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Michelle Kumata
this article originally appeared in a shorter version here http://www.artaccess.com/articles/12634620 Bonfire Gallery “Michelle Kumata: Regeneration” to March 26 We are compelled to enter “Regeneration,” Michelle Kumata’s exhibition at the Bonfire Gallery by the banners in the gallery windows. In the exhibition, Kumata is addressing the difficult subject of the long term […]
This entry was posted on March 8, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Asian American Art, Uncategorized. -
Kenjiro Nomura American Modernist
“Kenjiro Nomura American Modernist, An Issei Artist’s Journey” (Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds, to February 20) Kenjiro Nomura (1896 – 1956) came from Japan to Tacoma at the age of ten in 1907. while living in Tacoma as a child, he attended a Japanese Language school where he was fortunate to have a skilled teacher who […]
This entry was posted on February 1, 2022 and is filed under American Art, art criticism, Uncategorized. -
Christina Reed: Confronting Whiteness and its Exclusions
Christina Reed’s exhibition “Reckoning” confronts us with our own whiteness and oblivous racism head on and with ingenuity. The exhibition consists of three parts. The first is Reflection, a wall filled with large black and white prints based on historical photographs of white people: juries, business men, families, picket fences, interspersed with […]
This entry was posted on January 31, 2022 and is filed under Racism, Uncategorized. -
Carrie Mae Weems The Shape of Things
Carrie Mae Weems the Shape 0f Things
This entry was posted on January 5, 2022 and is filed under African American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Subversion: The Art of Slavery Abolitionism
Subersion and the Art of Slavery Abololition is an astonishing work of research and provocative ideas.
This entry was posted on January 2, 2022 and is filed under Abolitionism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Morgan Peterson on Greed, Power, Control and Murder
“Born of our Culture: American Excess” a recent installation at Method Gallery by Morgan Peterson tells it like it is in our contemporary moment. Morgan Petersen has long been fascinated by true crime and the amplifying role that media plays in our culture starting with the 1969 Charles Manson murders My fascination […]
This entry was posted on December 3, 2021 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth ‘Mumbet’ Freeman
Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth Mumbet Freedom at the new MassArtArt Museum
This entry was posted on November 11, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Youth Climate March in Seattle October 29 A Great Success!
Seattle Youth Climate March in Seattle a huge success.
This entry was posted on October 30, 2021 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Firelei Báez, To breathe full and free
Pamela Allara, Ph.D., my colleague in art history and all things, contributed this post about a stunning exhibition in Boston. Firelei Báez’s installation, “To Breathe Full and Free: a declaration, a re-visioning, a correction…” at the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Watershed gallery was one of the most exciting exhibitions that the ICA has mounted […]
This entry was posted on September 18, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Imna Arroyo: Immersed in Yemaya and Iroko Water and Life
Imna Arroyo’s work, taken as a whole, creates a puzzle of intersecting chronologies, which appear to form the subjective representation of an aesthetic philosophy that reaches toward celestial planes. Humberto Figueroa Iroko, Tree of Life, p. 56 Imna Arroyo bridges art and spirituality in a deeply personal and effective art. She […]
This entry was posted on September 8, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Defusing Radical Alice Neel
Observe these two portraits On the right is the feature image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art current exhibition of the work of Alice Neel “People Come First” It is identified as a portrait of “Elenka”1936, about which there is no information except that she “presumably numbered among the several bohemians with […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
One art exhibition
We only went to one art exhibition on Amorgos. The work of Zaxou Vasiliki. You see her here with the poster for her exhibition and the entrance to her small shop . Her exhibition was in the Chora. Her shop is in Langada. Xazou creates portraits from stained glass that she cuts into mosaic like […]
This entry was posted on August 11, 2021 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Creative Lving in the Cyclades
Of course everyone I spoke of in the last post was creative, archeologists at the museums and the Temple of Demeter, textile artists, potters, Kitron distillers. In this blog post I am highlighting another creative person, Sofia Gavala, partner in the stunning Amorgos beach hotel Lakki Village Family Beach Hotel This hotel is run by […]
This entry was posted on August 11, 2021 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Art, Culture, and Small Museums in the Cyclades
The tiny archeological museums on Amorgos and Naxos were filled with artifacts found on those islands. The intimacy of the spaces, the variety of different types of sculptures, the sense of discovery make visits to these museums delightful. The first museum that we visited was the Archeological Collection of Amorgos, in the […]
This entry was posted on August 10, 2021 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
A Memorial On the island of Amorgos in Greece 2021
We went to Greece to honor Henry’s sister Carolina who died on the Cycladic Island of Amorgos last October. She had a beautiful village funeral the next day. . It is a steep road up from the sea to the mountain village of Langada where Carolina […]
This entry was posted on August 5, 2021 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Grief and Grievance at the New Museum in New York
Grief and Grievance at the New Museum demonstrates the many ways that artist can address grief while collectively suggesting grievance, the resistance to injustice.
This entry was posted on July 8, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Jacob Lawrence and “The American Struggle” at the Seattle Art Museum
Looking at this single image of the Boston Tea Party the no 3 panel in Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle: From The History of the American People” we see how radical Lawrence is in every respect: composition, space, color, subject matter. In stark contrast to his well-known “Migration” series, the work from “Struggle” includes dynamic thrusting […]
This entry was posted on May 5, 2021 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Breathe! at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and several provocative new shows at the Henry Art Gallery
Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery
This entry was posted on April 14, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Port Townsend marks its history with Indigenous groups
Port Townsend reveals its Indigenous History
This entry was posted on April 6, 2021 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, ecology, Indigenous History, Uncategorized. -
Selma Waldman More Important Than Ever in 2021
“Lust for power and territory is the same lust that kills man, women, children and the land itself” Selma Waldman 2002 What would Seattle’s deeply political artist Selma Waldman think of our current catastrophes? On a bitter winter day in January 2008, I accompanied Selma Waldman to the last demonstration that she attended […]
This entry was posted on February 26, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Iran US Collaboration: Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems
“Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems” This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition here […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Art in War, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline at the Burke ( not yet open) and the River of Life
Not yet open at the Burke is Ray Troll’s Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline exhibition. More about the show in a minute, but meanwhile, I want to give a big hooray to the Paleo Nerd podcast that Ray and his friend David Strassman, a ventriloquest, host. Here is Ray’s own website also. The podcast is […]
This entry was posted on December 22, 2020 and is filed under Art and Ecology, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Marela Zacarias at Mad Art brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco
In case you are yearning for a trip to get away from our crazy election or now to celebrate it, go to Mad Art (325 Westlake Avenue N, open Thurs, Fri, Sat noon to 5 and by appointment necessary) Marela Zacarías brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco, a Mesoamerican […]
This entry was posted on November 6, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Na Chainkua Reindorf
Ghanian artist Na Chainkua Reindorf is showing at the Specialist Gallery (until November 21, by appointment) a series of seven stunning works, with the title “Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things” The artist is inviting us to meet members of an imaginary secret society. This is the first phase of a long term […]
This entry was posted on October 25, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Suffering
The Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) WHAT STORY WOULD THE UNINTENDED BENEFICIARIES TELL (WSWUBT), which closes in two days, is a wonderful small selection of artists addressing the suffrage amendment and who was left out. The artists include Carletta Carrington Wilson with a selection from her incredible Letter to a Laundress series that I have […]
This entry was posted on October 22, 2020 and is filed under African American history, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black Art, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Feminism, Uncategorized.
