From South Florida's Art Basel Miami Beach art fair, Seattle artist Jane Richlovsky reports about her visit to the event, one steeped in visual excess. Read more about her initial impressions as a participating artist and visitor to Miami's annual showcase where art and commerce interse...
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Landscape painter Linda Davidson thinks sequentially. Her current show of 18 three-foot square paintings is mounted as a narrative, rather like a graphic novel or a filmstrip. Though the paintings are also intended to stand alone (which they do quite handsomely, in most cases), ...
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Last week Jen Graves asked me to write a short review of BC sculptor Liz Magor's exhibit The Mouth and other storage facilities at the Henry Art Gallery for the Stranger. Thinking you might enjoy it, I decided to post a link to it here on Artdish. Mouth is on view through December 14th.
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Nature isn't what it used to be, and plenty of artists have been sounding the alarm. The paintings of Josh Keyes stand out from the crowd in two ways: first, by his spectacular technical facility, particularly as an animal artist; second, by his depiction of the struggle...
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The curatorial decisions between Seattle's Frye Art Musuem and Henry Art Gallery, rooted to their institutional missions and past, reveal distinctive directions. Writer Elizabeth Bryant comments on both museums in her discussion of exhibits at the Frye and the Henry in recent months. Re...
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There’s a gee-whiz factor to the gravity-defying sculptures of Sean Johnson, and that’s both an advantage and a disadvantage. The upside, of course, is that they immediately grab our attention – and excite our anxiety. Johnson’s balancing acts appe...
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Romanian historian, Lucian Boia, put it well when he described history as not one but two things: what happened and how we talk about what happened. These days it seems like everyone is talking about how we talk about what happened. Take the current show at the Henry Art Gallery. New York based artist Matthew Buckingham, whose exhibition “Play the Story” can be seen through September 21st, uses film, photography and projected texts to reflect on the relationship between history and narrative..
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Artists Leo Saul Berk and Geoff McFetridge both employ a combination of 2D and 3D imagery in their installations, but their similarity ends there. Berk is essentially a sculptor exploring alternate ways to visualize space, while McFetridge thinks flat. Berk celebrates comp...
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The Last Scattering Surface is an apt, visual metaphor for modernity’s duality, for its promise of liberation and prosperity and for its sinister shadows--the Holocaust, the atom bomb and the violent excesses of the Cold War. Suspended from a long rod that leaves only a foot above the gallery’s wood floors, The Last Scattering Surface, on view at the Henry Art Gallery through August 17th, looks like a fiery starburst captured at the moment before it completes its final descent and disintegration..
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The emergence of landscape painting as an independent art form coincided with the deterioration of urban life brought on by the industrial revolution. Viewers in crowded, noisy, and polluted cities were only too eager to embrace visions of pristine wilderness, free from the ...
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