One of the warmest rooms in Seattle is the central gallery displaying eight huge photos of Otter Pops (a tubular subspecies of Popsicles), part of Isaac Laymans show 110%. The larger front gallery at Lawrimore features cooler colors of ordinary domestic objectschina cabinets, crystal doorknob, broken drinking glasses, clothes dryer doorsimilarly enlarged beyond household scale. Their shapes and uses are so familiar that we ignore them at home. Here, super-sized, they become strange and pull our eye in. (Nowhere more so than the fire-blackened maw of an old oven.) But the Otter Pop gallery is the most pleasing part of the show: Its like walking into a tanning parlor, surrounded by 56 multicolored lamps, all of them five feet tall. Stand in the middle, and you see how the freezer pops are actually in their melted state. Theyre defrosted, yet blast us with sugary light: ultraviolet, ultrared, ultrablue, ultraorange. Several of the Otter Pops have already been sold, meaning this is your last opportunity to experience them as a set. Please dont lick the photos. BRIAN MILLER
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Starts: July 1. Continues through Aug. 14, 2010
