1420 11th Ave, 728-1980.
2003 NORTHWEST ANNUAL
It's worth remembering that this year's juror--Esther Luttikhuizen--represented two out of the three Seattle artists in Baja to Vancouver in her own gallery, which closed for lack of sales. What I'm trying to say is that this lady has some taste. Through Nov 19.
CONSOLIDATED WORKS
500 Boren Ave N, 381-3218.
JASON PUCCINELLI
See Stranger Suggests. Artist reception Sat Oct 18, 6-8 pm; gala reception 8 pm-2 am. Through Nov 23.
HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, 543-2280.
* LEE BUL: LIVE FOREVER
All the glorious, sincere, heart-singing fun of karaoke, but in a series of self-contained pods (each with music related to a different theme), so that no one can hear you. The opening party, with music by SunTzu Sound DJs, also celebrates a new collaborative installation by Pae White and Polly Apfelbaum and new exhibitions on Fellini and Rodchenko. Opening reception Fri Oct 17, 8-11 pm, $10.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100.
* BAJA TO VANCOUVER: THE WEST COAST AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Reviewed this issue. Through Jan 4.
OPENINGS
NEIL BASHOR
Dams, in cast plaster and paint. Opening reception Fri Oct 17, 7-11 pm. Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 839-0880. Through Oct 19.
INDIO
New paintings. Opening reception Sat Oct 18, 7-10 pm. Artcore Studios, 5501 Airport Way S, 767-2673.
KRISTY OLSEN
New photographs. Opening reception Fri Oct 17, 7-10 pm. Salon DEWI, 1213 Pine St, 381-3482. Through Nov 1.
EVE TODD
Morbid new works. Opening reception Sat Oct 18, 5-8 pm. Gargoyle Statuary, 4550 University Way NE, 632-4940. Through Nov 18.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
HECTOR ACEBES
Documentary photographs of Africa, taken between 1948 and 1953. G. Gibson Gallery, 514 E Pike St, 587-4033. Through Nov 1.
RANDY BOLANDER
It seems oxymoronic: heavy-metal sculpture with a spontaneous feel. And yet, it exists. Post Alley Sculpture Garden, 1413 Post Alley, 334-5040. Through Nov 7.
* HELEN CURTIS
Small glass objects in a net, sending light all over the room. CDA Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-7580. Through Oct 31.
DAY OF THE DEAD
A group show on life, death, and afterlife. Viveza Gallery, 2604 Western Ave, 956-3584. Through Nov 1.
KAREN GARRET DE LUNA
Black and white photographs. Broadway Market Gallery, 401 Broadway Ave E. Through Oct 31.
DREAMSCAPES
The strange netherworld between being awake and being asleep, with work by John Casado, Frank Dituri, Karin Rosenthal, and Tseno. Benham Gallery, 1216 First Ave, 622-2480. Through Nov 15.
NOLAN HENDRICKSON
New paintings, in Cotton Mouth. VAIN, 2018 First Ave, 441-3441. Through Oct 31.
MARK EATON
Landscapes and abstracts in oil, with a group show in the Subterranean Room. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680. Through Nov 6.
GRAVE MATTERS
All things dying, death, and afterward. Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Ave S, 374-8977. Through Oct 31.
IGGI GREEN
Weird hybrid creatures, in time for Halloween. Little Theatre, 608 19th Ave E, 329-2629. Through Nov 9.
HEAVEN AND HELL
Kipling West, herself something of a mistress of the macabre, here gathers together work on the afterlifical possibilities. With work by Blair Wilson, Ellen Forney, Elizabeth Jameson, Shawn Ferris, Steve Veach, Joe Newton, and others. Kuhlman Clothing, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Jan 11.
INNOCENCE AND JEST
Ceramic work by Tim Foss, Saya Moriyasu, Joan Watkins, and Steve Gardener. Moriyasu's grouped dishes and cups and trays and vessels often have faces, making you more uneasy about your master/servant relationship with your tableware than you would think. Northwest Craft Center and Gallery, 305 Harrison St, 728-1555. Through Oct 31.
* SU JOB
"A series of tiny needlepoint works, each one a miniature window into a pornographic moment. These little works are incredibly labor-intensive, which is part of what makes them good. To take something as fleeting and discardable as Internet pornography and render it in a medium tied to commemoration and tradition is very funny, and also has an angry little resonance. " (Emily Hall) ACE Gallery, 619 Western Ave, 382-7640. Through Oct 31.
* KELLY KEMPE
Kempe's large-scale photographs investigate locations--in this case, a 40-acre sheep farm--in unexpectedly intimate ways. There's more than one way to know a place. SOIL Art Gallery, 1317 E Pike St, 264-8061. Through Oct 26.
JUDITH KINDLER, REBECCA RAVEN
Kindler uses figures of young women and girls in Shifting Truth; Raven (formerly Luncan) brings her ultra-precise miniatures to new walls. Atelier 31, 2500 First Ave, 448-5250. Through Nov 2.
SHERRY MARKOVITZ
Exhaustively beaded sculpture. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through Nov 1.
KELLY McCARTY
New work about texture. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. Through Oct 31.
JEFF MIHALYO
Eerily precise work, both new and old. Gallery 63 Eleven, 6311 24th Ave NW, 478-2238. Through Nov 16.
LORNA NAKELL
Paintings informed by kitsch from the '50s through the '70s. You may remember Nakell, who used to be Lorna McLawrence, and all her funny food paintings. Victrola, 411 15th Ave E, 282-0563. Through Oct 26.
STACY SCHWEIGLER
Abstract and patterned work. Glo's, 1621 E Olive Way, 782-0786. Through Nov 2.
ERIN L. SHAFKIND
Stories told through symbols. Bluebottle Art Gallery and Store, 415 East Pine St, 325-1592. Through Oct 30.
* JOHN TAYLOR
Taylor turns all kinds of wreckage--driftwood, rusted metal, old stamps--into models of historical ships that have a commanding presence. It's as if the previous life of all that junk was only a prelude to art. Garde Rail Gallery, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 721-0107. Through Nov 29.
SETH THOMPSON
Interiors of Mexican and Cuban houses in a show with a lovely title: Poca Luz. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Oct 30.
* DAN WEBB
Final week. "Aspects of insomnia's sliding world, tied together by a ball that runs along a carved wooden track, through the gallery on high trestles, skimming the walls on mounted brackets, looping through a tiny dignified portal arch in the wall, around a gnome sculpture, and back again. Somnolent, crazy, repetitive, unexpected--it is the working of the anxious mind made elegantly physical, down to the fact that the only thing that sets the ball in motion is our own will to do so." (Emily Hall) Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through Oct 18.
KEVIN WILDERMUTH
Wildermuth assembles borrowed images to make little cultural maps of his own. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Oct 30.
EVENTS
ART DETOUR
Everyone's favorite nosy-parker event, the yearly stroll through artists' studios. This year, the event spans three weekends, with the city gerrymandered to accommodate. On Sat Oct 18, studios are open in Beacon Hill, Georgetown, West Seattle, and Columbia City; on Sun Oct 19, there's a closing bash at CoCA (1420 11th Ave, 728-1980). Day passes are $5. For information go to www.artdetourseattle.org.
