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TM Andrew Vallee • “Edison, No. 3” • bronze, big leaf maple, 3 x 8 x 5 inches • Photo: Camille Nordgren PATTY HALLER ANDREW VALLEE September 6-29, 2019 Volume 28 September • October 2019 Number 5 www.ArtAccess.com THE MONTHLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 28 Number 5 “Things are not difficult to make; FEATURE what is difficult is puting ourselves Write of Way…Mary Lou Sanelli 4 in the state of mind to make them.” Poetry…Alan Chong Lau 6 ~Constantin Brancusi Romanian artist (1876-1957) Joe Max Emminger…Eddie Everett 10 Seattle Art Museum…Susan Noyes Platt 12 Feature Edison Art Scene…Chloé Dye Sherpe 14 Poetry…Paul Hunter 16 VISUAL ART Anacortes • Arlington, WA 17 Bainbridge Island, WA 17 Bellingham, WA 20 Bremerton , WA 21 Camano Island, WA 21 Listings Edison, WA 22 Edmonds, WA 23 Patty Haller • “Jeweled Understory’ oil on panel, 18 x 24 inches Everett, WA 23 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Friday Harbor, WA 24 Kingston, WA 24 Kirkland, WA 24 Front Cover: La Conner, WA 26 Andrew Vallee • “Edison, No. 3” Mercer Island, WA 25 bronze, big leaf maple, 3 x 8 x 5 inches photo: Camille Nordgren Mount Vernon, WA 26 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Port Orchard, WA 26 Port Townsend, WA 27 Poulsbo, WA 27 Seattle, WA Patty Haller | Andrew Vallee September 6-29, 2019 • Ballard 28 Artist Talk: Saturday, September 7, 3:30 P.M. • Columbia City 29 Reception to Follow, 5-7 P.M. • Downtown 30 • First Hill 30 Julia “Joules” Martin | Brian O’Neil • Georgetown 31 October 4-27, 2019 • Pioneer Square 32 Artist Talk: Saturday, October 5, 3:30 P.M. • University District 37 Reception to Follow, 5-7 P.M. Snohomish, WA 38 Stanwood, WA 38 Tacoma, WA 38 Vashon Island, WA 39 Smith & Vallee Gallery Whidbey Island, WA 39 5742 Gilkey Avenue Yakima, WA 39 Edison, Washington 98232 Daily: 11-5 P.M. MAPS (360) 766-6230 • [email protected] Bainbridge Island, WA 20 www.smithandvalleegallery.com Poulsbo, WA 27 Downtown Seattle, WA 29 Publisher Maps Georgetown Map 31 Debbi Lester Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 35 Special Thanks Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Cheryl H. Hahn, Karen Stanton, Gregory Hischak, Gwen Wilson, Art Access Clare McLean, Alec Clayton, Sean Carman, Tom McDonald, (888) 970-9991 Kathy Cain, Deloris Tarzan Ament, Elizabeth Bryant, [email protected] Susan Noyes Platt, Molly Norris, Ron Glowen, Adriana Grant, Molly Rhodes, Milton Freewater, Erica Applewhite, Box 4163 • Seattle, WA 98194 Mitchell Weitzman, Lauren Gallow, David John Anderson, Nov/Dec info & payment due October 10. Rachella Anderson, Kim Hendrickson, Christine Waresak, Eleanor Pigman, Edie Everette, Katie Kurtz, Chris Mitchell, Listing in Art Access is a paid service. Tammy Spears & Shauna Fraizer, Meg McHutchison, The charge for 60 word listing per month is Bill Frisell & Caroled’Inverno, Steve Freeborn & Tia Matthies, Museum of Northwest Art, Schack Art Center, $39 or $51 with map placement, if available. Frye Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Arts Museum, Initial map placement one-time design fee is $35. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Allied Arts of Whatcom, Cascade Art Museum, Alliance for Pioneer Square, Image(s) with the listing: $110 each. Limit 4. Doris Lester, Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, Submission and payment are done online: Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil, Ryan, Corbin & Georgie, Madeline & James, www.artaccess.com/submitprintad Cayden (Happy Birthday!) & Alder 2 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2019 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2019 3 Lyft Share, Yes Please Some of my worst days lately have been the ones that I thought driving across town was a good idea. So, I’ve decided to sell my car. And here’s why. Now that we have the Lyft share option, I can no longer justify owning a car in the city. Write of Way Write Now, I’m not preaching the gospel of not owning a car; if I believed that, I’d have sold mine years ago. One friend says that since I’m from New York, I’m more cut out for public transit. “But I’m from Seattle,” he said. “But Seattle is the most forward-thinking city about transportation,” I said. I don’t remember much else about that conversation, just that the real differences between us were highlighted in the collection of odd shaped mirrors above the bar at Tavolata where they’ve been brought to light before. Last time he said that my apartment reminds him of a bento box. Granted, I live in Belltown, where parking is more of an issue. But the fact that I can ride to just about anywhere I need to go in the city for under five dollars if I’m willing to share feels like a gift. It is a gift. “Thank you!” I cried the first time I tapped the share option, as though I’d just unwrapped one. Many of my Lyft drivers have been surprisingly enlightening. My last was from Afghanistan. He wanted to know all about Velocity, the dance studio he was taking me to, because he loves to dance but under the Taliban he was not allowed to. He had a regal presence with brown hair and eyes and a white dress shirt. I wore workout sweats. But the rider we picked up was so covered with dog hair and what looked like dog slobber that this put a lid on my feeling frumpy-American. He was nice though. Our driver said he was grateful to be in this country. “I wish Americans had just helped us more, not invaded.” I found his comment refreshing. I no longer want to hear what journalists think Afghans think. I want to understand from Afghans what they think. Once he cleared that up, we talked about other things. Like the last mass shooting, though, sadly, I don’t even remember which one. He said—I’m paraphrasing, but only slightly—“he had so many rounds, that crazy shooter! He shot and shot! I really don’t think our forefathers had an AK-47 in mind when they thought about the right to bear arms. I don’t think they ever meant that.” What really got me was the way he said, “our” forefathers. I mean every time our government pisses me off lately, I’m more than happy to call myself an Italian again. Not every ride is as interesting. One driver picked me up at the Fauntleroy Ferry and for the entire drive I was on the receiving end of a nonsensical monologue. Before driving off, he thanked me for the great conversation. “Is that what that was?” I said. And slammed the door. Yet, all of these people make me get up from my desk and look out the window at the street beneath my fifth floor window. And I think, that driver, in his grey Toyota Prius, who is he? Mary Lou Sanelli Mary Lou Sanelli, author, speaker, and dance teacher, lives in Seattle. Her forthcoming novel, “The Star Struck Dance Studio (of Yucca Springs)” is to be published in September, (Chatwin Books). Please join her at Village Books, in Bellingham, 7 P.M.; at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, Saturday, October 12, 6 P.M.; at Watermark Book Company on Thursday, October 17, 6 P.M., on Bainbridge Island at Eagle Harbor Book Company on Sunday, October 20, 3 P.M.; or at the Rose Theatre in Port Townsend, Sunday, October 27, 1 P.M. For more information, visit www.marylousanelli.com. 4 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2019 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2019 5 Poetry photograph by John Levy this girl from a vermeer painting sits on a bus engrossed in words everything around her moves but she sits still in time the silence will tell its own story Alan Chong Lau 6 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2019 photograph by John Levy tthis crow taking flight its shadow a paper cut emblazened on this wall Alan Chong Lau Alan Chong Lau is a poet and painter exhibiting his art locally at ArtXChange Gallery in Seattle, Washington. Alan Chong Lau and John Levy have just published their third volume of poetry and photograph collaboration with the online literary magazine, otata. To view more of their work, visit www.otatablog.wordpress.com. ArtAccess.com © September • October 2019 7 (L-R) artists Bill Whipple, artist Hib Sabin artist Zanele Muholi with her photographs Smith & Vallee Buster Simpson, with his sculptures Seattle Art Museum • Seattle, WA Andrew Vallee and Michael Spafford Stonington Gallery his art at the Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA Seattle, WA (L-R) artists Karen Dedrickson (L-R) jewelry artist Micki Lippe, Gallery Assistant artist Žanetka and Chris Baumgartner with their artworks Jennifer Smith, jewelry artist Maru Almeida, Core Gallery Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts • Mercer Island, WA and WaterWorks Gallery owner Ruth Offen WaterWorks Gallery • Friday Harbor, WA artist Melissa Jeter Albrecht with her art artist Tarran Sklenar stands with her painting artist Ryan Finnerty Hamilton Building Art Collective • Seattle, WA Plank Studios + Gallery in Seattle, WA Core artist Louise Hankes with her artworks artist Marilyn Charlat Dix with her paintings artist Aaliyah Fogue Gallery • Seattle, WA Fogue Gallery • Seattle, WA Core Gallery Gallery 110 artist artist Bridget Louise O’Brien-Smith artist Matthew Harkleroad artist Leah Gerrard 8Dorothy Anderson WassermanArtAccess.com stands with her © painting September with his • daughterOctober and artworks 2019 her sculpture at the Seattle Art Fair Hamilton Building Artist Collective Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, Seattle, WA Gallery artist Gallery 110 artist Michael Abraham artist Kate Sweeney with her artwork artist Allice Dubiel and her stands with with his art at the Seattle Art Fair Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA beloved Jim Hopfenbeck Seattle Art Fair CoCA • Seattle, WA K.