Just figuring that out Jen?-people really in the know have long held Doris Chase as one of the great NW artists. You should dig a little deeper and discover more NW artists and their work, instead of your usual trite pop culture obsessions and judgements.

^^^ feel better Hibrowgorilla?
yikes. so bitchy... and "in the know".

In Jen's defense this is not the first time that she has written about Chase. It is not about her discovering Chase's work for the first time but getting others to. It's true that many people in Seattle pass by her sculptures daily and still don't have a clue who created them let alone Chase's contributions to video art, and that includes many "in the know". When people speak of great NW artists they list the "big 4": Graves, Callahan, Anderson and Tobey- the list typically stops there. Being a woman in a macho boy's club worked against her during her life, and now it is important that people like Jen attempt to expand our understanding of who the NW artists were, especially when it comes to women who were marginalized.

http://www.the-stranger.com/slog/archive…

@ 2-this column and its critic wrote the book on bitchy…
and @ 3-it is not about "the Big 4" as you say because we all know they've had their day in the sun-nor the fact that if you cared to look Doris Chase was always there and available to discover by all-she did not go anywhere in the minds of the informed. It is about the countless number of struggling young artists now, and then, in the NW that have been marginalized, overlooked, and disrespected by this column and Jen Graves. It's about the countless times she has never seen fit to at least give support, fair mindedness, and air time to them because they do not fit her 'wanna be NY Times art world hipster views' of "Art" and the endless B.S. that swirls and stinks around the commercialized profiteering art world. Not to mention the countless galleries she does not see fit to give their fair shake as businesses and people trying to make something of this shambles of an art world we have been left with in this town-circa 2014.
and fInally-Jen shouldn't dish it out if she cannot take it-and boy does she dish it out. Simple.

I seem to remember Doris Chase living at Westbeth Artists Housing in the West Village in the 70s, where I lived, too. That subsidized housing helped lots of artists back then, up until the present. What a time. gayleaustin