by Adriana Grant
Funhouse explores discomfort, disorientation, and one's willingness to play, in an exhibit that brings a fairground sensibility to works by artists including Mungo Thomson, Julian Hoeber, and Carston Höller. Installations include a bouncy house, a neon circle of light, and ...
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4 Culture, Seattle’s most proactive arts, heritage, preservation, and public arts patron, has established itself over the past 35 years as an engine of project-based art-making in Seattle. Though much of the organization’s work happens behind the scenes (including a lobbying camp...
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Or, The Happening on Pill Hill.
There's the old theater maxim about breaking through the fourth wall to pierce the boundary between performer and audience. The Degenerate Art Ensemble's roving, multi-venue piece "Red Shoes" pulls a host of tricks out of the bag, just about everything except a whi...
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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...
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Light in Darkness at Western Bridge through April 30, 2011
by Adriana Grant
Painting and photography often claim to be about light. The current exhibit at Western Bridge takes this idea to its literal end, in an exhibit featuring light bulbs, neon tubing, and the flash of sunlight throug...
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