Visual Art Source Articles

by Matthew Kangas Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Continues through August 2, 2026 Leo Kenney, “The Inception of Magic,” 1945, egg tempera on composite board, 36 1/8 x 24 1/8”. Courtesy of the Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Elizabeth Mann. Following major surveys in 1978 and 2014, “Beyond Mysticism: the Modern Northwest” amplifies the scope of the Northwest School (including the Big Four of Guy Irving Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey), appending ancillary fig

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle by T.s. FLock Continuing through October 25, 2026 Eric-Paul Riege “ojo|-|ólǫ́” installation view, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. 2026. Photo: Jueqian Fang. What still distinguishes museums from privately owned galleries is the possibility, fragile and ever-threatened, of a non-transactional encounter with objects, in which value is understood in terms of intensity of attention and depth of experience.

by Jody Zellen Royale Projects, Los Angeles Continuing through June 6, 2026 Lynn Aldrich, “Grid Buster,” 1989, carpet padding, surge protectors, stereo arrangement of Gregorian Chant and vacuum cleaner noise, 10 x 17 feet. Courtesy of Royal Projects, Los Angeles. In many senses Lynn Aldrich's work is Duchampian. Her nuanced career spans more than forty years of witty and conceptually based works that ingeniously combine found materials, often including household objects, as w

by David S. Rubin Wönzimer, Los Angeles Continues through May 22, 2026 Lawrence Gipe, “In Commemoration of Gardi Sugdub (Vanishing Island),” 2024, oil on canvas, 72 x 96”. All images courtesy of Wönzimer. Art is political, it is often said, yet there are clearly artworks that are Political, with a capital ‘P’, where specific social and moral issues drive the art. Such is the case with the works of the thirteen artists in “DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia,” a thought-provoking exhi