In her room-filling installation Into the Surface, the young Danish-born Seattle artist renders local landscapes and urban scenes on large panels of glass. The gallery works in two directions, with audio linking the opposing vistas. One view is of a large video screen, on which industrial images suggest Seattle’s blue-collar past. We see the cranes and shipping containers of the port and hear the booming of foghorns. Turn around, and Surgent’s 14-foot-wide engraved-glass panorama incorporates static scenes culled from her photo expeditions around SoDo and the working waterfront. The whole comprises over 100 glass tiles, most of them layered and some reflecting or repeating her source snapshots. There’s a nostalgia at work here for the pre-Starbucks, pre-Microsoft past (Surgent was born in 1982), a ghostly meditation on our city’s history and its representation. BRIAN MILLER
Fridays, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: Oct. 26. Continues through May 15, 2010
