Susan Kunimatsu
Jun Kaneko: Selected Works on display at Traver Gallery
Jun Kaneko is internationally renowned for his massive ceramic sculptures, in dozens of public art installations in the U.S. and Japan and major museum collections throughout the world. A compact survey of some 40...
Ikat: A World of Compelling Cloth features textiles from around the globe
The Seattle Art Museum’s exhibition, Ikat: A World of Compelling Cloth is a stunning visual experience. The museum’s large fourth floor galleries are filled with colorful, gorgeously patterned textiles: quilts, hangings and garments from...
Exhibit highlights the early years of George Tsutakawa’s towering career
George Tsutakawa is a towering figure among Pacific Northwest artists, known for his
monumental bronze fountains in prominent locations here and abroad. But Tsutakawa was well- established as a painter a decade before receiving his...
(Un)Earthly Delights by Philippe Hyojung Kim shows at Gallery 4Culture throughout July
Philippe Hyojung Kim has a love/hate relationship with plastic. In the artist’s statement for his current exhibition, (Un)Earthly Delights, he describes it as “always ready to shine and allure us into the present with...
Cultural influences flow across media and over time in “Folding Into Shape” at the...
Everyone who has folded a sheet of paper into an airplane has felt the satisfaction of turning something flat into a functional three-dimensional object. The Japanese are masters of transformation through folding. Origami (paper-folding)...
A tale of two dragons at the National Nordic Museum
Dragons can be found all over the world, in the fairy tales, legends, and origin stories of many cultures. Dragons from opposite sides of the world meet in the National Nordic Museum’s current exhibition, Paper...
Monterey Museum of Art presents the work of eight Sansei artists honoring family members’...
The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II is a dark episode in U.S. history. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, forcing 120,000 Japanese...
Connie Choi, curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, talks about her career in...
Viewers to an art exhibition usually focus their attention on the works of art. Some read the information on the wall cards and panels. But the work of curators, the people who choose and...
Harlem comes to Seattle: “Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem”
Retrospective exhibitions usually focus on a single artist. Works that span a career are brought together to offer perspective on the artist’s life and work. A retrospective of a museum is rare and more...
Consumers or consumed? Curator Tariqa Waters asks the question
To most people, yellow is just a color: simple, bright, visceral, sunny. But FD&C Yellow 5, also known as tartrazine, is a synthetic chemical dye; its use in food and cosmetics is controversial. For...