Charles LaBelle at Lawrimore Project

Video artist Charles LaBelle’s retrospective at Lawrimore Project, entitled Polis/Persona, dramatizes a long-running dialogue between the artist and an indifferent physical environment he attempts to engage. Casting himself in the role of an enchanted wanderer, LaBelle transforms t... [More]
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Posted on April 19, 2008 09:16 by Jim Demetre
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Gretchen Bennett at Howard House

In conversations and published reports about Seattle’s art scene last year, the word “departures” would frequently follow the ones “Howard House” as some of the artists long represented by the 10 year-old gallery left to show their work elsewhere. This year, h... [More]
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Multiplex at Western Bridge

Multiplex, the current survey of contemporary video on view at Western Bridge through March 29th, is a romp. Focusing on the medium’s kinship with cinema, the selected works operate within the usual matrix of ideas we associate with it, but with considerably more flair than we are ... [More]
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Seattle International Film Festival

  May 24 - June 18, 2006 Seattle - Bellevue, Washington Under wet rainy skies over the holiday weekend, a trio of hot film tickets brought out hundreds of filmgoers to see X-Men 3 fill the screen with live-action comic book heroes and muscle-bound beefcake, Tom Cruise find yet an... [More]
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Posted on June 1, 2006 08:59 by Eric Gould
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Some Final Thoughts on Swallow Harder

Frye Art Museum Through May 14th Now that Robin Held has firmly settled into the role of Senior Curator at the Frye Art Museum, the institution's new profile has come more fully into view. Once the outpost of venerable but peculiar European and American painting traditions, the m... [More]
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Swallow Harder – Selections from the Ben and Aileen Krohn Collection

When the Frye reopened under new management 8 years ago, it was with an exhibition of the paintings of the Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum: dramatic, oddball fantasies of a post-nuclear world where retro-primitive tribes battled for supremacy, a stylistic melding of Rembrandt and Bladerunner. Su... [More]
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Posted on March 18, 2006 09:58 by Gary Faigin
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George Legrady and Donald Fels at the Seattle Public Library

It’s inevitable that as a creative field matures, repetition and cliché make their appearance. Perhaps the panel that selected the Donald Fels and his team for the artwork inside the Seattle Public Library Ballard Branch was hoping for something bold and exciting, but th... [More]
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Posted on September 15, 2005 11:27 by Gary Faigin
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Claude Zervas at James Harris

For The County, his current exhibition at the James Harris Gallery, Claude Zervas has created a series of works that lie at the confluence of contemporary mediums, conceptual-based art, and Northwest sensibilities. Zervas’ subject matter here is the landscape, and he treats the phe... [More]
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Posted on August 10, 2005 12:06 by Jim Demetre
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Oliver Herring at the Frye

William Carlos Williams, one of the great American poets of the last century, left behind one of the most important artistic maxims of all time, “No ideas but in things.” During an era rife with idea-based art, we often find ourselves contemplating objects which have little p... [More]
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Posted on July 31, 2005 12:17 by Jim Demetre
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River Styx at Western Bridge

One of the hallmarks of recent contemporary art has been its enshrinement of the difficult, the obscure, and the challenging. For many artists, work that is “accessible” and “easily understood” can seem uncomfortably close to the superficial. Partly as a result, viewer i... [More]
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Posted on July 20, 2005 11:17 by Gary Faigin
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