Zombie Abstraction (Pt 1)
David Rubin examines some of the early exemplars and what they did to empower and substantiate the abstract aesthetic. More...
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Eye popping images of urban decay have recently hit an art world sweet spot. Rodrigo Valenzuela smartly reverses this trope. More...
Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter
In their collaborative exhibition “Dark Fiber,” Marissa Lee Benedict and David Rueter take as their subject matter the fiber optic cables that transmit high-speed data across great distances. More...
David Kapp
The urgency of urban life is the real subject of David Kapp's paintings of architecture and crowds thickly painted and full of kinetic energy. More...
Hey S-agers, Treasure Your Time
This message from James Yood is directed towards art pros now hitting their senior years, but the rest of you should listen up as well: stop griping, it doesn't help; better to focus on making your time memorable. More...
Joseph Goldberg
Joseph Goldberg's deceptively simple oil-and-wax paintings possess unique topographies within their jagged edges. More...
Virginia Wright (Pt 1)
Virginia Wright, with her late husband Bagley, was among Seattle's top art patrons for decades. Matthew Kangas offers the first of a two-part profile. More...
“Feminism Today”
Connections to empowerment, equality and other themes of significance to women are subtle but quite discernible in this group of 13 Arizona-based artists gathered to asses "Feminism Today." More...
Walter Quirt
At one time Walter Quirt was a "painter to watch" alongside Jackson Pollock. A relocation to teach in Michigan removed him from the historical stage, but this exhibition shows him to be a fresh and complex voice, a well deserved re-discovery. More...
Dani Tull
This romp of an exhibition by Dani Tull connects up all kinds of unrelated metaphors for developing consciousness. More...
Joe Rudko
Joe Rudko's meticulously constructed collages destroy and reconfigure photographs in ingenious, seemingly inexhaustible inventions. More...
Lucinda Cobley and Michael Crowder
Both Lucinda Cobley and Michael Crowder use white extensively, along with glass and shadows. So how does this exhibition end up being titled "Gray Area"? More...
Larry Sultan
This survey of Larry Sultan's documentary-based photography carries a degree of intensity and density that sets it apart. Don't let the device of the banality and kitschiness of subjects and settings fool you. More...
Takahiko Hayashi
Circle, very many of them, lines and organic shapes make up the lyrical, richly associative works of Takahiko Hayashi. More...
Robert Williams
Recent paintings and sculpture by Robert Williams feature the rich, convoluted psychedelia and outside the box thought process we are all familiar with. Highlights from Juxtapoz, the mag he co-founded twenty years ago, enrich the mix. More...
Jake Longstreth
The bright colors and sharp lines of Jake Longstreth's prior work are muted and atmospheric in paintings that mark a new phase. More...
When Actions Speak Louder Than Art
Mel Chin has earned a much deserved reputation and a recent retrospective for his brilliant conceptualism. But, says David S. Rubin, Chin's projects extend beyond this to serve the greater good without missing an aesthetic beat. More...
Eric Wesley
Along with the more familiar use of a monumental I beam Eric Wesley has casted sleeping figures, fabricated stained glass windows full of globular shapes, an environmental installation and--gosh!--even includes splatter paintings. More...
Globalization and Art
In the tenth of his series of responses to a 2012 essay by Irving Sandler, DeWitt Cheng tackles the impact of globalization on art. More...
“Art of the American West”
Works from the recent major donation by the Haub Family Collection of "Art of the American West" significantly upgrade this museum's permanent collection and comprise a complex exhibition on a number of overlapping planes. More...
