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I reviewed an exhibition of Joe Penrod's intriguing blue-tape shadows three years ago at the now defunct Black Front Gallery in Olympia. The works he's showing at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma are exactly the same only more sophisticated. The idea is as profound as it is simple. He traces the cast
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There is not enough hyperbole in my language arsenal to tell you how impressed I am with Illusion/Allusion: Paintings by Barlow Palminteri and Ron Hinson at the Minnaert Center Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College. This is the most impressive art exhibition I've seen this year. To those who have
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There is a quiet and dignified exhibition of photographs in the small entryway of The Gallery at Tacoma Community College. The photographs are pretty traditional and not very exciting, but they are nicely done. One in particular, Lake Washington Bridge by Jim Oliver, does wonderful things with water and shadows.
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There is a quiet and dignified exhibition of photographs in the small entryway of The Gallery at Tacoma Community College. The photographs are pretty traditional and not very exciting, but they're nicely done. One in particular, Lake Washington Bridge by Jim Oliver, does wonderful things with water and shadows. These
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There's some great stuff in the Greater Tacoma Community Foundation show at Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound. This exhibition of nominees and winners of the Foundation of Art Award includes work by the 25 nominees from 2008 to 2010. It is likely the best selection of art from Tacomans you're
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4. MIGHTY TACOMA >>> OCT. 21 We don't yet know what photographs will be in the show Mighty Tacoma: Photographic Portrait 2010, but the title tells us they will reference Tacoma and will be mighty. Billed as an "interactive celebration and creative exercise in commemoration of Tacoma Art Museum's 75th Anniversary," the show
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Remember Dead Artists and Kulture Lab? Remember James Hume and the hair metal band Roadrunner? Every wonder what Hume is up to nowadays? Well, according to artist and curator Lynn Di Nino he's Not Painting Flowers - the title of his new show curated by Di Nino and opening
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The show is called Access Denied, but it should be Access by Invitation Only or Access at Your Own Risk. It's the follow-up to Mineral's popular chastity belt show from a year ago. The walls are lined with artist-designed chastity belts displayed on female-form mannequins. They express 21st century takes
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The show is called Access Denied, but it should be Access by Invitation Only or Access at Your Own Risk. It's the follow-up to Mineral's popular chastity belt show from a year ago. The walls are lined with artist-designed chastity belts displayed on female-form mannequins. They express 21st century takes
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Matthew Johnson's charcoal drawings and watercolors at Fulcrum are unassuming, unpretentious and traditional in style and execution. There's nothing to distinguish them other than 1) the unusual subject matter and 2) the skill of the drawings. Yet, I was drawn to them even from outside the gallery on the sidewalk
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Matthew Johnson's charcoal drawings and watercolors at Fulcrum are unassuming, unpretentious and traditional in style and execution. There's nothing to distinguish them other than 1) the unusual subject matter and 2) the skill of the drawings. Yet, I was drawn to them even from outside the gallery on the
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Mavi Contemporary Art is Tacoma's newest gallery. They opened last week (in the beautifully remodeled building that was for so long home to Two Vaults Gallery) with an outstanding exhibition of paintings and sculptures by William Quinn. Little known in Tacoma, Quinn has long been successful nationally and even internationally. He
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Mavi Contemporary Art is Tacoma's newest gallery. They opened last week (in the beautifully remodeled building that was for so long home to Two Vaults Gallery) with an outstanding exhibition of paintings and sculptures by William Quinn. Little known in Tacoma, Quinn has long been successful nationally and even internationally. He
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I checked out a few more installations from the Spaceworks Tacoma Artscapes project starting with The Blood That Runs Through Us...an Ongoing Dialogue by Mary Coss, June Sekiguchi and Pamela Hom at 950 Pacific Ave. It is fabulous. It obliquely addresses the theme of lifecycles, leaving much for the viewer
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The Donald Cole and Francie Allen show Women Concealed and Revealed at Blue Heron Gallery is worth the drive and the ferry ride to Vashon Island. Read my review here. Women Concealed and Revealed through Aug. 26, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon to 5 p.m. SaturdayBlue Heron Gallery, 19704 Vashon
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The Donald Cole and Francie Allen show Women Concealed and Revealed at Blue Heron Gallery is worth the drive and the ferry ride to Vashon Island. I first became aware of Cole a few years back when I reviewed his show at ArtXchange in Seattle for another publication. I was tremendously
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The Spaceworks program is the kind of thing that's sure to put Tacoma on the map. You can no longer think of T-town as the stepchild of Seattle when it has things like this - open spaces and empty buildings enlivened with visual art, music and performance art. And not
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The Spaceworks program is the kind of thing that's sure to put Tacoma on the map. You can no longer think of T-town as the stepchild of Seattle when it has things like this - open spaces and empty buildings enlivened with visual art, music and performance art. And not
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What does it mean to be naked? The Brick House Gallery encouraged artists to come up with their own definitions of the word with strong hints that they should feel free to interpret nakedness in ways other than the obvious (i.e., figures without clothing). But with very
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What does it mean to be naked? The Brick House Gallery encouraged artists to come up with their own definitions of the word with strong hints that they should feel free to interpret nakedness in ways other than the obvious (i.e., figures without clothing). But with very few exceptions the
