Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events for Capitol Hill Art Walk. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you’ll find a bunch of great options for the October 10 edition. But, below, we’ve compiled our critics’ picks—the new shows you shouldn’t miss, like Mary Anne Carter: Tooo Much or The Haunting of Cloud Gallery: Suspiria. Follow the links for more details and images, and check out our complete visual art calendar for even more events, including the shows still on view from the Pioneer Square Art Walk.
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ChiChiLand
ChiChiLand, aka Çiğdem “Chi” Michalski, used to run Istanbul’s imago, a motion design studio. Check out her folksily appealing images, created with a combination of digital and analog media.
Cupcake Royale
Harald Hauswald: Totally East
Hauswald’s black-and-white photography testifies to the subtle spirit of rebellion, as well as the presence of repressive authority, in the German Democratic Republic. Go for an interesting glimpse into the realities of a bygone era, images that counter the official GDR narratives of mental health and happiness.
Goethe Pop-up Gallery
The Haunting of Cloud Gallery: Suspiria
In honor of the season of the witch, Cloud Gallery will feature new work by Anouk Rawkson, Tara Thomas, Corey J Brewer, Jordan Christianson, Kerstin Graudins, Mariel Andrade, Erik Warren, Christopher Vazquez, and others that pays tribute to Dario Argento’s 1977 neon-colored giallo horror flick Suspiria.
Cloud Gallery
Innovation at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and Photography
Witness historical and contemporary photography at the cutting edge of science and technology by Amir Zaki, Richard Barnes, Evert Bongers, Barbara Bosworth, Eadweard Muybridge, Zachary Burns, and many others.
Photographic Center Northwest
Josie Morway: Acquired Tastes
Josie Morway’s fantastical, highly detailed nature paintings, emphasizing the “beauty and brutality of nature,” will grace this lavish and eccentric gallery.
Roq La Rue
Mary Anne Carter: Tooo Much
God, you ever just feel like toooooooo much? Like you’re running late to everything because you’re spending too much time carefully applying glitter to your eyelids and when you do roll up you smell like a weird mixture of weed and mothballs because you’re wearing your grandma’s sweater that you found in the depths of your closet because all your other clothes were dirty? Well, Seattle artist Mary Anne Carter is creating a space just for you. In her ambitious immersive installation at The Factory, Tooo Much explores Carter’s own “muchness” through 25 different mediums—from paint to cigarette jello to hand-airbrushed clothing to a lotion fountain (!!!). This light-hearted, bright, maximalist art show will be an exploration into “self acceptance and common connection” through our own tooooooooo muchness. JASMYNE KEIMIG
The Factory
Red List: Moths & Butterflies
The Xerces Society conservation nonprofit keeps a list of endangered butterflies and moths on the continent of North America. Browse it, and you can encounter such wondrous species names as the “scarce streaky-skipper” and the “regal fritillary.” This exhibition, featuring collagist Lisa Myers Bulmash and dozens of other artists, aims to wake you up to the growing plight of our loveliest pollinator insects. Some proceeds from art sales will benefit Xerces.
Ghost Gallery
Seattle Music: Past & Present
Seattle’s music scene is captured in snapshots by Kelly O, a prolific documenter of local nightlife, and Diana Adams, gallery owner and artist.
Vermillion
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