Category Archives: Photography
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“Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977 – 2015”
“Not Vanishing: Contemporary Native American Art, 1977 – 2015” features 78 works of art by 49 artists from 23 tribes in the Northwest. In all media, and combining aesthetics, politics, history and urgent contemporary issues, this show at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, is not to be missed. It closes on January 3.
This entry was posted on November 24, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, indians, Indigenous activism, Indigenous Art, Photography, teddy bears, Uncategorized. -
Rodrigo Valenzuela, the 13th man and the end of Utopia
Rodrigo Valenzuela juxtaposes the words and experiences of migrants and other workers in the midst of the collapse of the utopian discourses of modernism and its structures, both philosophical and physical. He jarringly disconnects words and images to reveal the deep fissures in our society.
This entry was posted on February 7, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, democracy, economic imperialism vs democracy, Performance Art, Photography, Uncategorized. -
City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India at the Seattle Art Museum
Past and present in India mix in the stunning exhibition “City Dwellers: Contemporary Art from India” It includes artists working in urban centers throughout the country. Until December 7 it is paired with a fascinating, small show at the Asian Art Museum of Mughal art and artifacts.
This entry was posted on November 11, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art In India, Film, Performance Art, Photography, Picasso, Seattle Art Museum, Uncategorized. -
Women Artists in Seattle Part II
Women Photographers with roots in South Asia and Afghanistan show challenging work about cultural contradictions and Tanis S’eiltin, Tlinglit installation artist challenges fixed ideas on Indigenous culture.
This entry was posted on December 20, 2012 and is filed under art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, democracy, Feminism, Feminism, Gazelle Samizay, indians, Iran, Iranian Women, Photography, Women Artists. -
Documentary Photography meets Google Street View and Twitter
Two recent shows in Portland featured artists incorporating twitter and Google photographic images, and one exhibition affirmed that traditional photojournalism is just as crucial a practice as ever. Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, also known as the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, showed “No Man’s Land” by Mishka Henner and “Geolocations, Graduates […]
This entry was posted on June 9, 2012 and is filed under Photography.
