Credit: KELLY O
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KELLY O

Sculptor Rob Rhee had a one-word reaction to being nominated for a Stranger Genius Award.

“What? What??”

Maybe that’s two words. His disbelief belies the respect many other artists have for him, too. He’s been in Seattle since 2012; he’s an assistant professor at Cornish College of the Arts. In 2015, he had two big shows. For his solo at Glass Box, he revealed a series of what looked like gourds being tortured. They were squeezed into metal cages he’d welded. You can see a few on that wall behind him…

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...