MUSEUMS

FRYE ART MUSEUM
William Cumming: The Image of Consequence. Through Jan 1. Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Through Feb 12. 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.

HENRY ART GALLERY
Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson. Opening celebration Fri Nov 4, 6:30–9 pm. Through Jan 29. Lead Pencil Studio explores the relationship between architectural space and land use in Minus Space. Through Nov 20. Also connected with Lead Pencil Studio is 150 Works of Art, which are paintings and photographs that the architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo selected from the gallery's permanent collection. Through Feb 26. 15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280.

NORDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM
The new exhibit on 12 modern Finnish churches must not be missed! Through Nov 13. 3014 NW 67th St, 789-5707.

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
Africa in America, ongoing in the gallery and the nation. Japanese paintings, screens, and hanging scrolls from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, ongoing. Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages is an exhibition by the son of Charles Tiffany, the founder of Tiffany & Company. Through Jan 4. 100 University St, 654-3100.

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
Protean Picasso: Drawings and Prints from the National Gallery of Canada and Selected Paintings from International Collection, a presentation of drawings, prints and the largest number of Picasso paintings ever exhibited in Vancouver. Through Jan 15. 750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC, 604-662-4700.

GALLERY OPENINGS

ARTFORTE GALLERY
Terra Nova, paintings by Jennifer Jean Tazewell Mawby. Through Nov 30. 213 First Ave S, 748-0187.

ART/NOT TERMINAL GALLERY
In the Mix, paintings by Harry Bonnette. Opening reception Sat Nov 5, 7–10 pm. Through Dec 1. Final week. Pioneer Sunrise, paintings by Keene Crews. Ten Thousand Things, photo collages by John Schuh. Through Nov 3. bill.com, a tribute to Bill Gates, Microsoft, and the world of computers. Through Dec 1. 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680.

CAPITOL HILL ARTS CENTERCurated by Twilight Artist Collective, Art by E is an exhibit of work by Eric Osborne, an artist who is self-taught and deals with a variety of mediums. Opening reception Thurs Nov 3, 8–10 pm. Through Nov 25. 1621 12th Ave, 388-0500.

CHRISTOFF GALLERY
Theatre of the Absurd features work by Naomi McCavitt and Lynette Hensley. Opening reception Sat Nov 5, 6–10 pm. 6004 12th Ave S #17, 767-0280.

COLLINS PUB
Chinatown: Blue Series, an exhibit by Seattle photographer Daimian Lix. Through Dec 31. 526 Second Ave, 898-7090.

CORRIDOR GALLERY
New paintings by Keven Furiya. Opening reception Thurs Nov 3, 6–9 pm. Through Nov 26. 306 S Washington St, 856-7037.

ELLIOTT BAY CAFE
Seattle painter Emilia Kallock has new work that examines the postmodern condition. Opening reception Thurs Nov 3, 6–9 pm. Through Nov 30. 101 S Main St, 682-6664.

FOSTER/WHITE GALLERY
In the Company of Crows and Ravens, bronze sculptures and drawings by Tony Angell. Layers and Lines, paper collages by Eva Isaksen. Opening reception Thurs Nov 3, 6–8 pm. Through Nov 26. 123 S Jackson St, 622-2833.

FRANCINE SEDERS GALLERY
New work by Julie Shapiro. Opening reception Sun Nov 6, 2–4 pm. Through Nov 27. 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355.

GLOBE GALLERY
New color photographs by Kristen Imig. Opening reception Thurs Nov 3, 6–8 pm. Through Nov 29. 105 S Main St, #100, 612-7655.

HALO
stillLIFE is a new work by architect Christine Chaney. Opening reception Sat Nov 5, 7–10 pm. 1919 Third Ave, 256-0715.

INFOHAZARD
New work by Jesse Lindsay and Cliff Hare. Artists reception Sat Nov 5, 6–9:30 pm. Through Dec 1. 1716 E Olive Way, 324-6630.

LISA HARRIS GALLERY
New oil paintings by Seattle artist Kathryn Altus. Opening reception Thurs Nov 3, 6–8 pm. Through Nov 27. 1922 Pike Pl, 443-3315.

LINDA HODGES GALLERY
New paintings by Fred Lisaius and Chen Lin. Artists reception Thurs Nov 3, 6–8:30 pm. Through Nov 26. 316 First Ave S, 624-3034.

SOIL ART GALLERY
Crime Scene, an exhibit about crime, investigation, and evidence. Opens Thurs Nov 3, 6–9 pm. Through Nov 27. 112 Third Ave S, 264-8061.

TOST
Get It Together, an exhibit by local artists Shawn Diaz and David Kaul. Opens Fri Nov 4, 6–9 pm. 513 N 36th St, Space E, 568-7419.

VICTROLA COFFEEHOUSE
On exhibit here is new work by Seattle artist Erik Andrew. Opens Sat Nov 5, 6–10 pm. Through Nov 29. 411 15th Ave, 325-6520.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

CONSOLIDATED WORKS
"After months of internal strife, ConWorks has returned to the happy business of exhibiting art, with Sheng High opening as scheduled last month. Arranged by local curator Beth Sellars as part of a two-year, multiple-site tribute to Trimpin (various projects will be on view in various locations), this is the local sound artist's newest work and has been on ConWorks' calendar for years. Taking advantage of the audience that Trimpin will draw, and probably also to prove that they are still in the art game, Paul Rucker's Wall of Pieces, another sound installation, was brought in by newly hired Operations Manager Andy Fife to complement Trimpin's work. The result of this combination is instructive. Sheng High and Wall of Pieces play off one another well. Their union raises relevant questions about the use of sound in art while cunningly melding ConWorks's past with its future, which is in the hands of new management. And though the futures of both sound art and ConWorks remain to be seen, Sheng High and Wall of Pieces suggest that neither the genre nor the space will disappear anytime soon." (Carrie E. A. Scott) Through Nov 27. 500 Boren Ave N, 381-3218.

CRAWL SPACE GALLERY
Zebra Skin Cake Knife, an exhibit of drawing, paintings, and collages by Diana Falchuk. 504 E Denny Way, #1, 322-5752.

GALLERY 1412
Vague Head Skeletons are new paintings and sculpture by Jamey Braden. Through Nov 27. 1412 18th Ave, 322-1533.

G. GIBSON GALLERY
Ruth Bernhard: At One Hundred, a selection of prints. New work from Japan by Michael Kenna. Through Nov 26. 300 S Washington St, 587-4033.

GREG KUCERA GALLERY
New paintings by Jeffrey Simmons and new drawings by Joe Biel. Through Nov 12. 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770.

HOWARD HOUSE
"For Evicted, his fifth solo exhibition at Howard House, Mark Takamichi Miller painted portraits from a roll of film found in the Central District by a dumpster-diving friend. It was part of the remains left behind by a family evicted from their home. The resulting portraits show ordinary scenes—two men, a woman holding a baby, a girl's face, a baby—but the circumstances of their retrieval lend the show an air of melancholy more pointed than the nostalgia (for vacations, for loved ones) that has suffused his previous explorations in portraiture." (Nate Lippens) Through Nov 12. 604 Second Ave, 256-6399.

JAMES HARRIS GALLERY
"The star of Stephanie Syjuco's exhibit Black Market is the video Body Double, which is a severe redaction of Platoon, a movie set in Vietnam but filmed in the Philippines. Syjuco blocked out all of the action and all of the American faces—she shows only the surrounding landscape in long and short four-sided shapes that fade in and out. What we see is the beauty and peace of the Philippines. We see its clear and cloudy skies, green mountaintops, big trees, and tall grass swaying in the wind. We also see the source of all things: the sun, which is white-hot with a yellow aura. It's hard to believe that this was once a war movie; the island's geography is so tranquil and paradisiacal. Syjuco, a Filipino American based in San Francisco, downloaded the film from the web, and so its quality is not very good; but this works only to deepen the mystery of the preternatural (prelapsarian) peace breezing through the trees and the vegetable life on the mountain slopes. Politically, Body Double represents something higher than appropriation, higher than a Filipino American's ordinary effort to reclaim the image of her home country from Hollywood; it is nothing less than the transmutation of an image commodity (Platoon) into a serious work of art. Though not the original, Body Double is the real thing." (Charles Mudede) Ongoing. 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220.

KIMZEY MILLER GALLERY
New work by David Gignac and Peter Jordan. Through Nov 23. 1225 Second Ave, 682-2339.

LIPSTICK TRACES
Paintings by Alan Hurley. Through Nov 30.303 E Pine St, 329-2813.

PLATFORM GALLERY
A new exhibit by Jennifer McNeely entitled ...and another thing! Through Nov 19. 114 Third Ave S, 323-2808.

RICHARD HUGO HOUSE ART GALLERY
New Edition Work, a collection of prints and sculptures by Saya Moriyasu. Through Nov 30. 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030.

SEATTLE ACADEMY OF FINE ART
Abstraction & Dimension, figurative sculptures and abstract paintings by SAFA students. Forgotten Masters: NW Artists of the Early 20th Century, curated by art historian David Martin. Through Nov 23. 1501 10th Ave E, 526-ARTS.

SQUARE ROOM
Wholly new work by Brian McGuffey and Leif Holland. Ongoing. 1316 E Pike St, 267-7120.

SUYAMA SPACE
Sea Level is a visually disappointing installation by Christine Wallers consisting of thousands of fine-gauge wires and reflected light. Through Dec 9. 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809.

VÉRITÉ COFFEE AND CUPCAKE ROYALE
Curiously Intense Art is an exhibit by a woman with a curious surname, Rachel Van Citters. 2052 NW Market St, 782-9557.

WALL SPACE
Timeless Kyoto, Ron Reeder's palladium prints of his recent sojourn to Kyoto, Japan. 600 First Ave, Suite 322, 330-9137.

WESTERN BRIDGE
In Crash. Pause. Rewind. 12 artists and groups look at "the disaster imagery generated by Hollywood and the news media alike as contemporary equivalents to the Romantic attraction to ruins." Absolutely fantastic! Through March 4. 3412 Fourth Ave S, 838-7444.

EVENTS

CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY ART
The press release for this show reads: "[Meditating America] attempts to be the beginning of a conversation with audiences on critical content through still-evolving forms. It is not a formally curated show, but rather the result of an open-call for submissions." You go CoCA. Sat Nov 5, 8 pm. 410 Dexter Ave N, 728-1980.

HOWARD HOUSE
Local artists Mark Takamichi Miller and Yuki Nakamura give a talk about the work presently exhibited at Howard House. Sat Nov 5, noon. 604 Second Ave, 256-6399.

ROQ LA RUE
Mr. Robert "Low Brow" Williams makes an appearance in Seattle! How low can you go? Go and see just that. Fri Nov 4, 6–8 pm. 2312 Second Ave, 374-8977.