TM Volume 30 July • August 2021 Number 4 www.ArtAccess.com THE NORTHWEST GUIDE TO ART ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 30 Number 4 FEATURES Features Black Refractions | Frye Art Museum …Susan Noye Platt 6 Spafford & Mafford | Perry and Carlson …Chloé Dye Sherpe 8 Salty Dog Studios | Modern Glaze …Edie Everette 10 Sarah Jones | Bitters Co. …Chloé Dye Sherpe 12 Kurt Solmssen • “Labor Day” oil on linen, 50 x 70 inches The Seattle DeConstructed Art Fair 14 Promised Gift to BIMA Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Write of Way Bainbridge Island, WA …Marylou Sanelli 15 “If I could say it in words VISUAL ART there would be no reason to paint.” Listings Alger • Anacortes • Bainbridge Island, WA 16 – Edward Hopper Bellingham, WA 19 American painter and printmaker (1882-1967) Bremerton • Camano Island, WA 20 Edison • Edmonds, WA 21 Everett • Friday Harbor, WA 22 Front Cover: Gig Harbor • Kingston • Kirkland, WA 23 Kurt Solmssen • “Bliss House Morning” oil on linen, 70 x 68 inches La Conner • Langley, WA 24 Courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery Lopez Island, WA 25 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Bainbridge Island, WA Lynden • Mercer Island • Mount Vernon, WA 26 Ocean Shores • Port Orchard, WA 27 Kurt Solmssen: The Yellow Boat Port Townsend, WA 28 July 2-September 22 Poulsbo, WA 29 Seattle, WA The Clown in Me Loves You • Ballard • Columbia City 30 Nancy Callan & Katherine Gray • Downtown 31 July 2-September 26 • First Hill • Georgetown 32 Every Day & Special Days • International District • Pioneer Square 33 July 2-September 22 • Shoreline • University District 38 Sequim • Stanwood • Tacoma 39 Trimpin: Hear & Now MAPS July 2-September 26 Maps Bainbridge Island, WA 16 Selections from the Mercer Island, WA 26 Permanent Art Collection Poulsbo, WA 30 July 2-September 26 Downtown Seattle, WA 31 Georgetown / Seattle, WA 32 BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 34 MUSEUM OF ART 550 Winslow Way • Bainbridge Island, WA (206) 842-4451 • Daily: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • Special Thanks Free Admission • www.biartmuseum.org Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Karen Stanton, www.biartmuseum.org Cheryl H. 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Debbie & Richard Vancil, Corbin & Georgie Hart (Happy Birthday!), Ryan Vancil (Happy Birthday & Anniversary!), Submission and payment are done online: Madeline & James Pratt, Cayden, & Alder www.artaccess.com/submitprintad 2 Art Access © July • August 2021 Art Access © July • August 2021 3 George Rodriguez installing his artist Scott Filipiak artist Christopher Sternburg-Powidzki Tininha SIlva with her artwork artist David Traylor artist Melissa Josephy artist Jesselyn Helms “El Zodíaco Familiar” exhibit Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Glasshouse Studio • Seattle, WA North wind Art holding his sculpture in her studio in her studio Whatcom Museum Best Gallery • Port Townsend, WA Columbia City Gallery Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA Bellingham, WA Seattle, WA (L-R) artists Carrie Goller and Max Hayslette artist Karen Hackenberg with her paintings Tara McDermott with her artworks The Black Tones perform in artist Donald Cole with his painting Carrie Goller Gallery • Poulsbo, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Columbia City • Seattle, WA Gary Simmons: The Engine Room ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Henry Art Gallery • Seattle, WA Abbie Birmingham with her prints (L-R) artists Craig Rogers and Dave Russell Jeremy G. Bell and ArtXchange artist Saya Moriyasu in her studio Gallery Onyx co-founder Earnest Thomas Columbia City Gallery • Seattle, WA Crescenda Gallery • Kingston, WA owner Cora Edmonds J. Rinehart Gallery • Seattle, WA Gallery Onyx • Seattle, WA ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA artist Jeremy G. Bell artist Joyce Hester artist Meg Kaczyk artist Lezlie Jane with her paintings artist Shirley Sakatani with her paintings ArtXchange Gallery • Seattle, WA Northwind Art Grover Gallery in her studio Fogue Gallery • Seattle, WA Collective Visions Gallery • Bremerton, WA Port Townsend, WA Northwind Art • Port Townsend, WA artist Lanny Bergner artist Dawn Endean with her paintings artist Troy Miles at Gallery Onyx • Seattle, WA (L-R) artist Etsuko Ichikawa Tyson Grumm with his painting Scott Milo Gallery Art• Anacortes, Access WA ©Columbia July City Gallery• August • Seattle, WA 2021 Art andAccess gallery owner ©Judith July Rinehart • AugustPatricia 2021 Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA 5 4 J.Rinehart Gallery • Seatle, WA the range of approaches seen in “Black Coachman leaping over a high bar (she Harlem, the epicenter of Black culture for Refractions:” realism in Jacob Lawrence, broke the record at five feet six and a half decades, led artists to simply look out the figurative collage by Romare Bearden, inches. The painting also subtly refers window or walk the streets for material and abstraction by Norman Lewis. His to overcoming barriers for all Blacks. for their paintings. One of my favorites Blue and Boogie, named after a famous Among other well-known artists here are is Jordan Casteel’s “Kevin the Kiteman.” jazz piece by Dizzie Gillepsie and Frank Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, Many current superstars held residences Paparelli, also points to another theme Carrie Mae Weems, Barkley Hendricks at the Museum including Kehinde Wiley, that permeates the exhibition—music. and Fred Wilson. Titus Kaphar and Mickalene Thomas In the next gallery, Benny Andrews’ (All of these artists have shown at the “Composition (Study for Trash)” Seattle Art Museum). Chakaia Booker’s immerses us in a strange sight: the Statue extraordinary sculpture of rubber tires of Liberty, flaming torch aloft, crosses evokes black hair with the double take her legs sitting atop a globe held up by title “Repugnant Rapunzel (Let Down headless white man wearing only boots. Your Hair).” In a United States shaped gap below her, men are hauling on a load we can’t see. The fascinatingly complex Kenyan Barkley L. Hendricks • “Lawdy Mama,” 1969 One of many studies for the mural Trash, Wangechi Mutu has a small bronze oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53.75 x 36.25 inches sculpture of a “nguava,” a mythical The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Stuart Liebman, one panel of Andrews’ twelve-part iconic in memory of Joseph B. Liebman © Estate of Barkley L. creature, and a large intricate watercolor/ Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate, Jack Shainman and sardonic “Bicentennial Series” of the Gallery, New York and American Federation of Arts early 1970s, it immediately tells us of collage, “Magnificent Monkey-Ass Lies.” Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA both the radical attitudes of the artist, and Take a side trip to see her life-size the activist roots of The Studio Museum bronze sculpture, “The NewOnes, will Black Refractions Otobong Nkanga • “House Boy,” 2004 free Us: The Seated IV” at the University itself. Benny Andrews co-founded the watercolor, ink, and acrylic on paper,12.375 × 9.25 inches Frye Art Museum The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Martin and of Washington on West Stevens Way Black Emergency Cultural Coalition in Rebecca Eisenberg, photo credit: Sasha Jelan Frye Art Museum • Seattle, Washington Frye Seattle, Washington just east of 15th Avenue NE. response to the Metropolitan Museum © Otobong Nkanga., courtesy Otobong Nkanga, Lumen Travo, and American Federation of Arts exhibition “Harlem on My Mind,” of Frye Art Museum • Seattle, WA African American and diaspora artists We are so fortunate to have “Black 1968 which, astoundingly, completely have come a long way since the protests “Their Own Harlems” includes heavy Refractions: Highlights from The Studio excluded Black artists. of “Harlem on My Mind.” This exhibition hitters like Lorraine O’Grady, Chris Museum in Harlem” at the Frye Art demonstrates the breadth, variety, and Ofili, Willie Cole, Betye Saar, and Faith Museum (until August 15). Delayed for a brilliance of some of those artists Ringgold. Ringgold’s early quilt, a final year by the pandemic, we can now enjoy from The Studio Museum’s collection. collaboration with her mother, celebrates this selection of world-class artworks Don’t miss it! from The Studio Museum in Harlem’s the diversity of Harlem. Dawoud Bey’s outstanding collection. Founded in small 1970s photographs of ordinary Susan Noyes Platt the watershed year of 1968 by artists, people in Harlem build on the work of Susan Noyes Platt writes a blog www. activists, and philanthropists, The Studio the famous Harlem photographer James artandpoliticsnow.com and for local, Museum’s mission is to provide a place Van Der Zee (also included here), and national, and international publications. lead directly to his major works today for “artists of African descent locally, “Black Refractions” is on view Thursday (He just had a one person exhibition at nationally, and internationally.” It has through Sunday from 11 A.M.