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Justin Hillgrove is showing a group of small acrylic-on-canvas paintings illustrating some of his favorite books and movies, and all done in a style associated with Hello Kitty and Japanese anime married to macabre sci-fi. They're very cute in the way Tim Burton movies are cute.
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In last week‘s column I made a distinction between fine art and illustration. That distinction applies to Justin Hillgrove's paintings at Mineral featured in a show with a title both clichéd and appropriate: Black, White and Read All Over.As illustrations for books and movies, or homages to the same, the
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The biggest show coming up at Museum of Glass is a three-part installation by Ingalena Klenell and Beth Lipman called Glimmering Gone. (What a great title!) The three parts are: Landscape, Mementos and Artifacts. Landscape will be a 12-foot-high by 25-foot-long by 18-foot-deep installation of mountains, trees, rocks and a
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In Street Botany, the latest show at Fulcrum Gallery, science meets art with a little humor thrown in. It features drawings and posters by Maria Jost and an intriguing installation by Jost and Bobby Smith.In wall statements Jost explains that she approaches art from the viewpoint
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In Street Botany, the latest show at Fulcrum Gallery, science meets art with a little humor thrown in. It features drawings and posters by Maria Jost and an intriguing installation by Jost and Bobby Smith.In wall statements Jost explains that she approaches art from the viewpoint and experience of a
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I've been thinking about Jeff Koons a lot lately. Koons is the heir apparent to Andy Warhol (who was the heir apparent to Marcel Duchamp), and he is one of today's most popular artists. Like Warhol, Koons' life is his art. A team of assistants executed Warhol's work in a studio
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Haunting music permeates the space of the gallery at The Evergreen State College during the exhibition It's Complicated - Art About Home. The music comes from Jason Lujan's video From One Dream to Another, which is eerily beautiful and mysterious, and which sets the mood and theme of the show. The
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Haunting music permeates the space of the gallery at The Evergreen State College during the exhibition It's Complicated - Art About Home. The music comes from Jason Lujan's video From One Dream to Another, which is eerily beautiful and mysterious, and which sets the mood and theme of the show. The
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Two students in Bea Geller's photography classes at Pacific Lutheran University were finalists in the 2010 West/Southwest Collegiate scholarship competition. PLU art students "rarely have an opportunity to see how well their work does in relation to the work of students at other colleges and universities," Geller said. "By sending their
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Frankly I'm growing weary of recycled art, even if I do admire the underlying environmental consciousness. It's not a new thing; it's as old as Picasso and Duchamp. And most of it is cute or clever at best. There are exceptions, notably some of the artists represented by Matter in
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Frankly I'm growing weary of recycled art, even if I do admire the underlying environmental consciousness. It's not a new thing; it's as old as Picasso and Duchamp. And most of it is cute or clever at best. There are exceptions, notably some of the artists represented by Matter in
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A down home American icon will visit Tacoma Art Museum in February. None other than Norman Rockwell, the guy who - I swear it must be so - invented Thanksgiving, watermelon, baseball and prayer. The exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell makes its only Northwest stop
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The Musée National Picasso in Paris is closed for renovations and their huge collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso is going on a world tour - first stop, Seattle Art Museum. Never before have so many works by the master been on display in
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The Musée National Picasso in Paris is closed for renovations and their huge collection of drawings, paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso is going on a world tour - first stop, Seattle Art Museum. Never before have so many works by the master been on display in America, and we
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I reviewed an exhibition of Joe Penrod's intriguing blue-tape shadows three years ago at the now defunct Black Front Gallery in Olympia. The works he's showing at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma are exactly the same only more sophisticated. The idea is as profound as it is simple. He traces the cast
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I reviewed an exhibition of Joe Penrod's intriguing blue-tape shadows three years ago at the now defunct Black Front Gallery in Olympia. The works he's showing at Fulcrum Gallery in Tacoma are exactly the same only more sophisticated. The idea is as profound as it is simple. He traces the cast
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There is not enough hyperbole in my language arsenal to tell you how impressed I am with Illusion/Allusion: Paintings by Barlow Palminteri and Ron Hinson at the Minnaert Center Gallery at South Puget Sound Community College. This is the most impressive art exhibition I've seen this year. To those who have
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We don't yet know what photographs will be in the show Mighty Tacoma: Photographic Portrait 2010, but the title tells us they will reference Tacoma and will be mighty. Billed as an "interactive celebration and creative exercise in commemoration of Tacoma Art Museum's 75th Anniversary," the show will feature
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There is a quiet and dignified exhibition of photographs in the small entryway of The Gallery at Tacoma Community College. The photographs are pretty traditional and not very exciting, but they're nicely done. One in particular, Lake Washington Bridge by Jim Oliver, does wonderful things with water and shadows. These
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There is a quiet and dignified exhibition of photographs in the small entryway of The Gallery at Tacoma Community College. The photographs are pretty traditional and not very exciting, but they are nicely done. One in particular, Lake Washington Bridge by Jim Oliver, does wonderful things with water and shadows.
