Museums

Bellevue Art Museum
Islamic calligraphy by Mohamed Zakariya. $7 adult, $5 seniors/students. Tues-Sun. Through Feb 18. William Morris: Native Species. $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. Tues-Sun. Through Apr 29. Turning Wood into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection: work by major North American and European wood turners. $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. Tues-Sun. Through Apr 8. 510 Bellevue Way NE, 425-519-0745.

Burke Museum
Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China and Mongolia 1921-1925: hand-tinted lantern slides. $8 general, $6.50 seniors, $5 students. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 4. NE 45th St and 17th Ave NE, 543-5590.

Frye Art Museum
Klompen: Trimpin's coin-operated Dutch clogs dancing in air. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 21. I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time: the Viennese artist Erwin Wurm explores the heart of sculpture through funny, serious, provocative, and self-effacing performance, video, photography, and drawing. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 28. Spectatorship and Desire: Love restores the paintings that curator Robin Held removed from the walls, set beside visitor comments made in their absence. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Mar 4. "Demon seed or sweet innocent?" That's the question about the children in the historical folk art portraits of Little Women, Little Men. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Feb 4. 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.

Henry Art Gallery
We Decided to Let Them Say "We Are Convinced" Twice. It Was More Convincing This Way: Raad's photographs of the 1982 siege of Beirut, taken when he was 15 and now reprinted from the degraded negatives, make the radical proposition that these empty post-traumatic frames, with their winsome static, represent the way the world looks now. $10 adults, $6 seniors. Tues-Sun. Through Feb 11. 15th Ave NE at NE 41st St, 543-2280.

Museum of Glass
Transparently Built: exploring the diverse architectural properties of glass. $10 adults, $8 seniors, $4 kids. Wed-Sun. Through May 27. 1801 Dock St, 253-284-4732.

Museum of History and Industry
Home for the Holidays: Norman Rockwell's original hand-drawn holiday covers for the Saturday Evening Post. $7 adults, $5 seniors/kids. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 15. 2700 24th Ave E, 324-1126.

Museum of Northwest Art
Entering Ether is five interrelated, site-specific installations by Lanny Bergner, interspersed with screen and wire studio works. $5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 kids. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 7. 121 S First Street, 360-466-4446.

Nordic Heritage Museum
Tapestry on the Edge: 45 tapestries by Northwest artists juried by Rock Hushka, senior curator at Tacoma Art Museum. $6 adults, $5 seniors, $4 kids. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 7. 3014 NW 67th Street, (206) 789-5707.

Seattle Asian Art Museum
Iranian-born exile Shirin Neshat's Tooba is a 12-minute video installation of a woman on a dusty hill menaced by a band of men until she makes a sort of escape. $5 adults, $3 kids/seniors suggested. Tues-Sun. Through Apr 8. Art deco sculpture from the collection, and drawings for a deco-designed space at the museum that didn't come to be. $5 adults, $3 kids/seniors suggested. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 15. Discovering Buddhist Art, Seeking the Sublime. $5 adults, $3 kids/seniors (suggested). Tues-Sun. Vik Muniz: Reflex, a retrospective of the Brazilian-born artist who arranges sculptural mosaics made of unusual materials, photographs them, and destroys them. $5 adults, $3 kids/seniors suggested. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 15. 1400 E Prospect St (Volunteer Park), 654-3100.

Tacoma Art Museum
The Art of Eric Carle: originals by the artist known for the children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. $7.50 adults, $6.50 kids/seniors/military. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 21. Symphonic Poem: Sculpture and flatwork by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson conjures the lives of Africans and African-Americans. $7.50 adults, $6.50 kids/seniors/military. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 28. 1701 Pacific Ave, 253-272-4258.

Vancouver Art Gallery
Paint: a generation of it in BC. $15 (Canadian) adults, $11 seniors, $6 kids. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 25. Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon. $15 (Canadian) adults, $11 seniors, $6 kids. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 7. 750 Hornby St, 604-662-4719.

Whatcom Museum of History and Art
Building Tradition: Contemporary Northwest Art from the Tacoma Art Museum. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Apr 29. 121 Prospect St, 360-676-6981.

Wing Luke Asian Museum
How the Soy Sauce Was Bottled: Uncommon Stories of Common Objects is an exhibition of artwork responding to the museum's permanent collection, by Susie Jungune Lee, Saya Moriyasu, Heinrich Toh, James Lawrence Ardena, and June Sekiguchi. $4 adults, $3 seniors, $2 kids. Tues-Sun. Through Nov 30. 407 Seventh Ave S, 623-5124.

Gallery Openings

Alibi Room
Ancestors and Ghosts: self-portraits drawn on mirrors by Adria Garcia. Free. Reception Wed Jan 10, 6-10 pm. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 85 Pike St, 625-9647.

Art on Center
Skin, Flesh, and Voices: Alice Di Certo explores racial discrimination and racial interaction in the US. Free. Reception Sat Jan 6, 5-8 pm. Wed-Sat. Through Feb 10. 1604 Center St, 253-627-8180.

ArtPatch
Seattle Correspondence School is Darla Barry Benson, Joanna Lepore, Flatchestedmama, Nate West, and Amanda Mae. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 5-9 pm. First Thurs. Through Feb 2. 306 S Washington St.

ArtWorks Gallery
My City, My People: paintings by Gabrielle Abbott. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-9 pm. Mon-Fri. Through Jan 31. 619 Western Ave, 4th Floor, 292-4142.

ArtXchange
Made in China: Reflecting the diversity of influences shaping modern China. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Feb 23. 512 First Ave S, 839-0377.

Ballard Fetherston Gallery
New Work by Mary Molyneaux. Free. Reception Fri Jan 12, 5-7 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Feb 3. 818 E Pike St, 322-9440.

Benham Gallery
Give Us Your Best Shot: photographs by unrepresented artists. Free. Reception Thurs Feb 1, 6-8 pm. Wed-Sat. Through Feb 10. 1216 First Ave, 622-2480.

Catherine Person Gallery
The Berlin Paintings: Drake Deknatel's paintings from 2003, the last year he made abstractions before changing stylistic direction. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Feb 3. 319 Third Ave, 726-1836.

Corridor Gallery
Rusting on the Inside: mixed media assemblages by Brian White. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 5-9 pm. Fri, Sat. Through Jan 28. 306 S Washington St, 856-7037.

Davidson Contemporary
Steve Currie, Ellen Garvens, John Grade, and Timea Tihanyi: four artists using industrial materials to depict nature or natural forms. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. 310 S Washington St, 624-7684.

Davidson Galleries
German Expressionist Prints: from the confluence of primitivism, symbolism, and Nietzsche. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. Mezzotints and recent paintings by Holly Downing. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-1324.

Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery
MOME: The New Guard: an anthology of emerging comics talent curated by Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds. Free. Reception Sat Jan 6, 5-8 pm. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 1201 S. Vale Street, 658-0110.

Form/Space Atelier
Construct Expressionism/Five Alive: work by five abstract expressionist painters. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-10 pm. Wed-Sun. Through Jan 31. 1907 Second Ave, 448-2302.

Foster/White Gallery
No Wooly Mammoths Here: James Martin's marionettes and irreverent surrealism. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. 220 Third Ave S, 622-2833.

Frame Up Studios
Rustic Botanicals: multimedia photography by Drew Forsell. Free. Reception Fri Jan 5, 6-9 pm. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 30. 3515 Fremont Ave N, 547-4657.

G. Gibson Gallery
An Era of Solitude: bleak, black-and-white oil paintings by Mark Thompson. Free. Reception Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Feb 10. A selection of early and mid-20th century photographs by Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Aaron Siskind, and Jacques-Henri Lartigue. Free. Reception Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Feb 10. 300 S Washington St, 587-4033.

Glasshouse Studio
Work by Shayne Nutter and Tony Sorgenfrei. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 311 Occidental Ave South, 682-9939.

Greg Kucera Gallery
Signs + Streets: prints by Ed Ruscha. Free. Reception Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. Post-Ruscha streetscapes in prints and drawings by DC artist Benjamin Edwards. Free. Reception Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. 212 Third Ave 2, 624-0770.

Icebox Contemporary Art
In the Shadow of the Dome: Marc Dombrosky pieces together partial stories by anonymous authors. Free. First Sat. Through Jan 12. 301A Puyallup Ave, 856-7114.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Works in Progress: group exhibition of Masters candidates of ceramics, fibers, metals, painting and drawing, photography, sculpture and visual communication design. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 24. Art Building, University of Washington, 685-1805.

John McKinney Studio/Gallery
Crystal: Intimate Portraits: large-scale black-and-white nude photographs by John McKinney. Free. Sat. Through Jan 27. 306 S. Washington St., #106, 719-8040.

La Familia Gallery
Michelle Anderst explores themes of solitude through painting. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Wed-Sat. Through Jan 27. 117 Prefontaine Pl S, 291-4608.

Linda Hodges Gallery
David Allison, Maya Chachava, and Brenna Helm explore the psychological and symbolic aspects of iconic structures. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 27. 316 First Ave S, 624-3034.

Lisa Harris Gallery
New paintings by Emily Wood. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 27. 1922 Pike Pl, 443-3315.

Martin-Zambito Fine Art
The socially conscious WPA work of the New York artist Ida Abelman. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Feb 7. 721 E Pike St, 726-9509.

McLeod Residence
Parlor: paintings and furniture from the turn of the 20th century. Free. Reception Fri Jan 5, 5-9 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 31. Project 12 is an installation by Paul Rucker involving a video projection of a man playing a cello. The video and the sound are alterable by running your hand across the equivalent of a theremin in the room. Free. Reception Fri Jan 5, 5-9 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 31. A juried exhibition of photographs and digital art mounted on lightboxes. Free. Reception Fri Jan 5, 5-9 pm. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 31. 2209 Second Avenue, 441-3314.

Ouch My Eye Studios
Structured (in) Time: eight artists on the notion of time. Free. Reception Fri Jan 5, 8 pm. Sat, Sun. Through Jan 25. 1022 First Ave S, 381-8457.

Platform Gallery
Man: Carlee Fernandez's wild photographic and sculptural portraits including coral, hair, colored string, and amethyst chunks pair her with the men who have influenced her, including Manuel Fernandez, her father; the Austrian sculptor Franz West; and speed metal pioneer Dave Mustaine of Megadeth. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-8 pm. Thurs-Sat. Through Feb 10. 114 Third Ave S, 323-2808.

Punch Gallery
Round Three: devoted to the new members of the gallery, Nathan DiPietro, Natalie Dotzauer, and Patricia Hagen. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 5-8 pm. Fri-Sun. Through Jan 28. 119 Prefontaine Pl S, 509-964-2443.

Purr Cocktail Lounge
Paintings by James Purpura. Free. Reception Wed Jan 10, 6-10 pm. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 1518 11th Avenue, 325-3112.

SOIL
Yielded is a show of video and sculpture by Seattle's Debra Baxter and New York's Robert de Saint Phalle (yes, that de Saint Phalle). The work is "preoccupied with ideas of one's voice," including Baxter's alabaster vocal cords and de Saint Phalle's study of a mockingbird's sinus system. In the gallery's back space, collages and assemblages by the sculptor Ben Hirschkoff. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 6-9 pm. Thurs-Sun. Through Jan 28. 112 Third Ave S, 264-8601.

South Seattle Community College
A juried show of local photographers. Free. Reception Wed Jan 17, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Mon-Sat. Through Feb 7. 6000 16th Ave SW, 764-5300.

William Traver Gallery
Pilchuck Glass Exhibition: a selection of the artists who participated in the 2006 summer sessions. Free. Reception Thurs Jan 4, 5-8 pm. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 28. 110 Union St. #200, 587-6501.

Windows Art Gallery
Nine six-by-six-foot mixed works by nine artists. Reception Sat Jan 6, 6-10 pm. Jan 6-Feb 2. 4131 Woodland Park Ave N, 632-7332.

Continuing Exhibitions

911 Media Arts Center
Mass Mass Media: Caleb Larson's suite of projects interpret and transform headlines from Google news into visual, lexical, and physical phases. Headlines are then reconstructed using YouTube videos, forming a continuous video montage. Free. Mon-Fri. Through Jan 10. 402 Ninth Ave N, 682-6552.

Arthead Gallery
Paintings by Brom Wikstrom. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 5. 5411 Meridian Ave N, 633-5544.

Art/Not Terminal Gallery
Surreal paintings by Rob Clarke, an artist who moonlights as a cremationist. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 4. 2045 Westlake Ave, 233-0680.

ArtsWest
Winter Reflections: mixed media by Jacqui Beck, Regina Rubin Cody, Carol Chellino, and somebody called Lisa Snow Lady. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 6. 4711 California Ave SW, 938-0339.

Belle and Wissell Studio Gallery
Beasts!: "monstrous" art by more than 90 artists in comics, illustration, skateboard graphics, rock posters, animation, children's books, and "fine" art. Free. Fri, Sat. Through Feb 17. 6014 12th Avenue S, 206 322-7908.

Bizzarro Italian Cafe
White Dresses: vintage portraits by Karin Bolstad. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 1307 N 46th St, 632-7277.

Bluebottle Gallery
Fire Season: paintings by Paul Chatem. Free. Reception Sat Jan 6, 6-8 pm. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 31. 415 E Pine St, 325-1592.

Caffe Ladro
Photographs by Phil Petrocelli. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 600 Queen Anne Ave N.

Caffe Ladro
Paintings by Laura Marks. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 108 Union St., (206) 267-0600.

Caffe Ladro
Portraitures by Joey Bates. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 7011 California Ave SW.

Caffe Ladro
Paintings by Erik Andrew. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 2205 Queen Anne Ave N, 282-5313.

Caffe Ladro
Pop works by Lucas Vidana. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 452 N 36th St.

Caffe Ladro
Abstract paintings by Jennifer Cepeda. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 435 15th Ave E, 282-1549.

Columbia City Gallery
Adornments and Small Works and From the Furnace: jewelry and glass. Free. Wed-Sun. Through Jan 14. 4864 Rainier Ave S, 760-9843.

Cornish College of the Arts Main Gallery
Inherent Nature: work by Cornish Art Department alumni exploring the different roles that nature plays as inspiration, motivation, style, subject, and psyche. Free. Mon-Fri. Through Jan 12. 1000 Lenora Street, 726-5011.

Crocodile Cafe
Paintings by Troy Gua. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 31. 2200 Second Ave, 441-5611.

Fantagraphic Bookstore and Gallery
30 Years of Misfit Lit, featuring Bagge, Blanchard, Clowes, Crumb, Forney, Ware, and more. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 4. 1201 S. Vale Street, 658-0110.

Gallery at One Union Square
The architectural photography of Stephen L. Rosen. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 24. 600 University and 6th Ave.

Garde Rail Gallery
New Ships, New Works: using found objects, John Taylor creates interpretive models of ships as well as depictions of Jonah, the whale, and Noah's ark. Free. Wed-Sat. Through Jan 27. 110 Third Ave S, 621-1055.

The Great Nabob
Encaustic paintings by Jim Hodge. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Feb 28. 819 Fifth Ave N, 281-9850.

Howard House
Never Always: the wood and photographic amazements of conceptual carver Dan Webb. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 13. 604 Second Ave, 256-6399.

Joe Bar
Creatures Great and Small: paintings by Ariel Lapidus. Free. Reception Wed Jan 3, 3-9 pm. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 810 E Roy St, 324-0407.

Lawrimore Project
Are We There Yet?: four black viewing boxes showing video of car trips with audio from one side of a conversation between two people meeting for the first time, by Sami Ben Larbi. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 13. 831 Airport Way S, 501-1231.

M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery
Home: Where We Came From, Where We Are Going: photography, art, words, and sound document the travels of several families and individuals as they return home to New Orleans. Free. Reception Wed Jan 3, 5-7 pm. Mon-Fri. Through Jan 25. Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway, #2BE2116, 344-4379.

Nancy
Aaron Murray's woodcut prints from his Rogue Valley series and ceramic sculptures inspired by old farms. Free. Mon-Fri. Through Jan 5. 1930 Second Ave, 441-7131.

OKOK
Sincere Intentions: animal protagonists surrounded by graphite renderings of fleeting thoughts, memories and text, by Tra Selhtrow. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 14. 5107 Ballard Ave NW.

Patricia Cameron Fine Art
Attitudes and Gestures: paintings by Lisa Pounders and Charlotte Renata Simpson. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Jan 13. 234 Dexter Ave N, 343-9647.

Photographic Center Northwest
PCNW Juried Members Exhibition: photographs chosen by this year's juror, Scott Wallin. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 15. 900 12th Ave, 720-7222.

Print Zero Studios
A site-specific mural and new prints by Abraham Mong and Zach Bohn. Free. Sat. Through Jan 21. 323 N 105th St A-2, 363-2997.

Roq La Rue
MaDora Frey's lofty, romantic-symbolist classicism with criminal tendencies, and Jean-Pierre Roy's distant, repetitive apocalypses. Both artists are painters living in New York. Free. Wed-Sat. Through Feb 2. 2312 Second Ave, 374-8977.

Seattle artREsource
Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom venture into affordable resales from local collectors, with works on sale ranging from Andy Warhol's Wayne Gretzky to Mandy Greer's rag-doll imagery. Ever-changing. Free. Tues-Sat. 625 First Ave.

Starbucks
Super Females: comic-inspired art curated by Craig Trolli. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 2650 NE 49th.

Suite 400
re-Rendered: new work by Laura Ward. Free. Mon-Fri. Through Mar 31. 1601 2nd Ave, 206 624-3854.

Union Street Electric Gallery
White Vanishing: Light and Shadow: a 14-by-100-foot vinyl mesh outdoor mural representing an original porcelain sculpture by Yuki Nakamura. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Apr 30. Union Street and Western Avenue (outdoors).

Wall Of Sound
Snow Show: snow creations by Michael Ohlenroth. Free. Mon-Sun. Through Jan 31. 315 E Pine St.

Wall Space
The Variety Show is photography by Aline Smithson, including an ode to Whistler's mother featuring the artist's mother. Free. Mon-Fri. Through Jan 13. 600 First Ave #322, 330-9137.

William Traver Gallery
Friends: new work by glass artist Danny Perkins. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Jan 28. 110 Union St. #200, 587-6501.