Duane Michals
Duane Michals is not your ordinary celebrity photographer even though cultural royalty stands central in his body of work. More...
Adrian Piper
In addition to being part of the first wave of conceptual art, Adrian Piper evolved to encompass interactive performance, making charged socio-political work, and intermittently creating poetic images and objects throughout. More...
Portland Evolves from Figure to Field
Visiting from Seattle, Matthew Kangas explores the unique virtues of Portland's current scene, starting with its one but singular major art museum, the popular Pearl District galleries, and the upstart Northeast district across the river. More...
Midterms -- Where Will You Be?
The midterm elections this year reflected a key moment in the current perilous zeitgeist. DeWitt Cheng reflects on art's place in it. More...
“Natural Persuasion”
“Natural Persuasion” brings together two photographers with a penchant for documenting an unusual subject — the impact of renewable energy industries on the landscape. More...
John Fraser
John Fraser works with mixed media and found objects to create abstract constructions, 27 of which comprise this exhibition. More...
Joe Mancuso
Joe Mancuso remains consistent in his sensibilities and methodical in his execution. For more than a decade, he has been re-examining and reworking the same concepts and themes, but each work of art is distinctive and fresh. More...
Chicago Pop Redux
Pop art, Chicago style, appears back in vogue, back perhaps due to its seriously screwball renditions of the human condition. More...
Frohawk Two Feathers
Frengland is a fictional colonial empire, and it serves as the aesthetic foundation for the art of Umar Rashid, aka Frohawk Two Features. More...
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky's large scale aerial photographs are spectacular. Viewing the painterly pattens of landscape seen from afar is pure eye candy, but the effects of human development that often abuses that same landscape has a powerful effect on our moral conscience. More...
Matthew Mullins
The patterns and textures of New Mexico's landscape serve as the taking off point for Matthew Mullins, who is constantly looking for connections. More...
Jenny Heishman
Jenny Heishman does not exhibit a large number of works, but the "rugs" here are surprisingly composed from pulped paper, one corner curled up. They may strike us as unprepossessing at first, but reward staying with them. More...
Frank Sampson
Now in his 90s, Frank Sampson remains a vital force. His recent allegorical paintings are emotionally and formally complex. More...
“Group Therapy”
Outlandish pseudoscience of the 19th century informs the artists included in "Group Therapy', who use it to make more serious points. More...
Michael Viglietta
Text is prevalent in Michael Miglietta's imagery, but it serves to have us consider our own mental and emotional landscapes. More...
Pascal Pierme
Pascal Pierme explains the unusual title of his exhibition "Hylê Forever“ -- "What will happen if I mix this with that…?” More...
Belltown Blues (Part 2)
Concluding his account of the brief period of Belltown's key impact on Seattle's art culture, several of the most important talents are recalled. More...
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis' photography, sculptures and paintings are witty, sensual and unexpected, even after more than 40 years of practice. It is the photography she is best known for, images that offer suggestions but not clear answers. More...
When Artists Play with Fire
Certain of the exhibitions in San Francisco that Richard Speer recently visited refreshed memories of the recent wildfires the consumed so much acreage in Northern California. Coincidental these shows may have been, but that renders the symbolism that much more felt. More...
Sharon Ellis
Sharon Ellis interprets nature by observing with care and internalizing its forces. It is her rich use of pattern set dramatically against fields of color that produces dreamlike visions that are mesmerizing to look at. More...
