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.
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.
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.
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.
Molly Vaughan: Safety in Numbers
MadArt 325 Westlake Ave N, #101, Seattle, WASafety in Numbers is an iterative performance and installation by Seattle-based artist Molly Vaughan. Hair…
Orly Anan: Salon Delicatessen
Museum of Museums 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WAMexico City-based artist, filmmaker and creative director Orly Anan occupies the entirety of the True Space with her new immersive installation Salon Delicatessen.
Hollaback to the Future
Museum of Museums 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WATwenty international artists from Georgia to Ghana present new works that form a narrative about the future of the Black experience.
Neptune Frost
The Grand Illusion Cinema 1403 NE 50TH ST., Seattle, WAFrom multi-hyphenate poet and artist Saul Williams, and Rwanda-born artist Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost is a thrilling anti-colonialist sci-fi musical.
a fairy show II
Veronica 2915 Rainier Avenue South, Suite 12b, Seattle, WAThe Lost-race theory describes fairies as historical colonized subjects. What killed the Spirit and the Native but the betrayal of good will and weaponised metals?
Indigenous Matrix: Northwest Women Printmakers
Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WADelight in the bold graphics and striking colors of Northwest Native silkscreen prints with this installation of contemporary works by Indigenous women. his installation brings to light the unique contributions of several women artists whose imagery divulges personal experiences, complex mythologies, and unfettered expression, pushing styles and subjects into new directions that continue to inspire a new generation of Native artists.
Simone Bailey, Chase Keetley, Lauren Williams, and Berlynn Bea
Wa Na Wari 911 24th Ave, Seattle, WA
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.
Fire, Pandemic, and Other Things
Museum of Museums 900 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WAAlex Siniscalchi debuts new work in his show Fire, Pandemic, and Other Things.