Museums

Bellevue Art Museum
Call Me Chairmaker: work by Garry Knox Bennett. Through Nov 26. 510 Bellevue Way NE, 425-519-0745.

Frye Art Museum
Klompen: sound sculptor Trimpin makes 120 Dutch clogs dance in the air. Through Jan 21, 2007. The Chicago recluse Henry Darger painted a whole world that wasn't discovered until his death: "His life's work needs no followers; his life's work had no audience. And yet here we are in the gallery looking at Darger's paintings. Why? Not because they are beautiful, or edifying. The paintings themselves do nothing for us. We are here because of the sheer scale of Darger's obsession." (Charles Mudede) Through Oct 29. Spectatorship and Desire: Love restores the paintings that curator Robin Held removed from the walls, set beside visitor comments made in their absence. Through Mar 4, 2007. Little Women, Little Men: Folk Art portraits from the Fenimore Art Museum. Through Feb 4, 2007. 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.

Henry Art Gallery
day ring, night ring: Steve Roden's pair of sound art compositions were created in response to James Turrell's Skyspace. Through Oct 15. Monsen 75 at 75: For his 75th birthday, the noted photography collector Joseph Monsen selects his 75 favorite photographs, which add up to an amazing parade. (See review.) Through Oct 22. The Laughing Monks: ceramicist Akio Takamori mines the Henry's collection and mingles it with his own figures. Through Oct 22. The Biographical Landscape: the photography of Stephen Shore, 1968-1993. Reception Fri Oct 6, 8-10 pm. Oct 7-Dec 31. 15th Ave NE at NE 41st St, 543-2280.

Museum of Glass
Kickin It with Joyce J Scott. Through Oct 22. Transparently Built: exploring the diverse architectural properties of glass. Through May 27, 2007. Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory. Through Dec 31. 1801 Dock St, 253-284-4732.

Museum of History and Industry
100 Years of American Photography from the National Archives. Through Dec 17. 2700 24th Ave E, 324-1126.

Museum of Northwest Art
All in the Painted View: six artists including Anne Appleby and Margie Livingston survey the landscape, from realism to expressionism to total abstraction. A tribute to the sculptor Italo Scanga (1932-2001). Through Oct 8. 121 S First Street, 360-466-4446.

Seattle Asian Art Museum
The highlights: Claude Zervas's neon river and Iranian-born Shirin Neshat's video installation, Tooba, a lyrical portrait of a menaced woman making a kind of escape. Plus, there's Picnics, Rhythms and Vacations, a new installation by Trimpin. Through Oct 15. 1400 E Prospect St (Volunteer Park), 654-3100.

Tacoma Art Museum
Twenty-five years of Akio Takamori's renowned, large-scale ceramic sculptures marrying Matissean and Japanese woodblock lines. Through Oct 8. Trimpin's installation Conloninpurple: a five-octave, room-sized instrument played by museum visitors or generated by pre-composed musical sequences. Through Dec 31. Symphonic Poem: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson's works are a commentary on the lives of Africans and African-Americans. Through Jan 28, 2007. The Art of Eric Carle: original works on paper by the artist most known for the children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Oct 7-Jan 21. 1701 Pacific Ave, 253-272-4258.

Vancouver Art Gallery
Paint: seven new painters and BC painting since the '60s. Through Feb 27, 2007. Kyohei Sakaguchi's installation Zero Yen House: the architecture of temporary dwellings. Through Jan 1, 2007. A generation of BC painters exploring just that: Paint. Through Feb 25, 2007. Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon. Oct 7-Jan 7. 750 Hornby St, 604-662-4719.

Whatcom Museum of History and Art
Rodin: In His Own Words. Through Dec 10. 121 Prospect St, 360-676-6981.

Wing Luke Asian Museum
These Walls Can Speak: Untold Stories, featuring the historic Kong Yick, Higo, and Eastern Hotel buildings. Through Dec 10. Voyage of the Barangay: Filipino Currents in King County. Oct 6-Dec 10. 407 Seventh Ave S, 623-5124.

Gallery Openings

All City Coffee
Evil, heavy-metal quilts by Boo Davis, for warmth on a cold winter's night. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-10 pm Oct 5-31. 125 Prefontaine Pl S, 652-8331.

Art Patch Gallery
Jite Agbro gives us Populai: mixed media prints inspired by illuminated manuscripts and old world graphics. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 5-9 pm. Oct 5-27. 306 S Washington St, Ste 102, 388-2373.

Art/Not Terminal Gallery
The Rosary of the Philosophers Restored and Revisioned: Alchemical Emblems for a New Era in an Old Key: paintings by Kurt J. Vance. Reception Sat Oct 7, 7-10 pm. Oct 7-Nov 2. 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680.

Bainbridge Arts and Crafts
On March 30, 1942, 227 Japanese men, women and children from Bainbridge Island left their homes and were taken to the Manzanar concentration camp in California, and now several contemporary artists are raising money to help pay for an internment memorial at the ferry dock from where they left. If you only go once a year to Bainbridge to see art, make this the time: the artists include Mark Horiuchi, Roger Shimomura, Gerard Tsutakawa, Louise Kikuchi, Fumiko Kimura, and Reid Ozaki. Oct 6-31. 151 Winslow Way E, 842-3132.

Bazr Gallery
Urban Curiosities and Anonymity: new paintings and pen-transfer drawings by Shannon McConnell. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 7-11 pm. Oct 5-30. 910 E Pike St, 617-2161.

Benham Gallery
Estaurine: a multimedia meditation on mortality, loss, and the tides of the sea by Reymont Cantil and Brendan Basham. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6 pm. Oct 5-Nov 11. 1216 First Ave, 622-2480.

Carolyn Staley Fine Japanese Prints
Katagami: Japanese paper stencils from the John Huston collection. Oct 5-31. 2001 Western Ave, Suite 320, 621-1888.

Catherine Person Gallery
Colleen Hayward & Kensuke Yamada: Dwell. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-Nov 11. 319 Third Ave, 726-1836.

Corridor Gallery
The Noblest of Beasts: egg tempera paintings by Nathan DiPietro. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 5-9 pm. Oct 5-28. 306 S Washington St, 856-7037.

D'Adamo/Woltz Gallery
Florafaunaphobia: paintings by Jim Stoccardo. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 5-8 pm. Oct 5-31. 307 Occidental Ave S, 652-4414.

Davidson Contemporary
Elsewhere: paintings by Dion Zwirner. Oct 5-28. 310 S Washington St, 624-7684.

Davidson Galleries
The Age of Satire: British Caricature Prints, 1790-1830, and Light Orchestration: new monotypes by Kevin Fletcher. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-1324.

Form/Space Atelier
The grand opening of a new, temporary gallery in a building that will be torn down in about eight months features Micro/Macro: photography by Signe Drake and Jonelle Lind, curated by Paul Pauper. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-10 pm. Oct 5-31. 1907 Second Ave, 208-9843.

Foster/White Gallery
Arboreum: Robert Marchessault. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 220 Third Ave S, 622-2833.

Fountainhead Gallery
Andrew Hare says Enter at Your Own Risk, Jennifer Frohwerk paints a Still Frame. Reception Sat Oct 7, 5-7 pm. Oct 7-29. 625 W McGraw St, 285-4467.

Frame Up Studios
Julia Miller showcases her latest work in acrylic. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-9 pm. Oct 6-31. 3515 Fremont Ave N, 547-4657.

Francine Seders Gallery
About Landscape, by the veteran Seattle painter Norman Lundin. Upstairs, thickly painted and heavily textured oils by James Deitz. Reception Sun Oct 15, 2-4 pm Oct 6-Nov 12. 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355.

Frank and Dunya
Sam Hamrick's skeletons series. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-9 pm. Oct 6-31. 3418 Fremont Ave N, 547-6760.

Friesen Gallery
Tracking: sculpture and works on paper by Jane Rosen. In the east gallery, Pilchuck Glass School: 16th Year of Emerging Artists in Residence includes Jenny Heishman, Pat Bako, Cara Meling, Rachel Moore, and Kazue Taguchi. Reception Thursday Oct 5, 5-8 pm Oct 5-31. 1200 Second Ave S, 628-9501.

G. Gibson Gallery
The Wilderness Act: new paintings by Michael Brophy. Oct 5-Nov 11. 300 S Washington St, 587-4033.

Gallery 110
Photographic Translations by Dave Kennedy and Every Day: by Gary Oliveira. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 110 S Washington St, 624-9336.

Gallery 4Culture
Floating Worlds: an installation of three new large chandelier forms, filled with miniature worlds of delicate ceramic, by Saya Moriyasu. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 101 Prefontaine Pl S, 296-7580.

Gallery IMA
All Too Human: The Works of James Wille Faust and Harold Hoy. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-Nov 1. 123 S Jackson St, 625-0055.

Glasshouse Studio
Work by Dehanna Jones and Jacqueline Mendelson. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-Nov 1. 311 Occidental Ave South, 682-9939.

Greg Kucera Gallery
Bovine: paintings and sculptures by Whiting Tennis (one of which is the largest single object the gallery has ever shown). Plus, recent print editions from Raymond Pettibon and Mark Bennett. Artist talk Sat Oct 7, noon. Oct 5-Nov 11. 212 Third Ave 2, 624-0770.

Grover/Thurston Gallery
Second Thoughts: paintings and sculpture by Terry Turrell. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 309 Occidental Ave S, 223-0816.

Hipposchemes
Bite Size: works by Junichi Tsuneoka. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-9 pm. Oct 6-31. 1510 12th Ave, 234-2342.

Icon Coffee
How do trees grow? Anna McKee's Recent Etchings studies for answers. Reception Fri Oct 6, 7-9 pm. Oct 6-Nov 30. 4301 Fremont Ave N, 632-3535.

James Harris Gallery
Jam: New Drawings by Geoffrey Chadsey. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-Nov 11. 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220.

Lawrimore Project
In Kerry Skarbakka's photographs, someone is always falling. Fluid is his series of underwater images. And Seattle artist Susie J. Lee presents Fermata, a video installation that evokes the tension between hanging on to one another and letting go. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-10 pm. Oct 5-Nov 11. 831 Airport Way S, 501-1231.

Linda Hodges Gallery
Encounters: by David French. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 316 First Ave S, 624-3034.

Lisa Harris Gallery
Abundance: by Kim Osgood. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-29. 1922 Pike Pl, 443-3315.

Miner Gallery
Taiko Ghosts: by Marc Samuelsson. Reception Sat Oct 7, 7:30-10 pm. Oct 7-31. 346 15th Ave, 568-7604.

Phinney Center Gallery
The 2006 Northwest Fine Art Competition. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-8 pm. Oct 6-31. 6532 Phinney Ave N, 783-2244.

Punch Gallery
Lost Thoughts and Abandoned Information: Jen Erickson mulling over where those thoughts and memories disappear to. Oct 5-29. 119 Prefontaine Pl S.

Seattle Center House
Portraits of Healing: Celebrating the Gift of Hospice by photographer Nancy Medwell. Oct 5-31. 305 Harrison St.

Shift Studio
Set Theory is comprised of Insect Collection, Celebrity Lips, and Naïve Set Theory by Cara Jaye. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 5-8 pm. Oct 5-28. 306 S Washington St, Ste 105.

Soil Art Gallery
Photography has been fake forever, but here are some strong artists to prove it to you again: Amir Zaki, Claude Zervas, Todd Simeone, Tim Roda, and Jenny Zwick, among others. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-9 pm Oct 5-28. 112 Third Ave S, 264-8601.

Stonington Gallery
Works by Jean Ferrier and Loren White. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-31. 119 S Jackson St, 405-4040.

Trofeo
New paintings by Ryan Molenkamp. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-10 pm. Oct 6-31. 3601 Woodland Park Ave N, 632-4600.

Wall Of Sound
An Eye for Ears: a group show of LP and CD design work by local artists. Reception Fri Oct 6, 7-9 pm. Oct 6-Nov 30. 315 E Pine St.

William Traver Gallery
Form Color Pattern: glass work by Dante Marioni, and Woven in Glass by Tobias Mohl. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 5-8 pm. Oct 5-29. 110 Union St. #200, 587-6501.

Zeitgeist
Paintings by Susie Wind. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-8 pm. Oct 5-Nov 1. 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497.

Continuing Exhibitions

20twenty
I Dont Shut Up I Grow Up: paintings and drawings by Willow Robin and August Heffner. Through Oct 10. 5208 Ballard Ave NW, 706-0969.

911 Media Arts Center
The idea was that two teams of one traditional-media and one digital-media artist each would make new work. But the pieces created by Carrie Bodle and Margie Livingston, and especially the installation by Robert Campbell and Yuki Nakamura, go way, way beyond their setups. Don't miss this one. Through Oct 27. 402 Ninth Ave N, 682-6552.

Art on Center
Marine Journal: gouache on paper by Bill Rades. Reception Sat Oct 7, 4-7 pm. Through Nov 11. 1604 Center St, 253-627-8180.

Artists' Gallery of Seattle
Work by Charlie Barr. Through Oct 5. 902 First Ave S, 340-0830.

Art/Not Terminal Gallery
Creation is Not An ISM: Art of An Intelligent Design by Phil Fagerholm. Through Oct 5. 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680.

ArtsWest
One Moment in Time: work from members of the Northwest Collage Society. Through Nov 4. 4711 California Ave SW, 938-0339.

Baas Art Gallery & Framing
Paradise Built: paintings by Rachel Maxi. Through Oct 28. 2703 E Madison St, 324-4742.

Ballard Fetherston Gallery
New Works on Paper: Melinda Hannigan. Through Oct 7. 818 E Pike St, 322-9440.

Bellevue Art Museum
Islamic calligraphy by Mohamed Zakariya. Through Feb 18, 2007. 510 Bellevue Way NE, 425-519-0745.

Bellevue City Hall
The Seventh Biennial Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition. Through Oct 9. 1111 110 Ave NE, 425-452-4852.

Belltown Lofts
Photography by Andrew Vornbrock and Derrick Jefferies. Through Oct 7. 66 Bell St, 427-7480.

Bluebottle Gallery
San Francisco, 1940-1942: new bag paintings by Chris Crites. Reception Sat Oct 7, 6-8 pm. Through Oct 29. 415 E Pine St, 325-1592.

BLVD Gallery
!Come Me! new works by street artist and all-around bad-boy David Choe. Through Oct 6. 2316 Second Ave, 374-8977.

Caffe Ladro
Works by local pop artist Lucas Vidana. Through Nov 30. 600 Queen Anne Ave N.

Caffe Ladro
Abstract paintings by Marilyn Ullin. Through Nov 30. 813 5th Ave.

Caffe Ladro
Selections: Collaborative Works by Natalie Oswald and Joel Barber. Through Oct 31. 452 N 36th St.

Caffe Ladro
Paintings by Laura Marks. Through Oct 31. 2205 Queen Anne Ave N, 282-5313.

Caffe Ladro
New figurative works by Erik Andrew. Through Oct 31. 7011 California Ave SW.

Caffe Ladro
Portraiture by Joey Bates. Through Oct 31. 435 15th Ave E, 282-1549.

Caffe Vita
Photographic portraits by Davis Freeman. Through Oct 31. 1005 E Pike St, 709-4440.

Center on Contemporary Art
The Hope Series is sculpture and installation by Idaho artist Robert Kantor, including one work built around a WWII-era 500-pound bomb. Through Oct 8. 410 Dexter Ave N, 728-1980.

City Hall
Five Blocks to Green Lake: environmental portraiture by Gary Grenell. Through Oct 30. 600 Fourth Ave, 684-7171.

Columbia Center Gallery
Celebration IV, by the Women Painters of Washington. Through Oct 27. 701 Fifth Ave, Third Floor, 262-5400.

Columbia City Gallery
Drawing in the New Year: 6 artists explore memory and ancestry at the Jewish New Year. Through Nov 5. 4864 Rainier Ave S, 760-9843.

Cornish College of the Arts Main Gallery
Works by Cornish alum Diem Chau, a contemporary sculptor whose crayons carved as figures were recently at Howard House. Through Oct 20. 1000 Lenora Street, 726-5011.

Crawl Space Gallery
Wyndel Hunt's home study in enforced obscurity in June now finds a public outlet in Landscapes for Phantom Limbs: RG Region CS2, a video and drawing installation. Through Oct 15. 504 E Denny Way, #1, 322-5752.

Experience Music Project
"In its six years, EMP has been more of an overpriced tourist attraction than a home for the exchange of ideas about rock music, and rock is something we know Allen loves. How does he really feel about art, and what is his vision for showing it? This show doesn't answer those questions. Instead, it relies on celebrity. Even in rock, that only goes so far." (Graves) Through Jan 1, 2007. 2901 Broad St, 770-2700.

Faire Gallery Cafe
drama of memory, a closed site of rest: by Michelle Sciumbato. Reception Fri Oct 6, 7-11 pm. Through Nov 3. 1351 E Olive Way, 652-0781.

Fuel Coffee
The Past: pop-styled portraits of the 1920s by Javier S. Ortega. Through Oct 31. 610 19th Ave E, 329-4700.

Gage Academy of Art
Recent land and portrait work by Amy Huddleston. Reception Sun Oct 22, 6-8 pm. Through Oct 22. 1501 10th Ave East, 323-4243.

Garde Rail Gallery
Gregory Blackstock collects everything from sharks to cop cars for his illustrated lists. Reception Wed Oct 4, 6-8 pm. Through Nov 11. 110 Third Ave S, 621-1055.

Gary Word Fine Arts
Gary Word with a new body of work of oil painted fused glass and canvas. Through Nov 15. 810 Pike st.

The Great Nabob
Abstract paintings by Jennifer Cepeda. Through Oct 31. 819 Fifth Ave N, 281-9850.

Harbor Steps
West Edge Sculpture Invitational: works by 29 Seattle-area sculptors at Harbor Steps and on the stairs outside Benaroya Hall. Through Oct 29. First Avenue and University Street.

Howard House
Private Moments is the first Howard House show for large-scale figurative sculptor Will Ryman. Through Oct 14. 604 Second Ave, 256-6399.

Icebox Contemporary Art
The Justin Show: a multi-media presentation by Justin Gorman. Through Oct 18. 301A Puyallup Ave, 856-7114.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Huldre: an interactive sound installation by S. Lyn Goeringer. Through Oct 27. 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Alfredo Arreguin: Selected Works 1992-2006. Lauro Flores Marian Yamplosky: Imágenes de México. Through Oct 28. Art Building, University of Washington.

Joe Bar
Dolls of Air and Space: paintings and video by Hayley Barker. Reception Wed Oct 4, 6 pm. Through Oct 31. 810 E Roy St, 324-0407.

Kirkland Arts Center
The Other Side of the Grassy Knoll: four views of the natural world in sculpture. Through Oct 7. 620 Market St, 425-822-7161.

Kobo at Higo
Hiroshi Ogawa fires his pottery with bio-diesel. Through Oct 7. Rhizome: new bamboo jewelry by Julia Harrison. Through Oct 7. 604 S Jackson, 755-8900.

Lee Center for the Arts
"Eric Eley's installation, Intricate Matter, has to be seen from both inside the gallery and across the street. One view is not enough. From the inside, the piece is an elongated and many-legged insect, or possibly a sci-fi prop or a snippet of architecture, and definitely the work of a mathematical mind." (Graves) Through Oct 27. 901 12th Ave, 296-5360.

M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery
From Out of the Woodwork: Seattle Central's wood construction center showcases student talent. Through Oct 18. Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway, #2BE2116, 344-4379.

OKOk
Ink and watercolor by Jen Corace. Through Oct 11. 5107 Ballard Ave NW.

Ouch My Eye Studios
CUI BONO? is a group show. Through Oct 9. 1022 First Ave S, 381-8457.

Patricia Cameron Gallery
Lost in the Woods mixed media and pastel works on paper by Sam Chapman. Oil paintings by Dave McGranaghan. Through Oct 14. 234 Dexter Ave N, 343-9647.

Photographic Center Northwest
Mary Ellen Mark shows her series Tiny this month, along with a show of photographs of Oaxaca by Mark's students. (See preview.) Reception Sat Oct 7, 6-8 pm. Through Oct 31. 900 12th Ave, 720-7222.

Platform Gallery
Blindsight: new color-drunk abstractions by Jaq Chartier. "Jaq Chartier's paintings are the best kind: the kind you have to see in person. Things happen when you stand in front of them. The dots glow and bleed and the shapes refuse to come into focus, so much so in one work at Platform Gallery (L. Burnt Orange [net]) that an orange web pattern quivers up through the eye, into the brain, and just absolutely fools around." (Graves) Through Oct 7. 114 Third Ave S, 323-2808.

Richard Hugo House
C. Albert's work, with the edges of our eyes, is collage paired with her poetry, and Sally Schuh presents Type/written, a visual reinterpretation of Gertrude Stein's prose. Through Nov 3. 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030.

Roq La Rue
A group show inspired by all things tiki. Through Oct 9. 2312 Second Ave, 374-8977.

SAM Gallery Art Sales and Rental
Structures: a group show dealing with patterns of organization in the built environment, in consciousness and in other systems. Through Oct 14. 1220 Third Ave, 343-1101.

Some Space Gallery
Buildings 2006: photographs by Shaun Kardinal. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-9 pm. Through Oct 27. 625 1st Ave, 718-3104.

Square Room
Black Shoe Polish On My Dress: new work by Brian McGuffey. Through Oct 29. 1316 E Pike St, 267-7120.

Suyama Space
All Things Long To Persist In Their Being: an installation by Ben Butler. Through Dec 8. 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809.

Tacoma Contemporary-Woolworth Windows
The Human Condition is sculpture by Jessica Geiger. Through Oct 28. 11th and Commerce (downtown Tacoma).

Tacoma Public Library
ConCreativity: curated by Lynn Di Nino, 27 Puget Sound artists create in concrete. Through Nov 4. 1102 Tacoma Ave S.

Triangle Gallery
Transitions: the work of Gage Academy youth. Through Oct 24. 909 Fourth Ave, 382-7899.

University House at Wallingford
Visually Speaking: MFA and BFA student work. Through Oct 13. 4400 Stone Way N, 447-1181.

Vain
Eight: portraits by Heather Luke. Reception Thurs Oct 5, 6-10 pm. Through Oct 31. 2018 First Ave, 441-3441.

Vetri International Glass
Stripes: glass cocktail sets by Boyd Sugiki Reception Thurs Oct 5, 5-8 pm. Through Oct 31. 1404 First Ave, 667-9608.

Viveza Gallery
Primordial Soup: by Eva Speer. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-10 pm. Through Nov 5. Primordial Soup: Eva Speer takes us on a mixed-media journey of the inevitable mutation of all forms. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-10 pm. Through Nov 5. 2604 Western Ave, 956-3584.

Wall Space
Saint Petersberg Shadows Into Light, black and white photography by Alexey Titarenko. Through Nov 4. 600 First Ave #322, 330-9137.

Western Bridge
Into Black: A show on the dark, with a sparkling riddle by Hadley + Maxwell and much more (see review). Through Dec 16. 3412 Fourth Ave S, 838-7444.

Whitman Gallery
Poetic Images: photography by Curt Smith. Reception Sun Oct 8, 12:30-1:30 pm. Through Oct 31. Harvard and Seneca.

Windows Art Gallery
Barbara Mallon's The Legacy of Trees, capturing the wildness of the here and the now. Reception Fri Oct 6, 6-9 pm. Through Oct 31. 4131 Woodland Park Ave N, 632-7332.

Winston Wächter Fine Art
Substance of Space by Angelina Nasso and Tracy Rocca with Walking Distance. Through Nov 4. 203 Dexter Ave N, 652-5855.

Wright Exhibition Space
An exhibition of poetry as visual art, organized by Wave Books. Through Nov 15. 407 Dexter Ave N, 264-8200.

Events

The Accidental Masterpiece: On The Art of Life and Vice Versa
The Accidental Masterpiece: On The Art of Life and Vice Versa: Moderator Fionn Meade leads a discussion on Michael Kimmelman's latest book. For info, 425-706-0033. Microsoft Conference Center, Bldg 33 NE 36th Way. Wed, Oct 11.

Fremont First Friday
Fremont, Fremont. Fri, Oct 6, 6 pm.

Monotype Demonstration and Discussion
Monotype demonstration and discussion by print artist Kevin Fletcher. Sev Shoon Arts Center, 2862 NW Market St, 782-2415. Sat, Oct 7, 10:30 am.

A Perfect Day
JohnnyWow!'s idea of A Perfect Day. JohnnyWow!, 619 Western Ave, fourth floor, 253-549-2184. Thurs, Oct 5, 6 pm.