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Visual Arts Listings

Artique Fine Art Gallery MANIFESTATION OF ART THROUGH MUSIC A performance art piece from James Childs. 301 SW Pine St., 295-6331. Through June 15. Blue Sky Photography Gallery Photographers Catherine Chalmers & Fabio Sgroi Catherine Chalmers presents large-scale color images of animals eating animals. Fabio Sgroi’s black & white photographs explore the Easter rituals of […]

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My, What a Busy Week!

THURSDAY, JUNE 1 ART–In “Hotheads and Burn-outs,” John Frentress shows matured versions of slightly disgusting, occasionally surreal miniature light-bulb portraits. Previous bulbs appeared on the Thinkin’ Fellers Union Local 282’s “Strangers From the Universe” album cover art. JS. Reading Frenzy, 921 S.W. Oak, 274-1449, through June. WHIRLY GIG–How long has it been since you’ve simultaneously […]

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‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

The Disappearance of Art Chantry

“I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT that as soon as I left, the Kingdome collapsed,” Art Chantry announces into the phone. “I’ve been holding up that town way too long. It’s a terrible burden. I expect the Space Needle to go at any moment.” There’s still a listing in the residential pages of the Seattle […]

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In Stitches

Traditional Techniques, Novel Approaches

YOU CAN’T TALK about artists who sew without mentioning women’s work. It’s an art-historical reference, with political overtones that tend to make people assume they already know what the art is going to be like. This doesn’t mean, happily, that all such work comes with an ideology embedded in it, or that it’s all the […]

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