Voyager: STEVE JENSEN

TM Voyager: STEVE JENSEN Also on exhibit: The 2017 Pilchuck Glass School Emerging Artists in Residence OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 3, 2018 Volume 27 September • October 2018 Number 5 www.ArtAccess.com 2 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2018 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2018 3 THE MONTHLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 27 Number 5 “Writing is a lonely business.” FEATURE ~ Sherman Alexie Feature “In Red Ink” at the Museum of Northwest Art American Writer …Susan Noyes Platt 8 VISUAL ART Anacortes, WA 10 Bainbridge Island, WA 10 Bellevue, WA 12 Bellingham, WA 13 Camano Island, WA 14 Listings Edison, WA 14 Edmonds, WA 15 Ellensburg, WA 16 Everett, WA 16 Steve Jensen • “Crystal Swirling Boat” cast lead crystal, 9 x 24 x 9, photo credit: Linda Young Friday Harbor, WA 16 Schack Art Center • Everett, WA Gig Harbor, WA 17 Kingston, WA 17 Front Cover: Steve Jensen • “Fish Eye Canoe” Kirkland, WA 17 photo credit: Linda Young Schack Art Center • Everett, WA La Conner, WA 18 Mercer Island, WA 18 Port Angeles, WA 19 VOYAGER: Steve Jensen Port Orchard, WA 19 October 4 – November 3, 2018 Port Townsend, WA 19 Reception: Thursday, October 4, 5-8 P.M. Poulsbo, WA 20 Seattle, WA 2017 Pilchuck Glass School • Ballard 21 Emerging Artists in Residence • Columbia City 21 Collin Bampton, Lydia Boss, Courtney • Downtown 21 Dodd, Morgan Gilbreath, María Renée • First Hill 23 Morales Lam, and Bryan McGovern Wilson • Mount Baker 23 October 4 – November 3, 2018 • Pioneer Square 24 Reception: Thursday, October 4, 5-8 P.M. • University District 28 Exhibits sponsored by • Wallingford 29 • West Seattle 29 Tacoma, WA 29 Whidbey Island, WA 29 Schack Art Center Yakima, WA 30 2921 Hoyt Avenue • Everett, WA (425) 259-5050 • [email protected] CALL TO ARTISTS 30 Mon-Fri: 10A.M.-6 P.M., MAPS Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. Bainbridge Island, WA 11 www.schack.org Poulsbo, WA 20 Made possible in part by Downtown Seattle 22 the Snohomish County Hotel/Motel Tax Fund Maps Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 26 Publisher Debbi Lester Special Thanks Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Cheryl H. 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Doris Lester, Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil, Submission and payment are done online: Ryan, Corbin & Georgie, Madeline, James, www.artaccess.com/submitprintad Cayden (Happy Birthday!), & Alder 4 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2018 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2018 5 (L-R) Preston Hampton with Katia Lawrence Moran, artist Max Grover with his art artist Becky 2018 Irving and Yvonne Co-curator of “Canoe The Artist Project next to her Twining Humber Award Journeys: Pulling Together” Bainbridge Island, WA Smith & Vallee Recipient Marita Dingus Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Edison, (L-R) gallery owner Patricia Rovzar artist Carole Barrer with her paintings artist Brooke Borcherding with artist Marianne Kolb at the Seattle Art Fair photo by Wendy Simons Michael Birawer Gallery The Art Project • Bainbridge Island, WA artist Ed Archie NoiseCat with his art (L-R) artists Patty Haller, Brian O’Neill, and Marceil DeLacy artist Craig van Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Smith & Valleee Gallery • Edison, WA Shift Gallery • artist Carletta Carrington Wilson with her artwork Andrea K. Lawson with her art artist Dan Friday with his Island Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Island Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • (L-R) artists Stephanie Hargrave (L-R) artist David Ridgway (paintings), gallery owner Carrie McGee with her art and Eliaichi Kimaro Ruth Offen, and artist Pete Kuentzel (ceramics) Patricia Rovzar Gallery 6 Shift Gallery • Seattle,ArtAccess.com WA WaterWorks © Gallery September • Friday Harbor, • October WA 2018Seattle, WA Fletcher Robin and John Gumaelius (L-R) artists Colleen Maloney (L-R) artists Natalie Ball and artwork WaterWorks Gallery and Cindy Small Fox Anthony Spear with Ball’s art Gallery Friday Harbor, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Museum of Northwest Art WA La Conner, WA with her cityscape paintings Rosie Ferne Edholm with her painting gallery owner Jeffrey Moose holding • Seattle, Washington The Gallery at Grace • Bainbridge Island, WA an Australian Aboriginal painting Jeffrey Moose Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA den Bosch artist Michael Birawer with his artworks artists Cheryl Zahniser with her paintings Seattle, WA Michael Birawer Gallery • Seattle, WA Michael Birawer Gallery • Seattle, WA (C) artist Joseph H. Seymour, Jr. flanked by Stonington artist Houseman with her painting glass art Gallery’s Jewelia Rosenbaum & Nancy Davenport Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Edison, WA Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA (L-R) artists Carmi Weingrod (L-R) Jeffrey Moose artist Sophie Frieda artist Josh Mason with his art and Barbara Robertson with artist Neil Andersson with her paintings Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Shift Gallery • Seattle,ArtAccess.com WA Jeffrey Moose © Gallery September Bainbridge • October Island 2018 Bainbridge Island, WA 7 Bainbridge Island, WA Studio Tour Museum of Northwest Art Museum of Northwest Andrea Carlson • “Anti-Retro” screen print, courtesy of the artist and Highpoint Editions Museum of Northwest Art • La Conner, WA “In Red Ink” Museum of Northwest Art • La Conner, WA RYAN! Feddersen reaches out both central Canadian and East Coast geographically and conceptually for Anishaabeg/Algonquin, sends up the the intriguing show “In Red Ink” at the absurd cowboy and Indian stereotypes Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner. of dramatically leaping horses and She breaks down boundaries of media, men. Her style of pseudo cartoon, chronology, and above all clichés. with heavy outlines and brilliant color, underscores her parody of John Feodorov’s “Dance of the Colonizers,” popular culture. made up of clips taken from the 1949 film, “On the Town,” exposes the racism of Natalie Ball literally cuts up clichés in Hollywood as sailors team up with “girls” her large collaged art work that include at the Museum of Natural History in river rocks, crow feathers, wool, and New York City to mimic “savages. lodge pines, an intentional use of Caricature of caricature frequently traditional Indigenous materials, along appears in this exhibition. Andrea with European style painting, charcoal Carlson whose affiliation is the and oil stick on canvas. The central figure appears to be an “Indian” collaged and sewn together from mismatched pieces. It has the expressionist directness of a work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Also collage-like and humorous, but entirely painted, is the series of works by Ka’ila Farrell-Smith (from the same tribal affiliation as Natalie Ball, Modoc, Klamath) with her three large “bundle” paintings painted on plastic exhibition banners. The term “bundle” is applied to various entities “Time,” “Chief,” and “IAIA Students.” IAIA stands for Institute of Indian Arts in Santa Fe, a renowned Indian Art School. A bundle of sticks appears below them, amusingly transposed as the group of students who themselves echo, in their clothes, a mix of the contemporary and traditional. Ka’ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath Modoc), IAIA Student Northwest artists Tanis S’eilten and Joe “Bundle,” acrylic paint, oil bars on plastic exhibit banners Feddersen both provide humor with Created at Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Artist-in-Residence program in Santa Fe, NM less caricature and more politics, courtesy of the artist Museum of Northwest Art • La Conner, WA S’eilten by her crazy medium in “Totem 8 ArtAccess.com © September • October 2018 and Tabu,” a Freudian book title, RYAN! Feddersen herself has a rye with pink shoes, pink suitcase, sense of humor, an impatience with and neon referring to the stereotype of historical stereotypes, a deep commitment Native sexuality. She inserts the rip off to redefining what we mean by of Native cultures with an old postcard contemporary Indigenous art, and a of the stolen totem pole that came to generous spirit that reaches out into the Pioneer Square as a literal totem. Joe community. Her show reflects these Feddersen’s show stopper, “Charmed,” qualities. Curated in collaboration with a wall of symbols cast in glass, gives Chloe Dye Sherpe of the Museum, it us a delightful mix up of high tension gives us a refreshing new point of view, wire towers, petroglyphs, “teepees” while also making us think about the and various other “symbols” that can be history of indigenous misrepresentations. read as either caricatures or real objects. We are so fortunate to have contemporary Native artists who speak to both their heritage and to our contemporary world about the state of the earth and the colonialism that has led us to where we are now. Humor traditionally masks politics and urgency. “In Red Ink,” a term that can mean emergency, editing out, deficits, and highlighting, all at once, gives us a chance to understand where we are now and where we can go, with the guidance of these creative artists.

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