WING LUKE ASIAN MUSEUM
407 Seventh Ave S, 623-5124.

IT'S LIKE THAT: APAS AND THE SEATTLE HIP-HOP SCENE

Final week. An exhibition dedicated to Seattle's Asian Pacific American (APA) hiphop community. Through Nov 30.

OPENINGS


8TH ANNUAL WINTER GROUP SHOW

Including work by Harold Hollingsworth, whose big canvases are often as inspired by games as they are by pop art concerns. Opening reception Wed Dec 3, 5-8 pm. Baas Gallery, 2703 E Madison St, 324-4742. Through Jan 17.

ANNUAL DECEMBER GROUP SHOW

With work by Dave Gignac, Erik Hall, Luke Tornatzky, and James Urbaska. Opening reception Thurs Dec 4, 6-8 pm. Kimzey Miller Gallery, 1225 Second Ave, 682-2339. Through Dec 23.

DONALD JONES

Surrealist-style paintings. Mr. Spot's Chai House, 5463 Leary Ave NW, 297-2424. Through Dec 31.

JON C. REILLY

One night only. Abstract work inspired by the Rem Koolhaas library going up right this very minute. Opening reception Fri Nov 28, 7-10 pm. The Showroom, 1809 Minor Ave, 223-1016.

YOUTH IN FOCUS PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT

A project that gets young people to express themselves through photography. Opening reception Wed Dec 3, 5-7 pm. M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle Central Community College, Broadway between Denny Way and Pine St, 344-4379. Through Dec 17.

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS


ANNE APPLEBY, SUSAN ROTHENBERG

Final week. Appleby's prints are minimal indeed--single colors taken from nature; somehow she gives them depth and life. With new lithographs by Rothenberg. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through Nov 29.

LISA BUCHANAN, JUNKO IIJIMA

Final week. New paintings from Buchanan, with fractured surfaces that recall the decorative unease of the Vienna Secession. With sculpture from Iijima. Bryan Ohno Gallery, 155 S Main St, 667-9572. Through Nov 29.

* TONY DE LOS REYES, KEN FANDELL

Final week. Two artists, united by blue: Fandell's montaged sky photographs (which are grand and godlike and weird) and de los Reyes' Delft-y details from romantic, pastoral works. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through Nov 29.

SCOTT FIFE

Fife's big cardboard heads recall both monumental sculpture (of the fallen, vanished civilization variety) and piñatas. The Evergreen State College, Art Galleries in Library Building, 360-867-5125. Through Dec 19.

MICHAEL FOX

Final week. Unimaginable objects in Metals and Magnets: Tools for Dichotomous Decision Making. Rose Club, 3601 S McClellan St, 725-3654. Through Nov 30.

GALLERIA DIARRHEA

Art, in all its crazy variety. Crawl Space, 504 E Denny Way, 817-5328. Through Dec 6.

JON GIERLICH

Final week. Exploring, through drawing, photographs, and sculpture, states of transition. Francine Seders Gallery, 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355. Through Nov 30.

DAVIE HAGAR

Graffiti-style works. Belltown Lofts, 66 Bell St, 321-3351. Through Jan 16.

ANASTASIA YÜMEKO HILL

It is utterly, utterly wrong to be interested in this show because the artist is Gary Hill's teenage daughter. Isn't it? Isn't it? Hill is showing videos about human nature. Artworks, 1914 Fourth Ave, 292-4142 ext 104. Through Dec 8.

RICK KLU

Intricate pen drawings on just about everything. The Little Theatre Gallery, 608 19th Ave E, 329-2629. Through Jan 5.

KOZYNDAN

Urban commentary by a Los Angeles-based collective and authors of Urban Myths. Goods, 1112 Pike St, 622-0459. Through Dec 19.

JON LANGFORD, SEONNA HONG

Final week. Langford (best known as one of the Mekons) takes as a starting point for his paintings a kind of rootsy Americana, something he translates--as a foreigner--through observation rather than inheritance. With Hong's princessy girls. Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through Nov 28.

RICH LEHL, BRAD RUDE

Final week. Lehl's curious brand of surrealism often seems to be taking place in the middle of some dark, ambiguous narrative. With bronze animals by Rude. Atelier 31, 2500 First Ave, 919-3363. Through Nov 30.

BENNETT McKNIGHT, JOE PLOTTS & DAN WEISER, CHRISTOPHER DYER & JASON McHENRY

Final week. Lots of stuff: McKnight's Chalk Board Poetry, Plotts and Weiser's documentary about AIDS survivors, and Dyer and McHenry's 52 Weeks, a series of shadow-box diaries. Priceless Works Gallery, 619 N 35th St, Suite 100, 349-9943. Through Nov 30.

BRIAN NOVATNY, GWEN DAVIDSON, BLANKA DVORAK

Final week. The dully and daily domestic transformed (by Novatny); abstraction that "frames" nature (by Davidson); and politically charged prints (by Dvorak). Davidson Gallery, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Nov 29.

MICHAEL OLERUTH

Final week. Little lost milk-carton children, and a dog. Very sad and pretty. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. Through Nov 30.

KEN ROSENTHAL

Final week. New photographs--blurred, indistinct, but still a bit nostalgic--in Seen and Not Seen. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Nov 29.

JOHN SCHUH, WM. A. HERBERHOLTZ

Final week. Schuh's enormous photo collages, and Herberholtz's assemblages of metal and other materials. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Nov 29.

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM'S RENTAL/SALES GALLERY

A brand-new architect-designed space, inaugurated by an exhibition of works on paper, and an exhibition of paintings. SAM Rental/Sales Gallery, 1220 Third Ave, 343-1101. Through Dec 13.

SPECIMEN: NINE INVESTIGATIONS OF NATURE

Final week. Promising here: Mandy Greer, as ever, and Debra Baxter, who has turned from explosive ripped paintings to big fuzzy entities made of what look like face-powder applicators. SOIL Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Nov 30.

* JOHN TAYLOR

Final week. Taylor turns all kinds of wreckage--driftwood, rusted metal, old stamps--into models of historic 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.

* RAMONA TRENT

Photographs of solitary women uneasily perched between fashion and introspection. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Dec 20.

DENISE WHITLOW

Final week. Works that reconcile--or not--science and religion. Viveza Gallery, 2604 Western Ave, 956-3584. Through Nov 29.

MI WU

Final week. The relationship between inside and outside investigated through ceramic sculpture, some deliberately broken and reassembled. CDA Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-8674. Through Nov 28.

EVENTS


ANNUAL HOLIDAY ART SHOW AND SALE

Everyone needs vessels! Opening festivities Fri Nov 28, 6-8:30 pm. Pottery Northwest, 226 First Ave N, 285-4421. Weekends through Dec 21.

ARTISTS' HOLIDAY SALE

Lots of stuff under $100. Fri-Sun Nov 28-30, noon-6 pm. Holiday Bash Sat Nov 29, 6-9 pm. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington St, 624-9336.

BRUCE DAVIDSON

A lecture by one of the major documentary photographers around. Tues Dec 2, 7 pm at the Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, 15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 616-9894. Coincides with exhibitions next month at Photographic Center Northwest and the Greg Kucera Gallery.

the death show

Farewell to Luscious Studios and Slender Means Society. With death-related art, plus music. Sat Nov 29, 6 pm at Luscious Studios, 321 Third Ave S, #301, 622-4252. $5.