This just in: Susan Robb is opening a small exhibit of videos and photos on powder-coated steel shelves in the back room of Lawrimore Project, with a lecture by Robb at the gallery at 8. 
Archives for September 2009
Johnny Ryan: From Angry Youth to Prison Pit
Johnny Ryan, most known for his Angry Youth Comix, is taking his characters inside the metaphoric big house in his head.
Ryan opens an exhibit at Fantagraphics Gallery Oct. 10, 6 -9 p.m., accompanying the launch of his graphic novel, Prison Pit.
She who digs newspapers…
ignores the view.
Martin Parr, Snowdonia, via.
Is First Thursday over?
Even though it’s the first Thursday of the month, very few Pioneer Square galleries are opening shows tomorrow night. In the old days, when PS galleries marched in lock step, everybody opened on First Thursday and closed at the end of the month.
That 12-show a year schedule was tough to maintain. Too tough, plus, it didn’t allow for the work to sink in. Some galleries drifted toward 6-week shows, and others began to open and close when they felt like it.
But never have so few galleries debuted on First Thursday.
What’s there is top of the line. The usual others will be open as well, even though they are nearly all at the end of a run.
Matthew Offenbacher …
and Tony De Los Reyes…
open at Howard House.
Also, Tim Roda …
and Drew Daly …
open at Greg Kucera. That’s all in the way of mainstream galleries. Fortunately, mainstream galleries aren’t the only ones in the Square. Soil opens what looks like a fascinating invitational lineup, and Punch is auctioning off its entire group show, $10 per ticket.
I’m in. Among other tempting offerings, the piece below, by Ries Niemi, is calling my name.
Stranger Genius Awards 2009
Visual art goes to Jeffry Mitchell, on view at Ambach & Rice through Oct. 18. (Review here)
Jen Graves on Mitchell getting his Genius Cake here. This year’s other awards here.
Coyote Consciousness
Transformation, trickery and transcendence in Seattle’s Occidental Park:
Ries Niemi on Peter Santino’s career apology
Previous post: Peter Santino is sorry
Okay, I am hopelessly biased – Pete has been a friend of mine for a long long time, and I respect his work immensely, and own a few pieces of it, too. But how is it so hard to comprehend that he is BOTH sincerely sorry, and ironic, sly, and making comments about the art world? Many of the best artists have not been 100% pure of art (or heart). The human brain, and soul, is perfectly capable of feeling two things at once. In fact, its probably incapable of NOT doing so.
Santino, 1977, at and/or in Seattle:
Santino is sorry because he did not become recognized as an artist by the powers that be. And by the time we get to 50, any artist who is halfway honest with him or herself is probably sorry as well. Santino is sorry because he did not accomplish all his grand plans, the ones he had when he was young and snarky and commenting on blogs.
At Roscoe Louie in 1979, in Seattle:
detail
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