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New American Paintings Blog: Mad Homes Q & A
Mad Homes, the spectacle-filled, mixed bag, out-in-the-world installation on Seattle’s Capitol Hill closes this Saturday. My write up and interview with participating artist Ryan Molenkamp about the...
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Uncanny Unease: The Digital Eye at the Henry Art Gallery
The digital eye is an uncanny one, at least as it stands in the Henry Art Gallery’s exhibition The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age. Although this is not true of every work of art...
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New American Paintings Blog: Sarah Awad and Storm Tharp
I review Sarah Awad’s commentaries in museum space and the space Storm Tharp creates through an unlikely pairing of figurative and abstracted works on the New American Paintings Blog. Storm Tharp:...
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Economy of Space: The New Gallery that is Prole Drift
Over on New American Paintings Blog, I recently spoke with Dirk Park, co-founder of Aqua Art Miami, Platform Gallery and now founder of Prole Drift in Seattle’s International District. Although I went...
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Remember to Always Think Twice: The Pains of Immortalizing Michael Jackson
When people reflect on the legacy of Steve Jobs, many, including his biographer Walter Isaacson, highlight editorial strengths as the the source of his genius, as opposed to creative innovation....
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Unearthing the New King Tut
The King Tut of the 1970s is the museum gauntlet, thrown to us all, daring museums to be popular over elitist and inspire the desire for knowledge among the masses through wonder. Inevitably the new...
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On Objects: Susanna Bluhm’s Yosemite Family Portrait
Yosemite Family Portrait (2013) by Susanna Bluhm, part of A Place for Memory and Secrets, at SOIL Gallery “If the geological marvels of Carlsbad Caverns came into being in the time before history, the...
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On Objects: Shaun White’s Pants
I didn’t realize how much an object can project sexiness until I happened upon Shaun White’s pants. Contrary to how that might sound, the pants were in the unsexy location of a display case, in the...
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New American Paintings Blog: Q and A with Cable Griffith
Despite the isolated region of my brain that somehow still kinesthetically remembers the catalogue of strategies I painstakingly built for accessing Sonic the Hedgehog‘s elusive Chaos Emeralds, during...
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On Objects: Jessica Craig-Martin’s Pillars of Legs
Untitled. Jessica Craig Martin. Courtesy of Winston Wachter Fine Art. Several weeks ago, a new Zara opened in downtown Seattle. Leading up to its grand, public unveiling, a set of preview events marked...
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