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Burnished metal art is like glass art in this respect: It's natural beauty can be so enticing that the artist doesn't really have to do much of anything. It's so easy to get by with just a nice surface. Luckily for visitors to Fulcrum Gallery, artist Devin Reynolds brings a
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Art galleries often trot out old favorites and sure-sellers for the holiday season. Childhood's End Gallery has a tendency to do that year-round. Fortunately, many of their favorites and best-sellers are also good art. But not always their best. They've practically recycled the entirety of their recent Don Tiller show, which
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Art galleries often trot out old favorites and sure-sellers for the holiday season. Childhood's End Gallery has a tendency to do that year-round. Fortunately, many of their favorites and best-sellers are also good art. But not always their best. They've practically recycled the entirety of their recent Don Tiller show, which
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I had high expectations when previewing the Foundation of Art exhibition at B2 Fine Art, and I was not disappointed. The show featuring works from 40 artists who have been nominated for this prestigious award over the past five years is a good deal edgier than B2's
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I had high expectations when previewing the Foundation of Art exhibition at B2 Fine Art, and I was not disappointed. The show featuring works from 40 artists who have been nominated for this prestigious award over the past five years is a good deal edgier than B2's usual offerings, with
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Pierce College has small but outstanding art exhibits on both the Steilacoom and Puyallup campuses. I mentioned the Fall Invitational Exhibition on the Puyallup campus in this column last week, saying that Barlow Palminteri and Becky Knold are both excellent painters. The other two artists in that show are Charles
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Ray Turner's exhibition Population at Museum of Glass is a stunning show. Turner, a former Stadium High student from Tacoma now living in California, is showing almost 200 portraits painted on glass with lush oil paint slathered on the slick surface like cement poured from a mixer and spread with
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B2 Fine Art has opened the third installment of their international youth art exhibition Beyond Crayons and Finger Painting 3.0. featuring work from young artists 7-19 years old from Bethlehem, Canada, China, Cuba, Korea and the United States. Compared to previous incarnations of this show, this one has more work
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B2 Fine Art has opened the third installment of their international youth art exhibition Beyond Crayons and Finger Painting 3.0. featuring work from young artists 7-19 years old from Bethlehem, Canada, China, Cuba, Korea and the United States. Compared to previous incarnations of this show, this one has more work that
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The exhibition Andy Warhol's Flowers for Tacoma at Tacoma Art Museum is a major event for Tacoma any way you look at it. We didn't get to see Andy Warhol turn the Tacoma Dome into a giant flower 30 years ago when he originally proposed it, but now
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The exhibition Andy Warhol's Flowers for Tacoma at Tacoma Art Museum is a major event for Tacoma any way you look at it. We didn't get to see Andy Warhol turn the Tacoma Dome into a giant flower 30 years ago when he originally proposed it, but now we get
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I went with my wife to see Don Tiller's paintings at Childhood's End Gallery. She loved them, raved about them. I thought they were pretty good, but I was not as excited as she. Tiller is a landscape painter from Port Townsend. I suspect his work sells very well with the
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The current show at Flow honors sumi and collage artist Mary Shizuka Bottomley, a co-founder of Puget Sound Sumi Artists who recently passed away. The show features 11 works by Bottomley, which offer a sampling of the wide array of her art, plus sumi art by six of Tacoma's better
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Two weeks ago I reviewed Susan Seubert's half of the two-person show at Kittredge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound. This week's column focuses on the second half of the two-shows-in-one: Jessica Bender's mixed-media installation "Dejection," which fills the large front room of the gallery. My initial reaction when entering
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Look at this painting. It's by Seattle artist David Noah Giles who used to be Tacoma artist David N. Goldberg. Now look again. And again. You'll notice that at first glance you see a field of random blue and orange squiggles on a white background. Then you notice something you hadn't
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I usually know what I think of the art I see, and I can express my opinions fairly clearly. After all, that's kind of my job. But some art leaves me scratching my head. Such is the work of Blake Flynn at Childhood's End Gallery. Is it profound and inventive
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There's a lot of exciting stuff coming up in area art galleries. Flow will host a show honoring artist and co-founder of Puget Sound Sumi Artist, the late Mary Bottomley in October. In November and December they'll have a retrospective of Fumiko Kimura's artwork featuring pieces not shown in years and
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Politics and literary art come together with visual art with a musical sensibility in the new show by Jean Smith and David Lester of the rock duo Mecca Normal. It's good to see a merging of various artistic expressions such as this. Lester is a graphic artist; Smith is a
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Artists get no respect. At least not small town artists, at least not beginning artists. Andy Warhol got plenty of respect. So did Roy Lichtenstein and Willem de Kooning, and Paul Cezanne was venerated in his lifetime. Van Gogh, on the other hand, was ignored and laughed at by all
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The Woolworth windows on Broadway and on Commerce are filled with cloud-themed art, beginning with the northern most windows and an installation called "Fabrication" by Janet Marcavage. The walls and the floor are filled with boldly striped patterns in cherry red and plum, blue and white and a wonderfully soft