510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, 425-519-0770.
DARREN WATERSTON: SCAPES
Layered glazes map the multidimensional facets of Waterston's fantastic landscapes. Shows with Darren Waterston and Beatrice Wood: A Personal Alchemy. Through April 20.
CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY ART
1420 11th Ave, 728-1980.
DAMALI AYO, SHAWN NORDFORS
Sampling her own skin tone (that of her left forearm, to be precise) at a color-match station in a local hardware store, Ayo creates what essentially amounts to a room comprising human flesh. Shows with Nordfors' dioramas built inside wooden heads. Through Feb 28.
* dk pan
Opening. Tactile landscapes compose the installation by innovative performance artist pan, featuring 2,500 lbs of salt, fake fur, fish, video monitors, projections, and a nude body, to be situated in the gallery for six weeks. Opening reception Sat Jan 18, 7-11 pm. Through Feb 26.
FRYE ART MUSEUM
704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.
* PIONEER WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS
A showcase of four female photographers (active in the first quarter of the 20th century) with links to the Northwest: Photo-Secession member Myra Albert Wiggins, Adelaide Hanscom, Ella McBride, and the pistil-gripped Imogen Cunningham. Through March 2.
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM
1400 E Prospect Street, 654-3100.
RABBIT, CAT, AND HORSE: ENDEARING CREATURES IN JAPANESE ART
Crossing 17 centuries of the Japanese love affair with our four-legged friends, with Seattle-based artist Maki Tamura's Vignette, a contemporary installation featuring Japan's most endearing creature, Hello Kitty. Through April 6.SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100.
* CONTEMPORARYARTPROJECT
Here are the fruits of Linda Farris' experiment in group art-collecting: With money gathered from 18 members, Farris bought 33 works (mostly paintings) by such of-the-moment artists as Inka Essenhigh, Ghada Amer, Kim Dingle, and Justine Kurland. The content bounces from sexy feminist to socially conscious to sophisticated aesthetic; much of it is simply and satisfyingly big and voluptuous, the kind of grand gesture (whether you like it or not) we don't see around here very much. Through April 6.
ANTHONY HERNANDEZ
Reviewed this issue. Through April 6.
OPENING EXHIBITIONS
* ERICA LANGLEY
Most notable for her revealing photo essay The Lusty Lady (based on her residency at the titular [sorry, I couldn't resist] peep show), local photographer Langley shows off her latest wares in Perishable, a show combining recent documentary works Goosetown Girls and Washaway Beach. Cornish College of the Arts, Kerry Hall, 710 E Roy St, 726-5142. Through Feb 8.
KLAVIER NONETTE
See Stranger Suggests. Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 634-0919. Through Feb 18.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
ELI BAXTER
Compulsive multimedia sculpture composed of found objects. Bluebottle Art Gallery, 415 E Pine St, 325-1592. Through Jan 30.
SAUL BECKER, KAREN GUZAK, DALE LINDMAN, YUKI NAKAMURA
Traces and maps and records: the beautiful diagrams of Multiple Coordinates. Foster/White Gallery, 126 Central Way, Kirkland, 425-822-2305. Through Feb 9.
CURTIS COYOTE
Billed as a "one man group show," Coyote presents The Attic, an overview of his career, and presumably charting the many personalities of his 30-year history as an artist. Gallery 63 Eleven, 6311 24th Ave NW, 478-2238. Through Feb 6.
ANDIE DeROUX
Process-motivated reliefs in cast resin, epoxy, dry pigments, and wet clay, draped in terms like "waking spaces" and "sacred creative playing field." Ace Studios, 619 Western Ave, third floor, 329-9439. Through Jan 25.
MARC DOMBROSKY
Minimal, labor-intensive rubbings of walls that have enclosed Dombrosky's life for the past five years. Solomon Fine Art, 1215 First Ave, 297-1400. Through Jan 31.
* THE FEMALE AIM
G. Gibson's latest show (presented in conjunction with the current Frye exhibition) featuring the stunning works of Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, Lisette Model, and Imogen Cunningham, to name very, very few. G. Gibson Gallery, 514 E Pike St, 587-4033. Through Feb 28.
* GODS AND MONSTERS
Crossing the great mystic divide, Roq la Rue presents a holiday group show focused on the titular theme, with participants such as Yumiko Kayukawa, Jim Blanchard, Lisa Petrucci, and Tim Gabor. Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Ave, 374-8977. Through Jan 31.
KAZUO KADONAGA
Installations of material--wood, paper, bamboo, and glass--that embrace natural process as an intrinsic element of structure. Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770. Also Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809. Through Feb 1.
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 others. Kuhlman, 2419 First Ave, 441-1999. Through Jan 31.
* MATTHEW LANDKAMMER, BEN DALLAS
Delicate curvature hinting at distortion, Landkammer's Meniscus forges acrylic to bent panel arcing from the gallery walls. Coupled with Chicago artist Dallas' "wood constructions." Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Feb 1.
MEMBERS' JURIED EXHIBITION
The PCNW's kitchen sink, as selected by the Henry's chief curator, Elizabeth Brown. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Jan 30.
MEMORY
The time-honored exploration of time--Marita Dingus, Randy Hayes, Blake Haygood, and others interpret the mind's vision of the past in Memory. Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery, 1334 First Ave, 654-3240. Through Feb 15.
PET
It's unclear as to whether the titular theme is meant as a noun or a verb, but they can't stop me from hoping for the latter. Kaleidoscope Gallery, 157 Yesler Way, second floor, 292-4800. Through Jan 31.
GREGO RACHKO
Rachko's The Usual Personas explores humanity in two lights: the objective reflection of straight portraiture versus the more interpretive illustration of humanity's spiritual weight. Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. Through Feb 8.
* JODI ROCKWELL, KARUNA "TOI" SENNHAUSER
"In Toi Sennhauser's past performances, she's poured milk over her bare legs and had bright berry jam dripped--ever so slowly and bloodily--over her thumb, which stuck lonely and alone out of a felt backdrop. This month she's teamed up with sculptor Jodi Rockwell to produce a gallery full of food-as-art, including heaps of sugar, armies of eggs, and portraits done in candy--all of which will change over the course of the month as it variously rots or disintegrates. The contemporary masterpiece is as ephemeral as it is philosophical (and delicious!)." (Emily Hall) Soil Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Jan 26.
DANILA RUMOLD
Recent Chicago import Rumold's premiere solo exhibition in Seattle, presenting visual oil abstractions on acetate. Secluded Alley Works, 113 12th Ave, 325-8943. Through Jan 23.
HEATHER SIOBHAN
Freehand ceramic sculpture. Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680. Through Feb 6.
LARA SWIMMER
Documentary architectural photographs chronicling Seattle's "civic renaissance." AIA Seattle, 1911 First Ave, 448-4938. Through Jan 31.
* AMIR ZAKI
Reviewed this week. "We all know well enough that digital manipulation of photographs makes the fantastic possible, but photographer Amir Zaki uses it to emphasize the real and mundane instead." (Emily Hall) James Harris Gallery, 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220. Through Feb 1.
