1420 11th Ave, 728-1980.
TATIANA GARMENDIA, PATTE LOPER
Opening. The fourth and final installment of CoCA's Octet series features the photorealistic internal explorations of Garmendia's medicinally inspired works of graphite and metal leaf on paper, with paintings by Loper. Opening reception Sat Nov 16, 8 pm. Through Nov 29.
HENRY ART GALLERY
15th Ave NE & NE 41st St, 543-2280.
* OUT OF SITE
When is virtual space no longer virtual? "Fictional architectural spaces" by artists, including work by the phenomenally and quietly weird Aziz + Cucher (who create computer-generated rooms lined with human skin). Through Feb 2.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100.
ANTHONY HERNANDEZ
Opening. Spanning the last 14 years of his photographic career, Hernandez presents his exploration of "contemporary ruins," from modern dilapidated buildings to homeless encampments. Through April 6.
MARK TOBEY
Opening. A "rare" (if 15 times a year can be called rare) peek at the span of mystical Tobey's career. Through April 6.
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
ART AS ACTIVISM
With an attempt to destigmatize the polarizing label of the activist, some well-meaning folks (including the subRosa collective, Iole Alessandrini, and even Negativland, among others) shoot themselves squarely in the foot with the most repugnantly titled show of all time. Cornish College of the Arts, Fisher Gallery, 710 E Roy St, 726-5142. Through Dec 14.
BILL BREWER
Picturebook narratives of primitive figures in oil on wood. Ballard Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through Dec 21.
HELEN GAMBLE
Gamble rarely fails to make her sculpture take up space--weighty, striking, hard to ignore. Her latest, Keep Off the Grass, promises a window display (visible only from the street) of no doubt conspicuous proportions. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, 1334 First Ave, 654-3240. Through Dec 15.
ADAM ROSS
The ideals of photorealism reworked by digital design, where science fiction and architecture combine. James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Dec 14.
MARK TOBEY, PAUL HORIUCHI
Lately Tobey's work has been treated like an national flag--one gallery takes it down, and another makes sure it never touches the ground. Well, here's another chance to see it. Also featuring Horiuchi, another Northwest venerable. Kurt Lidtke Galleries, 318 Second Ave S, 623-5082.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
ANNE APPLEBY
Appleby's works look like minimalist grids of plain, flat color, but retain the little unpredictability that renders them, somehow, created with nature in mind rather than in spite of it. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Through Nov 30.
CHESTER ARNOLD, GAYLEN HANSEN
Hansen has a way with animals, rendering them--in his big, flat, slightly wild paintings--both dignified and mysterious, as if inhabiting a fable by Aesop. With new paintings by Arnold. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave S, 624-3034. Through Dec 28.
CHRISTOPHER BALDER
Shallow, three-dimensional composites, comprising eerie found objects. Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 839-0880. Through Nov 28.
* DAVID BELISLE
Community anti-icon Wilum Pugmire serves as muse for a series of larger-than-life portraits documenting the many life stages of the drag-queen-turned-practicing-Mormon. Cyclops, 2421 First Ave, 441-1677. Through Nov 30.
SUSAN BENNERSTROM
The refractive and reflective poetry of light, in oil pastel. Also featuring Hysterical, Girl Comics, a group of cartoon-influenced works by comics-influenced artists (including the amazing Jessica Abel). Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Nov 30.
CASSANDRIA BLACKMORE
Engaging tales of swimmers in the dead of Northwest autumn. William Traver Gallery, 110 Union St, second floor, 587-6501. Through Dec 1.
* DAVID BRODY, MIKEY WALSH, ALEX SCHWEDER, EVE COHEN
Brody's latest painful and embarrassing contortions, featuring genitalia and women peeing. Don't miss the back room, with long-awaited urinal games by Schweder, crazy, delicate, gorgeous beasts by Cohen, and strange tiny figurines by Walsh. Esther Claypool Gallery, 617 Western Ave, 264-1586. Through Nov 30.
THE CLAYTON BROTHERS
A bewildering amalgam of layered absurdity, blending folk art with confused surrealist imagery. Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Avenue, 374-8977. Through Dec 1.
* JACK DAWS
By now Daws is best known around town as the guy who pickled an American flag post-9/11; here, in A Nice, Swift Kick in the Head, is a chance to see how he relates to other objects in the physical world. What you won't see is a sculpture featuring marijuana contained under multiple impermeable layers, which King County put the kibosh on before opening. King County Art Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-7580. Through Nov 29.
DENNIS EVANS
Writing Lessons and Reading Sessions, a collection of precise, dimensional mixed-media works. Woodside/Braseth Gallery, 1533 Ninth Ave, 622-7243.
ROBERT GLEASON
Disjointed torsos float in the ether of Gleason's spiritual surrealism. Ace Studios, 619 Western Ave, third floor, 920-6178. Through Nov 30.
DIONNE HAROUTUNIAN
Haroutunian's Bridges series combines the artistic kitchen sink with unanimous views of Third World families. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington, 624-9336. Through Nov 30.
* VICTORIA HAVEN, SUSAN DORY
Haven restricts her ambit to repeating shapes made out of office supplies (tape, white-out, carbon paper); Dory's deep, interesting paintings are almost patterned, but deflect from regularity in ways that suggest a system gone awry, or bugged to begin with. The thrill is quiet, but thrilling nonetheless. Howard House, 2017 Second Ave, 256-6399. Through Nov 30.
BOOTSY HOLLER
In an extension of her pink preoccupation (as seen in last month's Pink and Brown), Holler presents Room of Roses, a photographic installation. Black Lab Gallery, 5208 Ballard Ave NW, 706-7017.
FAY JONES
Jones' paintings of people are very engaging--not so much, perhaps, as the Goya variations from two years ago, but still. Grover/Thurston Gallery, 309 Occidental Ave S, 223-0816. Through Dec 14.
KUSTOM KROWN
From the illustrious Kustom line comes the latest, with lids for your melon by Antjuan Oden, Robert Hardgrave, Melissa Gill, Allison Agostinelli, Robert Adams, Dan Ayala, Doughlas Remy, and more. Kuhlman, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Jan 31.
JAY LAZERWITZ
The bleak, landscape-inspired expressions of Matter, a series of streaking pigment and beeswax. Gallery 110, 110 S Washington, 624-9336. Through Nov 30.
* THE LISTENING POST
Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen have transformed the chatter of the Internet into a tonal landscape--literally. On the Boards Studio Space, 100 W Roy St, 217-9886. Through Nov 24.
NATA LUKAS
Mirroring other systems of fluid circulation, Lukas' Post Alley R.A.I.N. three-phase sculpture (changing monthly through January) collects and transports the water of this damp city's autumn downpours. Post Alley Sculpture Garden, 1417 Post Alley. Through Mar 22.
MATTHEW PORTER, SUZANNE TRUMAN
Truman's textural abstractions capturing reflections of age and wear, along with Matthew "Pow Kid" Porter's paintings of circus performers. Pound Gallery, 1216 10th Ave, 323-0557. Through Nov 23.
TRINITY ROSE
Young documentary photographer Rose combines the fluidity of contemporary breakdancing with the arrest of the camera. Nation Gallery, 1921 Fifth Ave, 374-9492. Through Dec 8.
* SCATTERED, SMOTHERED & COVERED
An IHOP-inspired collection of works by 25 American artists from all stretches of the country. Garde Rail Gallery, 4860 Rainier Ave S, 721-0107. Through Nov 30.
SEATTLE COLLECTS 2002
This year's inductees into the city's portable works collection include Leo Saul Berk, Phillip Roach, Charlotte Meyer, Cathy Fields, Catherine Grisez, and Jason Morgan. City Space, 701 Fifth Ave, third floor, 749-9525. Through Dec 31.
SMALL WONDER
"A group exhibition of an ambiguous nature," featuring works by Keith Carter, Larry Calkins, Beverly Rayner, John Dugdale, Olivia Parker, and more. G. Gibson Gallery, 514 E Pike St, 587-4033. Through Dec 28.
* GREG STUMP
Urban Hipster illustrator and occasional Stranger contributor Stump presents a collection of his clean-lined, comedic illustrations. Glo's, 1621 E Olive Way, 783-3426. Through Dec 8.
* JOHN SUTTON, BEN BERES, ZAC CULLER
A house inside a gallery inside an architect's office. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809. Through Dec 6.
TINY UNIVERSE
Composed of each and every member of the SOIL collective (including Yuki Nakumuri, Juniper Shuey, Randy Wood, Jack Daws, etc., etc., ad infinitum), Tiny Universe transcribes the map of the individual, the collective organism comprising each singular artist. SOIL Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Dec 1.
UNBUCKLED
Featuring the works of Jana Brevik, Lauren Holloway, Susanne Pugh, and Leslie Teich (among others), the independent design collective known as Damsel exploits Seattle's waistline fetish with an exhibition of the clasps and hooks that keep our pants up. Damsel Collective, 2222 Second Ave S, Suite 100, 374-8669. Through Nov 30.
NINO YUNIARDI
Yuniardi's failed periphery is captured in a series of oil-on-wood-panel paintings, depicting space just out of eyeshot. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Nov 30.
