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2008-05-16T23:33:08+01:00text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonFascination and repulsion
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<p>Olympia is losing the only thing it has that resembles a cutting-edge art gallery. It’s not surprising. When it comes down to dollars and cents, Olympia is not much of an art town. There may be a shipload of artists in town, but there’ ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonClose as Close
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<p>Photographer and curator Chip Van Gilder has come up with a clever concept for a group show at Grand Impromptu Gallery, the artist-owned co-op two doors down from the Grand Cinema. And it’s about time. <br />
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So far, every show at t ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonYoung at art
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<p>All honor and glory to Gallery Madera and the Tacoma Artworks Group for showing a deserving bunch of college art students. But that is exactly what Tacoma Artworks Group, or TAG, is all about. TAG is a sanctioned club through the Associated Studen ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec Clayton199 supplicants
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<p>Kader Attia, featured artist at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, presents work that is equally effective in terms of idea, form and emotional impact. He expresses deep sympathy for the human condition through artworks that are inve ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonInconsistent patterns
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<p>“Issei Watanabe — Possibility of Inconsistent Patterns featuring duct tape geometry; Kelsey Parkhurst, Dana Brownfield, and Melissa Balch — What To Wear featuring absurdly altered articles of clothing; Justin Hahn — u ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonStreet art
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<p>The terms “cutting edge” and “street art” are tossed around a lot. The current show at Black Front Gallery is the real thing. These artists are like feral cats brought inside and trained — only everybody knows you can ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonArt everywhere
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<p>Watch out when you’re walking, you might step on the art. It’s all over the place, more often than not hidden in plain sight. Sometimes hidden by virtue of being overly familiar; your eyes just take it in and spit it out without ever p ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonPure form
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<p>If you’re bored by the art of Donald Judd and Richard Serra — and Carl Andre and Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman, and even Hans Hoffman — and especially if you don’t even know or care who these artists are, then don’t b ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonIt’s about time
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<p>The art in Black Front Gallery’s latest show is more conceptual than visual.</p>
<p>Erica Lord, a visual arts teacher at The Evergreen State College, is a photographer, sculptor and installation artist who brings a mixed-race heritage to he ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonTreetopia
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<p>This week I dropped by Childhood’s End in Olympia where the featured artist is Jiji Saunders. She does colorful landscapes in encaustic on wood. She makes good use of the encaustic media with rough textures and murky depths. Her landscapes a ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonKicking glass
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<p>Recent visual arts coverage in the Weekly Volcano has been all about glass. I was very generous in my praise of Lino Tagliapietra, Willim Morris, and Paul and Dante Marioni. But I might have rankled some glass lovers when I wrote: “I might a ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonThe magnificent way
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<p>Chuck Close is something of a one-trick pony, but he does that one trick magnificently. He does portraits of his friends in an almost endless variety of media and techniques, usually close-ups with sharp focus on the center of the face and fading ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonRocking glass
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<p>Father and son glass artists Paul (father) and Dante (son) Marioni are showing together for only the second time anywhere at William Traver Gallery in Tacoma. Going against all reasonable expectations, it is the father whose work displays a more y ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonStrange combinations
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<p>Interesting show: Jason Greene, Molly Wolfe and Jeremy Bert at Black Front Gallery in Olympia. Wolfe and Bert complement one another nicely. Wolfe works with glass and found objects, Bert with recycled neon signs. Both are showing objects that are ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonThe other glass museum
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<p>The finishing touches are being put on the $20 million renovation of the Hotel Murano, formerly the Sheraton, in downtown Tacoma. The Murano is part of the Providence hotel chain, a leader in the contemporary trend of hotels that are showcases for ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonThe Helm
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<p>For starters, the exhibition called “This is a Time Machine” at The Helm is colorful and visually exciting, and it begs some interesting questions about the use of found objects in art. Such as just how much of the work should actually ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonFelt good
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<p>Faith Hagenhofer is among the more inventive artists working in the South Sound region. <br />
I especially appreciate the many ways in which she takes advantage of and, in some cases, works against the natural properties of her chosen media &mda ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonBad boys
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<p>I’ve been in a really bad mood all week. I should find some local art to review, but the way I’ve been feeling lately I’ll probably hate anything I see. Here’s the thing: I go to see local art exhibits, and what I see is st ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonTime warp
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<p>As juried art shows go, the Third Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Art Center, South Puget Sound Community College, is not bad. There are some old friends as well as some excellent artists I’ve never before seen. ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonWinter warmth
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<p>Saturday morning I waited outside of One Heart Café with a bunch of artists from the gallery formerly known as a.o.c., hoping someone would come and let us in. There was supposed to be a meeting over coffee of these artists who are taking o ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonThe gift of art
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<p>Christmas is not the best time for artists and art galleries. Nobody ever gives art for Christmas. They should, but they don’t. I, for one, would love to get a painting by Ron Hinson or Chauney Peck or one of Holly Senn’s sculptures ma ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonBending space
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<p>Driving up Fourth Avenue in Olympia, I glanced in the window of Black Front Gallery and saw what looked like an intricate wall sculpture made of cut paper and swirling strands of wire. From my distance and angle as I drove by — holding up tr ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonOwn it
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<p>I dropped by a.o.c. gallery to see a group show that was described as a kind of transition show between the old a.o.c. managed by the husband-and-wife partnership of C.J. Swanson and David N. Goldberg and the new artists-owned cooperative gallery ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonVamps and villains
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<p>My initial reaction to Rebecca Raven’s paintings at Childhood’s End Gallery was that they are a little too precious and way too gimmicky. Ten of her 11 gemlike paintings employ variations of a single gimmick.<br />
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Raven&rsquo ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonDon’t be absurd
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<p>The new show at The Helm may be called “Don’t Be Absurd,” but it is all about absurdities such as shapeless cloths leaping into the air on city streets and cutely menacing creatures that are half whale and half swordfish.<br />
...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonSex and violence
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<p>I really like Ric Hall and Ron Schmitt’s collaborative pastels. It is absolutely astonishing that two artists can work simultaneously on a painting — and apparently, judging from their written statements, with little or no preplanning ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonThe lovely bones
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<p>Betty Bastai’s drawings bring to mind the Alice Sebold novel “The Lovely Bones.” Not the story, just the title. Along the right-hand wall of the gallery at South Puget Sound Community College is a group of eight soft and delicate ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonGreat Clayton Cop-out
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<p>It’s time for another one of those columns that I like to think of as The Great Clayton Cop-out. That’s when I offer an overview of exhibitions throughout the region because there’s no one thing I particularly want to review.<br ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonMust-see show
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<p>I’ve been following the evolution of Chauney Peck since the late ’90s when she showed up in a group show at the old Commencement Art Gallery.<br />
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Back then she was doing paintings that were expressive, spatially open and ges ...text/html1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00http://www.weeklyvolcano.comAlec ClaytonDon't look
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<p>I first became aware of Bil Fleming’s art when he had a really nice drawing in a juried show at South Puget Sound Community College last year. Now he offers two interactive sculptural installations in the Capitol Theater: “The Projecti ...