to categorize some of the driving forces that have motivated photographers since the birth of the medium. Meditation on a Painting by Diebenkorn contrasts the 1958 painting Untitled (View of the Ocean with Palm Tree) with contemporary works by five other artists. University of Washington professor Rod Slemmons discusses The Photographic Impulse, Thurs Aug 8 at 7 pm. Through Nov 10.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100.
* DO-HO SUH
See Stranger Suggests. Through Dec 1.
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
CHRISTOPHE ROBERTS, BEN HANAWALT
Recent urban paintings. Opening reception Thurs Aug 8, 8-10 pm. Nation Gallery, 1921 Fifth Ave, 374-9492. Through Sept 8.
SAMUELLA SAMANIEGO
New landscape and architectural works in photography. Opening reception Thurs Aug 8, 5:30-7:30 pm. Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art, Daybreak Star, Discovery Park, 285-4425. Through Sept 29.
*SICK SHOW
What looks to be a truly charming collection of works by the likes of Amanda Kindregan, Sam Trout, Betsy Deboer, Isaac Novak--all tracing the many familiar facets (pharmacy, healthcare professionals, the digestive and respiratory system) of being under the weather. Opening reception Sat Aug 10, 7-10 pm. Black Lab Gallery, 5208 Ballard Ave, 706-7017.
CONSTANCE TROWBRIDGE
Coupling traditional photographic processes with traditional block printing, Trowbridge has created a mixed-media reflection of her recent trip to Palestine. Opening reception Sat Aug 10, 7-10 pm. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680. Through Sept 5.
* JENNIFER WEST
See Stranger Suggests. Opening reception Thurs Aug 8, 5:30-7:30 pm. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Aug 31.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
* ARTHUR S. AUBRY
Aubry's photographs of industrial sites and debris have an eerie stillness that takes them somewhere beyond documentation. Also featuring Saya Moriyasu's Service, a series of clayworks about the service industry. Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Ave, 264-1586. Through Aug 24.
* LEO SAUL BERK, DONNABELLE CASIS
Surveying explores Berk's fascination with the timber industry in the form of his 100-foot veneer ribbon sculpture, which promises to literally envelop its viewers. Vague, flirtatious oil forms compose Casis' hanker. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through Sept 7.
JOHN BISBEE
Three Tons refers quite literally to the amount of material shaped by the artist into large, prickly sculptural landscapes. In this case, it's three tons of nails. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809. Through Aug 16.
* JIM BLANCHARD
Roq la Rue welcomes its second showcase of Blanchard's elegant, subtle, and widely successful sticker paintings of huge pop icons. Roq la Rue Gallery, 2224 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through Aug 23.
CHRISTOPHER BUENING, KATHY ROSS
Buening combines layers of journal entries, paint, and other media in somber, human manifestations. Ross crafts equally perverse personifications, molding small human-shaped beings out of weapon forms, and fractured representational alphabets from headless baby dolls. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington, 624-9336. Through Aug 24.
KATHERINE CLARK, DIANA FAIRBANKS, BONNIE WILKINS
Works in oil and mixed media compose Past, Present & Future. ArtsWest Gallery, 4711 California Ave SW, 938-0963. Through Aug 24.
TOM DEWAR
Hand-screened concert posters designed for the likes of Mudhoney, Unwound, and Dick Dale. Area 51, 401 E Pine St, 568-4782. Through Aug 29.
* CLAUDIA FITCH, KATY STONE
Fitch's Attic Moderne comments on the commercialization of precious artistic icons, recasting them in the image of plastics and imitation wares. Coupled with Stone's Mylar-and-paint botanicals. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through Aug 31.
GUILD OF NATURAL SCIENCE ILLUSTRATORS NORTHWEST
Originally based within the Smithsonian, the GNSI's range of study includes everything from medical illustration to archeological sketches. Miner Gallery, 346 15th Ave E, 568-1604. Through Aug 31.
* ELIZABETH JAMESON
The pieces of attire in Jameson's drawings are laced, bound, padded, and insulated enough to protect the most fashionable member of the bomb squad. Ballard Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through Aug 31.
DON JONES
Surrealism in oils. Ace Studio Gallery, 619 Western, Third Floor, 623-1288. Through Aug 31.
HENRY KINER
Photographic documents of the beauty inherent in waste products populate Consumed. King County Art Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-7580. Through Aug 30.
YUKI KUNIYUKI JR. AND I. H. KUNIYUKI
Photographic grab bag acting as a dialogue between two long-lost relatives. M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway, 344-4379. Through Aug 16.
* KUSTOM SHOE
The Kustom Purse concept is back in this snappy clothing store; this installment features a more time-honored fetish object. Kuhlman, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Aug 31.
SUSAN MADSEN, DION ZWIRNER
Madsen's romantic studies of physical metaphor, with Zwirner's landscape abstractions. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Aug 31.
RACHEL MAXI, NINO YUNIARDI
Ordinary and mundane facets of the urban landscape are uncovered with subtle grace in Maxi's The Green Show, exhibited along with Yuniardi's peaceful Rush series. Opening reception Sat Aug 10, 6-9 pm. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Aug 30.
* CHRIS McMULLEN
Composed of over 2,500 cubic feet of steel and stone, Process Physics expands McMullen's absurdist mechanical obsessions into yet another "interactive kinetic installation." Vital 5 Productions, 2200 Westlake Ave, 254-0475. Through Sept 2.
* SARAH MORRIS
The goals of commerce as illustrated through an accumulation of shopping bags. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, 1334 First Ave, Suite 140, 654-3240. Through Sept 29.
MUSTANG SUMMER
Group show featuring Thin Ice, Jack Daws, Max Galesi, Chris Grant, Kelly Kempe, Bran Meade, John Seal, and Megan Szczecko, among others. SOIL Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Sept 1.
PRINTWORKS 2002
Works by 26 national printmakers, including the likes of Weldon Butler, Squeak Carnwarth, Kara Walker, and Darren Waterston. Key Tower Gallery, 700 Fifth Ave, third floor, 684-7312. Through Oct 25.
KATRINA SANTORE, CHRISTY CUSICK
Doubly-exposed photographs, digital prints, and mixed media. Pound Gallery, 1216 10th Ave, 323-0557. Through Aug 18.
ERIN L. SHAFKIND
New photographs. Victrola Coffee, 411 15th Ave E, 325-6520. Through Sept 2.
* ANTJUAN ODEN
Oden's coffee drawings--coffee-powder paste applied with twisted tissue paper--were done during a 28-day stay in solitary confinement. They are something. With acrylic color paintings. Garde Rail Gallery, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 721-0107. Through Sept 28.
JIM PRIDGEON
Aesthetics and genetics. Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919. Through Aug 23.
REGROUP/REVIEW
It's August, and that means one-stop shopping at all the adventurous local galleries. The upstairs gallery is given over to Chris St. Pierre's emotional and fractured drawings and Demi Raven's perplexing modern-world paintings. Solomon Fine Art, 1215 First Ave, 297-1400. Through Aug 30.
* KELLY STATON
Reviewed this issue. Little Theatre Gallery, 609 19th Ave E, 343-9653. Through Aug 24.
JIM WOODRING
In Drawings Pleasant & Unpleasant, Woodring takes a break from the outlandish color of his brilliant comics work with a collection of complex charcoal drawings. Elliott Bay Café, 101 S Main St, 682-6664. Through Aug 31.
