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Eva Speer
In Eva Speer's “Outrageous Fortune,"she breaks up hyperrealistic images with color fields that expose the artifice of object-making. More...


Not “Good Muse”
San Francisco's Legion of Honor's latest effort to bring contemporary artwork into dialogue with its collection simply flops. More...


Valeska Soares
Valeska Soares' survey "Any Moment Now" displays her skill at transforming found objects unmoored from their original use and meaning in order to unleash the imagination of the viewer. More...


Trey Egan
Trey Egan’s energetic abstractions, "Future Glow," embrace lyrical abstraction enriched by his use of a variety of instruments for paint application and cultivating a state of immersion. More...


“Reflections on the Yokohama Triennale”
The Yokohama Triennale’s opposition to the kind of “me-first” separatism that is so troubling back home was palpable. More...


Doris Totten Chase
Seattle artist Doris Chase's early work in her home town enjoyed hard won acceptance in New York during her time there in the 1970s. Her dance videos incorporating dancers, sculpture and layers of color were and remain her leading innovation. More...


An Ode to Old School Curators
Walter Hopps, in his day, altered curatorial practice to configure exhibitions according to the aesthetic demands of the art being exhibited. That, for better and for worse, must now be considered the old school of contemporary art curating. More...


“Monet’s Etretat”
Claude Monet's pair of ethereal paintings of the cliffs at the north coastal town of Etretat are paired with those of William Henry Lippincott and George Inness. It is an opportunity to examine the influence of the master of French Impressionism on American contemporaries. More...


Jessica Hess
Realist vision and photorealist technique meet in Jessica Hess' slices of architectural life in urban America. More...


“The Myths and Meanings of Tramp Art”
The label "tramp art," first invoked in a 1959 magazine article, implies transience. "No Idle Hands" tells a different story. More...


Jayna Zweiman
Zweiman is a co-originator of the Pussyhat Project, and she again blends craft and activism with the "Welcome Blanket." Contributors world-wide are making blankets for refugees, Zweiman amassing them to match the length of the supposed border wall: 1900 miles. More...


Robert Grosvenor
Sculptures from multiple points of Robert Grosvenor's career juxtapose and aesthetically balance the use of offbeat materials. More...


The Kangas Six
The third Seattle Art Fair drew a large and diverse audience. Matthew Kangas discusses a half dozen artists who stood out for their ability to absorb and connect multiple genres to bring together memorable ideas with ambitious studio practice. More...


Chad Hasegawa
Chad Hasegawa is a street artist whose current easel paintings are about their survival in the harsh conditions the murals must put up with. More...


Carlos Almaraz
Carlos Almaraz dies prematurely, but the vibrancy of this retrospective convinces the key role he played in elevating the ambitions of the L.A. Chicano movement of the 1970s and 80s. More...


Dont Fret
Dont Fret is a street artist who brings the same spontaneity and questioning of convictions to the work in this gallery exhibit. More...


Sebastiao Salgado
Globep-trotting photographer Sabastiao Salgado’s work sits in a space between art, documentary and photo-journalism. In his images we feel the basic elements of earth's beginnings. More...


Einar and Jamex de la Torre
Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre's garish glass sculptures should be a kitschy mess. Yet they are over-the-top good. More...


“I’m Sorry But It’s Hard to Imagine”
The mostly lighthearted works of "I'm Sorry But It's Hard to Imagine" lifts spirits and shows art's endless mutability. More...

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