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A dreamlike illustration on paper. A blue sky with wispy white and peach clouds creates the background. A mask-like face floats on the left half of the upper edge, looking down. There is a curved row of eight sparrows flying across the sky. A full moon hangs on the right half of the upper edge. The bottom has three light grey mounds. One mound has a cartoonish face with a black bowler hat. The second mound has the face of a large cat. The third and smallest mound has a lifesaver/buoy. Between the two larger mounds, a crying person holding a tissue to their eye floats in a cloud.

WA

Dec 10 - Feb 27

In Search of Lost Time: Viola Frey, Fay Jones, and Akio Takamori

Free

an installation view of Repetition Suppression by Natalie Krick at Specialist gallery in Seattle, WA. Three works occupy a white wall. On the left is a diptych of one image, presented as both negative and positive black and white, in thin, cobalt blue frames. In the center is a black and white image a closed eye in a blue frame that extends perpendicularly out from the wall. A bare lightbulb hangs from the ceiling above it. On the far right there are two large, vertical black and white images of a leg in fishnet stockings and black high heel shoes. One image hangs on the wall in a thin blue frame. The other is in a standing frame, also blue.

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Jan 16 - Feb 27

Natalie Krick: Repetition Suppression

Free

A color photograph of a black and white printed image crumpled and crushed so the original image is entirely destroyed, except in the center where an open mouth is mostly visible. The ink on the paper has worn off at the edges of the creases, leaving stark white lines.

CA

Jan 21 - Feb 27

Christian Marclay

Free

Alt text: Two square paintings hang on a white wall, above a concrete floor. On the left, a crowded painting, featuring numerous smiley faces, abstracted figures of people, animals, plants and trees. The paint used features an analogous palette of warm colors, featuring primarily yellows, oranges, blues and browns. The painting on the right works with a similar palette. Dominating most of that painting is a large circle to the left, divided by triangles of different colors and an abstract figure in the foreground. To the right of a circle hovers a smiley face next to a small rose and a human-like figure bending over. In the background, there is a plane of green grass and a yellow sky above it.

CA

Jan 22 - Feb 27

Ross Simonini: Refrains

Free

Four pieces displayed in a gallery space, including a single painting hanging on a white wall on the left; a sculpture displayed on a white stand, center frame; and two paintings hanging to the right of the sculpture in the background, also on a white wall. The piece on the left is a large blue painting with textured, horizontal stripes on canvas with a stripe of grey populating the bottom right corner. The sculpture in the middle is a white cement figure resembling a puzzle piece, with both jagged and rounded edges, a hole in the middle and four blue stripes going out from it. The paintings on the right are the same size and close together. One displays a large cream circle, partly out of frame, a pink circle within it and a shadow of the cream circle on a pink background. The other has a pink circle near the center, the same size as the other, with a dark stripe to the left of it, all against a background of the same color pink.

CA

Jan 23 - Feb 27

Johansson Projects: Community Garden

Free

Alt text: An irregularly shaped photogram print in a blue frame hangs on a white wall. Numerous, variably colored shapes are layered on top of each other in a collage. A multipart work, created from a progression of exposing photo paper to two seconds of light, using color filters and exposure masks, cutting them into different shapes and finally re-integrating into a single frame. Two parallel diagonal lines dissect the image vertically. Wavy cuts dissect the image horizontally and overlap.

CA

Jan 23 - Feb 27

Mariah Robertson: Repetition & Difference

Free

CA

Jan 30 - Feb 27

Taylor Smalls: She and I, Them and Us

Free

Individual wearing black pants, sneakers and a jean jacket stands before three art pieces, all hung on a white wall and illuminated by lights on the ceiling. The far right piece features two bald, naked figures — one painted white, the other black — standing beside each other in tall grasses. The middle piece, a figure in all black, mid stride, is walking down a sidewalk in a neighborhood. The piece on the far left, partly cut off, a figure wearing black pants and a white shirt seems to be floating in water, alongside other objects.

OR

Feb 4 - Feb 27

Troy Mathews: Minor | Major | Sus: Feelings

Free

Photograph hanging on a white wall. Center frame, a Black woman wearing a striped t-shirt stands before a black background, facing to the right, evoking the image of a mugshot. Behind her head on the left hangs a newspaper clipping depicting a grid of headshots of people of color below the words "IS THIS THE END?" Just before her torso hangs another clipping, this one a grid with mostly white headshots, reading "WHY IS OUR CITY COUNCIL SO WHITE?"

CA

Feb 12 - Mar 6

Sites of Memory

Free

CA

Feb 26 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

HIGH DAWN 6: LAWRENCE / LEUNG / LOU / BASU

Free

Silver construct in a jet-black space gives the visitor the sense they are viewing in black and white, transporting the viewer into a surreal tiny universe

OR

Feb 27 - Mar 27

Avantika Bawa: Constructing Darkness

Free

This piece, using cut paper and hand-printed color, depicts two small children — one, a boy, slightly older than the other, a girl — standing back to back, arms crossed, with grins on their faces. The girl is wearing a short sleeved dress; the boy, a patterned shirt.

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Mar 5 - Nov 24

Barbara Earl Thomas: The Geography of Innocence

Free

This sweeping painting elongates the limbs of its subjects' raised fists, so they appear mountainous, triangular, and dynamic. The bottom and middle of the frame is crowded with individuals of this form, creating the sensation that a group is on the verge of riot. In the top left, a man in black garb leans forward, stretching his body across the top of the piece, pointing his finger. Deep, dark colors, including shades of brown, black, red, green, and one sharp flash of blue, dominate this piece.

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Mar 5 - May 23

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle

Free

a mixed media work, primarily using turf, first as a tri-panel backdrop for part of the piece, over which what seem to be shadows from tree branches are cast, and secondly as the shadow—in the form of a human's silhouette—of the central object, which seems to be a chair with very tall legs. Behind this, black and white geese walk in a line.

OR

Mar 6 - Mar 14

Sung Eun Park: Pleasant Exchanges

Free