Tomorrow night, March 12th, Tessa Hulls has a solo show at the Greenwood Collective’s Gallery, Urban Light Studios! Grow Me A Boat will feature new works by Hulls, which might look dainty from afar, but actually feature some really bold applications of paint, used together with inventive characters and a delicious color palette.
Works That Disturb is an exhibition that continues through March 27th, 2010 at the Alphonse Berber in Berkeley, California. It certainly features some disturbing, wonderful things.
Annie McKnight’s Untitled features bracelets made of… taxidermied mice.
“Kim Ye’s living sculptures connect artist and model, work and world in a collaborative act of animation. Crafted of silk, nylon, latex, wire and wood, Ye’s costume-like constructions appear in two incarnations during the exhibition. At the opening reception, live models step into the sculptures and confront spectators as artifacts from a post-human game of Pygmalion and Galatea. Afterward, like so many snake-skins, the works are displayed without their human centers - a metamorphosis that leaves them “unpeopled” and alterior. Like Yves Klein’s anthropometries or the plaster ghosts of Pompeii’s last inhabitants, Ye’s constructions effect an anthropomorphic apophasis; they invoke the human body only to affirm its impermanence.” - Alphonse Berber Press Release
Other works include Angie Crabtree’s Crucified Comfort, which shows Jesus with um, his penis out, and photographs on death and dying.
Halogen Gallery has paired up with The Greenwood Collective and Urban Light Studios to put together this really fun toy and paintingfinstallation show featuring some notable locals and non-locals. The show, entitled Thought Processor, is a rotating show. Here’s the Seattle round-up:
Untitled by Aaron Jasinki
Untitled by Augie Pagan
Now through March 4th, 2010!
Head over to the Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma tonight for the closing night of Monument, Troy Gua’s current amazing show exploring the effects of war on, well, the human body. There’s also an artist talk going on tonight, which should be interesting. Reception starts at 6:00pm, but though it’s the closing reception, closing night isn’t until March 13th! Be confused!
Gua says:
“This installation is my memorial to loss. I’m not a soldier I have never seen war. How do we reconcile this experience? How do we grieve loss?”
Ah, Valentine’s Day — a dreaded holiday for some and the ultimate heart-warming day for others. In either situation, though, viewing some diverse art is a good remedy. Here are some good shows taking place on Friday the 12th, in Portland and Seattle. They’re group shows that show that it’s not just about selfish relationships on Valentine’s Day! Community love’s worth something, too.
Yet another event from Seattle art collective Artifakt
Damager by Grym.
Terror by BeeryMethod.
Lutjanus campechanus by Crystal Barbre. Oil on canvas. 42″ x 72″.
Matroyshka Dolls by iamintricate.
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For the fifth year in a row, the Portland Love Show will be taking place this year at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center (107 SE Washington St.) from 7:00pm to 12:00am.
Here are just some of our favorite pieces showing this year.
Inevitable by BMAC. 16″ x 20″, $100.
Love and Lust Contemplating Their Predicament by Chuck E. Bloom. 14″ x 18″, $950.
Tied by Kindra Crick. Encaustic mixed media. 10″ x 8″, $180.
last of the famous international playboys by John Gajowski. 17″ x 22″, $250.
Portland photographer Tyler Kohlhoff explores Inland Empires, the spread in Southern California out east when you’re headed to Nevada or Arizona. Now at The Tribute Gallery, the images stand in stark contrast with the white walls of the gallery space and seem to stand still in time, capturing littered remains of home and memories faded into the past. For all who are interested in urban or rural decay, Kohlhoff’s photographs are little slices of grimey beauty.
What happens when New Age themes mix with surrealism and whimsy? Inka Essenhigh’s work! This New York artist has exhibited her oil paintings throughout the United States and Europe, and she now has an exhibit on display at 303 Gallery in New York City through February 20th. Here’s just an itty-bitty taste of what’s on display there.
Snowflake (Pink), oil on canvas, 64 x 72 inches
Green Goddess II, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches
Fog, Moss, Lichen, oil on canvas, 64 x 72 inches
For the year 2009, Christopher Davison made some really intense pieces. Let me start by saying that in Davison’s world, “small pieces” can be as large as 15″ x 20″. That’s HUGE. So let us move onto his large pieces — which, at 20″ x 22″ or 30″ x 20″, are rich with layers and detail. And then you’ll understand that Davison doesn’t mess around; he goes all out when it comes to art. Well, enough then! Drink it in!
The Law (Flashe, graphite, gouache, india ink on Rives BFK)
The Law, detail (Flashe, graphite, gouache, india ink on Rives BFK)
Purgatory (Flashe, gouache, acrylic ink, watercolor, india ink on Rives BFK)
In a couple days, street artist Aakash Nihalani will be featuring his tape art in an enclosed space (The Carmichael Gallery).
Nihalani will be creating site-specific installations using brightly-colored tape, proving that simple geometric 2-dimensional shapes, when placed into 3-dimensional settings, can challenge viewers’ perceptions and spatial understandings.
Below are examples of his non-gallery work:
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As if that wasn’t ridiculous enough, the show will also feature works from Mark Jenkins. Yes, MARK JENKINS!
“Who the hell is Mark Jenkins?” you ask? Maybe some photos will enlighten you, because chances are, you’ve seen his works on the internet a million times but never knew the name that went with them. Now, you do.
And now you know why you need to go if you live in the Los Angeles area. You’d be a fool not to.
These images by Gretchen Bennett, now on display at the Howard House in Seattle through the end of the month, definitely demand a double-take. For starters, ghosts of images are buried deep inside what initially looks like just a swamp of colors, but closer inspection reveals that the swamp is actually composed of Prismacolor colored pencils, making the images all the much more compelling. Colored pencils are already an underplayed medium these days, but to use them in such a manner is pretty much astounding.
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Ghost Dog
Bennett also has more installation and street art-oriented works, which you can see on her website.
