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2007 Stories by Adriana Grant

• $50 For Some of the City's Best Art

  published December 26, 2007

  Sitting high on a shelf is what may be an old-fashioned watercolor portrait of a long-lost relative: a long-faced woman, her hair pulled back... More >>

• “Boundaries of Vacancy”

  published December 19, 2007

  At Gallery4Culture this month, Sean Patrick Landis has installed a set of partially encased backyard objects: a ladder, a woodpile, a... More >>

• What's Not to Like About Frozen Mac ’N’ Cheese?

  published December 19, 2007

  What: Three brands of frozen macaroni and cheese, mostly local. Where I ate them: At home. ... More >>

• Float, Flitter, Fade

  published December 12, 2007

  I am a sucker for images of clouds. And clouds are what Noah Overby's paintings are all about. Entitled "Float, Flitter, Fade," Overby's new... More >>

• Board Game Night

  published December 5, 2007

  As Sunday night rolls around, likely grey, dark, and wet, you might need a nudge to venture out of the house. Consider visiting the cozy... More >>

• Too Much Stuff

  published December 5, 2007

  Perhaps you’ve always wanted your very own dentist’s chair? At the UW Surplus Public Auction, you may spot such things as... More >>

• Amsterdam in 3-D

  published December 5, 2007

  London-born Oregon artist Matthew Picton is a mapmaker, charting cities by waterway, road, and train. He creates lush overlays of wandering... More >>

• Small Art

  published December 5, 2007

  I’m curious to see Diem Chau’s spare family portraits, in silk and thread over porcelain dishes, recast in the medium of ’70s-era... More >>

• Crawlspace

  published November 28, 2007

  The first time C.E. Putnam and Daniel Comiskey performed their collaborative work Crawlspace, it may have been the... More >>

• Ping-Pong Topo Map

  published November 28, 2007

  You have to crouch to get close to Jason Wood's Pong Tectonics, a sculpture composed of several blue-faced Ping-Pong paddles, with... More >>

• Gourmet Thanks

  published November 21, 2007

  If you haven’t yet lined up a posse for Thanksgiving dinner¯or if the idea of wrangling a turkey and planning a menu for many is a... More >>

• Red Tish: A Pinup

  published November 21, 2007

  Cast in reds and purples, a woman in a lace bra and underpants looks as if she's putting her hair up. Her arms are raised, her spine is... More >>

• My Afternoon With 36 Oysters

  published November 21, 2007

  What does $13 get you in this town? Every week on Voracious, the Weekly's food blog, we send someone out to investigate. ... More >>

• Terrain Too: A Skin Condition Becomes Art

  published November 14, 2007

  Affixed to the window of Platform Gallery is a series of translucent, plastic, temporary tattoos. Their pattern of fanlike shapes in varying... More >>

• Yoga Behind Bars Benefit

  published November 7, 2007

  Be serenaded by loungey groove sounds, or charmed by Indian-inspired invocational dances, as Samadhi Yoga hosts a multi-genre performance... More >>

• One by One: Charming Simplicity

  published November 7, 2007

  Tucked into a corner near SAM's sleek elevators is a space displaying work by winners of the museum's prestigious Betty Bowen Award. It's... More >>

• Alex Prud’homme

  published October 31, 2007

  Chortling away as she doused a roasting bird with wine (sipping some herself, in the PBS kitchen), food-phenom Julia Child’s apparent... More >>

• “Help Me, I'm Hurt” Is Painful

  published October 31, 2007

  Pain is a universal experience that (more often than not) we'd rather not talk about. So curator Suzanne Beal asked five artists to... More >>

• No Stealing the Art!

  published October 24, 2007

  Joined by an intrepid art-looker weeks ago on First Thursday, I noticed, in a corner of Greg Kucera Gallery, a penny on the polished wooden... More >>

• Puffy Headphones Make Sculpture Sound Better

  published October 17, 2007

  In Ben Hirschkoff's sculpture, Attempted Rain Mechanical Refrain, skinny wires descend from a curvy, Plexiglas cloud. Swinging like slow... More >>

• Charmaine Slaven

  published October 17, 2007

  On the Tall Boys' MySpace page, Charmaine Slaven is listed as "guitar/feet," which might seem incongruous unless you've been lucky enough to... More >>

• Long Live the New Flesh

  published October 17, 2007

  Film critic Robert Horton is one of the most articulate guys I know, and man, does he know film. As part of his Magic Lantern series at the... More >>

• "Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art"

  published October 10, 2007

  Text as art is an ancient trope, and yet anyone who sees language itself as beautiful cannot help but be drawn in by Seattle Asian Art Museum's... More >>

• "Insubstantial Pageant Faded": Melting, Disappearing, Decaying

  published October 3, 2007

  The new group show at Western Bridge purports to be about death and decay. But when I visited "Insubstantial Pageant Faded" (named after... More >>

• Bellevue Arts Museum's Haven

  published October 3, 2007

  Crafted from hand-cut and hand-dyed shoji paper, Toronto-based artist Ed Pien's installation at the Bellevue Arts Museum is at once beautiful... More >>