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Lectures and Events
Artist Lecture: Sandy Skoglund She'll discuss her installations, which incorporate popcorn, paper plates, and other castoffs of consumer culture. 3 p.m. Sun. Apr. 18. Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, free with admission, 253-272-4258.
Artist Trust Reel Deal A showcase for Washington artists working in film and video. The 90-minute program will feature work by Mark O'Connell, Heather Dew Okasen, Jim Woodring and others. Beth Harrington's documentary-in-progress promises one of the last interviews with Johnny Cash. All proceeds benefit Artist Trust. Midnight, Fri. Apr. 16. Majestic Bay Theatres, 2044 NW Market St., $10-$50, 206-467-8734.
Lecture: Passages in Portraiture Frye curator Debra Byrne discusses the evolution of the form. 2 p.m. Sat. Apr. 17. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., free, 206-622-9250.
Meet the Artists Pamela Mills and MiRan discuss their paintings. 1 p.m-3 p.m. Sat. Apr. 17. Gallery 110, 110 S. Washington St., 206-624-9336.
Meet the Artist A reception for Seattle painter and writer Barbara Earl Thomas, whose new work is on display. 1 p.m-3 p.m. Sat. Apr. 17. Shoreline Community College Gallery, Building 1000, 16101 Greenwood N., 206-546-4101 ext. 4433.
Openings
1506 Projects You can play the guessing game this week at "Pseudononymous," a show of work done under assumed names. While you're at it, join the NOMAD Art Walk that 1506 has helped launch on the Hill: Six venues are participating, including Joe Bar and Bluebottle. Reception: 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Sat. Apr. 17. 1506 E. Olive, 206-329-5400. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat-Sun.
Burke Museum Photographs of southern Chile's temperate rainforests by Burke Museum photographer-in-residence Mariana Matthews. UW campus, N. E. 45th St. and 17th Ave. N.E., 206-543-5590. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily (until 8 p.m. Thurs.).
Square Room Ceramics: David Traylor's spiny, metallic-painted sculptures and Saya Moriyasu's assorted renderings of service industry workers. Reception: 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Sat. Apr. 17. 1316 E. Pike, 206-267-7120, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily.
Tacoma Art Museum The theme of TAM's latest Northwest Biennial is "Buildingwise" (guess it has something to do with TAM's new building) and will include 100 works by artists. One of the jurors, Emilia Kabakov, will discuss the exhibit and her own installation work at 1 p.m. Sat. April 17. 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253-272-4258. Every third Thursday free. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thurs.; 12 p.m.-5 p.m. Sun.
Last Chance
911 Media Arts 911's window display (on view from dusk until 2 a.m. daily) holds Marianna Haniger's video installation "Assisted Nature:" images of migrating salmon projected on an array of 400 glass discs. 117 Yale Ave. N., 206-682-6552. Ends Sat. Apr. 17.
Foster/White Rainier Square "Light, Color, Motion" is a group show of new work by Alden Mason (who revisits his "Burpee Garden" series of the 1970s) as well as James Mattei and Manfred Lindenberger. 1331 Fifth Ave., 206-583-0100. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends Tues. Apr. 20.
G. Gibson Portland artist Susan Seubert's miniscule "tintype" photographs (a 19th century process that prints an image on iron sheets) catalogue dresses and other inanimate objects as if they were dead specimens in formaldehyde. Also on offer is Laurie Le Clair's "Benediction," mixed-media paintings of impending doom in the heartland. 514 E. Pike St., 206-587-4033. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Ends Sat. Apr. 17.
Henry Art Gallery "Ellen Gallagher: Preserve/Murmur" collects mixed-media collages, cut-paper paintings, and 16 mm films by the New York artist. UW campus, 206-543-2280. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thurs. Ends Sun. Apr. 18.
Galleries
Artemis Jessalyn Haggenjos's "Misshapen Life" includes still life paintings of garbage. Also on display, abstract canvases by painter and floral designer Nisha Kelen. 3107 S. Day St., 206-323-0562. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.
Atelier 31 Dutch painter Rineke Engwerda's pop-photorealist paintings usually have a Magritte-like twist—the intrusion of a flat, cartoon scene or dark obscuring shadows. Margaret Quan Knight's photographs depict the human body in dislocating fragmentation. Whether Knight is using cast resin body parts to accompany nude dancers or creating bread dough that transforms into a human belly, she treats flesh as a malleable artist's material. 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 Just in time for spring, a group show of unusual flower photography by Omak's Ken Smith, San Juans resident Fred James Housel, and Seattle's Steven Meyers, who specializes in x-ray prints. 1216 First Ave., 206-622-2480. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun.
Bluebottle "13 Lucid Eggs" is an offbeat group show on birth and fertility featuring work by Francesca Berrini, Erin Norlin, Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley, Sam Trout and others. 415 E. Pine St., 206-325-1592. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Tue.-Fri., noon-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun.
Bryan Ohno Rae Mahaffey's candy-colored abstractions on wood panel and mystical, staged photographs by Anna Daedalus. 155 S. Main St., 206-667-9572. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.
Foster/White A twenty-year retrospective of vibrant abstraction thick with color by longtime Northwest painter Lois Graham. 123 S. Jackson, 206-622-2833. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun.
