Gallery sights in Seattle
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Henry Art Gallery
The university’s sleek fine-art gallery mounts some of the most intelligent exhibits and installations in Seattle and serves as a touchstone for the arts community. There are dedicated spaces for video and digital art, and a small permanent collection, as well as rotating shows (35 a year). Part of the permanent collection is Skyspace, by James Turrell, an artist whose medium is light. Turrell’s installation over the sculpture garden will alter the way you look at the ever-changing Seattle sky. If you pay $1 extra for a ticket here, you get free entry to the Burke Museum on the same day.
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Frye Art Museum
This small museum on First Hill preserves the collection of Charles and Emma Frye. The Fryes collected more than 1000 paintings, mostly 19th- and early-20th-century European and American pieces, and a few Alaskan and Russian artworks. If this inspires a stifled yawn, think again. Since its 1997 expansion, the Frye has gained a hipness that it once lacked; fresh ways of presenting its artwork, music performances, poetry readings and interesting rotating exhibits from traveling painters to local printmakers make the museum a worthwhile stop.
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Seattle Asian Art Museum
For almost 60 years the Seattle Art Museum occupied a prestigious Carl Gould–designed space in Volunteer Park. When it moved downtown in the early 1990s, the Seattle Asian Art Museum moved in. The museum now houses the extensive Asian art collection of Dr Richard Fuller, who donated this severe art moderne–style gallery to the city in 1932. Admission is free on the first Thursday (and from 5pm to 9pm on the second Thursday) of each month.
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Roq la Rue
This Belltown gallery has secured its reputation by taking risks: the work on view here skates along the edge of urban pop-culture. Since opening in 1998, the gallery, which is owned and curated by Kirsten Anderson, has been a significant force in the pop surrealism field, and is frequently featured in Juxtapoz magazine. It also has an entertaining blog about the undercurrents of Northwest art (http://roqlaruenews.blogspot.com).
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Center on Contemporary Art
This gallery has been a force in Seattle’s contemporary art scene for two decades. After moving around a lot, it has opened a new branch in Belltown (2721 1st Ave) as well as this primary space in the Shilshole Bay Beach Club.
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Lawrimore Project
A no-holds-barred modern art space, the Lawrimore Project is a big, pliable warehouse-like gallery that consistently has some of the most inventive exhibitions you’ll see in Seattle.
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Greg Kucera Gallery
Kucera has been around for 20-plus years and frequently hosts big names – cult filmmaker John Waters, for example – as well as supporting unknown artists in his large gallery.
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BLVD Gallery
Started by the folks behind Roq la Rue and the War Room, among others, BLVD is the champion of urban contemporary art, ie graffiti and skateboards.
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