OBViouS: Object Based Video Sculpture started out as a vague idea of investigating how sculptors use video as an element in their work. What emerged were two different approaches. Objects, which have video projected onto them and objects which have video as a structural element. This exhibition has examples of both approaches. OBViouS is a sampler of different contemporary approaches to sculpture which have video as a common thread. The equivocal nature of the practice of making sculpture allows for the curator to "state the obvious".

Closing the books on 2007 is a very daunting task. Citywide two major events occurred, both involving the Seattle Art Museum. Click on the Headline to read more.

The exhibition will run from June 8th through July 20th 2007. Gallery hours are from noon to six pm Monday through Friday.

The exhibition will run from April 9th through May 25th 2007. Gallery hours are from noon to six pm Monday through Friday.

[Henry Debuts ArtCasts]The Henry Art Gallery has been experimenting with artists in an continual exploration and reassessment of its collections. The institution, historically, has grown primarily through gifts over its nearly 80-year existence. This time the Henry has invited professor of art Akio Takamori to design an installation responding to these holdings

[or What I have been doing at 911 Media Arts Center]

"I Was Proud of My Crime." is a new series of bag paintings featuring mug shots taken on one day in 1956 when 156 protesters were arrested for "hindering a bus." Seattle painter Chris Crites presents a series of mug shots taken on one day in 1956 when 156 protesters were arrested during the Montgomery bus boycotts. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the arrested, said upon his release from jail, "I was proud of my crime. It was the crime of joining my people in a nonviolent protest against injustice."

The most epic installation at the 2006 MFA exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery is by Tivon Rice (U.S., b. 1978), entitled Apotheosis. 2006. It is comprised of computer monitors and polyethylene, measuring 6 x 24 x 4 feet. This work exemplifies the growing use of surplus materials from large institutions like the UW or Boeing.

(A Failed Attempt at Something Grand) In her installations of new drawings and prints, Seattle artist Dawn Cerny loosely bases her oeuvre on critic Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project, this series of drawing and engraving installations looks at perceptions of history.

If Rube Goldberg and Ad Reinhardt had a love child it would be Trimpin. He combines the whimsey of the former with the compositional structure of the latter to create wacky optical visions of perpetual time and space.

On a sunny weekend, I walked a mile up the west side of Capitol Hill. The newspaper kiosks were full of this image as I started at the edge of Interstate 5. Walking up Olive I saw that there were major renovations completed on the old used bookstore site. I became curious and started on an mini trek of up the hill stopping by faire gallery|cafe, Crawl Space, and OK OK. Here is what I found strolling up the hill.

At the press preview, yesterday, the star power of Maya Lin was quite apparent. Usually these affairs consist of 6 to 8 people representing mostly the print media. A good thirty people showed up.

Last summer, the City Council voted to earmark $500,000 for Broadway, money meant to help point the business district in a positive direction.

The Seattle Art Museum has hired Michael Darling, assistant curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, to be its next Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Michael Darling, assistant curator at MOCA, formerly known as the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, is the new curator of modern and contemporary art at the Seattle Art Museum. Jen Graves, art critic for the Stranger broke the story about the hire late Monday on the paper's SLOG, and SAM confirmed it.

Coming together at Carmacazzi Dub Plates are an eclectic group of artists which span both traditional and new media. Paintings, Sculpture, Audio & Video Art all mix together to make an aesthetic brew of the new frontier for the arts in Seattle

On April 1st or shortly thereafter,TheLittleCity.com and LittleCityJournal will be departing cyberspace. After six years owner John Wells wants to move on to other projects and so is ending [for now] both web sites. As the primary content provider, I decided to move all the content I provided to those two web sites and create a central location for all of it

In his new video installation, Seattle Artist Joseph Gray takes a twenty dollar roll of paper and cuts, folds and creates an ephemeral video projection surface.

The video work of Kelly Mark is a delightful romp through the "ballet of everyday life". The exhibition runs from February 25th through May 7th 2006.

February 16th marked the opening of the second exhibition of works on paper by Keith Tilford at the James Harris Gallery.

The sun has peaked out of the clouds here in Seattle. February is the shortest month of the year, but the ehibitions are high in quality.

February is upon us and between the massive gusts of wind and the torrential rain we look for signs of spring anywhere we can find them. Cait Willis is showing 16 new paintings at the Joe Bar Cafe which seem to serve that purpose nicely.

William Rubin, who as director of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York played a central role in shaping the museum's collections and exhibitions, has died. He was 78. He joined the museum in 1967 and was named chief curator of the painting and sculpture collection a year later.

The rain fell in Seattle for 27 straight days. If we seem web footed and waterlogged, it is because in the absence of sun, we look to are for the only other illumination (metaphorically speaking) so readily available in Seattle, the visual arts.

The season of rain falls upon Seattle sending the art lover into the warmth of the many area galleries. With the shuttering of SAM downtown, Pioneer Square offers many delactable treats, the most compelling of these is the new exhibiton of recent paintings by David Kroll.

Two Seattle Art Museum guards were fired Wednesday for threatening to walk out, which the museum perceived as a security breach. Susan Brooks and Gabe Dixon were terminated as the instigators of this labor action. From the museum's point of view, the fact that the press knew about it, made a potential security lapse public.

It seems everyone in the blogosphere is summing up 2005 with various lists. It seems that at the end of the year we like to compile and compare disparate events to try and make sense of them.

Santiago Cucullu: The Fates Await
[Serious Delirium, or You Will Die Tomorrow]
The exhibition was curated by Assistant Curator Sara Krajewski with funding by ArtsFund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Washington State Arts Commission and donors to the Henry Gallery Association.