Lectures and Events
CHALKWALK The sidewalks outside BAM will be transformed into veritable blackboards by local artists.
Sat. Aug. 22-Sun. Aug 24, Bellevue Art Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770.
SAM AFTER HOURS OUTDOORSThe vacant lot destined to be SAM's Olympic Sculpture Park in 2005 plays host to the museum's monthly Thursday evening festivities. The line-up looks very promising: folk-rocker Damien Jurado, dance troupe 33 Fainting Spells, pop group The Lashes, and various other MCs and DJs. 5 p.m.-8 p.m., Thurs. Aug 21. Olympic Sculpture Park (Western Ave. and Broad St.), free, 206-654-3100.
Openings
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND INDUSTRY Given everything we've lost under the
Patriot Act, one can only wish it was the U.S. Constitution that was touring around. Instead it's the original Declaration of Independence (actually, one of 25 remaining copies printed on July 4, 1776).
Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave. E. (Montlake), 206-324-1126. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.
Last Chance
HOWARD HOUSE Sean Duffy's "Sorry Entertainer" is a tired set of riffs on the whole grunge thing:
Olympia Beer t-shirts, a guitar constructed partially from a chainsaw, etc.
Cole Case's "Recent Paintings" are odd Technicolor imaginings of
Robert Smithson and
Michael Heizer's earthworks in the deserts of the American West. Each of Case's paintings, which draw their color palate from tacky roadside velvet art, is fenced in with tiny beads of oil alkyd.
2017 Second Ave., 206-256-6399 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Sat. Aug 23.
SECLUDED ALLEY WORKS Costume designer K.D. Schill's amalgam of baseball and religion, "The Hall of Fame: Team Catholic features musical score by Craig Flory. 113 12th Ave. (at Yesler), 206-839-0880. Noon-5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Ends Sun. Aug. 24.
SCCC ART GALLERY Mal Pina Chan's series of monoprints, "A Single Journey," employs a mosaic of immigration papers, photos, and documents to investigate her parents' migration from Hong Kong to the United States. 801 E. Pine, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends Fri. Aug. 22.
SOIL "Ardent Labor," SOIL's show of nine artists, including Diana Falchuk, Juniper Shuey and Paul Margolis, takes as its starting point the Japanese tradition in which a soldier's mother has a thousand members of her village sew a single stitch onto a sash to carry into battle. Mandy Greer's deer and flowers construction fashioned from her grandmother's dress and fabric scraps; and Laura MacCary's interactive textiles, created with the help of her father and electronics buff Lawrence, which incorporate discarded audio tape and electronically-sensitive materials. 1317 E. Pine St., 206-264-8061. Noon-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. Ends Sat. Aug 24.
Galleries
ACE STUDIOS In
Rebecca Woodhouse's "Silence is Coming" the paintings are anything but silent: throughout, there's a constant chattersnippets of phrases, lyrics, and writing so thickly applied that it begins to vanish into abstract compositions.
619 Western Ave., 206-623-1288, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sat., or by appointment.
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.
ARTSWEST "Mixing Media:" felt, photo collage, and pastels by local artists Zia Gipson, Patricia Rogers, Pam Ferrell, and Karen Schroeder. 4711 California Ave. S.W. (West Seattle), 206-938-0963. Noon-7 p.m. Tues.-Sat.
ATELIER 31 Doug Smithenry's grouped series of fractured paintings are peopled with baton-wielding cops, marathon dancers, and jock-strap-clad cowboyscombining striking color, clunky animation, and fun-house mirror distortion. The source of all this jumbling: downloaded pictures from the web, crumpled and folded before finding new life under oil paints. It's goofy, but accomplished. Plus, abstract paintings and sculptures by Mark Bennion and gridded psychological portraits by Deborah Putnoi. 2500 First Ave., 206-448-5250. 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Tues.; 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun.
BENHAM A showcase of three Latino/Latin American photographers: Argentina's Javier Lopez Rotella, whose shaved-headed nude figures seem to glow like silent movie stills; Mexican-born New York photographer (and Ph.D. molecular biologist) Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, creator of ghostly meditations on science and identity; and Guatemala's Luis Gonzalez Palma, whose sepia-esque portraits have the urgency and serious intensity of Victorian-era photographs. 1216 First Ave., 206-622-2480. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat.
BLUEBOTTLE Bluebottle bridges the divide between commercial galleries and the raucous street merchants/artists who populate Occidental Park each First Thursday. This decidedly affordable gallery's co-owner, Matthew Porter, is also an artist, and this month's show, "Not Your Average Alphabet," offers more of his cute-weird, childish-fiendish stuff. 415 E. Pine St., 206-325-1592. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Tue.-Fri., noon-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun.
CAROLYN STALEY This two-part exhibition (one in August, the other in September) of animals portrayed in 19th and 20th-century Japanese prints includes a sumi scroll of a boy and bull by Shibata Zeshin, Utagawa Yoshitoyo's picture of a trapped leopard, and Ohara Koson's kacho (bird and flower studies). 314 Occidental Ave., 206-621-1888. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat.
CLASSICAL GRANDS & GALLERIES The endearing circusy-fantasy world of Kamala Dolphin-Kingsleywhose lush paintings draw inspiration from tattoo art and art nouveauis a place populated with frogs, miniature dogs, and big-eyed princesses. 1900 4th Avenue, 206-297-6717. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-6 p.m. Mon.
