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.
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.
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.
The Blitz Capitol Hill Art Walk is the second Thursday of every month, meaning it’s tomorrow! Here are just a few of the things you can expect from it this month:
VERMILLION GALLERY
What promises to be an interesting group show, “Winter Lights: Explorations in Self-Illuminated Art” revolves around technology-driven art. Expect the kind of crazy art installations you might expect at an event like Burning Man. And as photos probably don’t do the project justice, so just check out this video from The UberGeek Project and some of the descriptions for the event:
Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D. at Burning Man 2009 from Shelly Farnham on Vimeo.
Featuring some of the following:
Curtis Erlinger: Shedding Light
Eric McNeill: Post-temporal
Randy Moss: Untitled
The UberGeek Project: A Storm in the H.E.Ai.D.
Josh Kopel and Robert Gallup: Slow Light
Simon Winder: Chaos Theremin, Dekatronic Gooberzuber, 8675309
Shelly Farnham: Seeing, Hearing, Speaking Light
Jeff Larson: There Will Be Silicon
Jordan Schwartz: Bees
GREY GALLERY & LOUNGE
Allison Manch’s Gimme Shelter textile works (My Bloody Valentine, inspired by My Bloody Valentine, and Hong Kong Garden below).
11TH AVENUE STUDIO
Showcasing works by their studio artists, including works by Betsy Barnum (It Was A Clean Scar, below), Danie Allinice, Jerry Grubaugh, and Mike Regan.
SNOWMONKEY’S HOUSE OF MONSTERS
Mike Egan’s Notes To Heaven.
PACKARD BUILDING
Featuring works by La Familia Gallery artists, including REDEFINE favorites Kate Protage (Temperate Zone pictured below) and Chris Sheridan.
And then you can head over to Cupcake Royale to get their cupcake of the month: the Velvet Elvis, in honor of Elvis’ 75th birthday on January 8th! Moist banana cake topped wiht a rich peanut butter fudge frosting, topped with a sweet and crunchy little banana chip?? YUM!
In honor of photographer Milton Rogovin’s birthday, the Henry Art Gallery will have an exhibition of his work from December 10th, 2009 through April 25th, 2010. It’s certainly a long-lasting affair, but don’t forget to make your way over to the contemporary art museum to check out his photography. As an optometrist who shot photography as a hobby, Rogovin documented the plight of working class individuals with an open mind and heart.
Check out some slideshows over at New York Times!
As a man who was labeled by the government as a Communist, Rogovin said he became radicalized during the Great Depression, when his father, a dry-goods dealer, went bankrupt and died. It’s beautiful that he can turn a personal travesty into an artistic statement.
Street art pioneer Dan Witz now has a show on display at Carmichael Gallery that might just get you respecting street art if you’re a skeptic.
Inspired by Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the works feature human and animal faces and figures trapped behind dirty, shoddily painted glass panes and window frames, looking out as if trapped or curious about the world outside.
Dark Doings, which will feature recreations of pieces Witz has done on the streets of Brooklyn and elsewhere, shows just how cleverly overlooked doors and windows in alleyways can be used.
www.carmichaelgallery.com
www.danwitzstreetart.com
Seattle and Redefine favorite Robert Hardgrave unveiled a brand new piece at the Flatcolor Gallery last month, entitled Plexus. Here’s the amazing piece, in case you missed it last month. If you thought Hardgrave was impressive before, this piece of work only further shows his growth as an imaginative artistic technician.
Count on the Punch Gallery to do something different for fundraising. Instead of taking the traditional route of silent auctions and car washes and the like, the good folks behind the Punch Gallery are doing a “Winner Takes All” fundraiser. What that means: one lucky winner will win the entire October collection of works on display at the gallery. The show starts on First Thursday, aka tonight.
The contest is limited to 1,000 entries, so it’s not impossible to win, and there are three methods of entry. Two cost money. One doesn’t.
You can donate $10 to the gallery online via PayPal to receive an entry. You can stop by the gallery, check out the works, and donate $10 to receive an entry. You can receive one FREE entry by doing an original drawing and mailing it to the good folks of Punch Gallery (see complete details on their website at http://www.punchgallery.org/sweepstakes/#).
One winner will receive thirteen original works, and the prize will be awarded in a random drawing. An approximate value of $7,157.00! Holy shit!
Here are some of the things YOU might be able to win:
Howard Barlow’s From Good Stock features a cute little ol’ bunny rabbit on a rifle stock. How bout that for a great addition to your living room wall?
Continuing on with the Western theme, Justin Colt Beckman’s Untitled (John Wayne) features a digital collage of the artist’s face on a found photo.
Unicörn Fledermäus is a watercolor, pencil, and magic rendition of a fictional animal created by Justin Gibbens.
And sure, all the works are certainly thematically divergent, but they all match very well… making a potentialy great suite of additions to your home, your office, your whatever. Visit their website to find out more!
http://www.punchgallery.org/sweepstakes/#
www.beckman.ws
www.justingibbens.com
