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The current show at Brick House Gallery is an eclectic selection of current work (all done since 2013) by more than 20 artists including many old friends who have shown often at this and other Tacoma galleries. My overall impression was that there are three or four excellent works and
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There's only one thing to see in the art gallery at South Puget Sound Community College, but it will draw you in like the smell of pine leaves in a forest. It is Mike Adams' "Gothic Forest." The installation incorporates video projections on suspended sewn-mesh forms evocative of natural forests and
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I entered the "1001 Faces Exhibition" at B2 Fine Art Gallery with less than stellar expectations, after having been inundated with tribal masks for more than 20-odd years since moving to the Pacific Northwest. But I must say I was pleasantly surprised and even moved by some of the contemporary
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Three years ago I wrote that painter Becky Knold was an up-and-coming late bloomer and galleries should take a look at her. Since then her work has become ubiquitous. Galleries took a look, and they liked what they saw. This week she had openings at two different galleries on successive
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Johanna Drucker is known worldwide for her book art combining poetry, prose, visual art and innovative use of typography. The exhibition "Selected Druckworks: Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker" at The Evergreen State College is a smaller version of Drucker's 40-year retrospective exhibition, "Druckworks," which is currently touring the country.
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I am about to say something that many lovers of modern art will consider downright sacrilegious. Here it is: I do not care for Agnes Martin's paintings. Never have. To me they are boring, and the new show at Tacoma Art Museum has done nothing to change my mind. We
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The Camille Patha show at Tacoma Art Museum is stupendous. Frankly, having seen her paintings only on a computer screen, I had not expected anything so great. On my computer they were too slick, too intense, and overwhelming in a not-good way; but the real deal is breathtaking. The show is
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The latest show at Tacoma Public Library's Handforth Gallery features paintings, photography and mixed-media works by three artists, all of which investigate the effects of time as weather wears away urban and industrial buildings and machinery. What strikes me about these works is that they all seem to be crying
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Once again the gallery at South Puget Sound Community College is filled with well over 200 artists' postcards. This year the theme is "It's the Water," the old Olympia Beer slogan. About a third of the show is made up of trite photos, watercolors, and other images of water, with quite
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Carla Paine's paintings at Olyphant Art Supply in Olympia are as rich and luscious as the settings for her portraits and still-lifes. They harken back to a time when artists were considered to have been chosen and blessed by God, when they painted their pictures for kings and popes and
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The latest show at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College is outstanding. It provides a look into the art and cultures - and most particularly the lives of working class people throughout the world as seen through the eyes of local artists. Included are paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography by
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Excuse this old reviewer, but there's not much of anything showing this week that I want to review and haven't already, but there are a lot of interesting shows scheduled for early in the year 2014. The new exhibition that just opened in The Gallery at Tacoma Community College is called
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If we can trust the evidence of the past three months, Salon Refu in Olympia is now one of the best art galleries between Seattle and Portland. And Mary Randlett is the most celebrated photographer in the Pacific Northwest. Recognized as an outstanding landscape photographer and celebrated for her marvelous
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A dozen plus one of Tacoma's most well-known artists are represented in the "Sixth Annual Greater Tacoma Community Foundation of Art Award Exhibit" with a variety of prints, drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures. It's a cornucopia of every imaginable style and media that can be tastefully crammed into the small Fulcrum
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You are invited to travel through the byways of Eastern Washington, Oregon and Idaho with photographer Dennis DeHart at Galerie Fotoland at The Evergreen State College. DeHart, a TESC graduate who teaches photography at Washington State University, has trained his lens on many of the out-of-the-way places in the Northwest
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The "Northwest Mystics" exhibition at Tacoma's B2 Fine Art Gallery is a museum worthy exhibition of works by the Northwest School and the Hood Canal Colony. From the 1920s through the '50s and ‘60s, these were the artists who put the Pacific Northwest in America's art consciousness: Guy Anderson, Elton
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The first thing I thought when I visited Thomas Studio Art Gallery in Olympia to see M.W. Lindenmeyer's pastels was this stuff is funny. And then I thought it's more than just funny; it's also smart. And then references came to mind. These pictures remind me of Red Grooms and
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This seems to be one of those in-between-shows periods at Tacoma Art Museum when they trot out stuff from their permanent collection to fill the galleries. It's a good thing, too, because they have some outstanding art that we'd otherwise seldom or never get to see. One such show is
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The show is called Shimmering Tree: A Projection by Jennifer Steinkamp. The single work in the show is a digital projection called "Mike Kelley," named after Steinkamp's teacher. It is, indeed, a tree that shimmers - a projected image on the back wall of the largest gallery in Tacoma Art
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Artists have played with tricks of visual perception forever. The ancient Greeks used optical illusions in their temples. Michelangelo used it in his sculpture of David tapering the figure so that it got larger toward the top in order to look normal when viewed from below. Perhaps the most famous