Everybody already knows what world-famous artist Chuck Close does:
He dismantles the act of seeing, in portraits made up of hundreds
and hundreds of little cohering parts. In an inspired pairing, Greg
Kucera Gallery is showing Close’s prints and large-scale tapestries
with sculpture and photography by Seattle artist Drew Daly. Daly tears
things apart and puts them back together again, too—most often
readymade furniture and photographs of his own face. If Close’s
reconstructions are centripetal, Daly’s are centrifugal, always on
their way to somewhere else. (Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Ave S,
624-0770. 6–8 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...