McKay Otto, “Vanishing Vibrations”
McKay Otto's signature ethereal gridded paintings are paired with wall mounted light box assemblages centered on single words that reflect Otto's essential question: "Do we ever reach the unreachable ever ... ?" More...
Shingo Francis
Immaculate geometry and illusionistic effects all meet in Shingo Francis’s “Transparent Reflection” suite of paintings. More...
Carlos Villa
“Worlds in Collision” examines Carlos Villa’s emergent work of the 1970s and early 1980s focused on magic and mystery. More...
XO Seattle
The pop-up exhibition "Forest for the Trees," at the Seattle Rail Spur building, offered a portent of what is possible here. More...
Found Object Facsimile
Daniel McClain, Claudia Tarantino and Bill Abright employ illusionism to powerful effects all adept at tricking the brain. More...
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
Many continue to identify Meret Oppenheim through one, singular youthful work, "Object," a fur-lined teacup. The retrospective corrects the record. She was a prolific experimenter with wide-ranging interests, as a half-century of her work here demonstrates. More...
Monica Aissa Martinez
Monica Aissa Martinez draws human figures and biological forms that challenge us to consider new realities and relationships. More...
Rick Silva, “PEAKING”
“PEAKING” is a site-specific installation by sound and video artist Rick Silva that questions how human beings impact nature, done with a lyricism and sense of enigma that merges high romanticism with futurism. More...
Pancho Jiménez
The ceramic sculptures of Pancho Jiménez continue the Bay Area tradition of ceramic satire, but in a subtler vein. These pseudo-artifacts feature cute mass-market imagery jumbled together as if engulfed in fire, flood, earthquake, or lava flow. More...
Liss LaFleur, “The Queer Birth Project”
Interdisciplinary artist Liss LaFleur serves as curator with renowned sociologist Katherine Sobering for the inaugural exhibition of “The Queer Birth Project,” which seeks to include queer women and the idea of gender nonconforming bodies in the conversation about motherhood. More...
Bibiana Suarez
In “De: Lata (What Gives Us Away),” Bibiana Suarez addresses the depictions of women on food packaging to prompt a purchase. More...
J.J. Martin
In "Role Models" J.J. Martin depicts Nobel Peace Prize recipients as jubilant stars, athletically fit, dressed in high fashion celebrities. More...
From Radicalism to Nostalgia
Art that initially was a shocking departure from aesthetic norms has a way of becoming increasingly comforting successor aesthetics. More...
Christina Quarles, Christopher Paul Jordan and Arnaldo James
To decipher Christina Quarles figurative images one must change focal points and piece things together. Christopher Paul Jordan paints delicately on old window and door screens salvaged from historically black neighborhoods in Tacoma, Washington. Arnaldo James’ vivid color photography is presented on large, slick digital screens. More...
Jovencio de la Paz
Fiber artist Jovencio de la Paz gets between the hand and the machine to explore Nils Aall Baricelli's math and Symbiogenesis. More...
“Wear Your Love Like Heaven”
Yes, the title derives from Donovan's 1967 single. A dozen artists channel its theme of love and hope, with expansive views of human experience and spiritual longing. More...
Marcelyn McNeil
Marcelyn McNeil is a latter day color field painter who layers her pours in veils punctuated by solid bands of color. More...
Alice Neel
Alice Neel's retrospective casts fresh light on the way that her personal relationships and philosophy shaped her approach to portraiture. More...
Paul Wonner, “Landscape of Objects, 1966-2001”
Works here by Paul Wonner from the 1970s onward depict sunny, artifact-strewn gardens redolent of the good life. The drama of his compositions lies in the light that casts sharp shadows; and the tabletops seen at abnormally steep angles More...
Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea
“Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea” is a visually compelling contradiction to myths and outdated notions that have privileged European-American culture over indigenous expressions, or ignored racist indignities suffered by Asian immigrants. More...
