Interview

Surreal Society: Marika Thunder Interviewed

Essays

Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and Everything Everywhere All at Once

Pairings

Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino

The Why

Aaron Shurin’s Poetic Punctuation

Sponsored Connections

Sponsored Connection | Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon at Portland Art Museum Reviewed

Sponsored Connections

Sponsored Connection | Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick at lumber room Reviewed

Review

Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles

Essays

Chromophilia

Pairings

Raúl Guerrero & Mexican food in the United States

Interview

Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed

Love Letters

Love Letter to Julie Green

Pairings

Nasim Hantezadeh and summer stone fruit

Home

ON VIEW

Purple mood lighting illuminates a wall of string lights foregrounded by homes built indoors

Sep 12 - Jun 6

Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor

The work "Snowflake Drawing #5 (Double Lotus Pod), 2018" is a colorful graphite, ink, carbon transfer, and watercolor on paper piece which recalls childhood craft projects.

WA

Feb 2 - Jul 24

Recent Acquisitions: Jeffry Mitchell

Frye Art Museum

Against an digitalized gallery-space background, five color/text blocks are stacked, reading things like "Open Black," "Finger Wave Specialist," etc.

WA

Feb 4 - Jul 17

Lauren Halsey

Seattle Art Museum

A painting of a watermelon slice, mostly eaten, with two enormous black seeds sticking out of the red flesh.

OR

Mar 19 - Jun 19

Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon

Portland Art Museum

A close-up photograph of two people painting a wall. Behind them, bright light shines through a small window.

CA

Apr 1 - Sep 9

Studio Tutto: Seed Spires

Theodore Payne Gallery

To and from a wall of paintings, miniature figures wander, kneel, lay, gaze.

Apr 2 - Feb 5

Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT

Rusted chains droop into the frame and hover above the ground.

WA

Apr 2 - Sep 4

ektor garcia: matéria prima

Henry Art Gallery

On a hill of tall grass, two individuals lay together, one gazing down at the other.

OR

Featured Apr 2 - Jun 18

Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick

Lumber Room

A Native American man's image is repeated three time in front of a quilt-like geometric pattern and an astrological background.

Apr 6 - Aug 28

Wendy Red Star: American Progress

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Three images are arranged side by side; on the right, a vagina-like sculpture; in the center, a colorful, cubist portrait of a Black man; on the left, a silver curtain opening, revealing an orange wall.

WA

Apr 7 - Jun 15

Hedreen Gallery Exhibition, “Embodiment: Gender in The Expanse”

Hendreen Gallery

A cartoon cloud hangs in an otherwise blue sky.

CA

Apr 15 - Jun 10

Lisa Rybovich Crallé: Steppin’ Out

Premiere Jr.

In front of a fenced park, a group of six are arranged before the camera—three of them kneeling, two of them standing, shirtless, facing away, and one at the top of the triangle, straight-faced.

CA

Apr 16 - Jun 18

All of Us All of Us

Berkeley Art Center

OR

Apr 19 - Jun 4

Amanda Wojick – Small Shields and Other Shapes

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

OR

Apr 19 - Jun 4

Barbara Sternberger – Emanating

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

The words "Where The Waters Come Together" in all white are centered left against a blue background.

OR

Apr 22 - Jun 30

Where the Waters Come Together

Center for Native Arts and Cultures

Kelly Falzone Inouye sitting on a stool in front of two of her paintings. One is of Michael Jackson in the Thriller music video, and the other is of Madonna in her Like a Virgin video.

CA

May 4 - Jun 4

Kelly Falzone Inouye: MTV Generation

marrow gallery

A child, dressed in a colorful dress before party decorations—whose face is half painted as a skull—looks past the viewer with glazed-over eyes.

WA

May 5 - Jun 3

Jake Prendez & Nepantla: The Space Inbetween

ArtsWest

A Dutch landscape is superimposed onto a patchwork-like color block design. A windmill and houses sit in the foreground, rainbow swaths of color sit in the background.

WA

May 5 - Jun 25

Philip Tice and Polly Purvis: Traditions Upended

A blue fabric tent is supported by four statues, each of different, regal figures.

CA

May 8 - Nov 17

Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

BAMPFA

The words "a line and a long gaze" meander across a hazy pink/purple background. Artist names are listed on the side.

CA

May 14 - Jun 2

The Cold Read: A Line And A Long Gaze

Phase Gallery

A textile-based pink patchwork artwork, text: 'We're all Gonna Die' in all caps.

WA

May 20 - Oct 23

Joey Veltkamp: SPIRIT!

Bellevue Arts Museum

Zig zagging lines of blue and grey create the illusion of motion, movement, confusion.

May 21 - Aug 20

A Sieve for Infinity

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OPENING SOON

A multimedia installation by Patte Loper. Space motifs in a blue-lite room with 3 components

WA

May 20 - Oct 23

Patte Loper: Laboratory for Other Worlds

Bellevue Arts Museum

A graphite sketch on found paper by Rober Gober, a foot is shown upside down with the words, "Human Garbage" in all caps shaded upside-down.

CA

May 22 - Aug 28

A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II

Hammer Museum

A Still from "This Meeting is Being Recorded," A woman sits in the dark, one leg tucked beneath her on her chair, the other outstretched. Her arms hug her as her gaze glances upwards.

CA

May 22 - Jun 19

Andrea Fraser: This meeting is being recorded

Hammer Museum

A view of a white-walled gallery space with light wood floors and a vaulted ceiling. A ceramic piece rests on the floor and a Painting leans against the wall. A doorway in the background leads to more artworks in a different room.

WA

May 28 - Jun 26

2022 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition

Henry Art Gallery

A rainbow banner spreads out against layered newspaper.

WA

Jun 3 - Jun 26

Common Threads: Dreaming of Home with Queer Youth and Elders

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

WA

Jun 4 - Jun 5

Tacoma Spring Fest

Urban Craft Uprising

A silkscreen print with a black background and Indigenous-inspired design.

WA

Jun 15 - Dec 11

Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers

Seattle Art Museum

A photographer apparently in their studio looks through the viewfinder of their camera while seated. The camera lens is pointed towards the viewer and the photographer's face is obscured by their camera.

WA

Jun 17 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Monsen Photography Lecture: Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Henry Art Gallery

Three men cry out in angst in a black and white photograph.

WA

Jun 25 - Oct 9

Jeremy Shaw: Liminals

Frye Art Museum

"Collective Arising" Promotional information sits against a blurry black-and-white background.

CA

Jun 25 - Nov 27

Collective Arising: The Insistence of Black Bay Area Artists

CLOSING SOON

Purple mood lighting illuminates a wall of string lights foregrounded by homes built indoors

Sep 12 - Jun 6

Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor

On a page of coupons, miniature flags fixed on pins are arranged in a grid pattern.

Jan 23 - May 31

For Good?

Mata Art Gallery

A photograph of a gallery space with text written on a wall behind a pillar and an installation of a storefront on the left.

CA

Feb 5 - May 29

Jamal Cyrus: The End of My Beginning

Institute of Contemporary Art, LA

In a large, dimly lit gallery space, four screens are arranged on the walls with closeup images of grass, perhaps, and a smiling mouth—macaroni shaped chairs interspersed.

Feb 5 - May 29

Sara Cwynar: Apple Red/Grass Green/Sky Blue

Shadow, skeleton, muscle, skin, color—body (bodies) kneel and fall into and out of form, before a woven fence.

WA

Feb 12 - Jun 5

Christina Quarles

Frye Art Museum

An older woman with a warm complexion and stringy gray hair tied behind her looks directly towards the viewer. She holds a blue plush polka dotted with black dots and a bright red nose.

Apr 7 - May 30

Michael Brennan: Pandemonium – Selected Portraits

The word, DADDY in a furry light pink font, is superimposed on a background of television static.

OR

May 6 - May 29

Jenn Sova: DADDY

after/time

A yellow Toyota truck with its bed piled high and stickers around big black letters on its truck bed drives down an empty street.

CA

May 7 - Jun 1

Hely Omar Gonzalez

Praz Delavallade

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