Judging from his resume, multi-media artist Euan Macdonald has never created anything quite like the 20 x 50 foot mountain that all-but-overflows the main exhibition space at Western Bridge, his biggest and most ambitious installation to date. Commissioned by patrons Bill and Ruth True, the ...
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Different Citizens. Roger Shimomura, 2009.Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 45". Courtesy of the artist.
In the exhibition “Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura” at the Wing Luke Asian Museum, Roger Shimomura’s painting Different Citizen...
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With the advent of the digital age, deception in photography has never been easier, and Amir Zaki makes the best possible case for its artistic benefits. His brilliant and compelling portraits of retro-chic lifeguard towers in Southern California are the product of nearly as much i...
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Installation at Western Bridge, Seattle.Photo: Merrill Greene.
Where better right now for a new arrival in Seattle to begin to get a sense of the city’s art culture than at Western Bridge? Bill and Ruth True’s philanthropic art project is remarkable enough, but if it were necessary to d...
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Back before the age of industrialization and career specialization, artists offered their services to whoever needed visual smarts and problem-solving skills. Artists of Renaissance Florence, for example, were almost as likely to be spending their time doing architecture, furniture de...
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