510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, 425-519-0770.

* CARLOS MOLLURA: INFLATED INTERVENTIONS

Mollura's enormous inflated vinyl shapes have the power to change a space entirely. Here, see what Mollura crossed with Holl has produced. Through Aug 18.

CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY ART (CoCA)

1420 11th Ave, 728-1980.

2002 NORTHWEST ANNUAL

Curated by Linda Farris, with work by lots of talented people you've heard of, and haven't. Through July.

HENRY ART GALLERY

15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280.

* GENE(SIS): CONTEMPORARY ART EXPLORES HUMAN GENOMICS

Art and science and truth and not. Including work by Eduardo Kac, Critical Art Ensemble, Catherine Chalmers, Dario Robleto, Daniel Lee, and local artists Susan Robb and Jaq Chartier. Through Aug 25.

NORDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM

3014 NW 67th St, 789-5707.

NORN: IN AND OUT OF TIME

Ancient Scandinavian myth seen through the long lens of three young artists: Astrid Larsen (with fire), Steffan Herrick (with prints and sculpture), and Erik Reime (with tattoos). Through July 14.

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM

100 University St, 654-3100.

COROT TO PICASSO: EUROPEAN MASTER WORKS FROM THE SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

It's summer--time to haul out the Impressionists. Here, the horizon is opened a bit, with the inclusion of something modern, something pre-. Through Sept 15.

GLORIA BORNSTEIN: STILL LIFE

Two installations that look into the idea of roots, in both Bornstein's Polish family and her husband's Japanese heritage--specifically, Nagasaki, Japan. Through Oct 20.

TACOMA ART MUSEUM

1123 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, 253-272-4258.

ALEX KATZ: THE COMPLETE WOODCUTS AND LINOCUTS, 1951-2001

Prints that both move away from and distinctly toward the artist's graphic, stark style. Through Aug 25.

* BILL VIOLA: SOMETHING ABOVE, BEYOND, BELOW, BENEATH

Three works by the master of altering perception through video. Viola can slow time like no other artist I know. Through Sept 15.

WING LUKE ASIAN MUSEUM

407 Seventh Ave S, 623-5124.

ASSEMBLAGE UNRAVELING: CONSTRUCTS OF A FILIPINO AMERICAN AESTHETIC

Work by the isangmahal arts kollective that searches for a new Filipino visual vernacular. Through Aug 18.

WRIGHT EXHIBITION SPACE

407 Dexter Ave N, 264-8200.

* SELF-PORTRAITS

Local collectors Bill and Ruth True have a generous definition of a self-portrait; in a way, it's anything looked at by the artist. There's some great and seminal work here that you won't find at any local institution--Nicholas Nixon's The Brown Sisters series, a Jim Campbell LED sculpture, a Gary Hill installation with a strobe light and a lot of grunting. We love the Trues. Open-ended run.

OPENING EXHIBITIONS

ROBERT HARDGRAVE

An outdoor sculpture called Farmaceutical. Opening reception Thurs June 20, 6-9 pm. Post Alley Sculpture Garden, 1417 Post Alley. Through Aug 10.

DANIEL LEON, JESSE BROWN

A new gallery, featuring the work of teenagers. With the usual talk about youth outreach through art; here, though, they're showing it as art, and not as therapy. Emergence Gallery, 1914 Fourth Ave, 292-4142. Through Aug 4.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

ROBERT ADAMS

Collages informed by politics and graphic design. Ace Studios Gallery, 619 Western Ave, third floor, 623-1288. Through June 29.

LARRY BEMM

New (and very large) paintings. Bryan Ohno Gallery, 155 S Main St, 667-9572. Through June 29.

TY BEST

Sculptural work inspired by mid-century design. Velocity Art and Design, 2206 Queen Anne Ave N, #201, 781-9494. Through Aug 15.

JOHN BISBEE

Three Tons refers quite literally to the amount of material shaped by the artist into large, prickly sculptural landscapes. In this case, it's three tons of nails. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809. Through Aug 16.

ANN FERNALD BORWICK

Sculpture made from materials contributed by friends and neighbors. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through June 28.

CHRIS COLE

New paintings. Victrola Coffee, 411 15th Ave E, 325-6520. Through June 29.

*CRITICS (*MEANS WE RECOMMEND IT)

An exhibition of portraits of Seattle's extremely brilliant, creative, and charismatic art critics. (Very clever, Mr. Lundgren! Did you think that including a star in the show's name meant an automatic star in the calendar?) Vital 5 Productions, 2200 Westlake Ave, 254-0475. Through July 1.

TONY de los REYES

In his paintings, de los Reyes focuses on details from Baroque and Rococo decorative art; blown up and rendered in lavishly applied paint, they become abstract signifiers of desire. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through July 20.

ELEMENTS

Design-influenced art by Shawn Wolfe, Evan Sult, Peter Lucas, and Daniel Kohn. Little Theatre Gallery, 608 19th Ave E, 675-2055. Through July 10.

GRADE

The first of a series in which artists will be challenged to create art in response to a single word. With work by Kipling West, Laurel Anderson, Elizabeth Jameson, Robert Rini, Neil Bashor, Jan Haag, and Arleann Lourdes. Otis Café, 1005 Boren Ave, 342-9866. Through July 28.

GAIL GRINNELL

Works on paper, including graphite and Wite-Out drawings. Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355. Through June 30.

BOOTSY HOLLER

Photographs of flower-patterned textiles, re-patterned with drawing and painting. The Rose Club, 3601 S McClellan St, 725-3654. Through June 30.

IN THE GARDEN

It's a good month for flower art. Here's more. Winston Wächter Fine Art, 403 Dexter Ave N, 652-5855. Through Aug 16.

RYAN IVERSON, ALAN HURLEY, KEVIN WILLIS

Work by both Iverson and Willis has graced The Stranger's covers in the past; no doubt Hurley isn't far behind. Alibi Room, 85 Pike St, 623-3180. Through June 30.

* KUSTOM SHOE

The Kustom Purse concept is back in this snappy clothing store; this installment features a more time-honored fetish object, interpreted by artists such as Kipling West, Yuki Nakamura, Elizabeth Jameson, and Claude Zervas. Kuhlman, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Aug 31.

MARC LAWRENCE, KEITH TABELLIONE

Two artists look at the signs, symbols, and clutter that surround us. Li'l Red Shack Gallery, 1028 First Ave S, 621-7807. Through June 30.

SUSIE LEE

In Pending, sculpture made of unfired clay and found materials... and I'll bet it hangs. Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 839-0880. Through June 27.

KIKI MacINNIS

The anatomy of trees and topiary of the body, in drawings and sculpture. King County Art Gallery, 506 Second Ave, second floor, 296-7580. Through June 28.

* TIM MARSDEN, CLIFF VANCURA

Artists seem to love mining the work of Francisco Goya for insight into human oddness (cf. the Chapman brothers' Disasters of War); Marsden's take is through cartoon characters you might call whimsical if they weren't so damn dark. With paintings by Vancura, inspired by the shapes of the cranes in the Port of Seattle. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington St, 624-9336. Through June 29.

EDWARD MATLOCK

New work, pastiche of pastiche. Nation Gallery, 1921 Fifth Ave, 374-9492. Through July 9.

JOHN McQUEEN, RICHARD MARQUIS

Basket-woven sculptures by McQueen, and new glass objects--both crazy and everyday--by the wry and prolific Marquis. Elliott Brown Gallery, 215 Westlake Ave N, 340-8000. Through July 20.

MARK MUELLER, NANCY BLUM

Graphite drawings and rubbings from Mueller; exquisite pattern studies from Blum. Artist talk Thurs June 13, 7 pm. Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Ave, 264-1586. Through June 29.

JIM PRIDGEON

Aesthetics and genetics. Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919. Through Aug 23.

'ROUND MIDNIGHT

Art inspired by music. SAM Rental/Sales Gallery, 1334 First Ave, 654-3240. Through July 13.

PETER ROUX, JANE BURNS

New work featuring dreamy landscapes and odd characters. Ballard Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through July 17.

SEED

Artistic and literary mediation on "seed." As in, "I went to that gallery, I done seed the art." SOIL Artist Cooperative, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through June 30.

SOFTCORE

Inexpensive graphic-designy art. Check out the innocent/generic orifice by Dan Paulus. Area 51, 401 E Pine St, 568-4782. Through July 31.

CHAD STATES

Photographic fables. Zeitgeist, 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497. Through July 2.

LINO TAGLIAPIETRA

A lot of glass artists try to imitate Tagliapietra's sexy, singing, curvaceous work. Few succeed. William Traver Gallery, 110 Union St, #200, 587-6501. Through June 30.

* JOHN TAYLOR

Taylor's ships are phenomenal things: meticulously made from driftwood, bits of old machinery, and tiny obsessive touches such as rulers, lights, and stamps. Garde Rail Gallery, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 721-0107. Through July 27.

WHITING TENNIS

Still cleverly sampling from early American work, Tennis' new work features motifs from early American maps, architecture, and agriculture. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave S, 223-0816. Through June 29.

NIK TONGAS

Text and images in Catastrophes of Gravity. Solomon Fine Art, 1215 First Ave, 297-1400. Through June 28.

EVE WARNOCK

New paintings. Toys in Babeland, 707 E Pike St, 328-2914. Through June 31.

JOHN WATERS

What Waters does, somehow not surprisingly, is sit around and aim his camera at his television set, and uses these low-definition images in collages that illustrate his Watersian slant on life: strange, deadpan, patchworked, funny-sad-kitschy, gay. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through June 29.

* BLAIR WILSON

Wilson's is a very tight, precise world, populated by characters permanently contorted by their own grotesquerie, all of it constructed, with the utmost care and control, out of tiny, perfect dots. His new works seem to be moving off into a more abstract land, an interesting choice for one so specific. Roq La Rue, 2224 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through July 5.

BRIDGET YOUNG

A window installation about regenerative female energy. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, 1334 First Ave, 654-3240. Through July 29.

EVENTS

ART CARS AT THE FREMONT FAIR

Still pretty funny, after all these years. With guest cars from San Francisco and elsewhere. On display along N 35th St between Phinney Ave N and First Ave NW Sat June 22 and Sun June 23, with a parade June 23 starting at 11 am. For more information, go to www.seattleartcars.org.