Visual Arts Calendar

BLUEBOTTLE Seattle schoolteacher and artist Erin Shafkind's "Falling Like Forever" includes whimsy-filled etchings and paintings. 415 E. Pine St., 206-325-1592. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Tue.-Fri., noon-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun.

BROADWAY GRILL Mary Larson's paintings of patients at Harborview's Pioneer Square Clinic are vibrant and possessed with a sincere optimism. On top of that , Larson has agreed to "sell" the paintings in return for donations of needed clothing and supplies (500 pairs of socks, for instance) to this clinic serving a largely homeless population. 314 Broadway E., 206-328-7000.

BRYAN OHNO New acrylics on canvas by Whidbey Island painter Mary Henry, who in her mid-80s is still valiantly striving to create the perfect geometric abstract painting. 155 S. Main St., 206-667-9572. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.

CDA GALLERY In Helen Curtis's "Caught," net-like structures, glass balls, and metal casts of bones. 506 Second Ave., Suite 200 (Smith Tower), 206-528-6878. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon-Fri.

CITY SPACE Drawing upon the city's Portable Works collection, "Telling Stories: Narrative Photographs" presents images thick with stories open to multiple interpretation. 701 Fifth Ave. (Bank of America Tower), 3rd floor, 206-749-9525, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.

DAVIDSON John Grade's "Route" includes sculptures that allude to microscopic structures in the natural worldone pays tribute to coccolithophore, a tiny organism that the white cliffs of Dover are composed of. Also on display: British artist Norman Ackroyd's moody etchings of misty hillsides and crumbling abbeys. 313 Occidental Ave. S., 206-624-7684. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.

ERAC GALLERIA "Disposable" presents the work of Peter Eebsirf, who, according to the gallery, takes random architectural shots with a Kodak disposable camera, details his subjects on canvas in ink, then applies heavy strokes of house paint. 2119 Second Ave., 206-461-6923.

FRANCINE SEDERS Juliana Heyne's "Road Trips" promises landscapes inspired by the vast open country of Eastern Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming. 6701 Greenwood Ave. N., 206-782-0355. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.- Sat, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun.

G. GIBSON New-York born Colombian photographer Hector Acebe's black and white photographs, taken on expeditions to Africa in the late 1940s and early '50s, capture the traditional dress and ornamentation of African culture at the cusp of independence while lending a dignity to his subjects, whether they're prostitutes in Mali or tribesmen from Guinea. 514 E. Pike St., 206-587-4033. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.

GALLERY 110 Seattle artist Selma Waldman's "Naked/Aggression" series seeks to redefine obscenity with images of male sexuality rife with violence. There are as many erections here as AK-47s. The show seems to raise the question: which is more obscene, a boner or a summary execution? 110 S. Washington St., 206-624-9336. Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat.

GARDE RAIL Self-taught artist John Taylor creates detailed and accurate vintage ships using found objects. 4860 Rainier Ave. (Columbia City), 206-721-0107. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat.

GREG KUCERA In Sherry Markovitz's dazzlingly colorful and intricately beaded sculptures, Buddha heads morph into vaguely animal creatures, upended dolls become emblems of childhood struggle, and fashion becomes a kind of spiritual armor. Beads, sequins, feathers, and a host of other materials give these pieces a showy, birdlike quality. But rather than simple trophies, Markovitz's show is about improving upon nature: a papier mache llama head festooned with a mantle of fur and beads becomes something rich and strange. 212 Third Ave., 206-624-0770. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat.

HOWARD HOUSE Seattle artist Dan Webb's carved wooden sculptures, plus several mixed-media, Rube Goldberg-like contraptions in which steel and glass balls navigate wooden tracks to approximate states of insomnia and daydreaming. 2017 Second Ave., 206-256-6399. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat.

JEFFREY MOOSE Vaguely erotic paintings by Colombian-born artist Gloria Ruiz, plus décor-friendly abstract canvases by Manya Drobnak.1333 Fifth Ave., Rainier Square, second level, 206-467-6951.

KURT LIDTKE Stone sculpture by longtime Seattle artist James Washington, Jr. 408 Occidental Ave. S. 206-623-5082. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat.

LINDA HODGES Born in Michoacan, Mexico, and based in Seattle since 1959, artist Alfredo Arreguin's new collection of spiritual paintings possess a kaleidoscopic array of colors and forms. Native American motifs, Atzec symbols, and shimmers of color give some of this recent work the intensity of a peyote trip. 316 First Ave., 206-624-3034. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat.

LISA HARRIS "Subtle Substance" features new, exuberant abstract canvases by Seattle painter Victoria Johnson. 1922 Pike Pl., 206-443-3315. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun.

LITTLE THEATRE Iggy Green's sculpted creatures resemble post-apocalyptic Muppets: Green uses fur, glass taxidermy eyes, and a mishmash of materials to create "Crossbreeds," little mutant figures that are part animal, part human. 608 19th Ave. E. (at Mercer), 206-675-2005. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri.

NICO Urban visions by Seattle painter John Ohannesian and landscapes by Georgetown artist Sam Watts. 619 Western, Suite 22, 206-229-4593, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER NORTHWEST Lovely, colorful decay is abundant in Seth Thompson's photographs of bedrooms and other interiors in Mexico and Cuba. 900 12th Ave., 206-720-7222. Noon-9:30 p.m. Mon.; 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Tues.-Sun.