Category Archives: Uncategorized
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Ai Weiwei in Seattle!
Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of AiWeiwei Ai, Rebel runs until September 7 at Seattle Art Museum; Water Lilies Lego opens March 19 at Asian Art Museum; Circle of Animals: Zodiac Heads opens May 17 at Olympic Sculpture Park. Tree, Wood, 2009-2010, with FOONG Ping, exhibition curator and SAM’s Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art( in […]
This entry was posted on April 21, 2025 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, economic imperialism vs democracy, Uncategorized. -
Katy Deepwell: Critic of Feminist Art
Katy Deepwell has contributed more to feminist art criticism than any other critic I know.She published the journal n.paradoxa for 19 years. She has edited and published collections of feminist writing like De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts and 50 Feminist Art Manifestos. She has received many awards,organized conferances, online courses […]
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Tomur Atagök: Painter, Historian, Critic, Curator, Mentor
Tomur Atagök 1939-2025 We are all mourning the passing of our beloved mentor and teacher I first connected with Tomur Atagök in 1997 through her collaborations with Katy Deepwell in n.paradoxa. Tomur had just published in the first volume of Katy’s amazing magaine, an essay on “Contemporary Turkish Women Artists”. ( […]
This entry was posted on March 31, 2025 and is filed under Art and Activism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, landscape, Uncategorized. -
Buster Simpson Town and Country Crier
“I believe artists’ work often functions as the equivalent of a town crier, calling out concepts in public. Traditionally the crier’s message is of civic or community importance, here we add construct. The Town and Country Crier exhibition presents a range of environmental and social issues. These issues often inform actions creating artwork that […]
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June Sekiguchi
As we enter June Sekiguchi’s living room we are immediately immersed in a feeling of multi dimensional creativity. From the ceiling, the walls, the floor, strange flowing shapes appear everywhere. As the artist reaches for a stack of fiberboard cut with wavy edges we see an art form appear as the artist puts […]
This entry was posted on March 19, 2025 and is filed under Culture and Human rights, Uncategorized. -
Thaddeus Moseley and Alexander Calder
First, we think that these two artists, Alexander Calder and Thaddeus Mosley, could not possibly be more dissimilar in this new iteration of the Calder donation curated by Catherina Manchanda. “Following Space,” the title of their joint exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, captures the central feeling of the exhibition. As we walk through the […]
This entry was posted on February 3, 2025 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Preston Singletary’s contemporary ravens
Raven is Back! Raven, the creator in the Tlingit mythology, rescued humans from darkness by stealing the sun. “He was a white bird and the world was in Darkness. Raven decides he will try and do something about the darkness, for himself and for the world. As he follows the Nass River, he encounters […]
This entry was posted on January 27, 2025 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Lillian Pitt Celestial Ancestors Star People
I have known Lillian for many years, since way back when she visited Washington State University while I was teaching there in the mid-1980s. I bought a pair of her earrings that I still cherish! Along the years I have acquired prints, a Stick mask in ceramic, and a small standing Shadow Spirit in […]
This entry was posted on January 24, 2025 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Joyce J. Scott walk a mile in my dreams
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Avenue, Seattle, 98101 Runs until January 19, 2025. Joyce J. Scott, Joyce’s Necklace, ca. 1978-1985. Rotasa Collection. Thread, beads, silver, enamel, metal, horn, stones, ivory, charms. 21 × 16 × 1 in. (53.3 × 40.6 × 2.5 cm.) “I want to […]
This entry was posted on December 16, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
A Visit with the wildly original Patti Warashina
What a treat to talk with Patti Warashina, the legendary Seattle-based ceramic sculptor. Warashina has been creating wildly original artworks for decades. Based on her own invented figural form, a detailed face, hands and feet , uninhibited by anatomy, they perform incredible acrobatic feats. She wants her figures to represent humanity in […]
This entry was posted on November 26, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Heidi Mielke, “The Sentinels Project,” 2013-present
Heide Mielke’s ongoing project “The Sentinels” directly addresses and immerses us in violence against women in South Africa.
This entry was posted on November 24, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Joy Harjo in Seattle
Jaune Quick To See Smith (center)and her Son Neal Ambrose-Smith with Whitney Curator Laura Phipps at “Memory Map,” exhibition in Seattle Art Museum, in front of Gifts for Trading Lands With White People Jo Harjo reading her poem “Running” from her book An American Sunrise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vwqWJsJiI During […]
This entry was posted on August 7, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Salvador Dali: Disruption and Devotion
A Visiting Contributor! Pamela Allara is an art historian and critic who lives in Boston. Salvador Dali, Disruption and Devotion Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 6-December 1, 2024 If someone had told me in the 1970s that someday that I would write that Salvador Dali is not […]
This entry was posted on July 26, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Assimilations: John Feodorov’s new exhibition
“I am for an art that kicks my soul in the ass. And if we do not have souls, I am for an art that makes me feel like I have a soul, and that it has just been kicked in the ass.” John Feodorov is always provocative and outspoken on the subject […]
This entry was posted on June 12, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Raven Returns
Raven is Back! Raven, the creator in the Tlingit mythology, rescued humans from darkness by stealing the sun. “He was a white bird and the world was in Darkness. Raven decides he will try and do something about the darkness, for himself and for the world. As he follows the Nass River, he […]
This entry was posted on June 8, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Henry Taylor, Ruth Asawa, Kay Walkingstick
Henry Taylor 8th floor roof of Whitney Museum of Art, November 2023, Untitled, bronze, 2020 In early November on a trip to NYC, I saw exhibitions by Henry Taylor, Ruth Asawa ( Whitney Museum) and Kay Walkingstick (New York Historical Society): it was wonderful to see the work […]
This entry was posted on January 7, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Linda Okasaki: Into the Light
Linda Okazaki: Into the Light Retrospective Exhibition to February 25, 2024 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Dazzling color paired with emotional depth and brilliant handling of the watercolor medium strike us right away in Linda Okazaki’s paintings in her retrospective exhibition at the Bainbridge Museum of Art. Okazaki has lived in Port […]
This entry was posted on December 23, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Hokusai and Calder
HOKUSAI AND CADER AT THE SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: UNEXPECTED SYNERGY This holiday be sure to make time to go to the Seattle Art Museum to see “Hokusai Inspiration and Influence” (to January 21) and “Calder: in Motion, The Shirley Family Collection” (to Aug 4, 2024.) Both expand our understanding of these two famous artists. […]
This entry was posted on December 22, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Artists and Climate Change
Indigenous Artists and Climate Change National Nordic Museum, 2655 NW Market St 98107, ph: 206.789.5707 Hours: Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; Admission: varies by age, see website; FREE on first Thursdays Sorry it ended on Nov 26. “Arctic Highways” by Meryl McMaster (b. 1988) What Will I Say to the Sky and the Earth II, 2019 (in the […]
This entry was posted on November 25, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Contemporary Art in St Paul’s Cathedral and some personal experiences
From last spring, I forgot to post. Contemporary cross by Gerry Judah who was born in Calcutta and moved to London when he was ten. The imagery suggests cities falling apart, catastrophes. St. Paul also had a lot of statues to colonial leaders with accomplishments like “reduction of French West Indies” meaning […]
This entry was posted on November 25, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
Finally, museums are offering us exhibitions that directly address climate change. “Arctic Highways” at the National Nordic Museum, until November 26, features twelve Indigenous artists from the circumpolar North (Sápmi, Canada, and Alaska) who address “the silent and the silenced knowledge” of their Sámi culture. Laila Susanna Kuhmunen opens […]
This entry was posted on October 23, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Latinx Performance Art, Men in Dance, and Indigenous People’s Day Celebration
Dhyana Garcia’s pre show Butoh event outside King Street Station Tatiana Garmendia (IMG is movie) La Boveda: My Mother’s Kitchen IMG_3555Dhyana Garcia Victoria@ King Street Station. THis was a long piece and she constantly metamorphosed. Xavier Lopex and Katherine Adamenko Soft Cyborg meets the Beauty Borg crazy costumes Katherine Adamenko had a second piece called […]
This entry was posted on October 14, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Gail Tremblay and Alfredo Arreguin
Memorials for Gail Tremblay (1945 – 2023), Alfredo Arreguín, (1935 – 2023) This summer we had memorials for two special artists, both deeply concerned about our planet: Gail Tremblay, Native American poet and multimedia artist, and Alfredo Arreguín, Mexican and American painter. Gail Tremblay was a close friend for many years, I only met Alfredo […]
This entry was posted on August 28, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map at the Whitney Museum
As we come into the installation of Jaune Quick- to- See Smith’s exhibition at the Whitney Museum, the first piece we encounter is the enormous Trade Canoe Forty Days and Forty Nights. 2015 named after the journey of Noah’s ark. Trade canoes are a major theme in Smith’s work. In this exihbition we […]
This entry was posted on July 18, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Michelle Kumata What We Carry/ O que nós carregamos
Michelle Kumata (right) with Cora Edmonds (left), founder of Artxchange Gallery, now ArtX Contemporary, at the beginning of Michelle’s gallery talk in her exhibition “What We Carry/ O que nós carregamos” The story is fascinating. Kumata’s great grandmother went to Brazil in 1927 with all but two of her children. Michelle’s grandmother […]
This entry was posted on June 27, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized.
