HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280.
* CHEAP THRILLS: GREAT DESIGN FOR $25 OR LESS
A collection of everyday objects revered by artists and designers that encourages us to re-see the everyday. Through March 10.
* SHORT STORIES
Now with new stories! A series of staggered rotating exhibitions that includes work from the permanent collection, commissioned projects, and installations. Through May 12.
* SUPERFLAT
LAST CHANCE! Contemporary Japanese art in the pop art vein, curated by artist Takashi Murakami. Through March 3.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100.
ART FROM AFRICA: LONG STEPS NEVER BROKE A BACK
Through May 19.
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.
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
JULIA HAACK
New paintings. Opening reception Sat March 2, 5-8 pm. Jem Studios Gallery, 6004 12th Ave S (enter through All City Coffee at 1205 S Vale St). Through March 30.
BARB JAKSA, NINA FRENKEL
Jaksa's constructed boxes are no mere Cornell rip-off, but thoughtfully build on the master's tradition. In some cases, the artist encourages you to pick them up and handle them. With collages by Frenkel. Opening reception Sat March 2, 6-9 pm. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through March 30.
* YUMIKO KAYUKAWA
Pure eye candy, in a lovely, girly Japan-pop vein. Opening reception Fri March 1, 6-10 pm. Roq La Rue Gallery, 2224 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through April 5.
STEVE LAZEN
New photographs, with text borrowed from the brilliant weirdo Georges Perec. Opening reception Fri March 1, 7 pm. Blu, 2226 First Ave, 269-6699.
WEEGEE
Vintage prints from the photgrapher's niece's collection. What? You don't know who Weegee is? For shame. Lecture and opening reception Fri March 1, 6:30 pm; tickets $10. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through March 30.
REBECCA WOODHOUSE, ENRICO GOMEZ, CHRIS COLE
Words, paint, and lots and lots of steel. Opening reception Fri March 1, 6-10 pm. Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 839-0880. Through March 21.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
* EFRAIN ALMEIDA
Almeida's sculpture includes strands of beads that are "drawn" over the floor, like a contour map, or a body outline. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through March 2.
CLARK HUMPHREY
Signs without words, in a photographic series called Signifying Nothing. Zeitgeist, 171 S Jackson St, 583-0497. Through March 6.
ROBERT JONES
This is Jones the young Tacoma artist, not Jones the big-time Seattle husband-of-Fay artist. This series of paintings, Short Fiction, showcases his idiosyncratic sense of narrative. Still Life in Fremont Coffeehouse, 709 N 35th, 547-9850. Through March 4.
RICHARD LEWIS, JOHN DIVOLA, KEITH CARTER, RICHARD MISRACH
New works by everyone. G. Gibson Gallery, 122 S Jackson St, suite 200, 587-4033. Through March 2.
MICHAEL "TOAST" O'DRISCOLL
Scenes from ordinary modern life--including blue-skinned hipsters at Hattie's Hat--are the meat of O'Driscoll's paintings. Black Lab, 5208 Ballard Ave NW, 706-7017. Through March 7.
ALLAN PACKER
Go in order to see The Bride, a life-sized set of cast body parts all joined together on a grid, like model parts before they're snapped off and glued together. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through March 2.
* MATTHEW PICTON
Subway maps are rendered in plastic beads and resin, transforming a utility into a glittering string of jewels. Their cleverness lies in the movement from dimensionality to flatness and back again. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through March 9.
* SALLY SCHUH
Schuh has been mining an extraordinary collection of photographs and notes that once belonged to a Jewish matchmaker, creating a long meditation on desire. Here, she's showing intaglio prints and some cropped images from the series. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through March 3.
BRYAN SMITH
Collages assembled from cardboard and other cast-off paper, with unexpected dimensions and weird depth. King County Art Gallery, 506 Second Ave, suite 200, 296-7580. Through March 1.
SOIL DOES HOUSTON
Hooray, they're back! Without this artist cooperative and this gallery, the Capitol Hill art scene felt quite faint. Now, a group show of SOIL members. Houston, 907 E Pike St, 860-7820. Through March 2.
JULIAN WEST
Underwater photography. FotoCircle Gallery, 562 First Ave S, suite 300, 624-2645. Through March 7.
EVENTS
LIVE NUDE GOATS
A collective of artists--who all happen to have worked at the Seattle Art Museum--do what artists do: art, booze, and so forth. Sat March 2, 8 pm at Oseao Studios, 1402 E Pike St. For information call Shea Anderson at 371-1807.
ONE NIGHT ONLY: 11 SHOWS IN 11 MONTHS
In this, the second of the series, work by three artists (Randy Wood, Jeff DeGolier, and Issack Novak) will be rotated through the show throughout the evening. It won't be the same show twice; the very walls will seem to shift. Fri March 1, 6-10 pm at Thinklab, 1932 Second Ave. For information, call 720-9909, or go to www.randywood.cc.
