TM Clayton James • “Quail,” 1981, clay, 9 x 13 x 10.5 inches, photo: Camille Ireland • Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA VAST featuring CLAYTON JAMES Through June 27 Volume 30 May • June 2021 Number 3 www.ArtAccess.com THE NORTHWEST GUIDE TO ART ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 30 Number 3 FEATURES Jacob Lawrence and Barbara Earl Thomas Seattle Art Museum …Susan Noye Platt 6 Kimberly Trowbridge: Into the Garden Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Features …Chloé Dye Sherpe 8 Bob Lucas: Non Local Jeffrey Moose Gallery …Robert Carlson 10 Clayton James • “Pomegranate” VISUAL ART 1978, clay, 12.5 x 18 x 18, photo: Camille Ireland Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Alger • Anacortes • Bainbridge Island, WA 11 Bellingham • Camano Island, WA 14 Edison, WA 15 “So vast is art, so narrow is human wit.” Edmonds • Everett • Friday Harbor, WA 16 – Alexander Pope Gig Harbor • Kingston • Kirkland, WA 17 English Poet (1688-1744) Listings La Conner • Langley, WA 18 Lynden • Mercer Island, WA 19 Mount Vernon • Ocean Shores, WA 20 Port Orchard • Port Townsend, WA 21 Front Cover: Michelle Kumata, Resilience, 2019. Acrylic on paper, 11”h x 14”w. Courtesy of the Artist. Clayton James • “Quail” Poulsbo, WA 23 1981, clay, 9 x 13 x 10.5 inches, photo: Camille Ireland Seattle, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA A group exhibition with a focus on social justice • Ballard 23 and human rights inspired by the teachings and • Columbia City 24 Breathe actions of Martin Luther King, Jr. • Downtown 24 VAST • First Hill 25 Through June 27 • Georgetown 25 • Pioneer Square 25 Artists include • Shoreline 30 Jennifer Eaton-White • Andy Eccleshall • University District 30 Kris Ekstrand • Eric Eschenbach Standwood, WA 31 Kathleen Faulkner • Becky Fletcher Tacoma, WA 31 Patty Haller • Clayton James • Hart James Nicki Lang • Julia ‘Joules’ Martin MAPS Lisa McShane • Roger Small • Rob Vetter Bainbridge Island, WA 12 Pamela Wachtler • Dederick Ward Mercer Island, WA 19 Evelyn Woods • Lynn Zimmerman Poulsbo, WA 23 SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY Maps Downtown Seattle, WA 24 Paul Rucker (Seattle), Forever: Four Little Girls - Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair, 2019. 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Rinehart Gallery • Seattle, WA stands among his paintings with his painting “The Engine Room” Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA and Aaron McKnight with their art Perry and Carlson • Mount Vernon, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Henry Art Gallery • Seattle, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison WA artist Xavier Raymond Kelly artist Lynda Harwood-Swenson artist Caryn Friedlander in her studio curator David Martin artist Steve Jensen with his art Washington State Poet Laureate with his painting painting on the floor of her studio ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Cascadia Art Museum • Edmonds, WA San Juan Island Museum of Art Rena Priest of Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation Columbia City Gallery • Seattle, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Friday Harbor, WA Jack Straw Cultural Center • Seattle, WA (L-R) artist Kimberly Trowbridge and art installation of Marvin Oliver glass artist Joseph Miller with his painting artist Kat Houseman with her painting artist Donald Cole in front of his painting writer Jim Demetre at Trowbridge’s exhibit Whatcom Museum • Bellingham, WA San Juan Island Museum of Art • Friday Harbor, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA ArtXchange • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (L-R) artists Larry Crockett and Max Grover artist Ashley Norwood Cooper artist Chuck Iffland with his sculpture artist Hannah Sarfraz with her art artist Julie Divine with her painting Northwind Art Grover Gallery • Port Townsend, WA Zinc Contemporary • Seattle, WA Chimacum, WA Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Gallery Mack • Seattle, WA artist Andrew Vallee (L-R) artists Colleen Hayward and Gillian Theobald artist Gina Occhiogrosso in her studio Geraldine le Calvez with her paintings artist Angshuman Sarkar with his artworks stands with his sculptures with Haywoood’s painting behind them on the left Zinc Contemporary • Seattle, WA Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA 4Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison,Art WA Accessstudio © e •May Seattle, WA • June 2021 Art Access © May • June 2021 5 same years, government persecution was At the Seattle Art Museum we have the rampant as McCarthy saw communists unique opportunity to go from Lawrence’s everywhere. The FBI described Lawrence “Struggle” to Barbara Earl Thomas’s himself as “subversive” because he “The Geography of Innocence.” It offers “propagandized alleged acts of racial a perfect partner and contrast to the discrimination of Negroes.” bloody confrontations of “Struggle.” Thomas gives us instead an homage to the innocence of black children, who stand threatened and accused by their very existence. The shimmering installation with images of black children in shrine-like niches invokes a spiritual environment that encourages awareness of the fragility of black lives. The children are people whom Barbara Earl Thomas Jacob Lawrence • “We crossed the River at McKonkey’s Ferry 9 miles above Trenton knows personally, based on photographs, …the night was excessively severe…which the men bore without subtly elaborated with cultural references. the least murmur … —Tench Tilghman, 27 December 1776” Panel 10, 1954, from “Struggle: From the History of the American People,” 1954–56, As she says “the face of the dark child… The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2003.414 is often misread as older and wiser than © 2019 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York his years or misinterpreted as hostile, Seattle Art Museum • Seattle, WA angry, and cunning. With this work I Jacob Lawrence and Barbara Earl Thomas offer an alternative view, one that brings Jacob Lawrence • “In all your intercourse with the the dark child into a definition of the Seattle Art Museum • Seattle, Washington natives, treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit … every-child. I put my children in stances —Jefferson to Lewis & Clark, 1803,” 1956, “Struggle: We are so fortunate in Seattle to have moonlight aerial view by Grant Wood. From the History of the American People,” 1954–56, where each face might be considered an the only West Coast showing of Jacob The insurgents at the Boston Tea Party Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross, unwritten slate.” Seattle Art Museum • Seattle, Washington Seattle © 2019 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Lawrence’s “The American Struggle,” are dressed as Mohawk Indians, factually Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Barbara Earl Thomas was Jacob Lawrence’s a series of 30 panels created in the mid true, but not much emphasized. In other Seattle Art Museum • Seattle, WA student when he taught at the University 1950s that re-think American history and words, if they are caught the Indians Lawrence planned to continue through the of Washington. The connection between American struggle. What could be more get blamed. We see Sacajawea, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution these two artists is thrilling. timely as we face so many struggles today. famous Native who was the only woman up to 1908 when, as he specifies, “the on the Lewis and Clark expedition, American fleet sailed around the world.” Susan Noyes Platt Although Lawrence includes some reuniting with her brother in a stunning But he created only half of the planned Susan Noyes Platt writes a blog www.