Juan Alonso at Francine Seders

 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 ... [More]
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Issac Layman at Lawrimore Project

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... [More]
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Whiting Tennis at Greg Kucera

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... [More]
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Patti Warashina at Howard House

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... [More]
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Jennifer Campbell at Gallery4Culture

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... [More]
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