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Becca Fuhrman: Eat It All
Sept 3–22
Becca Fuhrman’s vibrant, color-dense imagery often centers on female protagonists—a celebration of feminine strength, sensuality, and balls. There’s also a thread of the autobiographical peeking out from the nip slips and opulent patterns. In Eat It All, Fuhrman’s first solo Seattle show, the autobiographical punches through as a “rebellious act of survival born from living in the pressure-cooker of beauty culture,” and a protest against the consumerist edict to do anything but grow old. This new body of work is about bodies, our relationship to mortality, and the intensity of being alive. Supple flesh, skulls, a roll of the dice, and fallen flowers are traditional vanitas motifs given a fresh spin as they weave throughout paintings and sculptures, like little defiant Easter eggs screaming fuck you to the patriarchy. (Hometeam Gallery) AMANDA MANITACH
Tom Barnes: The road goes on forever and the party never ends
Sept 3–Oct 1
He may have been the most 86’ed man in Seattle—a fact that puts a smile on the faces of his closest friends and chosen family. Capitol Hill lost a legend earlier this year, when Tom Barnes departed this earthly plane for the party in the sky. Barnes was well-rounded as a bohemian, in both romantic and problematic ways. Above all, he was an artist and documentarian who painted the world with pure fascination and unbridled pleasure. As a barfly and resident artist at Cha Cha Lounge, he documented the characters and tipplers passing through, rendering figures in big, inky, explosive color and scribbly scrawl that somehow marries on the page to communicate something like pure, incandescent poet energy. Barnes left behind over 800 works of art; come visit the retrospective and raise a glass to the legend at a community memorial on September 5 or during Capitol Hill Art Walk on September 10. (Vermillion) AMANDA MANITACH
WALK DON’T RUN
Sept 19
What’s not to love about 200-plus artists spread across 20 city blocks of downtown Seattle? It’s free and dog-friendly, too! During last year’s inaugural art marathon, brass bands burst onto the streets, dancers mobilized on rooftops and sidewalks, and videos were projected inside a sunken parking garage. This year, the route is reversed, kicking off in Westlake Park at 11 a.m. and ending at Occidental Square. One caveat: Last year’s wayfinding was a little tricky. If that’s the case again, my advice is to study the route beforehand and plot a path so you don’t miss artists like Dez’Mon Omega Fair, one of my favorite performance artists in town; Charmi Shah, who is hiding collectable, baseball-card-size collages along the route for participants to find and keep; and Jesse Higman, whose interactive paint-pouring technique, performed around a massive tilting table, is mesmerizing. Or just wander blindly and let the art happen to you, because the magic of this event is that you get to experience the city in a completely new way. (Various locations throughout downtown, 11 am–7:30 pm) AMANDA MANITACH
William Kentridge
Sept 3–Oct 24
I regret all the William Kentridge prints I never bought at Kucera Gallery—which have been all of them, unfortunately. Kentridge is a renowned South African contemporary artist whose utterly prolific work ranges from opera productions and animated films (made by repeatedly erasing and redrawing the same palimpsest page) to sculpture and drawing. The work is often rooted in sociopolitical critique of apartheid and industrial exploitation, but also delves into the intimate ineffables of time and memory. His works on paper are deliciously wry, erudite, and kind of punk rock all at once, often involving layers of text and subtext—like linocuts and lithographs printed on actual pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Learn from my mistake and take one home. (Greg Kucera Gallery) AMANDA MANITACH
More
Colleen Louise Barry: Safety Dance Sept 3, Hologram Gallery
I Can See It From Here—Hank Reavis Sept 5–27 with opening reception Sept 5, noon–7 pm, Mini Mart City Park
MORE PAINT: Graffiti, Growth, Homelessness, and Who the City Is For Sept 16, Town Hall, 7:30 pm
Melissa Messer Sept 24–Oct 31, with artist reception Oct 8, 6–8 pm, Spectrum Fine Art
Annual Artist Attic Sale Sept 26, Maple Leaf Fairview Church, 10 am–3 pm
Ongoing
Actualize AiR Summer Showcase: Recollections Through Sept 5, Actualize AiR
Moomins’ Sea Adventures & Tove and the Sea Through Sept 6, National Nordic Museum
Lost & Found: Searching for Home Through Sept 14, Wing Luke Museum
Self. Reflexive.: Ian Brownlee, Gegam Kacherian, Michael Lazarus, and Kaoru Mansour Through Sept 17, AMcE Creative Arts
Tom Lloyd Through Sept 20, Frye Art Museum
Lotus L. Kang: I hear the hollow boom of time Through Sept 27, Frye Art Museum
Let There Be Light Through Sept 30, Cannonball Arts
Samantha Yun Wall: What We Leave Behind Through Oct 4, Seattle Art Museum
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies Through Oct 11, Frye Art Museum
Artists’ Choice with Guest Curators Through Oct 11, Frye Art Museum
Boren Banner Series: Chloe King Through Oct 11, Frye Art Museum
Eric-Paul Riege: ojo|-|ól Through Oct 25, Henry Art Museum
Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan Through Jan 17, 2027, Seattle Art Museum
A Room for Animal Intelligence Through Jan 2027, Seattle Art Museum
Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance Through Jan 3, 2027, Henry Art Gallery
The Kondō Family: Storytellers in Clay Through Jan 3, 2027, Seattle Asian Art Museum
Ten Thousand Things Through May 2, 2027, Wing Luke Museum
Joiri Minaya: To Hell With Hibiscus Through May 2, 2027, Henry Art Gallery
Chloë Bass: Soft Services Through Aug 2027, Volunteer Park
Pioneer Square Art Walk Every first Thursday
Capitol Hill Art Walk Every second Thursday
Georgetown Art Attack! Every second Saturday
Chris Kallmyer: Song Cycle Ongoing, Seattle Art Museum
Gossip: Between Us Ongoing, Tacoma Art Museum
Legacy: Highlights from the Permanent Collection Ongoing, Tacoma Art Museum
Qiu Zhijie: Map of the History of Science and Technology Ongoing, Olympic Sculpture Park
Ash-Glazed Ceramics from Korea and Japan Ongoing, Seattle Art Museum
Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman Ongoing, MOPOP
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