Working in video, installation, and photography, Isabelle Pauwels explores ideas of history, narrative, and the very act of watching. Pauwels is the first recipient of John and Shari Behnke’s Brink award, a $12,500 grant accompanied by a solo exhibit and purchase of work by the Henry Art Gal...
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Volcanoes, gentle rain, rugged chains of evergreen islands – the lure of our region’s environment is why many of settled here in the first place. The Northwest landscape is a powerful daily presence in our lives, but responding to it presents artists with a dilemma. Those w...
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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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You’re looking at work by a young man just out of art school, and just into an enthusiastically liberated gay life. Every work we see in Polaroids: Mapplethorpe was made by a man younger than 25. Robert Mapplethorpe would have turned 63 in November of 2009, had he not died twenty years ago...
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