Danielle Quenell
Bruce Gilden’s Cherry Blossom illuminates the dark side of Tokyo
New York street photographer Bruce Gilden has made a fruitful career out of getting into people’s faces. His prickly demeanor and confrontational aesthetics have earned him a kind of cult following among gritty urban...
Bodies of Land: Ann Leda Shapiro and Hanako O’Leary map the Terra Mater
On view through November 19th at Art Xchange in Pioneer Square is a dual exhibition featuring the work of Ann Leda Shapiro and Hanako O’Leary. Drawing on themes of global mythology and reverence for...
Boundary-breaking conceptual photographer Dayanita Singh releases photographic novel “Let’s See”
Indian photographer Dayanita Singh has spent nearly four decades challenging familiar modes of seeing and interpreting photographs. Through labor-intensive processes in sequencing, bookmaking and installation design, her images move beyond the realm of two-dimensional...
Chanee Choi’s “Remembrance: Magma” is a poignant simulation of memory degeneration
On view through June 17th at the Jack Straw New Media Gallery is an installation by transdisciplinary artist Chanee Choi. Born in South Korea and now based in Seattle, Choi is a PhD candidate...
Drawing on influences from Indian music, jazz, and western classical traditions, Naya Baaz creates...
Naya Baaz is a groundbreaking new collaboration between two widely celebrated string players: guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi, and sitar virtuoso Josh Feinberg. Their name, which means “New Bird” in Urdu, perfectly suits the...
Lakshmi Muirhead and Humaira Abid carve out space for the stories that are hardest...
Two current shows in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood examine the influence of external forces like ancestral history and inherited belief systems in shaping the female experience from the inside out. Lakshmi Muirhead’s There Is...
Pointe and shoot: Dane Shitagi’s “Ballerina Project”
New York City-based photographer Dane Shitagi has spent more than 20 years traveling the world, photographing ballerinas in a medley of unexpected locations from London to Buenos Aries. A quick scroll through his celebrated...
Rob Rhee at the Frye Art Museum: A life and its shape
Rob Rhee is a Seattle-based writer, visual artist and self-described rubbernecker—someone who delights in the strangeness and kinship between things that are often overlooked. A sense of openness and curiosity appear to shape his...
Naoya Hatakeyama’s meditation on the lifecycle of the modern city
Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has spent more than 30 years examining the mutual concessions between the natural and built environments. His work patiently illustrates the evolution of urban landscapes, beginning the moment raw materials...