Visual Arts – Openings & Events

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First Thursday Art Walk Beginning around 5 p.m. and often lasting to 9 p.m., the monthly art celebration includes venues like the Tashiro Kaplan Building, Roq La Rue, James Harris, Greg Kucera, and all the other Pioneer Square galleries. Occidental Park will also be full of artists and vendors. Occidental Park, S. Main St. & Occidental Ave. S. Free Thursday, February 5, 2015

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Lucinda Parker & Michael T. Hinsley Two Portland painters doing their damnedest to Keep It Weird™ visit Seattle. Parker, who’s “recently focused on mountains,” presents a series of craggy canvases rendered like highly stylized cartoons-rocky peaks reduced to oblique color panels, strange patterns, and odd angles. They’re a welcome break from the hyper-realistic, overly reverent Northwest landscapes that flood local galleries every month. This region is beautiful, but it is also freaky, a duality Parker manages to capture. Hinsley’s paintings eschew the bucolic for the waste bin. Imagine all the drippy paint-marker graffiti you see on Dumpsters across the city, cobbled together into incredibly busy, bustling schizophrenic psychoscapes. His paintings reflect how the city feels at its most chaotic-overwhelming, colorful, fun, and a little disorienting. He sometimes garnishes his canvases with garden dirt. In Portland, dirt is a legitimate medium. I hope this catches on in Seattle. (Through Feb. 28.) Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., 624-3034, lindahodgesgallery.com. Free. Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Kelton Sears Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S. Free Thursday, February 5, 2015, 6 – 8pm

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First Thursday Art Walk Beginning around 5 p.m. and often lasting to 9 p.m., the monthly art celebration includes venues like the Tashiro Kaplan Building, Roq La Rue, James Harris, Greg Kucera, and all the other Pioneer Square galleries. Occidental Park will also be full of artists and vendors. Occidental Park, S. Main St. & Occidental Ave. S. Free Thursday, March 5, 2015