Jaq Chartier

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Last Night's First Thursday

Photo by Garrett Mukai. The Tashiro Kaplan Building was full of people this rainy first Thursday. Zack Bent's photographs at Gallery4Culture featured his wife and two small boys, often posed as boy scouts. In one portrait, one small boy's nearly spherical noggin is shown in profile, wearing an elab ... More >>

Last Night's First Thursday

Gala Bent, 2008, Party Pooper, graphite and gouache on Arches paper 22" x 30", photo by the artist. All photographs by Adriana Grant unless otherwise noted. First stop, Gala Bent's often surreal, color-patterned animals, in graphite and gouache on paper. At Gallery4Culture through May 1. You say ... More >>

Ingeniously Simple Tricks with Light and Dark

Art to see this week.

Meditation on How the Story Travels Through Time

Art to look at this week.

Gorgeous Bird Flight to Handpainted Alterations.

Art to check out this week

Drawing Visitors into Strangeness and Wonder

Art to See This Week

Provocative Moments and Visual Entanglements

A snapshot of the art on view.

Artist Jaq Chartier

Ink that makes you think.

On the Walls

An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

On the Walls

An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

On the Walls

An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

First Thursday

An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

On the Walls

An opinionated guide to this week's gallery and museum shows.

Artopia Speaks

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Sept. 21-27, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Sept. 14-20, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

July 27-Aug. 2, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

July 20-26, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

July 13-19, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Five Painters

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

July 6-12, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

June 29-July 5, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

June 22-28, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

June 1-7, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

April 20-26, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Feb. 23-Mar. 1, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Feb. 16-22, 2005

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Visual Arts Calendar

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Visual Arts Calendar

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Visual Arts Calendar

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Visual Arts Calendar

Local artists, gallery owners, curators, and critics sound off on the Seattle arts scene.

Dot matrix

Jaq Chartier smears the line between art and science with her DNA-inspired blobs.

Leaving a paper trail

Thousands of Post-it notes, a journal of the plague years, and painter who writes in pencil.