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New Work by Devin Reynolds at Fulcrum Gallery

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New Work by Devin Reynolds at Fulcrum Gallery

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

Through Dec. 24: Holiday Show

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Through Dec. 24: Holiday Show

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

Holiday show a mixed bag at Childhood's End

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Holiday show a mixed bag at Childhood's End

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

Through Dec. 28: Foundation of Art Award Show

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Through Dec. 28: Foundation of Art Award Show

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

High expectations met at B2 Fine Art Gallery in Tacoma

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High expectations met at B2 Fine Art Gallery in Tacoma

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

Hot stuff at Pierce College

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Hot stuff at Pierce College

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

"Population" explosion at the Museum of Glass

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"Population" explosion at the Museum of Glass

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

Through Nov. 30: "Beyond Crayons and Finger Painting 3.0"

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Through Nov. 30: "Beyond Crayons and Finger Painting 3.0"

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

More great youth art at B2

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More great youth art at B2

  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

Through Feb. 10: "Andy Warhol's Flowers For Tacoma

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Through Feb. 10: "Andy Warhol's Flowers For Tacoma

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

Warhol's Flowers for Tacoma

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Warhol's Flowers for Tacoma

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

Landscapes so bright you'll need shades

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Landscapes so bright you'll need shades

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

The Mary Shizuka Bottomley show at Flow

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The Mary Shizuka Bottomley show at Flow

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

Jessica Bender at Kittredge Gallery

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Jessica Bender at Kittredge Gallery

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

An exercise in looking

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An exercise in looking

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

Eclectic modernism at Childhood’s End

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Eclectic modernism at Childhood’s End

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

Not to miss South Sound art

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Not to miss South Sound art

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

Another side of Mecca Normal

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Another side of Mecca Normal

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

Artists get no respect

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Artists get no respect

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

Clouds on Broadway

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Clouds on Broadway

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

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