Artist Susan Christian has opened her downtown Olympia studio space for exhibitions and events. She calls the space Salon Refu after the famous Salon de Refusés that made the French Impressionists famous.

The latest show in the space is an exhibition of prints by Haley Bea. I never before heard of her or saw her work, but I was enticed into going by an email from Christian. She wrote, "(Her prints are) not like anything I recognize, but they're charming and a little unnerving." That was enough to send me down there to see for myself, and I discovered that her monoprints were indeed charming and if not unnerving at least a little prickly and edgy.

Read Alec Clayton full review of the show in Northwest Military's Music & Culture section.

SALON REFU, 3-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, through July 28, by appointment through Aug., 222 Fourth Ave. W, Olympia, 360.943.3724