Openings & Events
a different thinking The artwork of artists affected by mental illness or brain injuries, including work from Holly Ballard Martz, Allison Mollner, Carolyn Nelson, and Kate Vrijmoet. Opens Wed., Feb. 25. Columbia City Gallery, 4864 Rainier Ave. S., 760-9843, columbiacity gallery.com. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Wed.-Sun. Ends April 5.
Thomas albdorf His work explores the relationship between pre- and post-photography. Opens Feb.26. Platform Gallery, 114 Third Ave. S., 323-2808, platform gallery.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends March 28.
dale chihuly See the signature glass artist’s process across the mediums of charcoal, graphite, and acrylic. Opens March 1. Museum of Glass, 1801 Dock St., 253-284-2130, museumofglass.org. 10 a.m-5 p.m Wed.-Sat. 12 p.m.-5 p.m Sun. Ends June 30.
georgia O’Keeffe SEE THE PICK LIST, PAGE 22.
Gail h. martinez and hilda bordianu Martinez’s A Winter’s Perch comprises graphite drawings inspired by the season; Bordianu’s Into the Woods includes paintings of imaginative forest scenes. Opens Tues., March 3. Parklane Gallery Kirkland, 130 Park Lane, 425-827-1462, parklanegallery.com. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tues.-Sun., 12 p.m.-8 p.m. Fri. Ends March 29.
Multiple facets Artists Di Faria, Shari Kaufman, Tara McDermott, and Joan Robbins show their work across various media including clay, photography, and colorful glass. Opens Wed., Feb. 25. Columbia City Gallery, 4864 Rainier Ave. S., 760-9843, columbiacitygallery.com. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Wed.-Sun. Ends April 5.
Small works show Over 200 pieces from more than 70 artists including small paintings, mixed-media collages, and pastels will be available to view and purchase. Opens March 1. Gallery North Edmonds, 401 Main St., 425-774-0946, gallerynorthedmonds.com 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun.-Fri. Ends March 30.
Ongoing
David Alexander The artist, an avid environmentalist, portrays his landscapes in a highly fluid, melty paint style, prodding at the fact that the subjects are in danger of slipping away thanks to climate change. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave S., 622-2833, fosterwhite.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
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Annual Juried Exhibition Scott Lawrimore picked his favorites from 1,500 submissions. Gallery 110, 110 Third Ave. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 624-9336, gallery110.com. Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
Bed Bath & Between Nine local and international artists display work in a “hand-painted wallpaper” environment. SOIL Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 264-8061, soilart.org. Noon-5 p.m. Thu.-Sun. Ends Feb. 28.
Chris Berens Eerie paintings of pale, childlike figures in dark settings. Roq La Rue, 532 First Ave. S., 374-8977, roqlarue.com. Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
Mark Callen and Rachel Dorn Yakima’s Dorn creates colorful, aquatic-looking ceramic sculpture. Callen paints saturated natural landscapes. Core Gallery, 117 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 467-4444, coregallery.com. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
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John Criscitello One day a giant dick appeared on a Jagermeister ad on Capitol Hill, and nothing has ever been the same. Criscitello’s long running guerilla wheatpaste street-art project has become emblematic of the struggle against gentrification by skewering the woo girls and bros whose puke floweth bountifully through the streets. Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave, 709-9797, vermillion seattle.com. 4 p.m.-midnight. Tues.-Sun. Ends Feb. 26.
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John Grade
Middle Fork is a replica of a giant Western hemlock created with plaster molds and real wood chunks. MadArt, 325 Westlake Ave. N., 623-1180, mad artseattle.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Apr. 25.
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Indigenous Beauty Traditional Native American artwork from the Diker Collection, with a Northwest sidebar. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum.org. $12.50-$19.50. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun. (Open to 9 p.m. Thurs.) Ends May 17.
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Amanda Knowles The artist grew up with a scientist mother, and pays homage to her upbringing in Nescience by utilizing diagrams and a scanning electron microscope to create her works. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave., 206-624-7684, davidsongalleries.com 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
Jason lajeunesse In Echoes, he explores his pursuit of sobriety through paintings. Ghost Gallery, 504 E. Denny Way, 832-6063, ghostgalleryart.com. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tues.-Fri. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Ends March 9.
Justin Martin Using materials that purposefully recall his rural upbringing, Martin creates “poetic sculptures” in his new show Windburnt. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Noon-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
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MELT A group show of local and international artists responding to issues pertaining to youth, childhood, and education. Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, 4408 Delridge Way S.W., 935-2999, youngstownarts.org. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Sun. Ends March 15.
Mysteries of the Heart New work from May Lee Chung, Rachel Morton, Magda Petrou, and Barb Yeakel. A/NT Gallery, 2045 Westlake Avenue, 222-0680, ant gallery.org. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Sun. Ends Feb. 28.
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Lucinda Parker & Michael T. Hinsley Two Portland painters—Parker dealing in cartoonish, abstract representations of mounatins and Hensley in grafitti-like chaotic landscapes. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S. 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. 10:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
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POP! 3 The pop-culture-themed art gallery’s final show, featuring prints from all of its previous shows over its four year lifespan. Ltd. Gallery, 501 E. Pine St., 457-2970, ltdartgallery.com. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tue.-Sat. Ends Feb. 28.
ANne Drew Potter Her representational clay sculptures in Vanitas explore what she calls the chief vice of the digital age: vanity. Pottery Northwest, 226 First Ave. N., 285-4421, potterynorthwest.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Tues.-Fri. Ends Feb. 28.
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Emily Pothast The artist and lead singer of Midday Veil deliers a lecture on all things mystical. Her show, which also includes illustrative works by other artists, including William Blake, is called Drawing God From Direct Observation. Hedreen Gallery (Seattle U), 901 12th Ave., 296-2244. 1:30-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends April 4.
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Power Scribbles Seven local artists celebrate the simple yet bold medium of doodles and sketches. True Love Art Gallery, 1525 Summit Ave., 227-3572, trueloveart.com. 1-9 p.m. Tues.-Sat. 1-8 p.m. Sun. Ends March 8.
Christine Sharp Impressionistic landscape paintings of natural landmarks. Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Place, lisaharrisgallery.com, 443-3315. 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends March 1.
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Terminal It’s hard to think about death—yet here it is, staring us in the face. The morbid subject of this group show unites disparate photographers including Sylvia Plachy, Joel-Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz, and (closer to home) Robert Adams and Isaac Layman. There are no dead bodies (though one mummy), yet images of illness and decay abound. Animal carcasses prove irresistible subjects, and Catherine Chalmers actually creates some interesting scenes with dead cockroaches. (Eeew!) Corpses being static, early photography—when exposures took minutes, not seconds—often memorialized the dead. Here, in this selection of 16 postwar artists and 43 images, death is more conceptual than personal. Old dogs, taxidermy animals, and even the tinfoil remnants from cooked salmon—this courtesy of Seattle artist Layman—make one think about our animal kinship with the natural world. Our furry and feathered cousins are interred with less respect (see Richard Misrach’s desert burial pit), though how we treat their remains—or photograph them—here seems a kind of rehearsal for human rites. BRIAN MILLER Photo Center NW, 900 12th Ave., 720-7222, pcnw.org. Noon-9 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends April 5.
25 Alumni To celebrate Gage Academy of Art’s 25th anniversary, 25 alumni will show recent work. Axis Pioneer Square, 308 First Ave. S., 681-9316, axispioneersquare.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. Ends Feb. 27.
Rodrigo Valenzuela In Future Ruins, he turns his attention to what he dubs the “13th Man,” or the people who labor to clean up the city when its football celebrations are said and done. Through his video installation and photographic work, he muses on a transforming Seattle. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Avenue, 622-9250, frye museum.org, 11-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Ends Apr. 26.
Jason Walker A giant deer towers over the city, like all those Amazon construction cranes above South Lake Union. An elevated roadway turns to a river, pouring commuters over the brink of a waterfall. Aberrant chickens lay coins instead of eggs. Welcome to the fanciful urban menagerie of Bellingham’s Walker, whose solo show On the River, Down the Road has been specially created for BAM. The local artist works mainly in ceramics, combining whimsy and satire, “exploring American ideas of nature and how technology has changed our perceptions of it.” That notion of transmogrification seems apt in our booming, post-recession Northwest (Bellevue is sprouting as fast as Seattle, after all). There’s a woodsy surrealism to Walker’s work, as if unfathomable forces—hatched almost from dreams—are burrowing into our conscious cityscape. BRIAN MILLER Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org. $5-$10. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Ends March 1.
