Openings & Events

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Building 30 Open Studios Magnuson Park’s artist studios open up for all to explore the photography, painting, printmaking, mixed media, installation, public art, and sculpture that occurs within. Building 30, 7400 Sand Point Way N.E., spaceatmagnuson.com. Free. Noon-5 p.m. Sun., June 22,

Gate To Nowhere The 520 ghost ramps, due for demolition these next couple of years, are memorialized by an artist who wrapped one of its pillars in reflective metal sheet. Near 26th Ave. E. and E. Miller St. Opening ceremony: 6-8 p.m. Thurs., June 19,

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Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical SEE PAGE 20.

Summer Field Studies Starting from the Henry Art Gallery’s lobby, this intermittent free walking series pairs visitors with artists, musicians, but mostly, explorers, who will act as guides through various projects that deal with the surrounding landscape and its reflective power. See website for exact schedule. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., 543-2280, henryart.org.

Free.

Through Sept 14.

Piece of the Sky Graffiti artists Jonathan Wakuda Fischer and John Osgood team up for a live mural painting. MudBay, 522 Queen Anne Ave. N., bombshellarartlabs.com. 5-7:30 p.m. Weds., June 18.

Betsy Williams and Birdie Boone Two ceramic artists from New Mexico show their wares, inspired respectively by the traditions of Japan and the culture of Virginia. KOBO Gallery (at Higo), 604 S. Jackson St, 381-3000, koboseattle.com. Opens Sat., June 21. Through July 13.

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rtcade Vintage arcade consoles are strewn across the gallery floor with video game art accompanying them. Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave., 709-9797, vermillionseattle.com. On view through June.

At Your Service Ariel Brice, Gesine Hackenberg, Molly Hatch, Giselle Hicks, Garth Johnson, Niki Johnson, Sue Johnson, and others mess with crockery and other tokens of the domestic table. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org, $8-$10, Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Through Sept. 21.

Howard Barlow

Bite presents an array of mutated looking sculptures with teeth and bone dangling in grotesque fashion. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Through June 5.

Rachid Bouhamidi

Fanfare for the Area Man collects the Los Angeles artist’s colorful, busy paintings. Blindfold Gallery, 1718 E. Olive Way, 328-5100, blindfoldgallery.com. Through July 5.

Alli Curtis

The Decay of an American Dream captures photos of homes and businesses after foreclosure and bankruptcy in wake of the financial crisis. A/NT Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave., 233-0680, antgallery.org. Through June 29.

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Danish Modern: Design for Living A survey of modern style Danish furniture from 1950-60. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum.org, $8, Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

Rachel Debuque and Danielle Peters Performing as Candied Calamari, the local duo will be “engaging in sacramental action in a futuristic landscape.” In the back space: Julie Alpert’s Look-Alikes, a drawing series based on a pair of identical lamps. SOIL Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), soilart.org. Through June 28.

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Deco Japan This is a somewhat unusual traveling show in that it comes from a single private collection: that of Florida’s Robert and Mary Levenson. The specificity and period (1920–1945) are also unusual. Among the roughly 200 items on view—prints, furniture, jewelry, etc.—we won’t be seeing the usual quaint cherry-blossom references to Japan’s hermetic past. We may think that, particularly during the ’30s, the country was concerned with militarism and colonial expansion, but these objects reveal the leisure time and sometime frivolity of the period. BRIAN MILLER Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org. $5-$7, Weds.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Oct. 19.