Openings & Events Cable Griffith & Elizabeth Jameson See A&C section, page

By By kelton sears • January 21, 2014 4:10 pm

Openings & Events

Cable Griffith & Elizabeth Jameson

See A&C section, page 19, for more on Cable Griffith. Elizabeth Jameson presents a new multimedia exhibit collecting odd leather miniatures of dresses and dunce caps and photos and drawings of gas masked figures. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery.com. Opens Jan. 24. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Wed.–Sat. Ends March 1.

David Maisel: Black Maps David Maisel will lecture on his latest photo series, a collection of aerial photographs of environmentally damaged landscapes as a result of human destruction. Photo Center NW, 900 12th Ave., 720-7222, pcnw.org. $10/$8 .embers. 6:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 23.

Gary Hill After a residency at the Pilchuck Glass School, Hill has created ALOIDIA PIORM, a mixed-media installation and glass structure incorporating the artist’s fascination with language and the atomic bomb. James Harris Gallery, 604 Second Ave., 903-6220, 
jamesharrisgallery.com. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Wed.–Sat., Ends March 1.

Hank Willis Thomas

Question Bridge is a “transmedia art project” that explores the identity of the black male in contemporary culture. Thomas will give a lecture on the project. Photo Center NW, 900 12th Ave., 720-7222, pcnw.org. $10/$8 members. 6:30 p.m. Wed., Jan. 22.

Kate Lebo On National Pie Day, this local author and pie enthusiast will discuss connections between pie, art, and culture, led by UW professor Anita Verna Crofts. University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., 800-335-7323, bookstore.washington.edu. 7 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 23.

Deborah Faye Lawrence

Dee-Dee Redux is a retrospective of Lawrence’s collage work since moving to Seattle in 1993 featuring Dee-Dee Lorenzo—Lawrence’s alter ego. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-0339, artswest.org. 1–7:30 p.m. Thurs.–Sat. Ends Feb. 22.

Dylan Neuwirth

MMXIV uses neon light to explore today’s digital obsessions. Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave., 709-9797, vermillionseattle.com. 4 p.m.–midnight Tues.–Sun. Ends Feb. 8.

Piper O’Neil & Robin Layton Piper O’Neil’s new collection, Marking Time, is an ode to Depression-era iconography in collage and bronze sculpture. Robin Layton’s Capturing Energy collects two distinct series of the photographer’s work, one focusing on “of the moment” images, and the other on America’s interest in basketball. Winston Wachter Fine Art, 203 Dexter Ave. N., 652-5855, winstonwachter.com. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Sat. Ends Feb. 21.

Quoth the Raven This group show functions as a tribute to the darkness and intelligence ravens and crows. A portion of the sales proceeds will go toward corvid research. Krab Jab Studio, 5628 Airport Way S., 715-8593, krabjabstudio.com. 2–5 p.m. Tues. & Thurs. Ends Jan. 30.

Seattle Women’s Convention After SAM’s all-woman exhibit Elles, local artists Susie Lee and Susanna Bluhm, as well as critic Jen Graves, are picking up the conversation a year later. At tonight’s discussion, they will wonder aloud whether or not females are being represented enough, or properly, in the Seattle art world. Hedreen Gallery, 901 12th Ave., 323-9405, seattleu.edu. 6–8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 24.

Stephen Vitiello This media artist and electronic musician presents a free lecture. Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. N.E., 543-2280, henryart.org. 7–9:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 23.

Trigger/House/Love Trigger, New Dance Happenings, and The Pendleton House team up for a night of music and dance. Lovecitylove, 1430 Summit Ave., lucienpellegrin.com. 8:30 p.m.–1 a.m. Fri., Jan. 24.

Ongoing

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Ronald Hall Hall’s paintings are fun. They brim with color and humor, looking like the scattered contents of someone’s subconscious. Over here is a guy sawing a watermelon, over there is a house . . . thinking about toilet paper. Hall opts for vibrant pinks and turquoises—neon hues that make his work instantly pop. Despite that bright palette, however, Hall didn’t call his new show The N Word for nothing. Amid the flights of fancy and surreal, cartoonish stylings are heady juxtapositions of race issues past and present. Frederick Douglass is given pink skin; Olivier Le Jeune is pictured in nightmarish slave restraints; a “Missing” poster is transposed over a traditional African mask. In Blind Nation, Barack Obama is even depicted wearing a thorn of crowns with a black censor’s bar over his eyes while the White House explodes in a plume of smoke in the background. Did his election really launch America into a proud new post-racial era? Not in Hall’s paintings. Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 296-7580, 4culture.org. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Fri. Ends Jan. 30.