Email Author Adriana Grant

2008 Stories by Adriana Grant

• Liquid Sketch

  published December 31, 2008

  The creator of this small, loose drawing, Seattle-born Doris Totten Chase (1923–2008), passed away in December after a lifetime of... More >>

• Liquid Sketch

  published December 31, 2008

  The creator of this small, loose drawing, Seattle-born Doris Totten Chase (1923–2008), passed away in December after a lifetime of... More >>

• Rough Beauty

  published December 24, 2008

  I'm drawn to Scott Fife's preparatory sketches at Platform, done in ink wash on paper as studies for a set of framed prints behind glass. Fife... More >>

• Can’t Say No

  published December 17, 2008

  It's the '60s again—with empire-waist minidresses, thick black eyeliner, and clearly defined gender roles—in Eve... More >>

• Mountain Fresh

  published December 17, 2008

  At Crawl Space hangs a quietly exacting piece crafted from aluminum beer cans. Two-tone blue mountains have been cut out and epoxied one to the... More >>

• Land Rover

  published December 10, 2008

  Claire Cowie's "12 Views" offers a range of perspectives on one landscape, with a series of watercolors occupying three walls at James Harris... More >>

• Under a Western Sun

  published December 3, 2008

  On the walls and floor of Western Bridge are shadows cast by a stand of trees. Only the gallery is in an industrial zone, with a bare parking... More >>

• Under a Western Sun

  published December 3, 2008

  On the walls and floor of Western Bridge are shadows cast by a stand of trees. Only the gallery is in an industrial zone, with a bare parking lot... More >>

• Room to Move

  published November 26, 2008

  Best known for her architectural interventions—such as the large-scale, color-banded paintings seen at San Francisco's Yerba Buena... More >>

• Room to Move

  published November 26, 2008

  Best known for her architectural interventions—such as the large-scale, color-banded paintings seen at San Francisco's Yerba Buena... More >>

• Chairness

  published November 12, 2008

  How many standard-issue wood chairs does it take to make a work of art? You have to destroy them first, of course, or at the very least corrupt... More >>

• Chairness: Drew Daly at Wright Exhibition Space

  published November 12, 2008

  How many standard-issue wood chairs does it take to make a work of art? You have to destroy them first, of course, or at the very least corrupt... More >>

• Sideshow Snow Cube

  published November 5, 2008

  Jodi Rockwell and Toi Sennhauser collaborated to create Transpulse, a streetside snowscape created with a fall of flour. In September,... More >>

• Ariana Page Russell: Dressing

  published November 5, 2008

  In her first solo Seattle show, local artist Ariana Page Russell is showing some skin. Perhaps best known for her portraits of decoratively... More >>

• Plants, Paper, Scissors

  published October 29, 2008

  At this five-month-old gallery space a few blocks west of Broadway (cattywampus from Top Pot on Summit), foliage hangs in two-dimensional... More >>

• Before It's Dark

  published October 22, 2008

  At their opening party in early 2007, the McLeod Residence was wall-to-wall bodies, a huge crowd there to check out the... More >>

• Brent Watanabe at McLeod Residence

  published October 22, 2008

  At their opening party in early 2007, the McLeod Residence was wall-to-wall bodies, a huge crowd there to check out the... More >>

• A Study in Small

  published October 15, 2008

  An inch-high desk with spindly old-fashioned legs topped with a minuscule coffee-stained porcelain cup and an ink-marked square of paper.... More >>

• Rick Araluce: Fragments of a Life

  published October 15, 2008

  An inch-high desk with spindly old-fashioned legs topped with a minuscule coffee-stained porcelain cup and an ink-marked square of paper.... More >>

• Beautiful Plastic

  published October 8, 2008

  One of the most striking pieces in "Gimme: From Inspiration to Appropriation," an exhibit curated by Suzanne Beal at Cornish, is a plastic... More >>

• Beautiful Plastic

  published October 8, 2008

  One of the most striking pieces in "Gimme: From Inspiration to Appropriation," an exhibit curated by Suzanne Beal at Cornish, is a plastic... More >>

• A Furry Squeeze

  published October 1, 2008

  A slot canyon has appeared at the Bellevue Arts Museum, but instead of water-smoothed stone, the interior of this narrow passageway by John... More >>

• Furry Squeeze

  published October 1, 2008

  A slot canyon has appeared at the Bellevue Arts Museum, but instead of water-smoothed stone, the interior of this narrow passageway by John Grade... More >>

• Zen and Dick's

  published September 24, 2008

  A shaggy, faux-fur couch, a pair of dancing dresses, and a video seen through a foot-wide cardboard tube now appear in several vacant... More >>

• Zen and Dick's

  published September 24, 2008

  A shaggy, faux-fur couch, a pair of dancing dresses, and a video seen through a foot-wide cardboard tube now appear in several vacant storefronts... More >>