I have heard Dana Schutz’s work compared to that of the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig. I have heard her speak about the influence of German Expressionism upon her, and about her admiration for many contemporary artists, including the Latvian Ella Kruglyanskaya. But Schutz’s work is so unique and idiosyncratic that one is hard-pressed to pinpoint her artistic lineage.
Read MoreThe exhibit includes personal work generated between the late 1990s and 2015. Of note is Cavin Jones’ attempt to subvert or “flip the script” on black stereotypes.
Read More“Truss” is a full-scale replica of a timber roof support from the Traction building, a former trolley-manufacturing warehouse now serving as studio space for Traction’s collective of 12 artists, all PAFA alumni.
Read MorePost-war Japanese photography has enjoyed a reputation for being provocative and alien to the Western eye–a boiling concoction of a reeling political environment and shifting cultural landscapes.
Read MoreThe Internet exists somewhere between the real and the theoretical: a new digital plane of existence. Now on view at Fjord Gallery, Interface presents a spectrum of art that reflects and considers the role of the technology user.
Read MoreThe unity and divide between man and nature is and has long been a prevailing theme of many artists and curators. Open Field at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) draws on the functions, failures, and artifices created between nature and culture to explore aspects of the great man/nature divide.
Read MoreLisa Simpson was often pigeonholed as the creative character. Mostly because she had feelings and expressed them. I’d like to know what adult Lisa would have to say about this Jacobin article, “Forced to Love the Grind” by Miya Tokumitsu, detailing the new tyrannical enslavement/evocation of “passion”.
Read MoreHolland has headlined at major concert halls, jazz clubs and cabaret rooms, in addition to performing in theater, developing a diverse fan base in the process. Her previous studio album, Before Love Has Gone, received acclaim from jazz, pop, and cabaret critics alike, and made the critic’s list as a Top CD of the Year at USA Today and as an Album Pick by All Music Guide.
Read MoreThe turnout for opening night was quite impressive. The entry line stretched for more than a block. The venue was a bit odd: the CenturyLink Field Event Center, which sits in the shadow of CenturyLink Field, where a Seattle Mariners evening game was in progress, literally over our heads.
Read MoreIvey’s work leaves a lasting impression of concern for the true victims left to suffer following nuclear warfare. Amid the sculptures depicting skeletal remains and an overturned tricycle at the center of the room, it is safe to say that Ivey sees the negative impacts of these events as all-encompassing.
Read MoreThe monochromatic, intricate world that Fensterstock created in “Colorless Field” with thousands of strips of cut paper, polished plexiglass, and crushed charcoal suggests that creation of the universe was an immense, complex, laborious evolutionary task if it was not accomplished with a magic wand.
Read MoreNoreen appreciates a different view of Americana offered by several contemporary photographers. The show is often colorful, and just as often vaguely unsettling.
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