Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
Preview â The Gallery Guide â April-May 2007
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SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, WA – <strong>May</strong> 5-Sept 9 <strong>The</strong> Seattle Art Museum reopens this spring after a<br />
major expansion of the downtown building. Exciting programming for <strong>2007</strong>/08 includes an<br />
exhibition of 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum, a Gaylen Hansen<br />
retrospective, Roman Art from the Louvre and a major exhibit of Coast Salish Art.<br />
<strong>The</strong> inaugural exhibit, SAM at 75: Building a Collection for<br />
Seattle, features new acquisitions and gifts in honour of the<br />
Museum’s upcoming 75th anniversary. Approximately 200<br />
pieces will be featured in the galleries and also integrated<br />
within the permanent collections.<br />
When entering the block-long public space of the new<br />
SAM building, impressive installations by Cai Guo-Qiang can<br />
be viewed on the first and second floors. On the ground level<br />
is Inopportune: Stage One, a nine-car piece meant to re-enact a<br />
Ford Taurus somersaulting through the air. Each suspended<br />
vehicle represents a moment in time, like stills from a video.<br />
Colourful flashing LED lights give the piece a theatrical tone<br />
that adds to the experiential element of the work. In an<br />
adjacent gallery, a video work by Guo-Qiang entitled Illusion<br />
depicts a car exploding in Times Square, New York. <strong>The</strong> actual<br />
burned car used in the creation of the piece accompanies the<br />
video for a heightened sense of reality. Both of these works are<br />
preview<br />
www.seattleartmuseum.org<br />
SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle<br />
Cai Guo-Qiang, Inopportune: Stage One, (2004),<br />
cars and sequenced multi-channel light tubes<br />
[Seattle Art Museum, WA, <strong>May</strong> 5-Sept 9]<br />
part of SAM’s recent acquisitions and can be viewed in the free public spaces of the new expansion.<br />
Five Masterpieces of Asian Art: <strong>The</strong> Story of their Conservation, is also on view as part of SAM at<br />
75. <strong>The</strong> display features new conservation techniques used on recently conserved Japanese and<br />
Korean works. Allyn Cantor<br />
TACOMA<br />
★ Museum of Glass<br />
1801 E Dock St ✆(253)284-4750<br />
866-4MUSEUM<br />
www.museumofglass.org<br />
wed-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm 3rd<br />
thurs 10am-8pm Admission: free for<br />
members, $10 general, $8 seniors,<br />
military and students (13+ with ID), $8<br />
groups of 10+, $4 children (6-12 yrs),<br />
children under 6 free, admission is free<br />
every 3rd thurs from 5-8pm. Watch<br />
artists work with molten glass in the<br />
Hot Shop Amphitheater. Thru <strong>May</strong> 27<br />
Transparently Built, glass installations<br />
of site-specific works; Thru Jun 3 Jim<br />
Campbell, “Quantizing Effects: <strong>The</strong><br />
Liminal Art of Jim Campbell”, interactive<br />
multi-media works created<br />
between 1993 and 2003. Campbells’<br />
sculptural installations present novel<br />
ways of transmitting images, from<br />
LED screens to touch-sensitive computers<br />
to `explore the phenomena of<br />
human perception and mutability as<br />
they relate to technological advance;<br />
74 PREVIEW<br />
Thru Nov 2009 Contrasts: a Glass<br />
Primer, introduction to the medium of<br />
glass.<br />
★ Tacoma Art Museum<br />
1701 Pacific Ave ✆(253)272-4258<br />
www.TacomaArtMuseum.org<br />
mon-sat 10am-5 pm sun 12-5pm 3rd<br />
thurs 10am-8pm Admission: members<br />
free, non-members $6.50-7.50, children<br />
5 and under free, 3rd thurs free<br />
Thru <strong>May</strong> 8 8th Northwest Biennial,<br />
demonstrates the broad spectrum of<br />
artistic activities in the Northwest since<br />
2003; Thru <strong>May</strong> 23 Paul Strand, “Paul<br />
Strand Southwest”, seminal figure in<br />
the history of photography. This exhibition<br />
presents many images drawn from<br />
the artist’s estate including dramatic<br />
landscapes, decayed ghost towns, the<br />
noble architecture of adobe churches<br />
and austere portraits of his wife,<br />
Rebecca; Thru Jun 10 Frida Kahlo,<br />
“Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon”, photographic<br />
portraits by artists Edward<br />
Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lucienne<br />
Bloch, Emmy Lou Packard, Florence<br />
Arquin, Manuel Alvarez Bravo,<br />
Giselle Freund, Fritz Henle, Guillermo<br />
Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, Lola<br />
Alvarez Bravo; Northwest Visions of<br />
Frida Kahol, features northwest artists<br />
inspired by Kahlo, the artist and icon<br />
including Randy Hayes, Alfredo<br />
Arrequin, Jim Riswold, Isaac Hernandez<br />
Ruiz, Fulgencio Lazo, and others;<br />
Ongoing Telling Stories: Selections<br />
from the Permanent Collection,<br />
explores how artists capture the spirit<br />
and essence of narrative tales.<br />
★ William Traver <strong>Gallery</strong><br />
1821 E Dock St, #100<br />
✆(253)383-3685<br />
www.travergallery.com<br />
tues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm Open<br />
3rd Thurs Artwalks 5-8pm Thru Apr 8<br />
Jeremy Lepisto, “A Place In Between”,<br />
kiln cast glass sculpture; Apr 14-<strong>May</strong> 6<br />
Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and<br />
Jasen Johnsen, “Owls”, blown and offhand<br />
sculpted glass; Dick Weiss, “Clay<br />
and Glass: Paint, Paint, Paint”, ceramics<br />
and glass with enamels; <strong>May</strong> 12-<br />
Jun 10 Kathleen Elliott, flame worked<br />
glass botanical sculptures.<br />
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS