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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ARTDISH MAGAZINE - SUMMER 2010

Arts critic Matthew Kangas offers this new round-up of the Whatcom Museum's Spring-Summer exhibition "Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010" which closed recently in mid-August. "Canon Building and the Difference Between Historians and Art Critics" explores the Whatcom exhibit curated b... [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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ARTDISH MAGAZINE - SPRING 2010

Artdish contributor Matthew Kangas in his essay "Dusting Off the Family Jewels" describes how the Henry Art Gallery is offering the exhibit "Vortexhibition Polyphonica: Opus I and II" featuring the Henry's substantial and varied art collection. In a period of economic pressures where museums and gal... [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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