Openings & Events
The Best of Bowie The School of Rock is teaming up with RockOnArts for an art and fashion show inspired by the life and work of David Bowie, followed by a tribute concert. Hale’s Palladium, 4301 Leary Way N.W., 782-0737, halesbrewery.com. 6 p.m. Sat., Sept. 27.
Future Vistas Path With Art and Kristen Ramirez reveal a new mural created for Harborview Medical Center. View Park, Eighth Ave. between Jefferson & Alder streets, 650-0669, pathwithart.org. 11 a.m. Thurs., Sept. 25.
Janet Koplos
Art in America’s contributing editor delivers a lecture about her current book on the “aesthetics and philosophy of functional pottery based on 160 interviews with potters from across the U.S.” Pottery Northwest, 226 First Ave. N. 285-4421, potterynorthwest.org. Free 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 26.
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LxHxW Launch Party Vignettes founder Sierra Stinson guest curates an art-object sale featuring the work of Doug Newman, Lindsey Apodaca, Lynda Sherman, and Sarah Galvin, themed around “Intimacy and Tenderness” and housed in a hand-crafted box. The release will be accompanied by a reading and a performance. Vignettes, 1617 Yale Ave., vignettes.us. 7 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 25.
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Never Finished Lilienthal|Zamora take their intricately designed, sculptural light installation work to the big atrium. They aim to create a glowing vortex that stretches from floor to ceiling. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 25. Suyama Space, 256-0809, 2324 Second Ave., suyamaspace.org. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends Dec. 19.
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PDL: Real Objects Riffing on Duchamp and Warhol, this one-night exhibit takes everday objects and places them in the gallery in an attempt to reevaluate their merits as potential art objects. Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave., 709-9797, vermillionseattle.com. 5-9 p.m. Sat., Sept. 26.
Gennifer Weisenfeld The Duke professor of Japanese Art History lectures on Saito Kazo and SAAM’s ongoing Deco Japan show. Seattle Asian Art Museum, 1400 E. Prospect St. (Volunteer Park), 654-3100, seattleartmuseum.org.
$10. 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 26.
Ongoing
Leonard Baskin
Fierce Humanist collects his multimedia work. Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave. S., 624-7684, davidsongalleries.com. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Sept. 27.
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Evan Blackwell The local salvage artists makes hypnotic, spiraling shapes out of cut-up old picture frames, saw blades, and cheap galvanized hardware fittings. Also on view, large and colorful abstract paintings work by the veteran Serbian artist Bratsa Bonifacho. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 622-2833, fosterwhite.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m Tues.-Sat. Ends Sept. 27.
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Chemtrails Did you know that the feds are employing airplanes to spray airborne chemicals on civilians in order to brainwash us/construct a malevolent New World Order/conceal the one and only, totally-not-dead Tupac Shakur from the public eye? Seven painters, illustrators, and photographers take on the world’s most out-there conspiracy theory in this group show, which will likely land you on a watch list. Wikstrom Gallery, 5411 Meridian Ave. N., 633-5544, bromwikstrom.com. Noon-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Oct. 24.
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Sally Cleveland and Gabriel Fernandez These two artists deal in lonely landscapes and scenes of humble and forgotten places and objects. Fernandez often paints empty chairs and diner booths, like a Hopper setting emptied of people. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Sept. 27.
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Chris Crites He displays his signature mugshots and crime scenes painted on brown paper bags. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery.com. 11 a.m-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Oct. 11.
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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 references to Japan’s hermetic past. By the ’20s, there was in the big cities a full awareness of Hollywood movies, European fashions, and streamlined design. Even if women didn’t vote, they knew about Louise Brooks and her fellow flappers. 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, $5-$7. Weds.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ends Oct. 19.
