Departures and Divisions: Variation in American Styles, 1900 – 1950
Tacoma Art Museum 1701 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WAThey rejected conservative European and American influences—notably the French Impressionists and New York’s National Academy of Design—in favor of work that spoke to their lives and times.
Recent Acquisitions: Jeffry Mitchell
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WADescribing himself as a “gay folk artist,” Jeffry Mitchell (b. 1958, Seattle; lives and works in Olympia, Washington) rejects the irony and elitism often associated with the art world.
Lauren Halsey
Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WAHighly attuned to growing gentrification in her neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles, Lauren Halsey, who studied architecture and art, celebrates Black culture, making space for representations of the people and places around her as a method of creative resistance.
Christina Quarles
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WAUsing Adobe Illustrator to generate aspects of her compositions, Quarles introduces digitally rendered patterns and markings that destabilize the sense of space in her paintings.
More Than Human: Exploring Seattle’s Changing Landscape
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WAInspired by current exhibitions Human Nature, Animal Culture: Selections from the Frye Art Museum Collection and Boren Banner Series: Sadie Wechsler, this panel will bring together voices from the arts, sciences, history, and the Duwamish Tribe.
Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water at the Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WADive into the expanse of Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water. Experience art that ripples out from the museum galleries to the edges of our world, as artists across centuries and continents explore how art helps us understand the significance of water. In response to one of Earth’s most vital natural resources, artworks created in 618 AD are presented alongside contemporary works so new, they were finished in preparation for this exhibition. The more than 80 paintings, sculptures, films, photographs, and textiles on view are drawn from SAM’s collections and loans from local collectors.
Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT
Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle, WAHuanca’s installations encompass painting, sculpture, and live performance, and are characteristically created for, and integrated with, the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented.
ektor garcia: matéria prima
Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle, WAPieces are often reconfigured; textiles are made and unmade—undoing the knots as important as reknotting, reweaving to generate new points of connection and relation.
Hedreen Gallery Exhibition, “Embodiment: Gender in The Expanse”
Hendreen Gallery 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WAExpectations of gender and sexuality shape our social landscape.
Joey Veltkamp: SPIRIT!
Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WAVeltkamp’s work is heavily influenced by the sublime natural beauty of the Puget Sound and the quirky places and people who, like the artist himself, joyfully call this region home.
Patte Loper: Laboratory for Other Worlds
Bellevue Arts Museum 510 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WALaboratory for Other Worlds is a multimedia landscape that uses animation, sound, and everyday objects to create a hand-woven, immersive environment.
2022 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition
Henry Art Gallery 15th Ave NE &, NE 41st St, Seattle, WAThe Henry is pleased to present the University of Washington's School of Art + Art History + Design Master of Fine Arts and Master of Design thesis exhibition.
Common Threads: Dreaming of Home with Queer Youth and Elders
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art 550 Winslow Way E., Bainbridge Island, WACommon Threads is a celebratory installation of LGBTQ+ Pride at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art co-created by community groups and queer artists around the Puget Sound region.
Tacoma Spring Fest
Mason Middle School 3901 N 28th St, Tacoma, WATwo days of shopping, food trucks and activities will make this event fun for the whole family.
Jeremy Shaw: Liminals
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WABorn in Vancouver and now based in Berlin, Jeremy Shaw explores altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that attempt to capture transcendental experience. The artist draws on and often combines the strategies of documentary filmmaking, music video, conceptual art, and scientific research to create a space of ambiguity in which disparate belief systems and histories are thrown into interpretive limbo.