Seattle galleries: November openings

More than a year into a recession that still has its slenderizing grip on art galleries, November offers a strong showing all around.

Thursday night, 6-8 p.m.

Rabbits dress better than you do: Fay Jones at Grover/Thurston Gallery.

Now hear this: Ken Kelly at Howard House.

Nobody’s web site works all the time. Lawrimore Project‘s
online presence is not functioning as I type this, but its opening
gambit this month is the three-man team that changed the meaning of
relational aesthetics in Seattle: John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler. (Update: It’s back to functional again.)

Parrots continue bejeweled: Alfredo Arreguin at Linda Hodges Gallery.

No jewels in sight: Ellen Ziegler, Jean Little and Julia Freeman at Soil, with Nola Avienne ‘s Shields in the backspace.
Bill Finger at Punch Gallery: Miniatures made and photographed from the movies. Below, Pyscho.
Opening later in the month:

Juliana Heyne does her best work out of town. She opens at Francine Seders Gallery Nov. 6, with a reception for the artist Nov. 8, 2-4 p.m.

The obsessive nature of creation at Vermillion, featuring Sharon Arnold, Trevor Johnson and Ryan Molenkamp, opening Nov. 6.

Last call for Crawl Space,
the artist-run cooperative that kicked the quality up several notches
in the region. Opening Nov. 7, Stranger Circumstances, curated by
Jennifer Campbell and featuring the all-star cast of Massimo Guerrera,
PDL, Alana Riley and Ron Tran.

Moonlight shines on the forest that isn’t there: Margie Livingston at Greg Kucera, opening Nov. 10.

Also opening Nov.19 at Kucera: more in the way of totems from Ed Wicklander.

Carving stone into spirit: James Washington Jr. at Woodside/Braseth Gallery, opening Nov. 12.

Pop Surrealism is alive and well at Roq La Rue, with Brian Despain and John Brody opening Nov. 13.
Akio Takamori and Danny Lyons at James Harris, opening date not yet given.

Tannaz Farsi engages in self-haunting at Ohge Ltd, opening Nov. 28.