Norman Lundin
Norman Lundin is a master of "remembered detail," and it shows in these varied examples of still lives, nudes and landscapes often recalled from memory. What appears to be crisp realism has an autobiographical and expressive side that produces the show's resonance. More...
Seiko Tachibana
What starts out as minimalist in Seiko Tachibana's modestly scaled paintings gains lyrical and poetic momentum as you stay with them. More...
Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz
The inspiration for “The Merry-Go-World or Begat by Chance and the Wonder Horse Trigger” came after Nancy Reddin Kienholz encountered a poor woman asking her for money in 1983 in Juarez, Mexico. It triggered feelings of shame that, a decade later, manifested as this carnival carousel that is so much more. More...
King County Earthworks: 40 Years On
Matthew Kangas revisits the emergence of earthworks, particularly Robert Morris' contributions to Seattle's 1979 King County land reclamation-as-art project, "Earthworks," that anticipated our more environmentally informed era. More...
Christopher Mir
Christopher Mir derives his distinctive archetypal vocabulary of schooners and disembodied arms from magazines, online images and other sources, elaborating them into collages. They consistently arrive at a tone that is evocative, enigmatic and haunting. More...
Florine Démosthène
The collaged and painted figures conjured by Florine Demosthene are presented against empty grounds that makes their dramatic gestures even more so. More...
Takahiko Hayashi
The wabi-sabi aesthetic is central to Takahiko Hayashi's exhibition of seemingly weathered works on paper, "Vibes in the Lines." More...
Danaë, Siberia, and the Shower of Gold
On a recent trip through Russia Richard Speer made his way from the refined cultural treasures and auric downpour encountered at the Hermitage to the golden autumn of the Siberian east. The place is all about the contrast of vast spaces and crumbling drabness punctuated by moments of the utmost opulence. More...
Philip Guston
As it turns out, Philip Guston, a quintessential artist’s artist is just as much of a cartoonist’s cartoonist. More...
John Boskovich
The late John Boskovich's home and studio is as much the subject of "Psycho Salon" as the art that inhabits it because the gallery recreates a part of that work space. More...
Ann Johnson
The topic of Ann Johnson's assemblages is the continuing reverberations of slavery, primarily through portraits of anonymous African Americans. More...
Dornith Doherty
In "Atlas of the Invisible" Dornith Doherty arranged and photographs arrangements of bird feathers that initially read as beautifully rendered drawings. More...
Trey Egan
Musical melodies and tonal mood permeate Trey Egan's vibrant paintings. Abstract and dreamlike, this is a visually charged exhibition that constantly moves and titillates the eye. More...
Tom Orr
Tom Orr is a careful observer of spacial relationships who delights in manipulating our perception, in this case of lines and waterfalls. More...
John Belingheri
John Belingheri's unplanned approach to painting reminds us that no program is necessary to attract and hold our gaze. Impulse and imagination rule here. More...
Stephen Wilkes
In “Day to Night,” Stephen Wilkes offers a series of breathtaking panoramic photographs that fool us into thinking the crowded locales capture a single improbable moment in time. Nothing could be further from the truth. More...
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino Tamayo's Mixografia prints translate his iconic modernist images so as to retain the surface richness of his painting. More...
Our Bodies, Our Art
That women's bodies are the subject of museum attention is hardly news. But Margaret Hawkins finds two recent shows, of Eleanor Antin's "Carving" and "Time Arrow" photographs and Rebecca Belmore's "Vigil" performances, that draw from and expand on key themes of modern feminism. More...
Polly Apfelbaum
Polly Apfelbaum works with a remarkably complex structure of woodblock prints that are constantly rearranged in an electric aesthetic. More...
Dorothy Hood
The large scale of Dorothy Hood's paintings is noteworthy given that she was doing it nearly a half century ago. That her color field abstraction was inspired by such a variety of sources made for paintings that are as conceptual rich as they are visually imposing. More...
