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The trusted guide to galleries and museums throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC - To Jan 8, 2023
Organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Uninvited is an ambitious and comprehensive redress of a gender void that became obvious during the 2021 centenary of the founding of the all-male Group of Seven. Uninvited (and its accompanying catalogue) surveys art created by 31 women who were the Group’s female peers but who were not asked to share their nationalist spotlight during their lifetimes and are little known to many contemporary ... Read More
George Tsutakawa: Language of Nature / Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi
George Tsutakawa: Language of Nature
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART, Bainbridge Island WA - To Oct 9
Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi
WESTERN GALLERY & SCULPTURE COLLECTION, Bellingham WA - To Nov 26
Two magnificent exhibitions of Japanese American sculptors with connections to the Pacific Northwest create a twin pendant of art museum blockbusters in the modern art vein. Isamu ... Read More
Kirsty Templeton Davidge: Woman’s Work
Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB - Sep 15 - Oct 1
As chaotic and unsettled as our world is today, there are some consolations. Among them, an increased critical attention to language – the words we use to describe our everyday experiences. Although criticism can magnify our unsettled feelings, it is necessary if we are to correct the direction of our ailing planet and our fractured social relations. While the title of KirstyTempleton Davidge’s exhibition evokes stereo-typical gendered activity, the ostensible absence of that ... Read More
Perspectives
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR - To Nov 13
The unrest of 2020 is still top of mind in Portland: a 100-day streak of protests that began with the murder of George Floyd but metastasized when federal troops were sent to defend the courthouse and assist local police against protesters. Historic events such as this are often reduced to a single image – a naked woman in a yoga pose or a man brandishing a pistol – but Perspectives offers dozens of powerful images to complicate the picture. The crowds in 2020 were full ... Read More
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