FRYE ART MUSEUM
704 Terry Ave, 622-9250
WITNESS AND LEGACY: CONTEMPORARY ART ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
How can art represent tragedy on a grand scale? What can be derived from it? What can be learned? Answers--perhaps--here. Through Jan 13, 2002.
HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE at NE 41st St, 543-2280
* JEFFRY MITCHELL: HANABUKI
In Hanabuki, ideas abound: contemplation vs. participation, fragments vs. whole, East vs. West, puns, bears, movement. It's a two-level installation loosely tied to ideas of heaven and earth, with a fur-lined cave below and clean white ikebana above. Through Jan 6, 2002.
* SHORT STORIES
A series of staggered rotating exhibitions that includes work from the permanent collection, commissioned projects, and installations. Work currently featured includes photographed drawings in sugar, chocolate, and dirt by Vik Muniz. Through May 12, 2002.
* SUPERFLAT
See feature this issue. Lecture by Takashi Murakami. Thurs Nov 8, 7 pm, $7. Opening reception Fri Nov 9, 8:30-11 pm, $10. Through March 3, 2002.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100
MORRIS GRAVES AND SEATTLE
An exhibition that concentrates on Graves' early career, and takes as its thread the artist's relationship with the Pacific Northwest. Through Oct 20, 2002.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: WOMEN
Photographs of women from all walks of life. Leibovitz gained her high profile with her Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair covers, but these images are anything but sensational; rather they are quiet, powerful, and even ordinary. Through Jan 6, 2002.
ANNA SKIBSKA
Insisting on the delicacy of glass, Skibska stretches it into intricate webs. Through Feb 17, 2002.
WING LUKE ASIAN MUSEUM
407 Seventh Ave S, 623-5124
IF TIRED HANDS COULD TALK: STORIES OF ASIAN GARMENT WORKERS
Tired hands can't talk, but a series of videos, oral history interviews, and an installation recreating the working conditions of Asian immigrant workers can. Through Feb 2002.
WRIGHT EXHIBITION SPACE
407 Dexter Ave N, 264-8200
A CELEBRATION OF ABSTRACT ART
From the Wrights' collection, with work by Sol Le Witt, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Gerhard Richter, and others. Ongoing run.
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
NUDES AND NOTS
Humans, as photographed by Regina and Brian Daigneault, Vincent T. Brown, and Melissa Sands. Opening reception Fri Nov 9, 7-9 pm. Chrissa's Wine Bar, 1013 E Pike St, 726-3422. Through Dec 2.
ERIC OLSON
An investigation into the tension between planning and random events--using dots and grids and math. Paramount Cafe, 911 Pine St, 621-8376. Through Dec 7.
BERKELEY PARKS
A window installation that meditates on guns--called, appropriately, Going Ballistic. Opening reception Thurs Nov 8, 7 pm. 911 Media Arts Center, 117 Yale Ave N, 682-6552. Through Dec 15.
* PAUSE
A sound and video installation by Heather Dew Oaksen and Norie Sato, who investigated simultaneous 10-second pockets of time at opposite ends of the world through film. Opening reception Fri Nov 9, 5-7 pm. Artists' lecture Sat Nov 10, 1 pm. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809. Through Jan 4.
* RAMONA SOLBERG
Solberg is like everyone's wacky art teacher: she takes some single item from her horde of found objects and makes crazy--sometimes crazy-beautiful--jewelry out of it. This exhibition has a lovely new catalogue to accompany it. Opening reception Thurs Nov 8, 6 pm. Bank of America Gallery, 701 Fifth Ave, 3rd floor, 585-3200. Through Dec 14.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
GARTH AMUNDSON
Amundson creates lenses from everyday objects, such as water bottles, and with them explores the gap between an object and its image. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, 1334 First Ave, 748-9282. Through Jan 7.
* BLINK
Artist Michael O'Malley curated this interesting show about artists and popular culture: resisting it, incorporating it, feeling its pressure. Kirkland Arts Center, 620 Market St, Kirkland, (425) 822-7161. Through Nov 16.
LISA BUCHANAN
Buchanan's paintings are both patterned and chaotic, giving the unusual impression of movement and stillness at the same time. Bryan Ohno Gallery, 155 S Main St, 667-9572. Through Dec 22.
ERIC BURKE
Painting and installation featuring weird little figures. Independent Media Center Gallery, 1415 Third Ave, 262-0721. Through Dec 1.
DAVID deVILLIER
Twelve new paintings of people doing things in places, all of it unsettling. Eyre/Moore Gallery, 913 Western Ave, 624-5596. Through Dec 1.
ELLIOT ERWITT
Erwitt's photographs fall into that interesting space between art and kitsch: They're so familiar that they seem like advertisements for themselves. You'll recognize many of the images by this Magnum photographer. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Dec 21.
* FAKE
If it looks like a duck, is it still necessarily a duck? Twenty-five local artists show forgeries--inciting all sorts of philosophical questions about value. Vital 5 Productions, 2200 Westlake Ave, 254-0475. Through Nov 19.
JOSEPH FINDEISS
New photographs. Joe Bar, 810 E Roy St, 324-0407. Through Dec 5.
FOTOCIRCLE MEMBERS EXHIBITION
With work by Carl Lierman, Rick Jones, Karen Howard, Lou Cuevas, Jerry Simon, Jackie Ransier, Steve Laskevitch, and Carla Fraga. FotoCircle Gallery, 562 First Ave S, 3rd floor, 624-2645. Through Dec 1.
RAJAA A. GHARBI
Layers of watercolor, North African dyes, ink, pencil, and things found in nature. Antioch University Seattle, 2326 Sixth Ave, 441-5352. Through Dec 1.
TOM E. HALL, ERIN SHAFKIND
Hall's Industrial Portrait Series contains deft ink-and-gouache sketches of defunct and ignored industrial areas; with Shafkind's Green Pea Land. Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 839-0880. Through Nov 29.
JON HOWE, JOSHUA WEINTRAUB
(My profuse apologies to Weintraub, who was previously listed as "Joshua Geoffrey," a name I seemed to have pulled out of my unconscious for some reason.) Bodies, bodies, bodies, distorted through emotion, mixed media, and reality. The Li'l Red Shack Gallery, 1028 First Ave S, 621-7807. Through Nov 11.
JACKIE HUNSAKER, MELISSA STERN
New works, with faces. Ballard Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through Nov 21.
* INFLATE
Some of the best of Seattle's underground unite for big, squooshy, interactive sculpture by Paul Davies, Leslie Clague, Sean Vale, Sarah Morris, and Rachel Johnston. With sound by Mark Johnson and video by Brent Watanabe. SOIL Art Gallery, 1205 E Pike St, 264-8061. Through Nov 25.
ANDREW KEATING, JOHN STAMETS
Between them, Keating and Stamets offer views of architecture both sexy and funny. Keating's paintings of buildings have absurd and slightly cute human qualities, and Stamets' photographs show the gorgeousness of buildings under construction. Stamets will give a lecture on Mon Nov 12 at 6:30 pm at the Seattle Art Museum. Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Ave, 264-1586. Through Dec 1.
* WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, KATHRYN VAN DYKE
Lest we forget that terrorist regimes are not confined to the mountains of Afghanistan, Kentridge's prints and drawings give emotional and elegant testimony to the state of things in South Africa. With an absolutely awesome installation of mirrors by Van Dyke. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through Dec 1.
DAVID KLEINER
Surprisingly good Cubist-style still lifes. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. Through Nov 30.
* KUSTOM PURSE
Retail: the new future of art galleries. This show, curated by artist Elizabeth Jameson, features purses created by 30 of my favorite artists. These are not your average accessories: Prepare to have your mind bent, at least a little. Kuhlman Clothing, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Nov 29.
RANI LAIK
Architectural works. Zeitgeist, 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497. Through Dec 6.
MATTHEW LANDKAMMER, BRIAN NOVATNY, KATHLEEN RABEL
All visual categories covered. Landkammer's surfaces are minimalist color studies with unexpected depth; he layers each panel with glaze until the colors shimmer like a hallucination. With Novatny's new paintings of detached and alienated people, and Rabel's patterned works. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Dec 1.
* KAREN LIEBOWITZ
Big, luxurious, complicated paintings on Jewishness and history and storytelling. King County Gallery, 506 Second Ave, room 200, 296-7580. Through Nov 30.
LINEFORMCOLOR: FROM HARD-EDGE ABSTRACTION TO ARCHITECTURE
With the gallery's regular artists and a few guests. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through Nov 24.
FELIX MACNEE, PAUL SPENCER
Two San Francisco artists are showing a total of 1,000 drawings, created in blocks of 14, in sessions that explore imagination and its derivatives. Proceeds from this Herculean show benefit National Disaster Relief. With paintings by Chris Dougherty and some amazing new paint-and-ink-on-glass works by Marc Lindsay. Nico Gallery, 619 Western Ave, Second Floor, 264-1710. Through Nov 30.
DAVID PAN
Chinese brush script in red, gold, and black. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680. Through Dec 6.
BEVERLY RAYNER, DEBRA GOLDMAN
With photographs, found objects, and various materials, Rayner delivers her take on Genetic Decoder & Other Pseudoscientific Explorations; in Mapping, Goldman explores the act and consequences of folding. G. Gibson Gallery, 122 S Jackson St, Suite 200, 587-4033. Through Nov 17.
* PETER ROSTOVSKY
New York artist Rostovsky asked people he'd never met to send him descriptions of themselves, and then painted portraits from their words. This calls the whole idea of portraiture into question: how much the artist brings to the project; how the language, the very syntax, of the description influences the image; and what, in the end, portraits are for. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Nov 24.
* SAVAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
Blatant conflict-of-interest alert! Illustrations by Stranger Art Director Joe Newton, as seen in Dan Savage's column Savage Love. But that doesn't mean it ain't great! The Rose Club, 3601 S McClellan St (Beacon Hill). For info e-mail roseclub@cablespeed.com. Through Dec 1.
* MICHAEL SCHULTHEIS
In White Matrix, Schultheis continues his visual exploration of mathematics. Patricia Cameron Fine Art, 108 S Jackson St, #207, 343-9647. Through Dec 20.
ALEX STAIGER
The Subsonic Backbone Series. Jem Studios, in All City Coffee, 1205 S Vale St, 767-7146. Through Dec 1.
NINO YUNIARDI
Blurred landscape paintings--as if seen through the windshield of a moving car--from an Indonesian-born artist. Raw Gallery, Northwest Asian American Theatre, 409 Seventh Ave, 340-1445. Through Nov 30.
