by Eric Franklin on January 5, 2010
Not to be left completely in the dust behind by Portland’s great street car line, Seattle is adding a second street car to the Seattle Streetcar Network. The Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs is searching for an artist to help them add art to the line. If you apply and get the job, you’ll [...]
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by Eric Franklin on December 1, 2009
Virginia Howlett is a Seattle-based painter of “Universal Landscapes” – landscapes which are generated from a very specific place and time but which have broad and comprehensive relevance to anyone that explores them. She’s been looking up at the sky, painting it, and building narratives out of it, for years. She graciously invited us into [...]
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AJ Power,
Andrée Carter,
Ballard,
Mary Iverson,
painter,
Seattle,
Virgina Howlett
by Mark Albonizio on November 27, 2009
The Fremont Abbey is going to be abuzz with energy! It’s not that big of a place and it’s gonna be fun. Support the artists by bringing them food and non-alcoholic beverages. Once the wee hours of the night come around, they’ll be thankful that you left them some goodies.
Take a bus or carpool since [...]
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Art Marathon,
Center on Contemporary Art,
Fremont Abbey,
Seattle
by Eric Franklin on November 19, 2009
Tracy Boyd is a Seattle-based painter and one of the nicest people you could ever meet. Her most recent paintings showcase a real breakthrough in her progression as a painter. She’s gone bigger, bolder, and more aggressively abstract. I think that it’s working out for her (as you’ll be able to see by the photos [...]
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Francis Bacon,
Jenny Saville,
Mark Tracy,
Seattle,
Tracy Boyd,
Yang Shaobin,
Zhang Dali,
Zhang Xiaogang
by Eric Franklin on September 3, 2009
Wow. Right here in Seattle. Whodathunkit?
Local artist/security guard, Amanda Mae, has been fired from her security gig at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) for participating, perhaps a little too deeply, with Yoko Ono’s participatory piece called “Painting to Hammer a Nail.” Ono’s work is a small panel with a hammer hanging next to it, and [...]
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Seattle Art Museum,
Yoko Ono
by Eric Franklin on May 14, 2009
Jan and I have “Thursday Preview” Season Tickets to the Bathhouse Theatre in Seattle. For those of you who don’t know about the Bathhouse, it’s a very small community theatre on the ever-popular Green Lake. This is our second year having season tickets for the Thursday Previews and I’d highly recommend them to anyone – [...]
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