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What a wonderful find! An unheralded and untrained artist with innate talent, guts and sincerity is discovered, and you can see his paintings and sculptures at Tacoma Art Supply. Don't miss this. Tyrone Patkoski is half Polish and half Native American. He has survived homelessness and mental illness, has never studied
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Bill Colby is a master of print media who works in intaglio, woodcuts and other media, often combining print media with watercolor and acrylic and typically using the natural grain of the wood in his woodcuts to create movement of water or other natural elements. Nature is his constant subject.
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There's a new gallery in town, and it's pretty cool. It's called The Brick House and it's in an old brick house on Fawcett between 11th and 13th. I had a hard time finding it because the only sign is neon and hanging in the window - not visible from
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Ed Matlock's new paintings at Fulcrum are from a series based on the Mexican game Loteria, sometimes referred to as Mexican Bingo. The paintings are pop-style images of the cards painted flat with bold black outlines on brightly colored background. Like the cards from which they are taken, each
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Fulcrum Gallery continues to mount shows that make old codgers like me realize how out of touch they are. Ed Matlock's new paintings at Fulcrum are from a series based on the Mexican game Loteria, sometimes referred to as Mexican bingo. I never heard of it. And I'm only
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The show is called Lisa Sweet, Devotion and Demonstration. In a wall statement Sweet explains it is a show about Mythos and Logos. In spiritual terms Mythos teaches through symbol and myth, appealing to the emotions, while Logos teaches through logic. Sweet turns these upside-down and inside-out, combining Mythos
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Lisa Sweet re-invisions and reinterprets medieval and early modern Christian iconography in a style borrowed from Jan Van Eyck and the Netherlandish artists, but makes it uniquely her own. There are certain artists whose works are instantly recognizable, starting with Van Eyck and leading up through Picasso and Pollock. Add Sweet
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Charles Willyard's paintings of roads at night now showing at Caffé Vita in Olympia look a lot like calendar art or postcard art, or maybe like story illustrations out of a 1950s Saturday Evening Post. Willyard's painting technique and his sense of design, color and - most notably -
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I wonder what it's all about? No, that's not a question; that's the name of the Mike Capp exhibit at Mineral. His paintings "don't really mean anything dangerous, angst-y or irksome. There's no mewling social commentary," he says. Nor are they "meant to provoke the unarticulated terrors of childhood.
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Charles Willyard's paintings of roads at night now showing at Caffé Vita in Olympia look a lot like calendar art or postcard art, or maybe like story illustrations out of a 1950's Saturday Evening Post. Willyard's painting technique and his sense of design, color and - most notably -
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I wonder what it's all about? No, that's not a question; that's the name of the Mike Capp exhibit at Mineral. I've been told there's a happening art community in Everett that includes Capp, who does knockoffs of Juan Miro and Wifredo Lam combined with a personal iconography that includes
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Sculpture by Bret Lyon along with functional furniture and other works by Sam Winters are among the latest additions to Matter in downtown Olympia. Marcel Duchamp and Allan Kaprow erased the boundaries between art and life. Andy Warhol destroyed the boundaries between fine and commercial art. Matter in Olympia has wiped
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Sculpture by Bret Lyon along with functional furniture and other works by Sam Winters are among the latest additions to Matter in downtown Olympia. Lyon is an abstract sculptor from Tacoma who works with found and scavenged materials. For his latest work he has taken apart the inner workings of an
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To most Americans impressionist art means the art of a small group of late 19th century French artists. But an expanded definition of the movement includes earlier and later works, plus art from other parts of Europe and even America. The Movement of Impressionism: Europe, America, and the Northwest at
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Here's a list of South Sound visual artists to watch for in the coming months and years. File these names in memory, and when you hear that one of them is showing in an area gallery, check them out. 1. Jeremy Mangan: Winner of the 2009 Foundation of Art Award
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The current show at Kittredge Gallery features sculptures by Michael Johnson, associate professor of sculpture at University of Puget Sound. Johnson's sculptures are inspired by, but not imitative of, common objects such as bottles and bowls. There is one that looks like a pestle or maybe a butter churn and
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The current show at Kittredge Gallery features sculptures by Michael Johnson, associate professor of sculpture at University of Puget Sound. Johnson's sculptures are inspired by, but not imitative of, common objects such as bottles and bowls. There is one that looks like a pestle or maybe a butter churn and
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Preston Singletary's mid career retrospective exhibition at Museum of Glass blows the lid off many of my theories about glass and contemporary Native American art. There is much to admire about traditional Native art - the symbolism, the reverence for heritage, the mystery and power of the imagery. But I am
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Preston Singletary's big show at MOG is mind-boggling. Perhaps it's the lighting and the size and variety of the show that is so impressive. The walls are dark and each artwork is individually and dramatically spotlighted. The overall impact is powerful and magical, and most if not all of the
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There are two Troy Gua shows at Fulcrum. The title show, Monument: A Memorial to Loss is installed in the small room to the left as you enter the gallery. Created especially for this exhibition, it is Gua's sober commentary on the loss of life and limb in the wars
