"why is this gallery so much more famous outside Seattle than inside Seattle?"

Because you're all hype. Real people don't like this crap you label art. It's clutural-marxist garbage without merit. The only people who care are art critics, art professors, and the global elite who virtue signal-- by buying this junk-- for status.

None of this is "brave" or "controversial." That is a lie you tell yourselves and others, so you can pretend to be edgy by breaking fake taboos. The opposite is true, however, criticizing this crap is the real taboo-- at least for the elite-- the real controversial piece would be a pro-european, rooted, culture-affirming piece; not a fake, artificial, "global-universalized" manufactured novelty from manufactured artists.

Wow! Sorry about that previous comment someone made!
Someone is confusing art with capitalism. I love being in Pioneer Square and walking through the galleries. I don't have to buy it to appreciate it. So the price isn't even an issue. Plus, the sale most likely is NOT how or why the artist created it.

Art is totally capitalist in our age; people buy warehouses of art as an investment, and if the warehouse burns down, insurance will cover it and the artist can make new pieces in a day or two -- because that is how ridiculous, and impoverished, modern art is.