Close Ups

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In Memoriam – Bill Holm, 1925-2020
Bill Holm at his 90th birthday celebration. Photo: Jack Storms by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse So many artists and elders across the Northwest Coast knew Bill Holm personally. Thousands of others know his work…
Close-Up: Museum of Northwest Art Director Joanna Sikes Reaches Out to New Audiences
Joanna Sikes, MoNA's executive director, standing next to two paintings by the artist Max Benjamin, as MoNA prepares to install the new winter exhibition, Max Benjamin: A Road Well Traveled…
Close-Up: Vancouver Gallery Is Legacy of Lifelong Collector Uno Langmann
Uno Langmann at Canadian Antiques Roadshow 2004 viewing Eastward Ho! August 1857. Photo: Courtesy of Canadian Antiques Roadshow 2004 by Jeanette Langmann It has been said that the ambience at…
Close-Up: Martha Rans, Artists and the Law
by Michael Turner In art, representation is a process whereby the “real” world is mediated through words, sound, pictures or gestures, yet it also refers to literary agents, music managers and art…
Close-Up: Sylvia Borda and the Complexities of Place
by Robin Laurence Sylvia Grace Borda is one of those contemporary artists who may be better known abroad than in her hometown of Vancouver. Working primarily in photography and new media,…
Close-Up: Leslie Anderson, New Nordic Museum Curator
NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM, 2655 NW Market St, Seattle WA by Matthew Kangas Curator Leslie Anderson, a PhD candidate at the City University of New York writing her dissertation on Scandinavian art, seems…
Close-Up: Mark Heine, Award-Winning Victoria Painter
by Christine Clark Victoria-based painter, writer and environmentalist Mark Heine recently received the Haynes Galleries Award at the 14th International ARC Salon Competition, for his oil painting Labyrinth. The competition honours works of contemporary realism. Here, Heine talks to…
Close-Up: David Strand, Frye’s New Exhibitions Head, Builds on Rich Collection Heritage
End of Day: American Oil Painting Around 1900 FRYE ART MUSEUM, Seattle, WA - Jun 15 - Sep 29 With a changeover this fall of the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection…
Close-Up: Alexander Dawkins, Author Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry
by Robin Laurence “Basically, there was always a need,” Alexander Dawkins says, explaining what motivated him to write Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry, published by Greystone Books. An art historian and co-owner of Vancouver’s…
Close-Up: Gaylen Hansen, 97, Persists at Painting Nature’s Perils
LINDA HODGES GALLERY, Seattle WA - April 4 - 27 by Matthew Kangas After years spent in the rolling hills and vineyards of southeast Washington, part of a region called the Palouse, painter…
Close-Up: Mark Loria, New Gallery Director / Owner
ALCHERINGA GALLERY | CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS ART, 621 Fort St, Victoria BC by Christine Clark After years of collecting and promoting Indigenous art, Elaine Monds, winner of the YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2001) and…
Close-Up: Gulf Island Community Embraces Salt Spring National Art Prize
Finalists' Exhibition - Sep 21 - Oct 21 by Michael Turner Now in its third season, the Salt Spring National Art Prize is a biennial competition and exhibition of Canadian visual art. With…
Close-Up: Phen Huang, Director of Seattle’s Foster/White Gallery, Reveals Passion for Art
FOSTER/WHITE GALLERY, 100 - 220 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA by Matthew Kangas After founder Donald I. Foster sold one of Seattle’s oldest galleries, Foster/White, to Canada’sBau-Xi Gallery, the acquiring Huang…
Close-Up: Catriona Jeffries Transforms Historic Metalwork Shop into New Gallery Space
CATRIONA JEFFRIES GALLERY, 950 East Cordova St, Vancouver BC By Michael Turner Catriona Jeffries turned heads in 2005 when she relocated her gallery from Granville Street’s“Gallery Row” to a more spacious…
Close-Up: Bellingham National Juror Bruce Guenther Sees Nature in Peril
WHATCOM MUSEUM Water’s Edge: Landscapes for Today, Bellingham WA - Feb 2 - May 19 by Matthew Kangas Former chief curator at the Portland Art Museum and the Museum of…
Close-up: Director Hafthor Yngvason Dreams Big
WESTERN GALLERY AND OUTDOOR SCULPTURE COLLECTION, WWU By Matthew Kangas Formerly director of Reykjavik Art Museum in Iceland and of public art in Cambridge, Mass., Hafthor Yngvason arrived in Bellingham in…
Close-up: David Setford, Tacoma Art Museum’s visionary new director
TACOMA ART MUSEUM By Matthew Kangas When Stephanie Stebich left Tacoma Art Museum (TAM) to head the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, she left a legacy of unmatched successes that made TAM “already…
Close-up: Nicholas Dorman, Conservator extraordinaire
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM By Matthew Kangas Seattle followed Vancouver, Portland and Los Angeles in attaining its own in-house, art museum painting conservation department, but when Seattle Art Museum (SAM) director Mimi Gardner Gates hired Nicholas Dorman out…
Close up: Benedict Heywood, New Director Bellevue Arts Museum
By Matthew Kangas After a series of advances and setbacks since moving into its Steven Holl-designed facility in 2001, Bellevue Arts Museum had a series of directors who alternately rescued or…
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Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC   By Michael Turner Normally this space is devoted to exhibitions. But given the many personnel changes at BC’s public art galleries of late, it was…