Openings & Events •  Belltown Art Walk Every second Friday of the

April 9, 2013 11:22 am

Openings & Events

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Belltown Art Walk Every second Friday of the month, the neighborhood galleries (including Roq La Rue, NorthWest Woodworkers Gallery, Form/Space Atelier, Art/Not Terminal Gallery, and others) and non-galleries (Cyclops, Black Bottle, Bedlam Coffee, etc.) extend their hours so you can check out work by local artists. See belltownartwalk.net for details. Second Friday of every month, 6 p.m.

RobRoy Chalmers

Sporozoan Lore is his collection of mixed-media work and assorted sculpture. Note 6-9 p.m. opening reception, during the West Seattle Art Walk, Thurs., April 11. Twilight Artist Collective, 4306 S.W. Alaska St., 933-2444, twilightart.net, Opens April 11, Mon., Weds.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat., Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Through April 30.

A Decade of Discussion This group show collects select pieces from six artists and their 10 shared years of critique as a support group for one another. Featured are: David Owen Hastings, Ruth Hesse, Iskra Johnson, Stephen MacFarlane, Tracy Simpson, and Jon Taylor. Opening reception: 7-9 p.m. Fri., April 12. Phinney Neighborhood Gallery, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., 783-2244, phinneycenter.org, Opens April 12, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat., 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Through May 1.

Figural In this group show, Lorin Humphreys, Harold Nelson, Doug Parry, Jason Sobottka, and Eric Swangstu “explore a variety of metaphoric approaches of painting and collage as a language to express form and content.” Opening reception: 6-8 p.m. Fri., April 12. Kirkland Arts Center, 620 Market St., 425-822-7161, kirklandartscenter.org, Opens April 13, Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Through May 25.

Gallery Tour and Art-Making Class Part of a six-session class, this event offers guided gallery tours and art-making experiences for individuals with dementia and their care partners. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, fryemuseum.org, Free, Wed., April 10, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

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Georgetown Art Attack April’s showcase features M. Anne Sweet’s feminist themed art and Betty Jo Costanzo’s Lake Chelan-inspired oil paintings at Equinox Studios, works by contemporary American cartoonist Dash Shaw at Fantagraphics, encaustic demos at Waxing Impressions, and much more. Afterward, you’re encouraged to continue the evening at any number of watering holes along Airport Way, including Jules Maes, 9 Lb. Hammer, and anyplace else you care to bend an elbow. Second Saturday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

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Kirkland Art Walk Howard/Mandville and other galleries are represented at this free monthly event. Second Saturday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Northwest Watercolor Society 73rd Open International Exhibition Selected by juror Mark Mehaffey, the show features paintings by international artists. Reception, 6-8 p.m. Thurs. April 25. Mercer View Gallery, 8236 S.E. 24th St. (Mercer Island), 275-7609, mercergov.org, Opens April 15, Mon.-Fri., 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat., April 20, 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., April 21, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Through May 31.

Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers Some two-dozen artists explore photography as narrative. Grace Weston also delivers a lecture, The Lie That Tells the Truth, at 6:30 p.m. This follows the artists’ reception, 6-8 p.m. Thurs., April 11. Photo Center NW, 900 12th Ave., 720-7222, pcnw.org, Lecture Tickets $8-$10, Mon.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 12-8 p.m. Through May 28.

Museums

Karen Bit Vejle

Scissors for a Brush is the Norwegian artist’s collection of intricate paper cuts. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum.org, $4-$6, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., 12-4 p.m. Through June 16.

Chamber Music The 36 Seattle-based artists in this show each created new work, spanning a range of styles, in response to musical compositions based on James Joyce’s Chamber Music. In concurrent show 36 Chambers, Frye staff selected paintings from the permanent collection. Frye Art Museum, Through May 5.

Nicolai Fechin Who is Nicolai Fechin? The Russian figurative painter (1881–1955) was belatedly associated with the Munich Secession movement, which later inspired the Fryes to start collecting. Fechin was also one of the lucky few to attract American patrons and a visa in 1923. Here he enjoyed some success with his thick-daubed oil portraiture; he was basically a society painter who dabbled in rustic and ethnographic scenes. Fechin was also, briefly, a figure of the American avant garde, a slinger of wild, unruly paint. If you squint within inches of one of his crusty canvasses, the smiling girls, Mexican landscapes, and peasant scenes fall away. You’re left with the pure interplay of color, divorced from form. Step back again from, say, Portrait of a Young Woman (1912), and the girl regains her beauty. Fechin never quite transitioned to the emerging art scene of his adopted homeland. BRIAN MILLER Frye Art Museum, Through May 19.