Visual Arts
UW’s Jacob Lawrence Gallery Rings in 25 Years
The party promises a headlining performance by local soul rapper SassyBlack and the unveiling of volume 3 of 'Monday,' the gallery’s new journal of contemporary arts criticism
This article appears in print in the February 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The University of Washington School of Art’s gallery honors its namesake 25 years to the day after it was christened for the Seattle artist (1917–2000) and UW faculty member whose bold, colorful work draws on the mythology and history of the African-American experience. The party…
Modernist Cuisine’s Gallery Shows a Different Side of Food 美食广场：现代主义烹饪画廊展现别样美食
新“现代主义烹饪”(Modernist Cuisine) 画廊高调展示Nathan Myhrvold空灵超然的美食摄影 The new Modernist Cuisine gallery shows off the otherworldly food photography of Nathan Myhrvold
科学及美食天才Nathan Myhrvold意在通过“现代美食主义”画廊向人们以不同的角度和层面展现食物，如他身后这幅名为“典型美国”的分层后的汉堡包
MOHAI’s New Festival of Light Elevates the Laser Show
Web of light Istanbul-based art and technology collective Ouchhh, whose work is pictured here, will show a new projection at the Borealis Festival of Light
This article appears in print in the October 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s been easy to simplistically view high tech and art as antagonists—especially during Seattle’s current housing affordability crisis—but the Borealis Festival of Light, an international light art competition stopping in Seattle for the first time, will be a splashy public example of the power…
MOHAI’s New WWI Exhibit Marks 100 Years Since “The Great War”
The new exhibit, WWI America, opens at the Museum of History and Industry next week
A large collection of posters such as this patriotism-rousing sign that originally read, ”Not just hats off to the flag, but sleeves up for it,” are part of MOHAI’s WWI America exhibit
Hot Ticket: Kat Larson’s Haunting New Exhibit
Her video and photography show, "The Lens of Lyra (A Phenomenology of Spirit)," opens this week at Bridge Productions in Georgetown.
A detail from “On the Tracks of South Dakota (the Ghost prays for us),” an image from Larson’s 2016 show, The Ghost of Vega; gallery founder Sharon Arnold says “the aesthetics of the ghost are shifting in this next iteration.”
These Cold War Artifacts Feel Eerily Relevant in 2018
A time capsule museum exhibit examines the impacts of citizen-led diplomacy during the Cold War.
If it’s eerie to view an exhibit of historical artifacts about a subject still dominating headlines today—say, what to do if a nuclear bomb strikes Seattle—it’s vaguely reassuring to note that ordinary citizens at the time continued to push for peace however they could. Among the many carefully curated items in the exhibit Glasnost &…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Visual Arts
Welcoming a variety of mediums to kick off the season
Family Tree – Gail Grinnell, Samuel Wildman and Eric John Olson Since 2014, MadArt Studio has operated a storefront in South Lake Union where selected local artists are given a residency of several months to create large-scale, site-specific sculpture and installation work. Visitors can witness art in the making and in its completed form. The…
‘Young Blood’ Exhibit now on View at The Frye Art Museum
The Frye presents works of Seattle natives Noah Davis and Kahlil Joseph
Last August, painter and installation artist Noah Davis, who was raised in Seattle but based in Los Angeles, died of cancer at the age of 32. During his brief career, Davis established himself as a significant force in the art world and one of the country’s most prominent African-American artists. His somber, mysterious and emotionally…
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