STEVE JENSEN “Voyager” January 3-26, 2020
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TM STEVE JENSEN “Voyager” January 3-26, 2020 Volume 29 January • February 2020 Number 1 www.ArtAccess.com ArtAccess.com © January • February 2020 1 THE MONTHLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 29 Number 1 “You use a glass mirror to see your face; FEATURES you use works of art to see your soul” ~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Ekphrastic Writing…Janée J. Baugher 3 Irish playwright, critic, and political activist Henry Art Gallery…Susan Noyes Platt 6 Perry and Carlson Gallery…Clare McLean 8 Feature Cascadia Art Museum…Chloé Dye Sherpe 14 VISUAL ART Listings Anacortes, WA 12 Bainbridge Island, WA 12 Bellingham, WA 15 Bremerton , WA 16 Camano Island, WA 17 Listings Edison, WA 17 Edmonds, WA 18 Everett, WA 19 Friday Harbor, WA 19 Jay Steensma • ‘When Imperialism Destroys Itself’ Gig Harbor, WA 19 oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Kirkland, WA 19 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA La Conner, WA 19 Mercer Island, WA 20 Front Cover: Mount Vernon, WA 20 Steve Jensen • “Ice Ghost Vessel” cast lead crystal, 9 x 23 x 11 inches Ocean Shores, WA 20 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Port Orchard, WA 20 Port Townsend, WA 21 Steve Jensen: Voyager Poulsbo, WA 21 Artist Talk & Reception: Seattle, WA Saturday, January 4, 3:30 P.M. • Ballard 22 January 3-26. • Columbia City 23 • Downtown 24 Northwest Masters • First Hill 24 Callahan, Brown, Juvonen, Koenig, • Georgetown 25 McCracken, and Steensma • Pioneer Square 26 January 3-26 • University District 30 Stanwood, WA 31 Birds-Eye View and Leo Osborne Tacoma, WA 31 Reception: Saturday, February 1, 5 P.M. 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Doris Lester, Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, Submission and payment are done online: Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil, Ryan Vancil, Corbin & Georgie Hart, www.artaccess.com/submitprintad Madeline & James Pratt, Cayden & Alder (Happy Birthday!) 2 ArtAccess.com © January • February 2020 Ekphrastic Writing After Allison Collins’ 2002 painting, “Steptoe Butte” The squares of yellows and oranges like a library—all angles in their places until an unsuspecting hand…a melding, a greeting of hand to angle, of that which is fresh and sinewy and pale to the stacks, a landscape of yellow boxes and orange boxes amid a landscape of green expanse and lavender above. Who lingers here and who drives through. Who knows how to mix the rhythm of green—that undulation of grass not yet harvestable for straw, but plumbing in nutrients, hay perhaps, grain or crops, those that someone nods to on his way to the city where cement stacks ride on brick and the sky turns a pink some nights because of the smog, and it makes him recall the purity of a lavender sky astride the velvety green of field, makes him recall the symmetry of these shapes like books on the shelf of his own body. Janée J. Baugher Janée J. Baugher is the author of two ekphrastic poetry collections, The Body’s Physics and Coördinates of Yes. Her poetry and prose have been published in Tin House, The Writer’s Chronicle, Boulevard, NANO Fiction, Nimrod, and The Southern Review, among other places, and she teaches at Richard Hugo House. In autumn 2020, McFarland will publish her academic book, Ekphrastic Writing: A Guide to Visual-Art-Influenced Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. ArtAccess.com © January • February 2020 3 artist Inye Wokoma (L-R) Saya Saya Moriyasu (L-R) artist Cloud Oake and Stephanie Hargrave with Neddy Award Finalist • Seattle, WA and Curtis Taylor Gallery owner Ruth Offen Shift Gallery • Seattle, J. Rinehart Gallery WaterWorks Gallery Seattle, WA Friday Harbor, WA (L-R) Neddy Award finalists Tatiana Garmendia, Emily artist Janna Watson with her paintings artist Ceara Lewis Gherard, Amanda Knowles, Romson Regarde Bustillo, Jite Foster/White Gallery • Seattle, WA Stonington Gallery Agbro, Julia Freeman, Aramis O. Hamer, & Inye Wokoma Junko Yamamoto with her artworks (L-R) artists/beloveds Justin Gibbens & Renee Adams (L-R) artists/beloveds SAM Gallery • Seattle, WA stand next to Gibbens’ triptych Stonington Gallery Elizabeth Leach Gallery • Portland, OR artist Melana Bontrager with her painting artist William Song with his painting artist Steve Parmelee with Traumhaus Gallery • Snohomish, WA ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Arts & Bainbridge Island, artist Ko Kirk Yamahira with his art (L-R) Terry Mark, Benson Wong, Chris Liu, artist Clare Johnson Gallery 4Culture • Seattle, WA Ben Chen (Director of the Culture Center of Taipei ‘57 Biscayne Studios Economic & Cultural Office), and artist Agnes Lee Clarke + Clarke Art + Artifacts • Mercer Island, WA 4 ArtAccess.com © January • February 2020 her art artist Alan Chong Lau with his art artist Zanetka Gawronski artist Tricia Stackle with her art WA ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA with her art Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison WA Traumhaus Gallery • Snohomish, WA with her art (L-R) Stonington Gallery Co-Director artist Lori Vonderhorst with her artworks • Seattle, WA Becky Blanchard with artist Jason Hunt Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA Marty & Bill Holm artist Kelly Haejung Paik with her paintings artist Norman Lundin with his painting • Seattle, WA Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA Greg Kucera Gallery • Seattle, WA his father artist Laurie Potter with her art artist Angela Swedberg with her artist Kathleen Faulkner with her pastels Crafts Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery “Medicine Plant Mask” Scott Milo Gallery • Anacortes, WA WA Bellingham, WA Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA with her artworks artist Susan Mask with her paintings artist Dion Zwirner with her painting • Seattle, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Roby King Gallery • Seattle, WA ArtAccess.com © January • February 2020 5 Installation view of “In Plain Sight” exhibit at the Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington, Seattle photo: Mark Woods, courtesy of the Henry Art Gallery In Plain Sight Henry Art Gallery • Seattle, WA Fifty coffins by Ebony G. Patterson, installation based on his continuing decorated with fabric flowers, fringe, “Water School” project adapted to Henry Art Gallery • Seattle, Washington Henry glitter, lace, rhinestones, ribbon, and each locale where he shows it. For this tassels stand in a dense cluster in the installation, he included large maps of center of the Henry Art Gallery. Glorious the rivers of the Olympic Peninsula and to look at, “Invisible Presence: Bling Lake Washington, highlighting the native Memories,” celebrates as well as mourns. names of rivers and omitting roads. His The coffins bear witness to the lives of work, both visionary and historical, youths killed in violence during only four encourages us to think about water on weeks. At the same time, in the tradition indigenous land and the colonialism of of Carnival, they suggest a celebration. dams, pipelines and other abuses. Patterson amplifies that with three almost mural scaled collages that celebrate with These two impressive works are part of a dense pattern of toys and, on the floor, “In Plain Sight,” the first large exhibition paper-mâché balloons, the hopes and joys by Senior Curator Shamim M. Momin. of youth who die young with titles like The exhibit features fourteen national “…they were filled with hope, desire and and international artists whom we have beauty (…when they grow up…).” not seen in Seattle. It fills the entire Henry Art Gallery with artists who Nearby we mount a large platform with address topics, communities, and stories several bookcases, part of Oscar Tuazon’s not usually visible in public spaces. The exhibition gives us the opportunity to see artists with a sharp critical edge as they expose untold narratives. For example, Sadie Barnette’s moving installation “Room to Live” features the story of her father, Rodney Barnette, who was an active, but little-known, Black Panther, under extensive FBI surveillance. She juxtaposes redacted pages of his FBI file with a living room setting from the sixties, suggesting his personal life. Sanford Biggers’ combination of sculpture and textile mixed media wall pieces also forces us to rethink racial clichés and