Contributed by Sharon Butler / Regina Hackett, the longtime art critic at the Seattle P-I, which recently laid off all but twenty staffers and ceased […]
Tag: Regina Hackett
“I’m like some demented duckling stuck on this island”
Via artnet: “Another month, another art critic shown the door by a major paper. This time it�s Regina Hackett, longtime correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. […]
Michael Dailey’s “painterly landscape abstraction” in Seattle
In the Seattle P-I, Regina Hackett writes about old-school painter Michael Dailey, “On the West Coast, from Northern California to Seattle, a gestural kind of […]
Cowie and Min in Seattle
In the Seattle P-I, Regina Hackett reviews Claire Cowie and Yunhee Min at James Harris Gallery. Cowie’s inspiration is Hokusai, one of the masters of […]
Lauri Chambers: Just simply look
“Content is revealed by process…to understand my work it must simply be looked at. I want the encounter to be very, very quiet.” Francine Seders […]
Joseph Goldberg: Blowtorched encaustics
Veteran painter Joseph Goldberg has a show of new work at Greg Kucera this month. According to Regina Hackett in the Seattle P-I, Goldberg is […]
Plagens novel: It’s just fiction
Peter Plagens, painter and longtime art critic for Newsweek magazine, has written The Art Critic, a novel which will be published on artnet. According to […]
Eric Elliott and Carlos Vega in Seattle
In the Seattle P-I Regina Hackett writes that James Harris Gallery’s two solo shows are worth checking out. “History floats in the collages of Carlos […]
Hackett on Seattle artist Sherry Markovitz
Sherry Markovitz, 60, currently has a retrospective at the Bellevue Arts Center and a show of recent work at Greg Kucera. The Seattle artist is […]
Fearless Selma Waldman, 77, dies of cancer
Regina Hackett writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that Selma Waldman, painter of blunt-force trauma, rape, degradation and murder, was practically unknown in Seattle art circles, […]
The Knutson and Simmons experience in Seattle
In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Regina Hackett reports that Michael Knutson and Jeffrey Simmons paint the way “sailors scrape barnacles off a deck, chipping away at […]
Gretchen Bennett’s love letters to Kurt Cobain in Seattle
Gretchen Bennett explores the pop-culture iconography of the Seattle area through drawings of the band Nirvana and its lead singer Kurt Cobain. Bennett’s source materials […]
Painting in Seattle: Darren Waterson, The Prom
“Darren Waterson: Last Days,” Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA. Through February 9.“The Prom: A Semi-formal Survey of Semi,” curated by Alex Ohge. Lawrimore Project,, Seattle, WA. […]
Shimomura’s deadpan memories of internment
“Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on My Mind” Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA. Through Dec. 22. Shimomura’s new paintings explore his childhood experiences in an Idaho internment […]
Grant Barnhart at OKOK in Seattle
“Exact Change: Paintings by Grant Barnhart,” OKOK Gallery, Seattle, WA. Through Jan. 3. Although this article is mostly a profile of OKOK owner/director Charlie Kitchings, […]
