Lectures and Events
LECTURE: INDIAN ART UW professor
Vikram Prakash talks about the role of painting and sculpture in classic Indian architecture.
3 p.m., Sat. Aug 16. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St., $5-$7, 206-654-3121.
ARTSINDIA A touring exhibit of contemporary Indian artists mounted by a New York gallery makes a fleeting visit. Much of it seems to be safe, realist stuff though there are some potentially interesting pastoral works by Laxma Goud, cartoony paintings from Hindu mythology by Jamini Roy, and expressionist watercolors by M.F. Husain. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Fri Aug 15 and Sat. Aug 16, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun. Aug. 17. Crespinel Studios, 2312 2nd Ave., 206-728-6276.
BECOME THE SKYSPACE Barry Briggs, an abbot at Seattle's Dharma Sound Zen Center, leads Zen meditation in James Turrell's new Skyspace. 10 a.m.-11 a.m. Sat. Aug. 16. Henry Art Gallery, UW campus, admission by donation, reservations required, 206-543-2281.
ISLEWILDE VASHON ISLAND Vashon Island's 12th annual Islewilde community arts gathering has an intriguing theme: "The Fall of the Roman Empire." Those looking for Caligula-By-the-Sound may be a tad disappointedthis is a family festival, after all. But organizers are promising gladiator fights, chariot races, free food, fire, and general bacchanalia. And lots of puppets. Dusk-dawn Fri. Aug 15, 11 a.m.-dawn Sat. Aug. 16, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Aug. 17. Ober Park, 17130 Vashon Hwy., Vashon Island, free, 206-567-5484.
KECHWA WEAVING Ecuadoran master-weaver Carlos Teran, Sr. demonstrates indigenous weaving technique on a loom recently purchased by the Burke. 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Aug. 16.-Fri Aug. 22. Burke Museum, UW campus, N. E. 45th St. and 17th Ave. N.E., free with admission, 206-543-5590.
LECTURE: AVANT-GARDE GLASS Martin Eidelberg, co-curator of the "Glass of the Avant-Garde" exhibit at MG, gives a lecture on middle Europe's modern glass movement, from the Vienna Secession to the Bauhaus. 2 p.m., Sun Aug 17. Museum of Glass, 1801 East Dock St., Tacoma, free with admission, 253-396-1768.
SPARC STREET FAIR Two hundred and fifty artist booths, music, performances of Three Billy Goat's Gruff, roving circus antics, teen hip-hop dance-it's all part of this outdoor arts festival. Organizations like Plant Amnesty, the Native Plant Society, and Bats Northwest will be on hand as well to discuss their work and recruit you. Also: SEE SW THIS WEEK, PAGE 41. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. Aug. 16 & Sun. Aug. 17. Along NE 62nd St., Sand Point Magnuson Park, 7400 N.E. Sand Point Way, free, 206-522-9529.
Openings
KIRKLAND ARTS CENTER Award winners from the 2003 Printmaking Biennial juried by Gallery 110's
George Brandt and including work by such local artists as
Susan Gans,
Tim Dooley, and
Nina Zingale.
Reception: 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Thurs. Aug. 14. 620 Market, Kirkland, 425-822-7161. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM SAM opens the second installment in its "International Abstraction: Making Painting Real" by digging into its collection and coming up with fine examples of the post-World War II abstract expressionist and minimalist explosions. Pollock, Frank Stella, and Arhile Gorky are well represented, but the surprises will come in work by lesser know artists, including one-time Western Washington University student and mystical minimalist Agnes Martin. 100 University St., 206-654-3100. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.
Last Chance
ARTCORE Being a packrat can pay off. Seattle sculptor
Chloe Rizzo's "Things Kept," incorporates all sorts of found objectschildhood tchotchkes, estate sale finds, and discarded building materialsinto small-scale pieces now showing at this gallery/tattoo-piercing studio in
Georgetown.
5501-A Airport Way S., 206-767-2673. Ends Wed. Aug. 13.
BLUEBOTTLE "Pressure," a collection of prints by local artists Joe Alterio, Sam Trout, Want Buy Have, Eryon Franklin, Sedora Debondt, Christine Grykien, Marcia Wood, and Magda Baker. 415 E. Pine St., 206-325-1592. Noon-7 p.m. Tue.-Sun. Ends Thurs. Aug. 14.
LITTLE THEATRE In Adriana Grant's "Similar Assemblages," Band Aids, sugar cubes, and other found objects become studies in repetition and pattern. 608 19th Ave. E. (at Mercer), 206-675-2005. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends Sat. Aug. 16.
TOM LANDOWSKI In "Go You Good Thing" Portland's performance artist-writer-filmmaker Miranda July strategically places orange dot stickers on old family snapshots to locate the flows of energy going on in the photos. An better example of the idea is found in July's short film, Haysha Royko, in which a woman, a man, and a child sit in airport waiting room seats while three computerized amorphous blobs track the subtle battle for personal space between the strangers. 403 Cedar St., 206-380-2172. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.Tues.-Fri, 11. a.m.-8 p.m. Sat. Ends Thurs. Aug. 14.
Galleries
ACE STUDIOS In
Rebecca Woodhouse's "Silence is Coming" the paintings are anything but silent: there's a constant chattersnippets of phrases, lyrics, and writing threaded into abstract compositions.
619 Western Ave., 206-623-1288, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sat.
ARTEMIS Deborah Bells' latest series of paintings, "Noodlings" and "Inklings" incorporate found images (art images, aircraft navigation charts) into her otherwise doodly and playful abstract exercises. 3107 S. Day St. (Mount Baker), 206-323-0562. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.
ART/NOT TERMINAL Debi Olson's oil paintings seek to recall the sensations of her travels through Mexico. 2045 Westlake, 206-233-0680, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun.
