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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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Weldon Butler at Kirkland Arts Center

For over three decades, Weldon Butler has inhabited the peripheries of Seattle’s art world, producing a distinctive body of drawings, paintings, collage, and mixed media assemblage that possess an appealing verve and self-assurance. Regardless of his process or materials, Butler&rsq... [More]

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Charles LaBelle at Lawrimore Project

Video artist Charles LaBelle’s retrospective at Lawrimore Project, entitled Polis/Persona, dramatizes a long-running dialogue between the artist and an indifferent physical environment he attempts to engage. Casting himself in the role of an enchanted wanderer, LaBelle transforms t... [More]

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Pirjo Berg at Gallery 6311

Years ago, I taught a figure drawing class across the hall from an abstract painting class. Each abstract painter, I noticed, was working in a different style of abstraction, and I would sometimes watch the teacher wander from easel to easel making comments, though I couldn’t hear what he actually said.... [More]

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Gretchen Bennett at Howard House

In conversations and published reports about Seattle’s art scene last year, the word “departures” would frequently follow the ones “Howard House” as some of the artists long represented by the 10 year-old gallery left to show their work elsewhere. This year, h... [More]

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Ben Frank Moss at Francine Seders

Why does the practice of painting endure? An answer came to me last night as I walked through Roman Art from the Louvre at the Seattle Art Museum. The objects that stood out among the many tons of heavy white marble in the exhibition were the two or three vivid fragments of interior wall pa... [More]

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Anne Appleby and Alden Mason at Greg Kucera

The onset of spring this year coincides with two exhibits of abstract painting at Greg Kucera which take plant life as their subject and inspiration. Despite their shared affinity for things botanical, it would be difficult to find two bodies of work more temperamentally and temporally d... [More]

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Kim Kopp at Fetherston Gallery

The strongest presence in Kim Kopp’s current exhibition Pathways and Echos is an art book, opened to display all of its pages on a gallery shelf. Published in a handsome, limited edition by the artist herself, the small gatefold book reproduces all 365 paintings of Kopp’s ... [More]

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Multiplex at Western Bridge

Multiplex, the current survey of contemporary video on view at Western Bridge through March 29th, is a romp. Focusing on the medium’s kinship with cinema, the selected works operate within the usual matrix of ideas we associate with it, but with considerably more flair than we are ... [More]

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James Martin at Foster / White

The story of James Martin has all the trappings of a local legend: early success, followed by years of neglect and struggle, followed by rediscovery by a new generation of collectors and critics. The artist himself - reclusive, eccentric, with a more-than-colorful life history – perfe... [More]

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Night and Light and the Half-Light

Weldon Butler at Kirkland Arts Center

Charles LaBelle at Lawrimore Project

Pirjo Berg at Gallery 6311

Gretchen Bennett at Howard House

Ben Frank Moss at Francine Seders

Anne Appleby and Alden Mason at Greg Kucera

Kim Kopp at Fetherston Gallery

Multiplex at Western Bridge

James Martin at Foster / White