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Steve Gilbert at Café Paloma

When I first began writing about art for Reflex in 1995, I remember being struck by the unusual balance of chaos and order that held sway in the painter’s studio. The logic of such a place, built around the idiosyncrasies of the artist’s process and materials, would seldom make s... [More]

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Dave Kennedy at Gallery 110

The modern cinema is a key point of departure for many contemporary photographers, including Seattle artist Dave Kennedy. Kennedy’s striking set pieces are meant to appear like a frozen moment in a much longer story, and his attention to costume, lighting, and most especially location... [More]

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Swallow Harder – Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection

When the Frye reopened under new management 8 years ago, it was with an exhibition of the paintings of the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum: dramatic, oddball fantasies of a post-nuclear world where retro-primitive tribes battled for supremacy, a stylistic melding of Rembrandt and Bladerunner. Su... [More]

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Claude Zervas at James Harris

For The County, his current exhibition at the James Harris Gallery, Claude Zervas has created a series of works that lie at the confluence of contemporary mediums, conceptual-based art, and Northwest sensibilities. Zervas’ subject matter here is the landscape, and he treats the phe... [More]

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Oliver Herring at the Frye

William Carlos Williams, one of the great American poets of the last century, left behind one of the most important artistic maxims of all time, “No ideas but in things.” During an era rife with idea-based art, we often find ourselves contemplating objects which have little p... [More]

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Chinatown: Red Series

The Collins Pub, Smith Tower, in Pioneer Square through August 2005 Seattle's Chinatown / International District and its impressionable details on and inside the historic neighborhood's weathered buildings are the subjects of Daimian Lix' photographs. Featured inside the d... [More]

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River Styx at Western Bridge

One of the hallmarks of recent contemporary art has been its enshrinement of the difficult, the obscure, and the challenging. For many artists, work that is “accessible” and “easily understood” can seem uncomfortably close to the superficial. Partly as a result, viewer i... [More]

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Rich Lehl and Matt Sellars at Priceless Works Gallery

The stars need to be in alignment for a gallery specializing in challenging, contemporary art to survive. Many such galleries manage to last only a few years before succumbing to harsh economic realities, particularly in a place like Seattle, where commercial space is at a premium and serious a... [More]

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Seattle Erotic Arts Festival

Consolidated Works, April 15-17, Seattle This year marks the third annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. I've attended for the last three years as the festival outgrew it's original home in Town Hall and subsequently filled up Consolidated Works with sexually charged art and art pat... [More]

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History Lessons: An Afternoon at the Tashiro Kaplan Building

If one had any doubt that visual artists are turning increasingly to historical investigation in their work, they would have to go no further than the Tashiro Kaplan Building to find evidence of this phenomenon. Scott Fife’s colossal cardboard heads at the Platform Gallery, John ... [More]

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Steve Gilbert at Café Paloma

Dave Kennedy at Gallery 110

Swallow Harder – Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection

Claude Zervas at James Harris

Oliver Herring at the Frye

Chinatown: Red Series

River Styx at Western Bridge

Rich Lehl and Matt Sellars at Priceless Works Gallery

Seattle Erotic Arts Festival

History Lessons: An Afternoon at the Tashiro Kaplan Building