Lectures and Events
ARTIST LECTURE: GABRIELLE BAKKER Bakker, whose paintings are immersed in archetypes and mythology, gives a lecture and slideshow.
2 p.m. Sun. Feb. 29. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., free, 206-622-9250.
ARTIST LECTURE: MARY FRANK The artist, designer and activist discusses a compelling question: "What is Art for?" 8 p.m. Tues. March 2. PONCHO Concert Hall, Cornish College campus, 710 E. Roy St., free.
ARTIST LECTURE: ANNE GALE Figurative painter Gale digs deep into her subjects' psyches when painting her relentlessly revealing portraits. She'll discuss art and perception. 7:30 p.m. Fri. Feb. 27. Seattle Academy of Fine Art, 1501 Tenth Ave. E., free, 206-526-2787.
DECORATIVE ARTS LECTURES Ulysses Grant Dietz, curator of decorative arts at the Newark Museum, gives two talks: an examination of silver in the American home; and a lecture on how the Newark Museum transformed an opulent Victorian home into the Ballantine House Gallery. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sat. Feb. 28. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St., $12-25, 206-654-3100.
LECTURE: ELLEN NEEL AND NATIVE ART Pam Creasy, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, talks about the life and work of her mother, Ellen Neel, an accomplished Kwakwaka'wakw carver and artist. 3 p.m. Sat. Feb. 28. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St., free with admission, 206-654-3100.
NIGHT BLOW Watch Richard Royal blow glass while you dance to the music of Korla Wygal and Her Private Reserve. 7 p.m-9 p.m. Sat. Feb. 28. Museum of Glass, 1801 East Dock St. Tacoma, $25-$35, 253-396-1768.
SAM AFTER HOURS: MARCEL MARIAS Hungarian-born DJ Marcel Marias spins records in a multimedia event in conjunction with the Christian Marclay exhibit. 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 26. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St., free with admission, 206-654-3100.
Openings
BLACK LAB "Parades and Other Disturbances," features new photos by local photographer
Keith Johnson.
Reception: 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Sat. Feb. 28. 4216 Sixth Ave NW, 206-781-2392. Noon- 5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
G GIBSON "Benediction" is new paintings from Seattle resident Laurie Le Clair. Also: "Little Dresses and other tintypes" from Portland's Susan Seubert. Reception: 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Wed. March 3. 514 E. Pike St., 206-587-4033. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.
NICO "You Said Yes" includes artist Niilartey DeOsu's various figures in charcoal inspired by the Tarot. Reception : 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Thurs. Feb. 26. 619 Western, Suite 22, 206-229-4593, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. and by appointment.
SECLUDED ALLEY WORKS Artist, curator, and impresario Kristine Evans (aka Kinoko) opens a brief, 5-day group show, "Rabbits and Robots," at SAW with the usual audio-visual mayhem attending such hipster events: live painting by graffiti artists, electronic experimental music, and other off-kilter antics. Art includes work by Matthew Porter, Randy Wood, Sam Trout, and Bwana Spoons. Reception: 4 pm.-midnight Sat. Feb. 28. 113 12th Ave. (at Yesler), 206-839-0880. Noon-5 p.m. Sat.-Sun.
Last Chance
AIA "Kumamoto Artpolis" collects 70 photos of architecture built under the innovative Artpolis movement, a design system that since 1988 favors adapting structures to local environmental and cultural contexts.
1911 First Ave., 206-448-4938. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends Thurs. Feb. 26.
ARTEMIS "Entre Chien et Loup," (translation: somewhere between dog and wolf) is the title of freelance photojournalist Paul Souders' solo show of photographs of the shifting, ghostly nature of twilight. 3107 S. Day St., 206-323-0562. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Sun. Feb. 29.
CAPITOL HILL ARTS CENTER Thom Heileson's video installation "Scend" evokes the empty spaces of Death Valley. 1621 12th Ave., Mon.-Fri. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Ends Fri. Feb. 27.
CAROLYN STALEY The nineteenth-century prints in "Japanese Literature and Legend" are teeming with princesses, magical foxes, Kabuki heroes, and baby-trampling demons. 314 Occidental Ave., 206-621-1888. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. Ends Sun. Feb. 29.
CDA GALLERY "Corduroy Symptom" finds drawings and paintings by Seattle artist Michael Ottersen. Thick layers of paint and playful studies in geometric and organic forms predominate. 506 Second Ave., Suite 200 (Smith Tower), 206-296-7580. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon-Fri. Ends Fri. Feb. 27.
DAVIDSON "Uncertain Journey" is Montana artist Stephanie Frostad's accomplished but sentimental exploration of the plight of refugees in the wake of war (some of the paintings have the feeling and detail of Pre-Raphaelite idylls, but on the whole the series feels a little naïve). 313 Occidental Ave. S., 206-624-7684. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends Fri. Feb. 27.
FRANCINE SEDERS Ink on paper abstract works by local artist Robert McNown. Recycling old drawings from his graduate school years, McNown cuts, colors, and reshapes the old works into new grids and organic forms. 6701 Greenwood Ave. N., 206-782-0355. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.- Sat, 1 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun. Ends Sun. Feb. 29.
JACK STRAW NEW MEDIA GALLERY Artist Jesse Paul Miller set out to find some peace and quiet in the nature preserves of North Central Florida, and brought audio equipment to document it. What he found wasn't exactly solitude free of human noise, as this interactive installation demonstrates. 261 Roosevelt Way N.E., 206-634-0919. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends Fri. Feb. 27.
LISA HARRIS Emily Wood's Northwest landscapes recall the work another Emily—B.C. artist Emily Carr, whose mystical paintings of rainforests helped solidify the iconography of the Pacific Northwest early in the 20th century. Wood's "Recent Travels" traipses from Mowich Lake near Mount Rainier to the Palouse, and all the paintings are infused with an appealing warmth (although I'm convinced the yellow waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene are the result of toxic sediments, not artistic license). 1922 Pike Pl., 206-443-3315. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun. Ends Sat. Feb. 28.
