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Alec Clayton on February 8th, 2012
There's a really big show at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, and it's not on the stage. It's called Gold we have Spun from Straw! and it stretches throughout the Washington Center lobby, mezzanine and the upper balcony. The place is full of art. Really big art.
Especially big
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Alec Clayton on February 8th, 2012
There's a really big show at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, and it's not on the stage. It's called Gold we have Spun from Straw! and it stretches throughout the Washington Center lobby, mezzanine and the upper balcony. The place is full of art. Really big art.
Especially big
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Alec Clayton on February 1st, 2012
There's quite a range of imagery and styles in the new show at Fulcrum Gallery, Dawn of 2012. The show features emerging artists - a loosely defined and often over-used term that generally means artists who have not yet received the recognition they deserve. Some of us are emerging all
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Alec Clayton on February 1st, 2012
There's quite a range of imagery and styles in the new show at Fulcrum Gallery, Dawn of 2012. The show features emerging artists - a loosely defined and often over-used term that generally means artists who have not yet received the recognition they deserve. Some of us are emerging all
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Alec Clayton on January 24th, 2012
The theme of the 10th Annual Biennial at Tacoma Art Museum is identity, described by the museum as "a vision of regional identity that revolves around how communities interact, intersect and overlap."
These interactions, intersections and overlaps extend in intriguing ways to resonances between the works of art,
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Alec Clayton on January 24th, 2012
The theme of the 10th Annual Biennial at Tacoma Art Museum is identity, described by the museum as "a vision of regional identity that revolves around how communities interact, intersect and overlap."
These interactions, intersections and overlaps extend in intriguing ways to resonances between the works of art, many of which
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Alec Clayton on January 18th, 2012
There are a lot of artist-made postcards in the Wish You Were Here postcard exhibit at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College. More than 75 local and regional artists submitted more than 250 works. Sorry, I didn't count how many made
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Alec Clayton on January 18th, 2012
There are a lot of artist-made postcards in the Wish You Were Here postcard exhibit at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College. More than 75 local and regional artists submitted more than 250 works. Sorry, I didn't count how many made
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Alec Clayton on January 12th, 2012
At the risk of sounding snarky, I have a hard time imagining why anyone would want to see At Home Across America: Scenes from the 1930s to 1950s in Prints at Tacoma Art Museum. Unless they're writing an art history thesis. Or very nostalgic for the 1940s.
On the other hand,
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Alec Clayton on December 29th, 2011
Cold Fusion at B2 Fine Art is the second part of a two-part exhibition. The first part, Hot Fusion, was last summer. Hot summer, cold winter, and a few of the same artists: Scott J. Morgan, Judy Hintz Cox, Todd Clark and photographer Jeff. G. Mitchell.
All of the work is
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Alec Clayton on January 29th, 2012
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The theme of the 10th Annual Biennial at Tacoma Art Museum is identity, described by the museum as "a vision of regional identity that revolves around how communities interact, intersect and overlap."
These interactions, intersections and overlaps extend in intriguing ways
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Alec Clayton on October 25th, 2011
OLYMPIA GALLERY CELEBRATES 40 YEARS >>>
The latest show at Childhood's End Gallery seems to be geared toward gift buying - a prequel to the holiday season and a celebration of the gallery's 40th year in Olympia. Everything is decorative, colorful and safe almost to the point of
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Alec Clayton on September 15th, 2011
STOP HERE DURING THIS THURSDAY ARTWALK >>>
Parkland is Burning! Oh no, call the fire department. Better yet, hightail it to Fulcrum Gallery for this sizzling hot show of posters by the great Art Chantry. From the "Take my penis" condom posters to artwork for Hempfest, Chantry's works
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Alec Clayton on August 2nd, 2011
NAKED ART >>>
Last week I wrote about sculptors who specialize in the human figure and spoke of works that were "almost too lifelike to be sitting in a gallery" - the prime example being sculptures by John DeAndrea. What I failed to mention is that DeAndrea is a pimp. His
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Alec Clayton on July 26th, 2011
THE ART OF VALLY NOMIDOU AND SCOTT FIFE >>>
A friend posted a link on Facebook to an article in Juxtapoz about sculpture by Greek artist Vally Nomidou. When I looked at Nomidou's work the first thing I thought was that her life-size paper figures are like the life-size and larger
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Alec Clayton on July 19th, 2011
ARTISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Attention area art galleries: You need to show this woman's work.
Olympia artist Becky Knold is a beginner and pretty much self-taught as a painter. She started painting seriously only five or six years ago, and her only formal training has been a few classes at The
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Alec Clayton on July 12th, 2011
THE VOLCANO'S VISUAL ARTS CRITIC WEIGHS IN >>>
The name of the latest show at Art House Designs in Olympia is "Three old guys and one old lady."
The good thing about old folks is they've been at it long enough to get good. Olympia painters Dale Witherow, Bob Gillis, Ron
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Alec Clayton on July 5th, 2011
THE VOLCANO'S VISUAL ARTS CRITIC CHIMES IN >>>
I went to a gallery tour Q&A with Dale Chihuly at Tacoma Art Museum Thursday morning, and while I enjoyed the Q&A with Tacoma's most famous artist, the things that really knocked me out were 1) Chihuly's collection of Edward S. Curtis photographs,
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Alec Clayton on June 28th, 2011
THE VOLCANO'S VISUAL ARTS CRITIC CHIMES IN >>>
OMG, what a problem to have! There's just too much art going on in the South Sound. There's no way I can cover it all - not with only a single column per week in the Weekly Volcano and one little Spew per
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Alec Clayton on June 28th, 2011
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You may know Peter Sheesley from the painting demonstrations he did at Tacoma Art Museum in connection with the Norman Rockwell exhibition.
I have a confession to make: I was not impressed with what I read about Sheesley, nor with what I saw on his website.
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