VISUAL ART listings
MUSEUMS
FRYE ART MUSEUM
Opening Sat Jan 21: German photographer Candida Höfer, who studied under the industrial portraitists Bernd and Hilla Becher, specializes in institutional interiors bereft of actual human beings but ripe with our systems and preoccupations. Architecture of Absence is her first North American retrospective. Through Feb 12. Spectatorship and Desire—Part 1: Lust. Through Jan. 29. 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.
HENRY ART GALLERY
The Fates Await, inspired by the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and made by the artist Santiago Cucullu. Through March 12. Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson. Through Jan 29. For 150 Works of Art, the architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo selected paintings and photographs from the gallery’s permanent collection. Through Feb 26. 15th Ave NE and NE 41st St, 543-2280.
MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART
The Cognitive Body, glass sculpture by Eric Franklin; Carl Morris, paintings; and new acquisitions. Through April 9. 121 S First St, La Conner, 360-466-4446.
SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM
Seattle Art Museum downtown is closed for renovations until spring 2007, so the Volunteer Park museum is its temporary headquarters. On view: The Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Chinese Painting from the University of Michigan Museum of Art and Fragrance of the Past: Chinese Calligraphy and Painting by Ch’ung-ho Chang Frankel and Friends. Through April 2. Shirin Neshat’s video installation Tooba. Through Oct 15. 1400 E Prospect St, Volunteer Park, 654-3100.
GALLERY OPENINGS
CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
Uzi Coozie pairs guns and crochet, by Brooklyn-based 1998 Cornish alum Heather Hart. Opening reception Thurs Jan 19, 5 pm. Artist talk Fri, Jan 20, noon. 1000 Lenora St, Main Campus Center Gallery, 726-5011.
G. GIBSON GALLERY
Maija Fiebig, a young Seattle artist whose influences list includes Odilon Redon, Katy Stone, and Henry Darger, made oil paintings on board she calls Moss. Collective Memory-Routes and Areas is Doug Keyes’s latest multiple-exposure, information-packed photographs. Reception Sat Jan 28, 4–6 pm. 300 S Washington St, 587-4033.
ICEBOX CONTEMPORARY ART
Wild Boys is new images by Steven Miller, including Proof of Homosexuality in Nature, a large-format photographic installation of a forest landscape inhabited by fornicating men dressed in rabbit outfits. Miller has shown at ConWorks, Photographic Center Northwest, and 911 Media Arts. (This new Tacoma gallery is curated by Seattle fugitives Tracey Fugami and Eugene Parnell.) Opening reception Thurs Jan 19, 7–9 pm. 301A Puyallup Ave, Tacoma, 856-7114.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST
San Francisco–based artist Todd Hido shows Unfinished Narratives, which according to PCNW, portray “the most mundane scenes with a menacing air of expectancy.” Through Feb 27. 900 12th Ave, 720-7222.
ROQ LA RUE
Scion Installation Exhibit, meaning a group show sponsored by Scion, meaning Scion gave polyurethane toy cars to artists to decorate, and said cars will wind up after a national tour on sale for charity in New York, features the artists David Choe, Crash, Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Mike Giant, Kenton Parker, Dr Revolt, Coro, Daim, Ricky Powell, Rammellzee, Rostarr, Seak, Kofie, Mad and Dez Einswell. Through Jan 28. 2312 Second Ave, 374-8977.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
CAPITOL HILL ARTS CENTER
Pane in the Glass, by local artists. Each artist has taken an old windowpane transformed into a light box, and created a piece of art. Through Jan 27. 1621 12th Ave, 388-0500.
CATHERINE PERSON GALLERY
In Climate is Ron Lambert’s sculpture, video, and drawings. Through Jan 28. 319 Third Ave S, 726-1836.
CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY ART
Evidence: Photographs by Mateo Zapata Zachai is 20 black-and-white portraits of physical traces. Through Feb. 5. 410 Dexter Ave N, 728-1980.
DAVIDSON CONTEMPORARY
New work by Russian painters Alexander Gorenstein and Shura Petrov. Through Jan. 28. 310 S Washington St, 624-7684.
DAVIDSON GALLERIES
Paper art by Japanese Seiko Tachibana (1964– ); etchings by British naturalists Mark Catesby (1683–1749) and George Edwards (1694–1773). Through Jan 28. 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-1324.
4CULTURE
Everywhere/Nowhere is an installation that combines postcards, broadsides, etched mirrors, and sculptures by Kristen T. Ramirez. Through Jan 27. 101 Prefontaine Pl S, 296-7580.
FOSTER/WHITE GALLERY
Vaguely totemic sculpture by Sandra Zeiset Richardson and vaguely cartoonish painting by James Martin. Through Jan 28. 123 S Jackson St, 622-2833.
GARDE RAIL GALLERY
The folk imagination of Dale Gottlieb transforms rugs into “narrative story rugs.” Through Feb 11. 110 Third Ave S, 621-1055.
GREG KUCERA GALLERY
Black-and-white photographs by Tim Roda and drawings by Peter Millett. Through Feb 11. 212 Third Ave S, 624-0770.
HOWARD HOUSE
Seattle painter Mark Danielson’s images begin with modern, midcentury houses. Through Feb 11. 604 Second Ave, 256-6399.
HUGO HOUSE GALLERY
The de Chirico Overlap is a series of paintings by Mohammed Daoudi and poems by Frances McCue about a Muslim Berber (please note: a member of an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa) and the poet who writes about him, and their love for the empty-courtyard surrealist Giorgio de Chirico. Through Jan 30. 2721 First Ave, 322-7030.
JACK STRAW NEW MEDIA GALLERY
Archival Investigations is the latest installment in the Northwest Trimpinfest this year and next. Trimpin is a sound artist whose installations are playful and rigorous, sometimes in equal doses. That’s the case in this rarely seen early work. Through Feb 24. 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, 547-2503.
JAMES HARRIS GALLERY
Works on Paper is Mary Ann Peters’s first solo show in five years. The gallery describes her watercolors as fluid, organic, and atmospheric. Through Feb 11. 309A Third Ave S, 903-6220.
LIPSTICK TRACES
This space will contain the art of Le Merde. Through Jan 31. 303 E Pine St, 329-2813.
LINDA HODGES GALLERY
Moment Frame is Christopher Martin Hoff’s first solo show ever. His paintings document carefully observed moments. Through Jan 28. 316 First Ave S, 624-3034.
PLATFORM GALLERY
In Build: Conceptual, three mediums (sculpture, photography, drawing) are employed by three artists (Lucas Kelly, Sebastian Lemm, and Will Yackulik) to examine the substance of architectural space. Through Feb 11. 114 Third Ave S, 323-2808.
SOIL ART GALLERY
Psychogeographies is interactive environmental installations, including a greenhouse for your head, by Vaughn Bell and Ron Lambert. Through Jan 29. 112 Third Ave S, 264-8061.
SUYAMA SPACE
Dis-place in Time is a large opaque fiberglass box by John O’Brien with curlicue bars splashing out from its top, intended to represent memory, and sandwiched between two pedestal displays of fine, monogrammed jewelry. Unfortunately, the metaphor is both heavy-handed and inscrutable without the artist’s testimony, and the structure’s appearance flirts unpleasantly with whimsy. Through April 7. 2324 Second Ave, 256-0809.
TOLLBOOTH GALLERY
Painter Chris Sharp takes over the public-television-kiosk-cum-contemporary-art-space Tollbooth Gallery in Tacoma to create a video and paper work called Downtown. Through Feb. 9. Corner of Broadway and 11th Street, Tacoma. 253-572-0995.
20Twenty
Band Aids + Barbiturates, mixed-media art by Mark Kirkpatrick. Through Feb. 9 5009 20th Ave NW, 706-0969.
WESTERN BRIDGE
In Crash. Pause. Rewind. 12 artists and groups look at “the disaster imagery generated by Hollywood and the news media alike as contemporary equivalents to the Romantic attraction to ruins.” Through March 4. 3412 Fourth Ave S, 838-7444.
WILLIAM TRAVER GALLERY
Tom DeGroot’s abstract paintings on corrugated cardboard. Through Jan. 29. 110 Union St #200, 587-6501.
WINSTON WÄCHTER FINE ART
Self-portraitist Brian Murphy breaks into large-scale, full-body work. Also on view are Susan Dory’s abstractions. Through Feb 24. 203 Dexter Ave N, 652-5855.
WOODSIDE/BRASETH GALLERY
Pleasant-looking landscape paintings by Paul Havas. Through Jan. 28. 2101 Ninth Ave, 622-7243.
EVENTS
S.P.A.C.E.
In a box, with a Flashlight is a multimedia work by Ann Cummings with music by Tom Baker and Christopher DeLaurenti. Admission is $5 and a flashlight. Performances are Fri Jan 20 and Sat Jan 21, 8 pm. Warren G. Magnuson Park, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Building 30.