Openings & Events

Tony Angell The owls are not what they seem. From the local sculptor, The House of Owls makes connections between these mysterious birds and humans. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., 622-2833, fosterwhite.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends April 30.

Peter Ferguson

Prime Meridian is a showcase of his new paintings, stylistically old school, yet featuring the whimsical, grotesque, and absurd. Also on display is Uchronia, a group show exploring alternate histories. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Roq La Rue, 532 First Ave. S., 374-8977, roqlarue.com. Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends May 2.

Kate Harkins and Keunae Song Harkins works to uncover meaning through layers and textures in her paintings; Song’s glasswork challenges perceptions through light and space. Opens First Thursday. Core Gallery, 117 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 467-4444, coregallery.org. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends May 2.

justin hillgrove and Jesse link Their group show, New Beginnings, explores introductions. The Piranha Shop, 1022 First Ave. S., 687-7463, thepiranhashop.com. 6-11 p.m. Thurs., April 2.

Cara Jaye

Dramatic Play Area includes drawings created with her daughter. First Thursday opening reception, 5-8 p.m. Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Pl. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 621-1945, punchgallery.org. Noon-5 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends May 2.

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Claire Johnson

She renders topographic landscapes, with great attenton to their patterns and colors. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. SOIL Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 264-8061, soilart.org. Noon-5 p.m. Thu.-Sun. Ends May 2.

Claire Johnston

Sea + Space = Obscura is all about the mysteries of ocean and universe. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Zeitgeist Coffee Gallery, 171 S. Jackson St., 583-0497, zeitgeistcoffee.com. 6 a.m.-7 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sun. Ends May 6.

Kim kopp and paul lorenz Kopp focuses on knots and tangles, while Lorenz loves the nuance of color. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Gallery I|M|A, 123 S. Jackson St., 625-0055, galleryima.com. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends May 2.

Dale Lindman and Robert Maki The softly abstract and the hardly geometric are paired together nicely in this joint show. Opening reception: 2-4 p.m. Sat., April 4. Prographica Gallery, 3419 E. Denny Way, 322-3851, prographicadrawings.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends May 2.

Fred Lisaius His show Arbor Vitae, which means “tree of life” in Latin, explores the concept of family and genetics through nature. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Patricia Rovzar, 1225 Second Ave., 223-0273, rovzargallery.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sun. Ends May 2.

ed mccarthy and carmi weingrod McCarhthy’s sculpture in Mud explores shadow and texture, while Weingrod’s Umbra finds intricacies in monocrhomoatic prints. First Thursday opening reception, 5-8 p.m. Shift Gallery, 312 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), shiftgallery.org. Noon-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Ends April 25.

Mars and Pony Gretchen Gammell and Amy Spassov collaborate on new mixed-media work. First Thursday opening reception, 5-8 p.m. Hall|Spassov Gallery, 319 Third Ave. S., 453-3244, hallspassov.com. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends May 2.

Ann Morris She considers the fagility and strength of vessels via found objects (including sinew, wasp nest paper, and seaweed) in Crossing Through. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Place, lisaharrisgallery.com, 443-3315. 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends May 3.

Ryan Sarah Murphy

Collaged Constructions features the overlooked,with constructions made of found cardboard. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Platform Gallery (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 114 Third Ave. S., 323-2808, platformgallery.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends May 2.

Narrating earth Gallery artists Lin McJunkin, Ann Vandervelde, and Anne McDuffie explore the fragility of the planet through glass sculpture, paintings, and poetry. First Thursday opening reception, 5-8 p.m. Burien Arts Gallery, 826 S.W. 152nd St., 244-7808, burienarts.org. Noon-6 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Noon-4 p.m. Sun. Ends May 3.

Northwest clay Eighteen contemporary ceramic artists from Washington, Oregon, California, and Montana are featured. First Thursday opening reception, 5-8 p.m. Traver Gallery, 110 Union St., 587-6501, travergallery.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Ends May 2.

Outside Looking In A collection of work from members curated by George Brandt, the gallery’s founder. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Gallery 110, 110 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 624-9336, gallery110.com. Noon-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends May 2.

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Mary Ann Peters Her work is all about multiple truths, unreliable narrators, and nostalgia. Small paintings and large tapestries consider notions of exile and displacement. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. James Harris Gallery, 604 Second Ave., 903-6220, jamesharrisgallery.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends May 9.

Scissors + Paper Cut-paper art from Lauren Iida, Alisa Lahti, and Ann Leda Shapiro explores culture and storytelling. First Thursday opening reception, 5-8 p.m. ArtXchange Gallery, 512 First Ave. S., 839-0377, artxchange.org. 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends May 2.

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kurt solmssen And Jeff Scott Solmssen’s paintings focus on surroundings, both household and outdoors. Scott’s paintings reflect the spirit of travel in the form of local roadways and discarded vehicles. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Ends May 2.

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Kimberly Trowbridge

Framing Perception is her self-referential new show, mostly comprising plein-air paintings. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl. S., 263-1589, galleries.4culture.org. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends April 30.

Diana Velasco Her two photo series, Portraits and Family Album, recognize the daily lives of Danish relatives, their identity, and personal histories. Opens Sat., April 4. Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 N.W. 67th St., 789-5707, nordicmuseum.org. $6-$8. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tues.-Sat. Noon-4 p.m. Sun. Ends June 28.

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MICHAEL NICOLL YAHGULANAAS His self-described “Haida Manga” style is a blend of traditional Haida folklore and Japanese comics. His work is currently featured in SAM’s Indigenous Beauty show. First Thursday opening reception, 6-8 p.m. Stonington Gallery, 125 S. Jackson St., 405-4040, stongingtongallery.com. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sat. Noon.-5 p.m. Sun. Ends May 3.

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A Chorus for the Multiverse and The How, What, and Wherefore explore complex themes through watercolor, acrylic, and graphite on paper. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 S. Washington St. (Tashiro Kaplan Building), 587-4033, ggibsongallery.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends April 18.

Change-Seed Twenty-five artists from Hong Kong seek to update the U.S. on shifts in contemporary art created outside mainland China. Most works are small, concerned with the body and functionality. CoCA Georgetown, 5701 Sixth Ave. S., 728-1980, cocaseattle.org. 11 a.m-5 p.m. Wed.-Fri. Ends May 15.

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Imogen cunningham 17 photographs of Cornish, its students, and founder Nellie Cornish, taken in 1935 by the pioneering Northwest photographer. Cornish College of the Arts, 1000 Lenora St., 726-5151, cornish.edu. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends June 30.

Emerge/Evolve 2014: Rising Talents in Kiln-Glass This traveling group show from Portland’s Bullseye Glass Company gallery features about two dozen artists pushing the boundaris of their medium. Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way N.E., 425-519-0770, bellevuearts.org. $5-$12. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Ends June 14.

Charles Emerson and Guy Anderson The two painters take inspiration from the Northwest landscape. Sisko Gallery, 3126 Elliott Ave., 283-2998, siskoworks.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri.-Sun. Ends May 3.

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John Grade

Middle Fork is a partial replica of a giant Western hemlock created with plaster molds and cedar chunks. MadArt, 325 Westlake Ave. N., 623-1180, madartseattle.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. Ends Apr. 25.

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Maimouna Guerresi Inaugurating the new gallery is a selection of photos from the Italian/Senegalese Guerresi, whose studio scenes have a highly ritualized, almost theatrical aspect. The images in Light Bodies are less individual portraits of women than idealized renderings of high priestesses (or even saints, though the iconography is mostly Islamic). Colorful robes, chadors, and headdresses are elongated and enlarged, taking an almost architectural form; hats become minarets. Female bodies fall away, or become black voids, suggesting a kind of sublimation from flesh to spirit. Guerresi’s often-looming figures are like peaceful giants from myth, figures removed from our petty, earthly concerns. BRIAN MILLER Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, 608 Second Ave., 467-4927, marianeibrahim.com. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wed.-Fri. Noon-5 p.m. Sat. Ends May 1.

Ann Hamilton The artist has created new commissioned art for the Henry that she invites viewers to interact with through touch—elements of the show can be ripped off the wall and kept for later. Henry Art Gallery (UW campus), 543-2280, henryart.org. $6-$10. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Weds., Sat. & Sun. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs. & Sat. Ends April 26.

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In LEGO, We Connect Tiny toy tableaux are captured in whimsical photos by Vesa Lehtimaki (from Finland), Shelly Corbett (local), and Boris Vanrillaer (a Swede). Bryan Ohno Gallery, 521 S. Main St., 459-6857, bryanohno.com. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends April 11.

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Indigenous Beauty A collection of traditional Native American artwork from the Diker Collection, with a Northwest sidebar. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 654-3121, seattleartmuseum.org. $12.50-$19.50. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sun. (Open to 9 p.m. Thurs.) Ends May 17.

1900: Adornment for the Home and Body Local collectors Wayne Dodge and Lawrence Kreisman share their trove of home furnishing, decorative objects, and such. Accompanying the show are period-concurrent works from the Frye’s own collection. Running in parallel is Pan: A Graphic Arts Time Capsule of Europe 1895-1900, with pages, plates, and illustrations from the eponymous art journal. Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., 622-9250, fryemuseum.org. Free. 11-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Ends May 3.

Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor She has taken over the space with her large-scale installation of found household furniture and textiles, commenting on the events they witness: birth, sex, death, sleep, etc. Suyama Space, 2324 Second Ave., 256-0809, suyamaspace.org. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. Ends April 25.

Our Daily Homage New work from gallery artists Eric Carson, Mark Daughhetee, and Jenny Fillius features altars, icons, and figures of devotion. ArtsWest, 4711 California Ave. S.W., 938-063, artswest.org. 1:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. Ends May 2.

The portrait reframed This group show features portraiture by Anita Nowacka, Davis Freeman, Jay Defehr, and others. Stacya Silverman Gallery, 614 W. McGraw St., 270-9465, stacyasilverman.com. Hours by appointment. Ends June 15.

Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection Over 200 pins and other jewelry items are displayed from the collection of the former U.S. Secretary of State. Bellevue Arts Museum. Ends June 7.

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Terminal February is the cruelest month. With such an early spring (or an absence of winter), the trees budding and flowers blossoming, it’s hard to think about death—yet here it is, staring us in the face. The morbid subject of this group show unites disparate photographers including Sylvia Plachy, Joel-Peter Witkin, David Wojnarowicz, and (closer to home) Robert Adams and Isaac Layman. There are no dead bodies (though one mummy), yet images of illness and decay abound. Animal carcasses prove irresistible subjects, and Catherine Chalmers actually creates some interesting scenes with dead cockroaches. (Eeew!) Corpses being static, early photography—when exposures took minutes, not seconds—often memorialized the dead. Here, in this contemporary selection of 16 postwar artists and 43 images, death is more conceptual than personal. Old dogs, taxidermy animals, and even the tinfoil remnants from some cooked salmon—this courtesy of Seattle artist Layman—make one think about our animal kinship with the natural world. Our furry and feathered cousins are interred with less respect (see Richard Misrach’s desert burial pit), though how we treat their remains—or photograph them—here seems a kind of rehearsal for human rites. B.R.M. Photo Center NW, 900 12th Ave., 720-7222, pcnw.org. Noon-9 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends April 5.

ruth marie tomlinson A timber creation lies on the floor in Flat Fall, which the Cornish professor made from a downed tree in Montana, where she keeps a studio. Apparently the old cottonwood came down in a windstorm; then Tomlinson meticulously salvaged and sectioned it, numbering the pieces, and later trucked it over to Seattle for supine reassembly. Now covering most the of the gallery floor (step carefully!), the 337 component pieces are a kind of memorial for the once-living tree. Sections might be sold, I suppose, like giant coasters for you and 336 oversized guests, but Flat Fall couldn’t really be recycled into furniture, since cottonwood is so flimsy and cheap. A gallery portrait shows Tomlinson resting in the crook of the living cottonwood. That was one phase of the tree’s life cycle; art is the next; and its final traces might take the form of woodsmoke wafting from a chimney.. BRIAN MILLER Method Gallery, 106 Third Ave. S. (Tashiro Kaplan Building, 223-8505, methodgallery.com. Noon-5 p.m. Fri.-Sat. Ends April 11.

Rodrigo Valenzuela In Future Ruins, he turns his attention to what he dubs the “13th Man,” or the people who labor to clean up the city when its football celebrations are said and done. Through his video installation and photographic work, he muses on a transforming Seattle. Frye Art Museum, Ends Apr. 26.

Wrappings Gallery artists Colleen Hayward, Justyn Hegreberg, and Saya Moriyasu explore wrapping in various media to explore intricate layers. The Alice, 6007 12th Ave. S., thealicegallery.com. Noon-5 p.m. Sat. Ends May 2.