SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
100 University St, 654-3100.
THE GRAPHIC DESIGN OF ANDRIO ABERO
Our favorite poster boy has infiltrated SAM, with posters in the downstairs hallway. Through Dec 5.
OPENINGS
JOHN CASADO, FRANK DITURI, KARIN ROSENTHAL, TSENO
Bodies and blurriness and that whole waking-dream-erotic thing we’ve seen before. Opening reception Tues Nov 4, 6-8 pm. Benham Gallery, 1216 First Ave, 622-2480. Through Nov 15.
EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: A CELEBRATION OF THE SOUL
With artists from Seattle, Chicago, and Mexico. Opening reception Sun Nov 2, 2-7 pm. El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Ave, 329-9442. Through Nov 24.
KOZYNDAN
Urban commentary by a Los Angeles-based collective and authors of Urban Myths. Opening reception Sat Nov 1, 7-10 pm; book signing Sun Nov 2, 5-6 pm, at Confounded Books (315 E. Pine St). Goods, 1112 Pike St, 622-0459. Through Dec 19.
NO-TELL MOTEL
Artists and students team up to invoke a sleazy by-the-hour motel. Opening, with complimentary continental breakfast, Tues Nov 4, 6-9 pm. CMA Gallery, University of Washington, 4205 Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Through Nov 10.
TED RIEDERER
A hagiography of television characters. Opening reception Sat Nov 1, 7-11 pm. Bluebottle Art Gallery and Store, 415 E Pine St, 325-1592. Through Nov 30.
JOHN SCHUH, WM. A. HERBERHOLTZ
Schuh’s enormous photo collages, and Herberholtz’s assemblages of metal and other materials. Opening reception Sat Nov 1, 6-9 pm. Artemis Gallery, 3107 S Day St, 323-0562. Through Nov 29.
SPECIMEN: NINE INVESTIGATIONS OF NATURE
The art world’s ongoing fascination with artificial nature is only as good as the artists who turn their attention to it. Promising here: Mandy Greer, as ever, and Debra Baxter, who has turned from explosive ripped paintings to big fuzzy entities made of what look like face-powder applicators. Opening reception Sat Nov 1, 7-10 pm. SOIL Gallery, 1317 E Pine St, 264-8061. Through Nov 30.
JARED RUE THORNTON
New paintings. Opening reception Wed Nov 5, 5-8 pm. Baas Gallery, 2703 E Madison St, 324-4742. Through Nov 29.
UNION ART CO-OP 10th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Another pocket of artists quietly working away… for a decade. Opening reception Fri Oct 31, 5-8 pm. Union Art Co-op, 1100 E Union St, 860-7023. Through Dec 31.
WOMEN PAINTERS OF WASHINGTON
The name just about says it all. Opening reception Sun Nov 2, 3-5 pm. Runnings Family Gallery, located in the ArtsWest Playhouse, 4711 California Ave SW, 938-0963 ext 107. Through Dec 28.
WORKS BY CORNISH COLLEGE ALUMNI
Like the title says–and you’d be pleasantly surprised how many of our most talented come from the halls of Cornish. With work by, among many others, Dan Webb, Helen Gamble, Rich Lehl, Jennifer McNeely, and the extremely young and weird Sutton/Beres/Culler trio. Opening reception next month. Washington State Convention and Trade Center, 800 Convention Place, Galleria Level 2. Through Jan 5.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS
HECTOR ACEBES
Final week. Documentary photographs of Africa, taken between 1948 and 1953. G. Gibson Gallery, 514 E Pike St, 587-4033. Through Nov 1.
HELEN CURTIS
Final week. Small glass objects in a net, sending light all over the room. CDA Gallery, 506 Second Ave, Suite 200, 296-7580. Through Oct 31.
NOLAN HENDRICKSON
Final week. New paintings, in Cotton Mouth. VAIN, 2018 First Ave, 441-3441. Through Oct 31.
* LEIV FAGERENG
Final week. Bright new paintings of the disturbingly accessorized real world. Gulassa & Co, 10 Dravus St, 283-1810. Through Nov 3.
* JOHN GRADE
Final week. Sculpture that is at once biological, landscape, monumental, and creepy/fuzzy. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S, 624-7684. Through Nov 1.
TRISH GRANTHAM
Final week. Funny paintings with charming little Japanese-style characters: toast, bunnies, pandas… excellent! Fancy, 1932 Second Ave, 443-4621. Through Oct 31.
GRAVE MATTERS
Final week. All things dying, death, and afterward. Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Ave S, 374-8977. Through Oct 31.
INNOCENCE AND JEST
Final week. Ceramic work by Tim Foss, Saya Moriyasu, Joan Watkins, and Steve Gardener. Moriyasu’s grouped dishes and cups and trays and vessels often have faces, making you more uneasy about your master/servant relationship with your tableware than you would think. Northwest Craft Center and Gallery, 305 Harrison St, 728-1555. Through Oct 31.
* SU JOB
Final week. “A series of tiny needlepoint works, each one a miniature window into a pornographic moment. These little works are incredibly labor-intensive, which is part of what makes them good. To take something as fleeting and discardable as Internet pornography and render it in a medium tied to commemoration and tradition is very funny, and also has an angry little resonance. ” (Emily Hall) ACE Gallery, 619 Western Ave, 382-7640. Through Oct 31.
JUDITH KINDLER, REBECCA RAVEN
Final week. Kindler uses figures of young women and girls in Shifting Truth; Raven (formerly Luncan) brings her ultra-precise miniatures to new walls. Atelier 31, 2500 First Ave, 448-5250. Through Nov 2.
CHLOE RIZZO, CHAUNEY PECK
Final week. Rizzo’s crocheted-together body parts combine the homey and the repellent. With Peck’s paintings of animals and fish. Priceless Works Gallery, 619 N 35th St, Suite 100, 349-9943. Through Nov 2.
MICHAEL SCHULTHEIS
Final week. Inspired by mathematical and economic principles, Schultheis’ paintings have more life and mystery than most abstract work. Ballard Fetherston Gallery, 818 E Pike St, 322-9440. Through Oct 31.
SETH THOMPSON
Final week. Interiors of Mexican and Cuban houses in a show with a lovely title: Poca Luz. Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave, 720-7222. Through Oct 30.
SCOTT WILSON
Final week. Big old creepy photographs of specimens in jars. ToST, 513 N 36th St, 547-0240. Through Nov 2.
EVENTS
HIMALAYAN VISIONS & TIBETAN VOICES
A multimedia show, from photographer Brian Harris. Thurs Oct 30, 7:30 pm. Cinerama, 2100 Fourth Ave, 441-3080. $10.
* INFERNAL NOISE BRIGADE CD RELEASE PARTY
See Stranger Suggests. Sat Nov 1, 8 pm-4 am. Jem Studios, 6004 12th Ave S, $5.
* JANET KOPLOS
Koplos has been writing art criticism since like the mid-’70s, which is a damn long time. She’s currently a senior editor of Art in America, and I bet she knows from art. Thurs Oct 30, 7 pm. University of Washington, Kane Hall, Room 220, free.
I HEART RUMMAGE
Start your Christmas shopping now! Sun Nov 2, 12-4 pm. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave, 448-2114. For more information: www.iheartrummage.com.
MY DAILY CONSTITUTION
The idea is to get everyone talking about democracy and rights and government. One can very nearly predict how such conversations will unroll here in talky, gentle-lefty Seattle, but Los Angeles artist Linda Pollack, armed with 5,000 copies of the Constitution–have you ever actually read it?–is willing to give it a shot. Each location will feature a different topic; conversations continue into next week.
Mon Nov 3, 7-9 pm: Privacy, Free Speech, and the War on Terrorism. Seattle Public Library, Fremont Branch, 731 N 35th St, 684-4084.
Tues Nov 4, 7-9 pm: Personhood, Citizenship, and the U.S. Constitution. Crossroads Shopping Center, Public Market Entrance, 1600 NE Eighth St, 425-644-1111.
Wed Nov 5, 7-9 pm: Ways and Means of Safeguarding Democracy. Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Ave N, 381-3218.
VEIL
Art, fashion, politics, and party entangle in honor of Philippine Women’s Day of Protest. Thurs Oct 30, 7 pm-2 am. Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Ave, 762-5093, $12.