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The Slutty Eye: Grade Point
Immediate visual appeal in a UW stairwell.
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The Slutty Eye: Folk Explosion
At the Frye, more than one visit is required to take it all in.
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The Slutty Eye: The Comforts of Home
Taking on the theme of parents and children with a winning directness, Parenthesis is a brilliant, bighearted fun…
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The Slutty Eye: Holding Pen
When artist Buddy Bunting spotted “the distinctive illumination of prison lights” while driving through Victorville, a town 60…
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The Slutty Eye: Tone Poem
“You want to paint a hand? Well, if you realize that it is a hand, you’re fucked.” That’s…
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The Slutty Eye: Tough Times
The Henry may be prone to explaining—in excruciating grad school–speak—how some inscrutable piece of art is actually undermining…
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The Slutty Eye: Ugly Americana
Emma Jean’s is a scrupulously tidy antique store that smells like fresh flowers instead of the usual dust.…
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The Slutty Eye: Craft-Matic
The Bellevue Arts Museum is a good place to visit if you think today’s smart-aleck artists have no…
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The Slutty Eye: Strong Economy
Three dozen or so five-inch-square canvases that appear to be painted from blurry photos—doesn’t sound very promising, does…
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The Slutty Eye: Duped Diggers
“Hopes shattered!” promises the street sign for the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, and there is indeed…
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The Slutty Eye: Power Metal
There’s probably more than a little retro fetish involved in my love of signs that spell out a…
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The Slutty Eye: A Mandala of Trash
Bradd Skubinna’s Gabe Liked Jazz is a pile of trash on the floor that looks like a wedding…
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The Slutty Eye: The Exceptional One
In Peter Bagge’s new compilation of comics, Everybody Is Stupid Except for Me and Other Astute Observations (Fantagraphics,…
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The Slutty Eye: Drivers Seat
At one time the drummer for a manic band called Agitpop that toured with the Minutemen (he still…
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The Slutty Eye: Soft Target
Pouring paint into a hole in the ground? Madness! Cutting holes in the canvas—the precious, sacred canvas? Why,…
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The Slutty Eye: Inward Urge
Wind Cradle looks like six giant blades of grass, or the magnified cartoon facial hairs in a razor…
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The Slutty Eye: Junko Yamamoto at Gallery IMA
[Editor’s Note: This piece has been corrected since it was first posted. It originally described Yamamoto as having…
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The Slutty Eye: Water Works
I have to confess that I usually approach Western Bridge with irritation. Located way the hell down Fourth…
