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For its 50th anniversary Tacoma Community College features works by current and former art instructors and alumni, and it's one of the better shows I've seen there in quite some time. Entering the gallery, you're faced with a wall of circular shapes in shades of white and brown that looked to
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I've been keeping up with Susan Christian's art for well over 20 years. The nine little paintings she has on display at Batdorf and Bronson's flagship coffee house in Olympia are among the best of her works I have ever seen. Here's the thing about Susan Christian: Based solely on her
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The title of the smaller show in the back gallery at Kittredge Gallery is "Between Chance and Control." That title well describes the main show as well: "Process Drawings: Recent Works by Makato Fujimura." I'm tempted to say Fujimura's drawings are dull, and in a way they are - dull in
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The latest art exhibit at South Puget Sound Community College is a group show called "Her Story." As described in the show announcement, this exhibition "contributes a verse to the volume that is the creative feminine. The works of six invited artists ... consider the multiple facets of the creative
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I have always thought Dale Chihuly's drawings were more impressive than his glass creations, but I have never seen enough of his drawings to say so until now. "Chihuly Drawings" at Museum of Glass makes the case quite emphatically. One hundred and eighty-six drawings fill the main gallery at MOG,
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"Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico" is a major coup for Tacoma Art Museum. This major national touring exhibition featuring 22 of O'Keeffe's paintings and 42 paintings by her contemporaries who lived and worked in New Mexico for a while. Over a period of approximately 30
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You have only a few more days to see Aisha Harrison's collaborative installation at South Puget Sound Community College and only until Saturday to see the big Hart James exhibition at The Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia. So get moving. I'd hate for you to miss either
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I can hardly wait to see "Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico" at Tacoma Art Museum. As a matter of fact, I won't wait; I'll preview it now instead of writing my regular review column, and then I will review it for the March 12 Weekly
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"Building the Future: Collections at Evergreen" highlights not only works of art from the art gallery collection at The Evergreen State College but also collections from the Malcolm Stilson Archives and Special Collections, the Chicano/Latino Archive, the James F. Holly Rare Books Collection, the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center and
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Maybe I shouldn't review this latest show at B2 Fine Art because I am in the show, but not reviewing it would not be fair to the gallery or the other participating artists. So I won't mention my own work other than to say it is an honor to be
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Tom Anderson is one of the most prolific and most popular artists in Olympia. His public works include the Park of the Seven Oaks, paintings in the lobby of Providence St. Peter Hospital, Panorama City, St. Martin's University, Bates Technical and Olympia's City Hall. Childhood's End has been showing his
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South Puget Sound's most popular annual art exhibition returns for 2015 and it's bigger and better than ever. It's the postcard show. Artists are invited to enter postcard-size works of art. Size is the only limitation, and artists are encouraged to respond to a theme. This year's theme is "Out
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Who doesn't enjoy browsing through old photographs from days gone by? In addition to the enjoyment that is inevitable when looking at vintage photos, the "Found Photographs" exhibition in the Gallery at Tacoma Community College is filled with creative expression in a variety of media from photos to paintings and
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One of the South Sound's greatest living artists has at long last been given some of the recognition he deserves. Ron Hinson is revered by his fellow artists but has never before been recognized as he should have been by the art establishment. Now South Puget Sound Community College and
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Matter Gallery in Olympia is closing at the end of the month - at least in their present location. The owners of this artist-run gallery say they are looking into options for reopening in another location, but at least for the foreseeable near future they are history. And what a history. Jo
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Elise Koncsek's "Sneak Peek" in the Woolworth Windows is an impressive and fun work of art. It consists of flat, cut-out images in a pop style not unlike children's book illustrations. There are stylized trees and animals, and each one has peepholes at adult and child levels. What you see
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The Thurston County Family & Juvenile Court is not a place people are likely to go with the intention of viewing art, but the court is open to the public and there is a lot of exciting art to be seen. "The Butterfly Effect" is a new permanent installation in the
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Grab a seat in one of the vintage school desks scattered haphazardly about Tacoma Art Museum's spacious Weyerhaeuser gallery and prepare to be immersed in desolate beauty as Mary Lucier's five-channel video installation "The Plains of Sweet Regret" takes you to another time and place not so far away -
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I don't know how she does it. Susan Christian, owner of Salon Refu, keeps discovering artists of note. Or maybe they find her. The latest is Jean Nagia, an artist completely new to me. He painted the bright, geometric abstract mural on the side of Salon Refu, and he's working
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If you haven't seen Kellë McLaughlin's art, which I had not until this week, you really should. Her "Bestial Mirrors" at Fulcrum Gallery is a skillfully presented mythology or bestiary of imaginative and fierce imagery. In bold wood block prints and even bolder ceramic sculptures, McLaughlin creates hybrid creatures with