I don’t quite know what to make of Juan Alonso’s minimal, dark, nearly colorless new abstractions, a puzzling change in direction for an artist whose work has always been linked with the sunny, sensual South. Perhaps the artist himself is hedging his bets; his new exhibition ...
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The late, great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson pioneered the idea of photography as the search for a decisive moment, that perfect, spontaneous convergence of subject, action, and place that a click of the button can immortalize forever. Painters might struggle to create such an image...
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Artists find their inspiration in distinctive ways. What Van Gogh discovered in the Japanese print, or Picasso in the African mask, Whiting Tennis sees in the cobbled-together backyard sheds, chicken coops, and homemade furnishings of the rural Northwest. While Van Gogh’s w...
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There are two sort of women in Patti Warashina’s large, all-girl exhibition at Howard House this month: the Frazzled, and the Beatific. The artist gets credit for attempting to deal with such a range of experience and response, but it is clearly the sculptured, smiling women on pedestals, rath...
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Volcanoes, gentle rain, rugged chains of evergreen islands – the lure of our region’s environment is why many of settled here in the first place. The Northwest landscape is a powerful daily presence in our lives, but responding to it presents artists with a dilemma. Those w...
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