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TM Volume 29 March • April 2020 Number 2 www.ArtAccess.com ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 1 THE NORTHWEST GUIDE TO ART ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 29 Number 2 FEATURES Asian Art Museum…Susan Noyes Platt 6 Schack Art Center…Edie Everette 8 Ekphrastic Writing…Janée J. Baugher 10 Features VISUAL ART Anacortes, WA 11 Bainbridge Island, WA 11 Listings Bellingham, WA 13 Camano Island, WA 14 Edison, WA 16 Listings Edmonds, WA 16 Everett, WA 17 John Garret • “Babble Basket No. 5” Friday Harbor, WA 17 various reused materials & metal 12.5 x 15 x15 inches Schack Art Center • Everett, WA Gig Harbor, WA 17 Kirkland, WA 18 “One should be a work of art La Conner 18 or wear a work of art” Lynden, WA 19 ~Oscar Wild (1854-1900) Mercer Island, WA 19 Irish auhor, poet, playwright Mount Vernon, WA 20 Ocean Shores, WA 21 Port Orchard, WA 21 Front Cover: Port Townsend, WA 21 Namu Cho • “Fall 1” 24k gold, ruby, and steel, 2.75 x 1.5 x .25 inches Poulsbo, WA 22 photo credit: Mark Nantz Photography Seattle, WA Schack Art Center • Everett, WA • Ballard 23 “Currents 2020” • Columbia City 24 Northwest Designer Craftsmen • Downtown 24 Exhibit and Symposium • First Hill 25 March 5-April 11 • Georgetown 25 • Pioneer Square 26 “Story Tellers: • Shoreline 30 Two Friends; Two Cultures” • SODO 30 PEREGRINE David Boxley and Chris Hopkins • University District 30 Reception: Saturday, April 25, 1-4 P.M. Tacoma, WA 31 with a performance by the Git Hoan Dancers O’GORMLEY: Whidbey Island, WA 31 April 25-June 13 SCHACK ART CENTER OLD TREE MAPS 2921 Hoyt Avenue, Everett, WA Bainbridge Island, WA 13 (425) 259-5050 • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., FEBRUARY 14 — JUNE 3 Mercer Island, WA 20 Peregrine O’Gormley (LaConner), Scythe, bronze, first edition, 32”h x 30”w x 18”d. Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. Promised Gift to Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Photo by Alec Miller. Poulsbo, WA 21 [email protected] Maps Downtown Seattle, WA 25 www.schack.org Georgetown / Seattle, WA 27 Publisher Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 28 FREE ADMISSION Debbi Lester TO THE GALLERIES 363 DAYS PER YEAR Special Thanks Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Museum Hours: Daily, 10am-5pm Art Access • (888) 970-9991 Cheryl H. Hahn, Karen Stanton, Gregory Hischak, Gwen Wilson, [email protected] Clare McLean, Alec Clayton, Sean Carman, Tom McDonald, Kathy Cain, Deloris Tarzan Ament, Elizabeth Bryant, 550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island Box 4163 • Seattle, WA 98194 Susan Noyes Platt, Molly Norris, Ron Glowen, Adriana Grant, Molly Rhodes, Milton Freewater, Erica Applewhite, May/June info & payment due April 10. Mitchell Weitzman, Lauren Gallow, David John Anderson, Rachella Anderson, Kim Hendrickson, Christine Waresak, WWW.BIARTMUSEUM.ORG Eleanor Pigman, Edie Everette, Katie Kurtz, Chris Mitchell, Listing in Art Access is a paid service. Meg McHutchison, Tammy Spears & Shauna Fraizer, The charge for 60 word listing per month is Steve Freeborn & Tia Matthies, Bill Frisell & Caroled’Inverno, Museum of Northwest Art, Schack Art Center, Frye Art $39 or $51 with map placement, if available. Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Arts Museum, DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARY ART 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, & CRAFT OF THE PUGET SOUND REGION. Image(s) with the listing: $110 each. Limit 4. Doris Lester (Happy Birthday!), Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, A welcoming landmark just 35 minutes from downtown Seattle by ferry – make a day of it! Submission and payment are done online: Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil (Happy Birthdays!), Ryan Vancil, Corbin (Happy Birthday!) & Georgie Hart, www.artaccess.com/submitprintad Madeline & James Pratt (Happy Anniversary!), Cayden & Alder THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS EXHIBITION SPONSORS: 2 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 3 artist Kathy Jones with her painting Leo Osborne with his painting and sculpture artist Steve Jensen with his art artist Rob McKirdie with his sculpture fiber artist Linda St. Angelo artist Liz Tran with her painting Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Island Gallery • Bainbrige Island, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA artist Mihan Sarani with his painting artist Ryan Kelly in front of his artworks artist Warren Dykeman with his paintings artist Diane Williams with her art artist Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins with her artwork Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Method Gallery • Seattle, WA Suzanne Zahr Art & Architecture • Mercer Island, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Core Gallery • Seattle, WA (L-R) artist Sean Michael Hurley and his beloved (L-R) artists Peggy Foy and Nadine Kariya artist Kara Mia Fenoglietto artist John Dempcy stands among his paintings artist Michael Frey with his photograph Justine stand with his painting stand with Kariya’s jewelry display with her installation ZINC Contemporary • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Core Gallery • Seattle, WA Arcana Metalwork at 57 Biscayne • Seattle, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Island, WA (L-R) artists Melinda Hurst Frye and Jenny Riffle artist Genna Draper by her paintings artist Rob Droessler his wall sculpture artist Brian Fisher with his artworks artist Susan Lowrey with her artworks Gallery 4Culture • Seattle, WA Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Core Gallery • Seattle, WA Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA artist Peggy Murphy with her painting artist Mark McKnight with his photographs artist Diane Walker with her photograph artist Jane Sprintwater stands next to her artwork artist Sharrey Doré with her jewelry Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Arts & Crafts • Bainbridge Island, WA Bainbridge Arts & Craft • Bainbridge Island, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Arcana Metalwork Gallery 57 Biscayne Artist Studios • Seattle, WA 4 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 5 “Writing Images” includes painting, Finally the new gallery has a separate calligraphy, and poetry. Don’t miss contemporary art exhibit, “Belonging,” the small horizontal book made of centered around the enormous and stacked palm fronds, then enjoy the familiar Do Ho Suh’s “Some/One,” larger masterpieces. These fragile light made of hundreds of military dog tags. sensitive works most likely are to be on In addition to international superstars, display for only six months. be sure to find the work of our own Akio Takamori. His group of poignant The narrow gallery, “Color in Clay,” ceramic figures depict villagers he faces the park with a long display remembered from his childhood in Japan. ranging from white to polychrome. It has no labels which encourages simply looking at the colors as they change according to the light. A video display includes all the information about each piece if we want to pursue the detail. Just to the right of the front entrance, “Kamadeva, God of Desire” greets Kenzan Tsutakawa • “Gather,” LED light canopy installation us in “Spiritual Journeys.” Akio Takamori • “Sleeper 1,” stoneware, 5 x 26 x 9 inches Fuller Garden Court of the Seattle Asian Art Museum (facing front entrance) © Artist or Artist’s Estate, Gift of Lucy and Herb Pruzan, photo: Adam Hunter/LMN Architects Highlighted here as an outstanding in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum 12th century masterpiece of the photo credit: Elizabeth Mann Seattle Asian Art Museum: Reimagined. Reinstalled. Reopened. South Asian Collection, it was Seattle Asian Art Museum • Seattle, WA formerly lost in the many works in As you leave the large new space, pause Visit the dazzling new installations at now allow views out to the park and the Fuller Garden Court. After exploring with Kim Soja’s “Mandala: Zone of the Seattle Asian Art Museum as soon beyond. Restored windows throughout the images of gods of Hinduism, Zero,” three “mandalas” made from juke as possible! In a striking departure from the museum allow frequent views of Buddhism, and Islam, pause in the next boxes, each reciting a different chant tradition, the museum is now organized Volunteer Park and its magnificent trees. gallery, “Awakened Ones,” and listen from Gregorian, Islamic, and Buddhism, thematically rather than by geography, to chants: these three Buddhas are from The new gallery of over 2600 square feet an example of ecumenism so crucial in Seattle Asian Art Museum • Seattle, Washington Asian Seattle the only Asian Museum in the country to Japan, China, and Thailand. is scaled to the rest of the building. In today’s world. take this bold step. It is a huge success. addition there are newly imagined “Divine Bodies” emphasizes the human Perfect. Hats off to the curators and Themes enable us to see familiar works education spaces and a state-of-the-art body, accompanied by a video that the staff. with new eyes, and to enjoy never before lab for restoring the mounting of outlines “mudras,” the complex blessing seen masterpieces. Each theme includes Asian painting, the only one west of gestures of Buddhism. We can see a Susan Noyes Platt many countries, and each object often is the Mississippi. Even the auditorium teaching gesture in the early 9th century Susan Noyes Platt writes a blog www. the result of crossing boundaries, such has new seats (made by the original bronze of Buddha Shakyamuni. This artandpoliticsnow.com and for local, as a Chinese robe made firm) and better lines of sight. bronze is so sensitive to oxygen that it national, and international publications. with Russian silk. required a special case and has never First look up at the delicate canopy The Seattle Asian Art Museum, located been displayed before. Anita Dube’s As you explore the in the Fuller Garden Court by Kenzan at 1400 E.