I’ll be doing some summer travel in July, to (still cold! still rainy!) Alaska. This Portland artist says she is focused on “dissecting” the American landscape in all its vast diversity. And at bottom right is “Shifting Sightlines,” featured in Michelle Muldrow’s show The Winds Began to Shift (through July 22 at Koplin del Rio Gallery). Her Songs of the Earth (July 6 - 29 at Harris Harvey Gallery) feature lush, lyrical interpretations of the local environment. Rinehart Gallery), cards and other paper ephemera are given new focus with his carefully embroidered lines.Īt bottom left is “Somewhere in the Hoh” by Northwest painter Hart James. In his show This Is How We Learn (through July 15 at J. Smack dab in the middle is “Demonstration,” a postcard of sorts from Shaun Kardinal, a former Seattle artist now based in Philadelphia. Mini Mart celebrates both the show and the gallery’s first anniversary with a party on July 8 (2 - 9 p.m. Valenzuela took the photographs in Chile and the American West, then altered them with geometric hand-drawing. 19) at Mini Mart City Park in Georgetown. Her show The Edge of the Wild (at Foster/White Gallery July 6 - 22) was inspired by the geology of the Cascade range, and features her color-banded hand-painted collages.Īt top right is the stark beauty of “New Land 1,” by LA-based Chilean artist Rodrigo Valenzuela, who presents his series New Land (July 8 - Aug. In the top row above, at left, you’ll encounter “Sunrise Yellow Yakima Valley” by artist Sarah Winkler. Just pretend you’re in the car - windows down, snacks close at hand - and watch the scenery roll by. I’ve assembled a few examples here, so you can create a virtual road trip of your own. Summer brings lazy days and unscripted road trips, which is maybe why so many galleries are currently showing different takes on landscapes. (Yes, it is really open to the sky - there is no cover unless it’s raining.) It offers a remarkable meditation and reset, where the surprise appearance of a seagull in flight becomes a firework all its own. The Skyspace is one of my favorite places to achieve summer calm: Sitting inside the wood-lined ovoid and staring up through the open aperture at the bluest blue. (Also of note: July 7 marks the retirement of Henry director Sylvia Wolf, who has led the gallery for 15 years.) Check out the giant “Threeclipse” by Kansas City artist Ricky Allman, whose work blends landscape with mystic futurism.ĪrtSEA: Notes on Northwest Culture is Crosscut’s weekly arts & culture newsletter.Īlso lighting up the AMcE skies: Dion Johnson’s vivid color stacks resembling cross-sections of stained glass Gegam Kacherian’s menacing cityscapes, in which twisted creatures loom on high Guy Palmer Merrill’s clouds cut with iridescent angles Lester Monzon’s abstracts that pop-pop-pop with polka dots and Christine Nguyen’s floral “prism” pieces, which look like what you might see when lying back and peering at the sky through a daisy chain.Īfter oohing and ahhing over that barrage of color and light, consider a visual breather at the Henry Art Gallery, where July marks 20 years since the fantastic James Turrell Skyspace “ Light Reign” was installed. 20) is a group show featuring paintings that explode and whizz with color and spark. Take the new exhibit at AMcE Creative Arts. If you aren’t a fan of real fireworks, there are plenty of pyrotechnics of the strong, silent type to explore in the coming weeks.
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