The 71 drawings in Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" at Childhood's End are stunning. It is an exhibition of drawings done since 2001. All of the drawings are done with pastel or other media drawn into monoprints. Each picture tells a story, be it the story of Squaxin Indians recreating an historic canoe trip or depictions of Native American legends, be it a tender rendition of people with their animals, or art about the horror of war and the events of Sept. 11, 2001. They are memories and events real and imagined, created with sensitivity to form, balance, texture; and each picture, no matter how real or how detailed, began with what the Surrealists called automatic writing - marks on a surface derived from the artist's unconscious.

There is power here. And love. And humanity.

Read Alec Clayton's full review of Marilyn Frasca's "Like This" in the Music and Culture section.

"LIKE THIS," 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, through Nov. 17, Childhood's End Gallery, 222 Fourth Ave. W., Olympia, 360.943.3724

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