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 empty space until it disappears into spiraling patterns. Their work relates to the larger community of abstract artists without being in anyone’s debt. They dig […]
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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 include YouTube video footage and Gus Van Sant’s film, “Last Days.” In The Stranger, Jen Graves writes that everything Bennett makes is a sort of […]
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. Through February 23. Artists include Tomory Dodge (LA), Ingrid Calame (LA), Eric Sall (NY), Gordon Terry (NY), Nicholas Nyland (Seattle), Yoon Lee (SF), Tiffany Calvert […]
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 camp for Japanese-Americans during WW II. “After years of studious concern over content, I feel that I have either reached or sunk to a level […]
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, Regina Hackett includes a bit about Grant Barnhart’s exhibition, which opens tomorrow. “Painting in oils with his hand and drawing in graphite powers and solvents […]
Homework assignment: Art Blogger Survey, Part II
The entire survey can now be found at Homework assignment: Art Blogger Survey.
Homework assignment: Art Blogger Survey
At Grammar.police, Kriston Capps invited art bloggers to answer the questions Peter Plagens formulated for his Art in America roundtable discussion about art blogs: “Of course the great advantage to the blogosphere over print media is its boundlessness,” Kriston writes. “After reading the Art in America roundtable on art blogs […]
Gaylen Hansen retrospective in Seattle
“Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Paintings,” curated by Keith Wells. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. Through Jan. 6. Organized by the Museum of Art at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. See images of his work. A retrospective of Washington-based painter Gaylen Hansen features more than 30 paintings drawn from public […]
Checking in on motel art
“Bridge Motel,” Fremont, WA. One night only.“50,000 Beds,” throughout Connecticut. Through Sept. 23. The projects in the “Bridge Motel” let’s-have-a-show-before-the-developers-knock-down-the-building extravaganza were primarily oriented toward performance and installation, but painter Laura Corsiglia participated with a series called Slippage Drawings. “Slippage Drawing is both born and made. Looking to contain and […]
Criticism and geographic context
Regina Hackett blogs in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that critics’ choices and interpretations are informed by geographic context: “In Roberta Smith’s obit, Elizabeth Murray became a step in a fictional staircase, one of four painters — Philip Guston, Frank Stella and Brice Marden — who ‘during the 1970s rebuilt the medium […]
