Gregory Blackstock washed dishes for 25 years, then Seattle fell in love with his art
Gregory Blackstock created hundreds of distinctive, catalog-like drawings, and his work was the focus of several documentaries, a book and more.
Bold Seattle artist dies; you may not know Michael Spafford's name, but you've likely seen his work VIEW
Seattle artist and teacher Michael Spafford, whose interpretations of classical mythology through a modernist lens inspired passionate admiration and controversy, died Saturday.
At Seattle Art Museum, ‘Victorian Radicals’ is certainly Victorian. But radical? Not so much. VIEW
The current exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, “Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement,” features 150 works, including paintings, drawings,...
Mary Randlett, whose photographs chronicled Northwest artists and landscapes, dies at 94 VIEW
Mary Randlett produced iconic, black-and-white portraits of the leading lights of the Northwest cultural scene, including painters Mark Tobey and Morris Graves and writers Theodore...
Robert C. Jones, noted Northwest painter and longtime UW professor, dies at 88
Over half a century, in a daily studio practice, Robert C. Jones patiently pursued a lush, poetic vision built up with layers of loose, lyrical...
Seattle Art Museum’s new curator of American art aims to bring creativity to continuity
Theresa Papanikolas, who starts in her new role in January, is only SAM’s second curator of American art.
Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama
Labor-intensive, visually compelling works by the Bahamian artist seem to challenge outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon, yet some of Strachan’s simplest...
Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters explores the migration crisis
In “slipstream,” an exhibition of Mary Ann Peters’ works at the James Harris Gallery, this longtime presence on the Seattle art scene turns her energetic...
Two very different painters show that abstractionism isn’t dead yet | Art review
Robert C. Jones and Cable Griffith both offer works with an optimistic outlook at G. Gibson Gallery.
Plight of immigrants brought to light in ambitious Tacoma Art Museum show | Art review
Zhi Lin’s “In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroad” employs artistic innovation to tell a story.