Ravenous Smith Dudley Eliot Manuel Izquierdo Gallery, 226-4391 Through Oct 30 The Manuel Izquierdo Gallery has been taken hostage by an unusual, savage beast: a blood-red installation by the hands of the creator, Smith Dudley Eliot. The space is a curious, dimly lit womb that immediately summons the viewer to consider the connotations of red: […]
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Plans for a Beautiful City
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Robert Yoder Froelick Adelhart Through Sept 30 Robert Yoder doesn’t simply peruse the aisles of an art supply store for materials. No–the Seattle artist goes shopping along the roadside, searching for discarded road signs. Yoder then fragments these gems into rectangle and square puzzle pieces, tiling them onto a plywood surfaces. In an immediate sense, […]
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Sugar/Skin
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Brenden Clenaghen & David French Pulliam Deffenbaugh, 228-6665 Through Sept 30 Brenden Clenaghen pops into his blue-chip gallery debut with Sugar/Skin, an exhibition of Minimalist and Pop inspired paintings. Clenaghen creates a selection of works that invite the viewer to consider skin (roughness, pigment, titillation) and candy (color, flavor, desire), and the psychological tension that […]
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VISIBLE WOMAN
With a Gallery Show of Erotic Photography Opening on First Thursday, MARNE LUCAS Blurs the Line Between Titillation and Aesthetic Appreciation in the Visual Arts. A “C-LIGHT” is a cunt light or a cock light. That’s what the light illuminates in a porn shoot, casting a cunt or a cock in the brightest glow. For […]
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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Written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Kevin O’Neill (America’s Best Comics) Three art forms from the old 20th Century have never received their due: stand up comedy, network radio, and comic books. Their status? The fluid performance technique more or less invented by Lenny Bruce and perfected by Richard Pryor was taken over by a […]
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Brewery Blocks Redevelopment Site
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For the past several months, handfuls of onlookers have been privy to an unlikely, yet fascinating art experience. As demolition workers complete the allotted task of urban renewal, they have unknowingly become performance artists and sculptors. In a slowly evolving orchestration, piles of rebar and concrete are shuffled around in front of a towering smoke […]
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16×20
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Basil Hallward Gallery at Powell’s City of Books 1005 W Burnside St, 228-4651 Through Sept 30 With traffic from around the world and hours from 9 am through 11 pm, the Basil Hallward Gallery is one of this city’s most accessible art spaces. In their first eight shows, curators Marci Macfarlane and Trent DeBord staged […]
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American State Bank
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2737 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd The NE neighborhood that I call home is full of little intrigues, including sidewalk BBQ gurus and Baptist churches that fill the streets with a holy Sunday ruckus. The unique characteristics of the community spill into some unusual suspects, including financial institutions. On the way to work I […]
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(w)hole
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Various Artists L&B Viewing Room, 241-4144 Through Sept 1 In the invitational exhibition at L&B Viewing Room entitled (w)hole, various mediums are utilized to translate the ultra-vague theme of hole (orifice, void, circular forms, etc). The result is a room full of disparate elements, most of which fall into mediocrity. However, there are a few […]
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Dip(trip)tych
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Cynthia Connolly Reading Frenzy, 274-1449 Opens Aug 3 In DC photographer Cynthia Connolly’s latest work, full and half framed photos showcase a love of the road trip and the snippets of landscape, sky, and man-made objects encountered by the traveler. With many of the photos displayed as panoramas divided into multiple frames, the sweeping spaces […]
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Form In Motion by Lawrence Colburn
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Gallery 33, 1400 NW Everett, 219-9900 Through August 31 Lawrence Colburn’s exhibition Form in Motion attempts to describe the nuance of space between bodies. In this manner, the work is largely successful; With a loose hand, Colburn renders intriguing, abstract figures posed in intimate confrontations, evoking a sensual atmosphere. However, Colburn is crippled by two […]
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POD
POD Mark Woolley Gallery 120 NW Ninth Ave, Suite 210, 236-1331 Fri, July 28, 8pm, $5 The Mark Woolley Gallery indulges in an evening of Performance Art. Opening the event will be Lisa Newman of 2 Gyrls Productions, presenting Magdeline. Following Newman’s performance will be Pod, a production by The Human Sculpture group. Pod is […]