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artdish magazine - Meet Me in Miami

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... [More]

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Linda Davidson at Catherine Person Gallery

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), ... [More]

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Edward Hopper Women at Seattle Art Museum

Say, for the sake of argument, that the economic party is indeed over. As museums face leaner times, we may well see more exhibitions like the two-room Edward Hopper Women currently at SAM . If so, this well thought-out survey can serve as a good model for what such shows can ai... [More]

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Posted on November 20, 2008 16:32 by Gary Faigin
Tags: sam, american painting, edward hopper, realism
Categories: exhibitions | museums
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Josh Keyes and Iole Alessandrini at OKOK

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... [More]

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artdish magazine - with a bang or a whimper

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... [More]

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Sean Johnson and Mark Takamichi Miller at Howard House

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... [More]

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Buckingham at The Henry: Something to Talk About

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.. [More]

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Leo Saul Berk at Hedreen Gallery & Geoff McFetridge at OSP

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... [More]

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Josiah McElheny: Capturing Modernity’s Falling Star

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.. [More]

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Posted on August 6, 2008 05:53 by Michelle Standley
Tags: sculpture, henry art gallery, modernity
Categories: contemporary art | exhibitions
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Night and Light and the Half-Light

I live in the Pacific Northwest for many reasons and one is that I hate glare. In the summer I wear hats and sunglasses. I love the gentle shifting half-light of our overcast skies. I also love night paintings, for their controlled light and for the possibility that things will change... [More]

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