Email Author Adriana Grant

2009 Stories by Adriana Grant

• Summer Guide: The All-Industrial Bike Tour

  published June 3, 2009

  I bike to get around, and living in SoDo means I share the road with 18-wheelers, stadium traffic, and people thinking they've... More >>

• Visual Arts: Books, Unbound

  published May 20, 2009

  The book, we keep hearing, is on its way out. Whether it's the fault of Kindle or the Web itself, we will, we're told, read... More >>

• I Saw This: Nickel Bettor

  published May 6, 2009

  Victoria Haven's geometry-inspired minimalist works sometimes allude to natural forms, though more often they simply muse on line and... More >>

• I Saw This: Sticker Stuck

  published April 22, 2009

  In a back corner of The Helm gallery in Tacoma, three branches—one on the floor, one propped against the wall—are covered in layers... More >>

• I Saw This: Never-Never Land

  published April 15, 2009

  Gala Bent is the author of tall tales, in gouache and graphite with imagined animals caught in suspended animation. One of the strongest pieces... More >>

• I Saw This: Rattle and Hum

  published April 8, 2009

  A matched set of empty rooms sit across from each other at the Henry, each with its own muted soundtrack. A speaker looks at you from each... More >>

• I’ll See This: Call for Art

  published April 1, 2009

  Admit it, you feel untethered when you forget your cell phone at home. At Cell Everything, an interactive one-night event at Vermillion... More >>

• I Saw This: Air Born

  published March 25, 2009

  Shelli Markee draws in cold-fused steel. Her flock of wire birds crowds the airspace at Fancy with fat bellies, fringed wings, and delicate... More >>

• I Saw This: Aletteration

  published March 25, 2009

  In a bold, colorful etching, San Francisco–based Tauba Auerbach is beautifully ambivalent. Yes or No and/or Yes and No names the... More >>

• I Saw This: Bellevue Light Show

  published March 11, 2009

  Light-emitting diode (LED) displays are not allowed in Bellevue, so Jenny Holzer's Pink Truisms is facing away from the windows at... More >>

• I Saw This: Letters Aloud

  published March 4, 2009

  Suspended on fine lines, hundreds of folded sheets of white paper dangle and twirl above while voices read from letters between immigrant... More >>

• I Saw This: Over and Over-Exposed

  published February 25, 2009

  A screen spirals with squares, each filling, one after the next, with gorgeous, diminutive nuclear explosions. It's a visual laying of tile,... More >>

• I Saw This: Loop de Loops

  published February 18, 2009

  Mike Simi might be developing a reputation as that guy who makes ominous puff-stuffed men. Last month there was the ring of Simi menfolk, head... More >>

• I Saw This: One-Stop Shop

  published February 11, 2009

  Scott Foldesi uses visual shorthand to reimagine suburban landscapes: an unpopulated gas station, a vacant motel, and the endless aisles of a... More >>

• Sky Tracking

  published February 4, 2009

  Rebecca Cummins spent two months last summer in Shenzhen, China, shooting at the sky. From a single spot, she turned her camera upward and took... More >>

• Sky Tracking: Rebecca Cummins at Jacob Lawrence Gallery

  published February 4, 2009

  Rebecca Cummins spent two months last summer in Shenzhen, China, shooting at the sky. From a single spot, she turned her camera upward and took... More >>

• Scott Foldesi at James Harris Gallery

  published February 4, 2009

  Scott Foldesi uses visual shorthand to reimagine suburban landscapes: an unpopulated gas station, a vacant motel, and the endless aisles of a... More >>

• Lit Blank

  published January 28, 2009

  Hidden in the back room at James Harris is a 14-inch-square panel, the ground for an oblong, pink-edged blob, which passes back and forth... More >>

• Lit Blank: Claude Zervas at James Harris Gallery

  published January 28, 2009

  Hidden in the back room at James Harris is a 14-inch-square panel, the ground for an oblong, pink-edged blob, which passes back and forth between... More >>

• Roil With It

  published January 21, 2009

  What's the phrase? A watched pot won't boil. This one does, and beautifully. A seven-minute monochromatic film, Boiling Point depicts... More >>