Sandy Brown Jensen describes the Erik Sandgren show at Karin Clarke Gallery.
This is Sandy Brown Jensen, and you’re listening to Viz City, KLCC’s arts review program. There is so much art going on everywhere in the KLCC listening area.
Artists we think we know are surprising us with unprecedented explosions of creativity. Check out what Margaret Coe is doing with oil paints and light on Facebook or the exciting work being shown almost daily on Instagram by Margaret Prentice, Robert Canaga, Sarah Sedgewick, and others.
However, it’s Erik Sandgren that has me in what Irish writer James Joyce called “aesthetic arrest.” That means stop where you are and take it all in art. He has a big new show up at the Karin Clarke Gallery, and I can t stop bringing his paintings up on line and staring at them.
Seattle Aquarium, Museum of Pop Culture and others to reopen in upcoming days
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Here s when museums in Seattle will reopenSeattle Art Museum
Whether you ve missed strolling idly through a museum and looking at works of art and relics of history or will just take any excuse to get out of the house, we ve got some good news for you: museums and other attractions in the Seattle area are beginning to reopen after the region advanced to Phase 2 of the state s reopening plan this week.
And with less tourists abound, now is the perfect time to rediscover Seattle s cultural destinations while safely masked up, of course.
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: February 2, 2021
Cascadia Art Museum is reopening on Thursday, Feb. 4 with a new exhibition
The Sculpture of Charles W. Smith.
Originally from Woodside, N.Y., Smith (1922-2009) was a well-known Seattle sculptor whose worked shifted from an early focus on biomorphic abstractions of the human form to more condensed set of geometric shapes later in his career.
After completing his college degree in industrial design at the American Art School and Pratt Institute in 1948, he earned his BFA in sculpture at the University of Washington in 1952 where he also taught design and drawing. He was recognized as one of