500 Boren Ave N, 381-3218.
* JASON PUCCINELLI
Final week. These empty stage sets were the basis for a debauched photo-shoot performance. "It is one thing to create a spectacle, and entirely another to make us see how we behave in one. What does it mean to long for things to get out of hand--for the insults, the mob mentality, the groveling in the blood? How absurd was this absurdity, that some people present mistook it for the real thing? And it is all the more complicated because Dazzle Camouflage tangled critique, spoof, and earnestness so inexorably that one's exquisitely calibrated sense of irony might not know what to make of it. " (Emily Hall) Through Nov 23.
HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280.
* LEE BUL: LIVE FOREVER
All the glorious, sincere, heart-singing fun of karaoke, but in a series of self-contained pods (each with music related to a different theme), so that no one can hear you. Through Jan 11.
WING LUKE ASIAN MUSEUM
407 Seventh Ave S, 623-5124.
IT'S LIKE THAT: APAS AND THE SEATTLE HIP-HOP SCENE
An exhibition dedicated to Seattle's Asian Pacific American (APA) hiphop community. Through Nov 30.
OPENINGS
GALLERIA DIARRHEA
Check out this really neat new little gallery. Opening reception Sat Nov 22, 3-9 pm. Crawl Space, 504 E Denny Way (behind a wooden fence). Through Dec 6.
SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS
Environmental artwork, architecture, and product design. Opening reception Thurs Nov 20, 5-7 pm. City Space, 701 Fifth Ave, third floor, 749-9525. Through Jan 15.
* RAMONA TRENT
Photographs of solitary women uneasily perched between fashion and introspection. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Dec 20. CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
MERIMA ADEE
New work, in Painting for the Blind. Duque Duque, 5348 Ballard Ave NW, 706-7177. Through Dec 31.
ALLISON AGOSTINELLI, CHRISSA ARAZNY, SUSAN TILLITT
Final week. Works on evolution, in Growing Pains. Forgotten Works Gallery, 619 Western, fourth floor, 447-8855. Through Nov 22.
DEBORAH BELL
New paintings. Ballard Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through Dec 6.
PAM BERGLUNDH, SHARON STRAUSS
Homey things and self-portraits by Berglundh, and abstractions by Strauss. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington St, 624-9336. Through Nov 29.
RION BERRY, ANNA McKEE
Abstract multimedia and urban nature. Blue Door, 759 N 80th St, 783-2583. Through Dec 21.
LISA BUCHANAN, JUNKO IIJIMA
New paintings from Buchanan, with fractured surfaces that recall the decorative unease of the Vienna Secession. With sculpture from Iijima. Bryan Ohno Gallery, 155 S Main St, 667-9572. Through Nov 29.
EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: A CELEBRATION OF THE SOUL
Final week. With artists from Seattle, Chicago, and Mexico. El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Ave, 329-9442. Through Nov 24.
MICHAEL FOX
Unimaginable objects in Metals and Magnets: Tools for Dichotomous Decision Making. Rose Club, 3601 S McClellan St, 725-3654. Through Nov 30.
MICHAEL GESINGER, BRUCE BARNBAUM
Two photographers who "paint with light." Benham Gallery, 1216 First Ave, 622-2480. Through Dec 24.
JON GIERLICH
Exploring, through drawing, photographs, and sculpture, states of transition. Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355. Through Nov 30.
HEAVEN AND HELL
Kipling West, herself something of a mistress of the macabre, here gathers together work on the afterlifical possibilities. With work by Blair Wilson, Ellen Forney, Elizabeth Jameson, Shawn Ferris, Steve Veach, Joe Newton, and others. Kuhlman Clothing, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Jan 11.
BILLY KING
When someone's been around long enough (and is self-assured enough) to host the 16th annual holiday show of his own painting... well, that says something, doesn't it? Corona Building, 608 Second Ave, 382-1001. Through Dec 30.
JON LANGFORD, SEONNA HONG
Langford (best known as one of the Mekons) takes as a starting point for his paintings a kind of rootsy Americana, something he translates--as a foreigner--through observation rather than inheritance. With Hong's princessy girls. Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through Nov 28.
RICH LEHL, BRAD RUDE
Lehl's curious brand of surrealism often seems to be taking place in the middle of some dark, ambiguous narrative. With bronze animals by Rude. Atelier 31, 2500 First Ave, 919-3363. Through Nov 30.
PERRI LYNCH
Final week. Visual and audio field recordings from Seattle's survey stations. Jack Straw New Media Gallery, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919. Through Nov 26.
BENNETT McKNIGHT, JOE PLOTTS & DAN WEISER, CHRISTOPHER DYER & JASON McHENRY
Lots of stuff: McKnight's Chalkboard Poetry, Plotts and Weiser's documentary about AIDS survivors, and Dyer and McHenry's 52 Weeks, a series of shadow-box diaries. Priceless Works Gallery, 619 N 35th St, Suite 100, 349-9943. Through Nov 30.
BRIAN NOVATNY, GWEN DAVIDSON, BLANKA DVORAK
The dully and daily domestic transformed (by Novatny); abstraction that "frames" nature (by Davidson); and politically charged prints (by Dvorak). Davidson Gallery, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Nov 29.
JULIE PASCHKIS
Paschkis' illustrations often seem to have stepped mid-story out of an Eastern European fairy tale; here are new paintings involving word games. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave S, 223-0816. Through Dec 12.
* JOHN POWERS
Effort and grandiosity in intricate structures built block by block of tiny blocks. Solomon Fine Art, 1215 First Ave, 297-1400. Through Nov 28.
KEN ROSENTHAL
New photographs--blurred, indistinct, but still a bit nostalgic--in Seen and Not Seen. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Nov 29.
SAMUELLA SAMANIEGO
Final week. Nudes paired with ice formations. M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle Central Community College, Broadway and Pine St, 344-4379. Through Nov 26.
JOHN SCHUH, WM. A. HERBERHOLTZ
Schuh's enormous photo collages, and Herberholtz's assemblages of metal and other materials. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Nov 29.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM'S RENTAL/SALES GALLERY
A brand-new architect-designed space, inaugurated by an exhibition of works on paper, and an exhibition of paintings. SAM Rental/Sales Gallery, 1220 Third Ave, 343-1101. Through Dec 13.
DENISE WHITLOW
Works that reconcile--or not--science and religion. Viveza Gallery, 2604 Western Ave, 956-3584. Through Nov 29.
ZOE DAWN WILSON
Deft, furious works that depend on a thorough, cartoonish cosmology. ToST, 513 N 36th St, 547-0240. Through Dec 31.
WORKS BY CORNISH COLLEGE ALUMNI
You'll be pleasantly surprised how many of our most talented come from the halls of Cornish. With work by, among many others, Dan Webb, Helen Gamble, Rich Lehl, Jennifer McNeely, and the extremely young and weird Sutton/Beres/Culler trio. Opening reception next month. Washington State Convention and Trade Center, 800 Convention Place, Galleria Level 2. Through Jan 5.
MI WU
The relationship between inside and outside investigated through ceramic sculpture, some deliberately broken and reassembled. CDA Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-8674. Through Nov 28.
EVENTS
* FAUNA FALL FASHION SHOW
This event was a fuckload of fun last year--the tiny gallery packed to the teeth, a tiny catwalk snaking through it. With a "fall forest" theme and fashion by local folks. Sat Nov 22, 8 pm. Aftermath Gallery, 928 12th Ave, 709-9797. $5.
