500 Boren Ave N, 381-3218
ALTOIDS CURIOUSLY STRONG COLLECTION
They do a pretty good job, those minty suckers do. This year's show includes work by Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Monique van Genderen, and absolutely no one from Seattle. Through Jan 25.
* ELEPHANT
Don't miss Charm Bracelet's (the Portland duo Brad Adkins and Christopher Buckingham) vinyl elephant--hanging out in ConWorks' lobby--stuffed full of press releases, postcards, and reviews from the last few years of Portland art shows. Through March.
FRYE ART MUSEUM
704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.
BO BARTLETT
Realist work by the Georgia-born artist. Through March 21.
TONY FOSTER
Watercolors, in WaterMarks: Watercolour Diaries from Swamps to Icebergs. Through Feb 8.
ZHI LIN
Large-scale paintings depicting executions, in Crossing Histories/Crossing Cultures. Through Jan 25. HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280.
* LEE BUL: LIVE FOREVER
Final week. 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.
* JAMES TURRELL
Finally premiering the long-awaited skyspace addition to the Henry, Turrell continues his current exhibitions of new light installations, with models and drawings from his literally monumental Roden Crater--a volcano in Arizona he is resculpting in order to, in his words, "reshape the sky." Through Feb 22.
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM
Volunteer Park, 654-3100.
LI JIN: A FEAST
Two modern scrolls by a Chinese master. Through April 11.
OPENINGS
RICHARD BEERHORST
Intimate autobiographical paintings that merge portrait, landscape, and still life. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave S, 223-0816. Through Feb 14.
BODY POLITICS
The body as battlefield, decoration, sufferer, torturer, and last frontier: art about the body, juried by Gene Gentry McMahon. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm; reading by Rebecca Brown Wed Jan 14, 7-9 pm. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington St, 624-9336. Through Jan 31.
RACHEL BRUMER
Sculptural quilts, right on tiny little beds. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. CDA Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-7580. Through Jan 30.
MARTHA CAREY, AMY GARCIA, VADIM KIM
Three quite different artists, in Inner Expressions. Opening reception Sun Jan 11, 3-5 pm. Runnings Family Gallery, ArtsWest Playhouse, 4711 California Ave SW, 938-0963. Through Jan 31.
COMING OF AGE
A child's-eye view of things, with work by Michelle Sank, Gabriella Csoszó, and Robert Lewis Smith. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Benham Gallery, 1216 First Ave, 622-2480. Through Feb 14.
ROARK CONGDON
Hundreds of clay skulls, and one bronze one, from the former official sculptor for the Hendrix family. (These things may or may not be unrelated.) Opening reception Fri Jan 9, 6 pm-midnight. Gallery of the Senses, 1402 E Pike St, 569-0291. Through Jan 30.
BILL EVANS
Forms sculpted in stoneware and porcelain. Opening reception Fri Jan 9, 6-8 pm. The Fountainhead Gallery, 625 McGraw St, 285-4467. Through Jan 31.
FINE PRINTS: 1900-1960
All kinds of prints, in conjunction with the Seattle Print Fair. Martin-Zambito Fine Art, 721 E Pike St, 726-9509. Through Feb 4.
FOUR FROM THE NORTHWEST
And the four are (drum roll): Victoria Adams, Betsy Eby, Catherine Eaton Skinner, and Julie Speidel. Opening reception Mon Jan 12, 6-8 pm. Winston W...chter Fine Art, 403 Dexter Ave N, 652-5855. Through Feb 13.
GEOFF GARZA
New paintings. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 5-7 pm. Bandol, 506 Second Ave, 447-0222. Through Feb 10.
JANE HAMMOND, MARGIE LIVINGSTON
Hammond's paintings narrate using constellations and scrapbooks. This is Livingston's first commercial gallery show; she's previously shown her precise and abstracted paintings at SOIL and BAM. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Hammond shows through Feb 29, Livingston through Jan 31.
* PATRICK HOLDERFIELD
See Stranger Suggests. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Feb 14.
MARYETTA JACQUES
Mixed-media works in Dancing with Broken Legs. Opening reception Fri Jan 9, 6-9 pm. Gulassa & Co. , 10 Dravus St, 283-1810. Through Feb 6.
SHELLEY JORDON
Domestic arrangements and sky studies. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave S, 624-3034. Through Jan 31.
PETER JUVONEN, GREGG ROBINSON, DEBRA VAN TUINEN
New paintings. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Kimzey Miller Gallery, 1225 Second Ave, 682-2339. Through Jan 31.
MARC KATANO, JUAN GRANADOS
New paintings and wall sculpture. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Bryan Ohno Gallery, 155 S Main St, 667-9572. Through Feb 14.
ANGELINA McQUARTER
New work. Opening reception Friday Jan 9, 6-9 pm. Cafe Otis, 1005 Boren Ave, 342-9866.
MEMBERS EXHIBIT
Art and more art! Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-9 pm. Kirkland Arts Center Gallery, 620 Market St, Kirkland, 425-822-7161. Through Feb 6.
MASSIMO MICHELUZZI
Glass vessels by a Venetian artist. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 5-8 pm. William Traver Gallery, 110 Union St, second floor, 587-6501. Through Feb 1.
LIZ RANDALL
Possibly radical time-warp mindfuck with video set against animated photographs. The Joint Gallery, Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Ave, 322-3569. Through Jan 30.
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Work by six new members: Debra Baxter, Buddy Bunting, Dan Dean, Thom Heileson, Bret Marion (yeah!), and Jennifer Zwick. Opening reception Sat Jan 10, 7-10 pm. SOIL Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Jan 25.
BRENDAN REGAN
Photographs of Central America. Opening reception Fri Jan 9, 7-9 pm. Phinney Center Gallery, 6532 Phinney Ave N, 783-2244. Through Jan 30.
MARC AARON WENET
Assemblages that begin with metal collected from the street. Opening reception Sun Jan 11, 2-4 pm. Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355. Through Feb 1.
KEVIN WILLIS
New photographs and painting. The Alibi Room, 85 E Pike St (at Post Alley), 623-3180. Through Feb 4.
THOMAS WORKMAN
Busy, motion-full abstractions, not quite patterns, not quite not. Opening reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Pl, 443-3315. Through Jan 31.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
JULIE ALEXANDER
Layered grid paintings you can look way into. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Jan 31.
BRIAN ALLEN
Very, very weird: Allen photographs buildings so that they appear to be only faÿades, and insists it's just a matter of perspective and perception. AIA Seattle, 1911 First Ave, 448-4938. Through Jan 29.
JOE ALTERIO
Final week. Robot Revolt prints. Glo's, 1621 E Olive Way, 782-0786. Through Jan 11.
SUZANNE BROOKER
New figurative paintings. That means they have figures in 'em. Reception Thurs Jan 8, 6-8 pm. Art Center Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, 3 W Cremona St, 281-2079. Through Jan 24.
PHIL FAGERHOLM
Collages in A Taste of Scandinavia, plus a 10-year retrospective. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680. Through Feb 5.
NATHALIE HARVEY
Recent paintings. She's French! Pitcairn Scott Gallery, 2207 Second Ave, 448-5380. Through Jan 31.
HEAVEN AND HELL
Final week. 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.
CAROLYN KRIEG
Photographs altered through various methods, both high-tech and not. Star Life on the Oasis, 1405 NE 50th St. Through Jan 31.
MARIKO MARRS
Not to be confused with Mariko Mori or Mark Morris... Marrs paints abstracted things. Velocity Art and Design, 2118 Second Ave, 781-9494. Through Jan 15.
MEMBERS EXHIBITION
PCNW's annual show, juried this year by TAM's Patricia McDonnell. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Jan 30.
* JESSE PAUL MILLER
Miller's recordings of the natural world are often layered--here subtly, here not--with the utterly artificial. Jack Straw New Media Gallery, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919. Through Feb 27.
NECESSARY COMPULSIONS
Work by AIS faculty. Art Institute of Seattle, 2323 Elliott Ave, 448-6600. Through Jan 30.
DAVID PIRRIE, JUNKO YAMAMOTO
Pirrie's crashed automobile paintings (hello, John Chamberlain), and Yamamoto's airy abstractions of big ideas. At.31 Gallery, 2500 First Ave, 448-5250. Through Feb 1.
DOUG PLUMMER
Photographs of Ireland. Caffe Zingaro, 127 Mercer St, 352-2861. Through Feb 29.
BEVERLY RAYNER
New, distinctly un-biological photographs in furtherance of Rayner's interest in biology and genetics. G. Gibson Gallery, 514 E Pike St, 587-4033. Through Feb 28.
DONNA ROMERO
Final week. The varying presences of light, in painting. Zeitgeist Art & Coffee, 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497. Through Jan 8.
JACK SAVITSKY
The artist known as "Coal Miner Jack" painted scenes of the rural life of coal miners. Garde Rail Gallery, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 721-0107. Through Jan 31.
STEPHEN SCHILDBACH
Objects as containers for memory. Bluebottle Art Gallery and Store, 415 E Pine St, 325-1592. Through Jan 31.
SHAG
Shag created the canon for lounge and tiki culture, all the while with a spirit of gentle lampoon. His new show is called Greetings from the Soul Patch. Roq la Rue Gallery, 2316 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through Jan 30.
SIX IN THE CITY
Work by Pratt faculty members Theresa Batty, Mark Brinton, Catherine Grisez, Chad Holliday, Katrina Hude, and Kamla Kakaria. Solomon Fine Art, 1215 First Ave, 297-1400. Through Feb 6.
* KATY STONE
Final week. "Katy Stone's current series of painted-acetate installations floats between the alarming and the sweet... some suggest invasion rather than benignant coexistence; others have an insinuating loveliness, but without power. " (Emily Hall) Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave, 684-7312. Through Jan 9.
STRATA, SALLY CLEVELAND
All manner of stripes (op, pop, and painterly) with local landscapes by Cleveland. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Jan 31.
SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS
Environmental artwork, architecture, and product design. Public lecture (at Seattle City Hall, 600 Fourth Ave) by Buster Simpson, Paul Olson, and Karin Carter on Thurs Jan 8, noon. City Space, 701 Fifth Ave, third floor, 749-9525. Through Jan 30.
WORK ON PAPER
Brand-new gallery! With work by Ted Galaday, Sarah Bergmann, Neal Bashor, Dianna Molzan, and Juliet Jacobson. 1506 Projects, 1506 E Olive Way, 860-4197. Through Jan 31.
GRAY AS COLOR
There's fashion (at M:pulse boutique, 3516 Fremont Pl, 545-4854) and music (at ToST, 513 N 36th St, 547-0240), but what you don't want to miss is Lula designer Sam Trout in his first gallery exhibition (at Priceless Works, 619 N 35th St, #100, 349-9943). Fri Jan 9, 6 pm-2 am, $5 joint cover; more info at www.graylife.com.
SEATTLE PRINT FAIR
Prints from all over art history, sold by 18 dealers from all over the country--look, there's got to be something here you like. Sat Jan 10, 10 am-6 pm; Sun Jan 11, 11 am-5 pm, in the Snoqualmie Room at Seattle Center. Free!
TRENDS IN EARLY SCANDINAVIAN FINE ARTS PAINTING
A lecture by Brian Magnusson. Sat Jan 10 at 7 pm at Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680. Free!
