We are awash in a sea of images, but few artists celebrate this condition as enthusiastically as Gabrielle Bakker.  Her recent work makes a virtue of its eclecticism, cobbling together highly original pictures from a huge array of sources, whose only common element is that the art... [More]

Up until quite recently, one did not admit to liking Norman Rockwell in polite company, at least so far as the art world was concerned.  Rockwell’s work-for-hire magazine covers, posters, and illustrations so unashamedly embraced everything that contemporary art had rejected – s... [More]

Art is a means by which we can enter empathetically into the inner world of another, but some shows take us much further afield than others.  A prime example of such an exhibition is the first Seattle show of Pakistani sculptor Hamaira Abid, painfully personal, feminist art from deep inside... [More]

:  A tiny framed painting sits in an otherwise empty storefront window.  The artwork, from a distance an abstract red blob silhouetted against a vibrant green and violet background, is the only sign that inside the vine-covered brick building in Madrona is a commercial gallery.  It... [More]

Things were so much simpler before all the people showed up.  Early artistic visions of the western landscape portrayed its epic sweep and dramatic contrasts with only the occasional glimpse of man: the native canoe here, the smoky encampment there.  Everywhere in the old picture... [More]