Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events for Capitol Hill Art Walk. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for the June 13 edition, which boasts art and performances that are extra-queer. But, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the shows you shouldn't miss, like Kelly O: The Pageantry of Pride and Kevin Kauer: Nark. Follow the links for more details and images, and check out our complete visual art calendar for even more events, including the shows still on view from the Pioneer Square Art Walk.
Found something you like and don't want to forget about it later? Click "Save Event" on any of the linked events below to add it to your own private list.
Annie Perkins-Rosenberg: Day and Night of the Soul
Local artist and healer Annie Perkins-Rosenburg makes nature-inspired, mystical drawings with pen, ink, gouache, and human hair. According to her, these images emerged from "trials, paranoia, pain, healing and learning."
Ghost Gallery
Carolyn Hitt: Abstracts and Artifacts
Abstract painter and co-founder of Blue Cone Studios Hitt will be the guest artist at this neighboring shop. For this show, she's "digging deep into her dna" to create some quirky and personal pieces.
Retrofit Home
Dan Butler: The Only Thing Worse You Could Have Told Me
For a performance-art addition to your Art Walk itinerary, stop in on a short one-man work by Dan Butler, which "chronicles a few stories from the queer American Landscape"—namely coming-out stories performed by Seattle University's Nic Parsons and directed by Jane Nichols. (You can also see the show on Wednesday and Friday.)
Lee Center for the Arts
Gabriel Stromberg: Taking Shape
Designer and gallery owner Stromberg contributes to the AMPlify Memories project, a set of temporary art exhibitions and performances in the space of the future AIDS memorial, with a series of geometric forms, beginning with the famous pink triangle from the Silence Equals Death movement. According to the website description, the sequence of shapes goes from rigid to flowing and "dynamic," a reference to "the evolution of queer history."
Cal Anderson Park
Kelly O: The Pageantry of Pride
Photographer-about-town Kelly O has a knack for capturing exuberance on the street, in bars, at art shows, and all over the place. Her photos have been featured online for the New York Times, Huffington Post, ABC News, XLR8R, and VICE, and in print in SPIN, Interview, UNCUT, Mojo, BUST, City Arts, and The Stranger. She's covered events like the Womxn's March, the #NODAPL protests, and more. She's currently the artist in residence at #ShoutYourAbortion. Check out her Pride-focused snaps at this show.
12th Avenue Arts
Kevin Kauer: Nark
For many queers new to the Queen City, Nark Magazine’s photographs of Seattle queer parties are the first images that stand out to them about this city’s scene. They’re slick, gay, rowdy, hot—some would say intimidatingly so. But under the leadership of Kevin Kauer (with photography from Roman Robinson), Nark has captured much of the Seattle underground like no one else has. They are perfect archives of blissed out Seattle club kid moments. This show will dig deep into Nark’s archives, while also displaying club-inspired installations and new photography. CHASE BURNS
Vermillion
Kreau
Kreau (aka Kevin Knutson) makes silly, fun, occasionally dark-humored stencil images, featuring astronauts playing with plastic dinos, biking sloths, skater bears, and other endearing characters.
Good Weather Bicycle & Cafe
Laurie Lee Brom, Syd Bee, Kari-Lise Alexander: The Visions of Graces
If you're a lover of all things lush, goth, and feminine, you must visit this gallery, which features portraits of gorgeous, moody women in lovely garments, slightly caricatured teary lovelies, and flower-twined memento mori. Reflect on the transience and richness of beauty and life and sink into that elegantly melancholy mood.
Roq la Rue
Pete Rush: Condom Quilt
As part of AMPlify Memories installation series, Pete Rush has constructed a patchwork quilt out of condom wrappers, a reference to the importance and popularity of condom use caused by the AIDS crisis. Find hearts and other symbols within the quilt as embodiments of our changing attitudes toward sex, from fear to joy.
Cal Anderson Park
Pink Halloween Pop-up and Art Installation: THITHY
Jordan Christianson and Anouk Rawkson have combined their energies and talents in the brand PINK HALLOWEEN. Their new collection of bags, apparel, pins, sinister statuettes, and more celebrates queer icons "lost to gentrification." Join them for their launch party during Art Walk, or visit them in the days after.
Former Doghouse Leathers Location
Stay Gay: A Big Gay Art Show
Local artist/curator Jazz Mom has chosen some excellent Seattle-area queer artists to feature, such as rock musician/animator/sculptor Clyde Petersen, neon queen Nikita Ares, embroidery portraitist Michael Volz, and many others.
Cloud Gallery
Three Pride Shows
For Pride Month, the Factory is hosting three concurrent shows: JAF's Our Father Who Art in Hell, a mixed-media "middle finger to the perpetrators who abuse in the name of god"; Kade Marsili's Rest Your Head on My Shoulder, warm paintings of young queer men; and Through the LooQing Glass, a group show about queer bodies, featuring work by Matthew-Mary Caruchet, Mischa Ally, Mahogany LaPiranha, Bird Lindsay, Dev McCauley, OctoEyes, James Prost, Grego Rachko, Darby Rages, Panic Volkushka, and Timothy White Eagle.
The Factory
Tiffany-Ashton Gatsby
Using textured, abstract imagery created through brushstrokes, pouring, and dripping, queer painter and activist Gatsby delves into issues that are relevant to the queer-disabled community, as well as economic and urban issues, climate change, and political strife.
The Lounge by AT&T
Timothy White Eagle: There Comes a Time When You Have to Give Them Back
Charismatic Native storyteller and artist Timothy White Eagle draws upon the headdresses worn in Apache dances to symbolize the Mountain Spirits, the Gaan, and their embodiment in the individual's body. White Eagle uses charcoal paint to draw stylized faces of "loved ones lost to AIDS"; the faces in soluble media will slowly dissolve while their crowns remain. This exhibition is part of AMPlify Memories.
Cal Anderson Park
Found something you like and don't want to forget about it later? Click "Save Event" on any of the linked events below to add it to your own private list.
