5 top Seattle shows opening Thursday

Lawrimore Project Spite House curated by Yoko Ott & Jessica Powers, featuring Matt Browning (Seattle)
Andrew Dadson (Vancouver)
Eli Hansen with Herman Beans and Joey Piecuch (Tacoma)
Christian Kliegel (Vancouver)
Bert Rodriguez (Miami)
SuttonBeresCuller (Seattle)
Aaron Young (New York)

Opening night hours are 6-9 p.m, an hour later than openings, so go there last.

Theme: Andrew Alpern:

The physicists tell us that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction….There is apparently an element of the human character that parallels that law of physics…Sometimes, the push-back becomes so counter-productive and even self-defeating that it appears to be generated merely by spite, rather than by rational thought.
This human element of spitefulness appears to come to its fullest flower when adjoining property owners disagree. Spite fences [houses] had a long tradition in urban America, at least until legal statutes and judicial decisions evolved as ammunition against them. Their builders have ranged across the social and economic spectrum, with the most spectacular barriers erected by people who possessed large amounts of both spite and money.

Howard House Robert Yoder, Send Me an Angel, a residency, workshop, collaboration, exhibition, and Carrie Marrill, Visual Aids

Punch Gallery Patricia Hagan Fullness Passing

Soil Land(e)scape with Julie Alpert, Lise Graham, Cable Griffith