Regina Hackett, the longtime art critic at the Seattle P-I, which recently laid off all but twenty staffers and ceased publishing a print edition, has joined Lee Rosenbaum (CultureGrrl) over at Arts Journal, the daily digest of arts news and commentary. Hackett and Arts Journal’s editor Douglas McLennan used to […]
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“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. A representative of Hearst Newspapers swung by the paper�s office Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, to tell the staff that, ‘Journalism is a fabulous profession, but […]
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 painterly landscape abstraction took root in the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes but not always with figures in it. Prime movers included David Park, Joan Brown, […]
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 nineteenth-century Japanese painting and printmaking. Min, a recent grad of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, is flat, abstract and color conscious. “Cowie’s insubstantial pageant looks […]
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 Gallery presents Lauri Chambers’s well-worked black and white paintings this month. In the Seattle P-I, Rgina Hackett writes that Chambers locates the impure pleasure of […]
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 one of “the country’s first wave of encaustic painters, binding beeswax to linen with industrial heat and pressing powdered pigments into the still-warm surfaces, articulating […]
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 Regina Hackett, it’s being published in serial form, one chapter a week for 24 weeks. If you see yourself in any of the characters, remember […]
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 Vega, borne along on receipts, invitations, letters and fragments of literary texts, presided over by figures who flout the laws of gravity….History is what we […]
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 best known for her beaded, richly-adorned papier-m�ch� animal head trophies and dolls, which explore art and craft, life and death and metaphors of gender and […]
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, even though she lived in the city since the early 1960s. “Her subjects tended to be tough, yet nobody holds such content against Leon Golub, […]
