Things People Don’t Talk About At Art Openings
Beyond the expected congratulations to the artist from well-wishers, here's a checklist of topics that tend to get avoided at art openings, courtesy of Richard Speer. More...
Sara Rockinger
An installation of translucent, ghostlike figures is not only pleasurable eye candy, but a powerful political statement on the subject of immigration by Colorado artist Sara Rockinger. More...
Zack Wirsum
Zack Wirsum's notoriously complex paintings will use five lines where another artist would use one. These are labyrinths of twisting, layered contours of encrusted paint and narrative vignettes. More...
Emily Mason
Octogenarian Emily Mason juicy abstractions are wantonly unpredictable arrangements of Kool-Aid pinks and foamy blues. More...
Michal Rovner
Rovner's video projections juxtapose a progression of silhouettes against a barren landscape. The repetition of simple forms leisurely cycle back and forth, trapped in an endless journey. More...
Douglas Cooper
He may not be a Seattle resident, but Douglas Cooper's conflated portraits of the city are among the best ever. More...
The Second Triptych
David S. Rubin continues his tracing the process of museum curating with his "Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980" show. More...
Melinda Stickney-Gibson
Melinda Stickney-Gibson heads to the mountains of upstate New York to paint, and the dramatic contrasts in her work stand in for that between urban and rural life. More...
Gugger Petter
Gugger Petter takes newspaper and paint into the territory of medieval mosaics, Julian Schnabel's broken crockery and more. More...
Koji Takei
Koji Takei's high-relief wall sculptures of musical instruments are directly inspired by the classic Cubism of Picasso and Braque as well as the music those instruments produce. More...
Hayley Barker
In "Apparition Hill" Hayley Barker renders an explicitly mystical brand of solar phenomenon. More...
Defining the Critic
In his latest response to Irving Sandler's 14 questions to fellow critics, DeWitt Cheng notes that there is a constant process of adaptation to an art world that is continually changing. More...
The Sarkisians
Paul and Peter Sarkisian, father and son, make art that is visually distinct, but connected by a tromp l'oeil element in both bodies of work. More...
Janet Lippincott
Active in Santa Fe as one of the New Mexico Modernists for half a century, the late Janet Lippincott receives her due and returns it in this show of paintings of the highest order. More...
Tim Ebner
Stuffed and embroidered, sumptuous and loopy, Tim Ebner's fish suspended or mounted atop metal rods call up lush Victorian-era curtains and funky low-brow pillows--with eyes that are slightly creepy and utterly hilarious. More...
William H. Johnson
After two decades spent absorbing international and modernist styles, William Johnson returned to New York to mine his African-American roots. More...
Spring Salons in Seattle
May is Seattle is known as the season of the double rainbows that span maybe ten miles within the city. New sources of artistic life are personified by a promising crop of student shows and some newer galleries that are bringing fresh energy to the region. More...
John Singer Sargent
Initially private works, watercolors became an exceedingly vital part of John Singer Sargent's body of work, which the selections here demonstrate. More...
Sarah Knobel
Sarah Knobel freezes feathers, wigs, toys in gelatin molds, allows them to thaw, and photographs them as they melt, exposing the contents to bizarre and fascinating effect. More...
"Nur: Light"
The Arabic word for "light," Nur, lends itself to the title of a gathering of Islamic treasures that mainly reflect the mature skills of a major civilization. More...
