Preview – The Gallery Guide – April-May 2007

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, WA – May 5-Sept 9 The Seattle Art Museum reopens this spring after a
major expansion of the downtown building. Exciting programming for 2007/08 includes an
exhibition of 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum, a Gaylen Hansen
retrospective, Roman Art from the Louvre and a major exhibit of Coast Salish Art.
The inaugural exhibit, SAM at 75: Building a Collection for
Seattle, features new acquisitions and gifts in honour of the
Museum’s upcoming 75th anniversary. Approximately 200
pieces will be featured in the galleries and also integrated
within the permanent collections.
When entering the block-long public space of the new
SAM building, impressive installations by Cai Guo-Qiang can
be viewed on the first and second floors. On the ground level
is Inopportune: Stage One, a nine-car piece meant to re-enact a
Ford Taurus somersaulting through the air. Each suspended
vehicle represents a moment in time, like stills from a video.
Colourful flashing LED lights give the piece a theatrical tone
that adds to the experiential element of the work. In an
adjacent gallery, a video work by Guo-Qiang entitled Illusion
depicts a car exploding in Times Square, New York. The actual
burned car used in the creation of the piece accompanies the
video for a heightened sense of reality. Both of these works are
preview
www.seattleartmuseum.org
SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle
Cai Guo-Qiang, Inopportune: Stage One, (2004),
cars and sequenced multi-channel light tubes
[Seattle Art Museum, WA, May 5-Sept 9]
part of SAM’s recent acquisitions and can be viewed in the free public spaces of the new expansion.
Five Masterpieces of Asian Art: The Story of their Conservation, is also on view as part of SAM at
75. The display features new conservation techniques used on recently conserved Japanese and
Korean works. Allyn Cantor
TACOMA
★ Museum of Glass
1801 E Dock St ✆(253)284-4750
866-4MUSEUM
www.museumofglass.org
wed-sat 10am-5pm sun 12-5pm 3rd
thurs 10am-8pm Admission: free for
members, $10 general, $8 seniors,
military and students (13+ with ID), $8
groups of 10+, $4 children (6-12 yrs),
children under 6 free, admission is free
every 3rd thurs from 5-8pm. Watch
artists work with molten glass in the
Hot Shop Amphitheater. Thru May 27
Transparently Built, glass installations
of site-specific works; Thru Jun 3 Jim
Campbell, “Quantizing Effects: The
Liminal Art of Jim Campbell”, interactive
multi-media works created
between 1993 and 2003. Campbells’
sculptural installations present novel
ways of transmitting images, from
LED screens to touch-sensitive computers
to `explore the phenomena of
human perception and mutability as
they relate to technological advance;
74 PREVIEW
Thru Nov 2009 Contrasts: a Glass
Primer, introduction to the medium of
glass.
★ Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Ave ✆(253)272-4258
www.TacomaArtMuseum.org
mon-sat 10am-5 pm sun 12-5pm 3rd
thurs 10am-8pm Admission: members
free, non-members $6.50-7.50, children
5 and under free, 3rd thurs free
Thru May 8 8th Northwest Biennial,
demonstrates the broad spectrum of
artistic activities in the Northwest since
2003; Thru May 23 Paul Strand, “Paul
Strand Southwest”, seminal figure in
the history of photography. This exhibition
presents many images drawn from
the artist’s estate including dramatic
landscapes, decayed ghost towns, the
noble architecture of adobe churches
and austere portraits of his wife,
Rebecca; Thru Jun 10 Frida Kahlo,
“Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon”, photographic
portraits by artists Edward
Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Lucienne
Bloch, Emmy Lou Packard, Florence
Arquin, Manuel Alvarez Bravo,
Giselle Freund, Fritz Henle, Guillermo
Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, Lola
Alvarez Bravo; Northwest Visions of
Frida Kahol, features northwest artists
inspired by Kahlo, the artist and icon
including Randy Hayes, Alfredo
Arrequin, Jim Riswold, Isaac Hernandez
Ruiz, Fulgencio Lazo, and others;
Ongoing Telling Stories: Selections
from the Permanent Collection,
explores how artists capture the spirit
and essence of narrative tales.
★ William Traver Gallery
1821 E Dock St, #100
✆(253)383-3685
www.travergallery.com
tues-sat 10am-6pm sun 12-5pm Open
3rd Thurs Artwalks 5-8pm Thru Apr 8
Jeremy Lepisto, “A Place In Between”,
kiln cast glass sculpture; Apr 14-May 6
Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and
Jasen Johnsen, “Owls”, blown and offhand
sculpted glass; Dick Weiss, “Clay
and Glass: Paint, Paint, Paint”, ceramics
and glass with enamels; May 12-
Jun 10 Kathleen Elliott, flame worked
glass botanical sculptures.
★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS