Robert Irwin "Nine Spaces, Nine Trees" at University of Washington

For years, the Robert Irwin installation Nine Spaces, Nine Trees seemed almost indistinguishable from the grim, functional office building it accompanied.  Driving past, Nine Spaces didn’t even look, at first glance, like art but more of a construction site, with tall fences w... [More]
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Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey at On the Boards, April 24

Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey’s most recent work, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t, performed this past weekend at On the Boards, is a major breakthrough for what is widely regarded as Seattle’s most important modern dance company. The choreographer/de... [More]
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Posted on May 1, 2008 17:11 by Jim Demetre
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Roman Art from the Louvre at Seattle Art Museum

The curators of the current SAM exhibit, “Roman Art from the Louvre,” have their work cut out for them. They have less than an hour—my unscientific estimate of how long the average visitor spends at the exhibit—to overturn centuries-old perceptions of Roman art. From ... [More]
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Now Growing: My Lawn

I have always found the lawn the least exciting aspect of the garden. It possesses no real habit or flower. Its color, while often bright and agreeable, is uniformly unsubtle. The scent of the blades of grass, especially when freshly cut, may evoke pleasant memories, but will not elicit our hi... [More]
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Weldon Butler at Kirkland Arts Center

For over three decades, Weldon Butler has inhabited the peripheries of Seattle’s art world, producing a distinctive body of drawings, paintings, collage, and mixed media assemblage that possess an appealing verve and self-assurance. Regardless of his process or materials, Butler&rsq... [More]
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Charles LaBelle at Lawrimore Project

Video artist Charles LaBelle’s retrospective at Lawrimore Project, entitled Polis/Persona, dramatizes a long-running dialogue between the artist and an indifferent physical environment he attempts to engage. Casting himself in the role of an enchanted wanderer, LaBelle transforms t... [More]
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Posted on April 19, 2008 09:16 by Jim Demetre
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Pirjo Berg at Gallery 6311

Years ago, I taught a figure drawing class across the hall from an abstract painting class. Each abstract painter, I noticed, was working in a different style of abstraction, and I would sometimes watch the teacher wander from easel to easel making comments, though I couldn’t hear what he actually said.... [More]
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Now in Bloom: Mahonia aquifolium

If you have this week happened upon an explosion of bright sulphur-yellow flowers set against a dense, erect shrub of glossy, dark-green leaves, chances are you have encountered a Mahonia aquifolium or Tall Oregon Grape. This striking yet standoffish ornamental, with curl-edged and spine... [More]
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Gretchen Bennett at Howard House

In conversations and published reports about Seattle’s art scene last year, the word “departures” would frequently follow the ones “Howard House” as some of the artists long represented by the 10 year-old gallery left to show their work elsewhere. This year, h... [More]
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Ben Frank Moss at Francine Seders

Why does the practice of painting endure? An answer came to me last night as I walked through Roman Art from the Louvre at the Seattle Art Museum. The objects that stood out among the many tons of heavy white marble in the exhibition were the two or three vivid fragments of interior wall pa... [More]
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