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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. -
Maya Lin’s Confluence Revisited 2020
Revisiting Cape Disappointment and the Confluence Project 2020
This entry was posted on September 12, 2020 and is filed under a green future?, Art and Ecology, Uncategorized. -
Ling Chun Apostrophe S
Galleries are slowly reopening. Method Gallery has a wonderful new installation by Ling Chun. When I first saw it, I was confounded. Ling is a ceramic artist in her training, but what she does with ceramics is so innovative, that she must now be called a multimedia artist at the intersection of pop, modernism, and […]
This entry was posted on July 26, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
CHOP the Garden
July 18 I went back for another look at the site of CHOP and found it was a large garden in Cal Anderson Park sponsored by Black Star Farmers. They have grown a lot of vegetables all with volunteer help. When I was there they were rinsing kale leaves to donate to a community kitchen […]
This entry was posted on July 18, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
A Sunday Trip to the Olympic Sculpture Park
Taking a break from the heavy news and politics, we take an”expedition” every Sunday in Seattle. Last weekend we went to the Wooden Boat Center and went rowing. This Sunday we went to the Olympic Sculpture Park. Here is Beverly Pepper’s Persephone Unbound. 1999. “The abstract language of form that I have chosen has become […]
This entry was posted on July 13, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Occupying the Northwest African American Museum
The Colman School, site of the Northwest African American Museum, has been occupied since Juneteenth by Omari Tahir, Earl Debnam, and others to declare that they are the rightful owners of the property based on a purchase agreement and loan agreement from January 1998, a copy of which they provided to me. Tahir and Debnam […]
This entry was posted on July 7, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Capitol Hill Organized Protest
Capitol Hill Occupied ( now called Organized) Protest is evolving as I write, so this is simply a report that will have to be updated. Everyone heard about the tear gas confrontation from Sunday June 6-7 and the departure of the police from 10th precinct, the “zone” as it was called then. I went down […]
This entry was posted on June 20, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Intersections in the Chinatown International District: Dim Sum, Seafood and Black Lives Matter
Our unique family-owned businesses in the International District have already suffered from the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic because of the absurd ideas coming from DC. Then came willful acts of destruction following a protest May 29 not by peaceful protestors, but by outsiders. But the day after the destruction volunteers began to show […]
This entry was posted on June 18, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Seattle after George Floyd Murder: Protest, Anger, Marches, Occupation
We have had a 180 turn in mood in the last two weeks, as a result of the murder of George Floyd. I am now seeing the anger about racism and police violence leading to demands to defund the police, whereas before we were “all in this together” to stay home ( which of course […]
This entry was posted on June 17, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Covid 19 murals in Seattle: Ballard
This is the only series of photos that I didn’ t take myself. Ballard seems far from where I live. So I asked around and put together these images. Thanks to Jeff Hou and Sean Yale. But of course they are not in any particular sequence and Ballard seems to have the least online presence […]
This entry was posted on May 22, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized.
