{"id":1139,"date":"2009-10-03T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T03:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/seattle_mural_party_like_its_1\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T03:58:18","slug":"seattle_mural_party_like_its_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/seattle_mural_party_like_its_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Seattle mural: party like it&#8217;s 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because time is a way of keeping events from happening all at once, it tends to bury the past. Anyone who wants to see it again has to dig. In Seattle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartresource.com\/\">artREsource<\/a> offers that opportunity. It&#8217;s a regional resale gallery, providing a secondary market for collectors and a chance for the larger audience to see what is no longer current, such as Gene Gentry McMahon&#8217;s untitled mural from<br \/>\n1983-84, oil on canvas<br \/>\n24 x 168.75 inches, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartresource.com\/inventory\/mcmahon.htm\">via<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"genemcmahonbar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/genemcmahonbar.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"97\" width=\"551\" \/>Detail:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"genemcmahonbardetl.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/genemcmahonbardetl.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"413\" width=\"457\" \/><br \/>McMahon paints in a comedy-of-manners vein. Back before anyone thought William Hogarth had anywhere to go other than the slag heap of history, she was Hogarth in stilettos, painting<br \/>\nwomen on the make flirting with underworld thugs.<\/p>\n<p>After that, she developed the most famous case of artist block in the region, down but not out, fighting through two bouts of breast cancer (hers and her daughter&#8217;s), holding down a day job as party props creator and struggling to keep her studio practice alive.<br \/>\nLast year, she bounced back with a terrific show at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groverthurston.com\/\">Grover\/Thurston Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her self-portrait in that exhibit, <i>Pinkie<\/i>, 20 x 22 inches, 2008, suggests a new level of self-sufficiency. This figure needs a man like fish needs a bicycle.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"genemcMahonpinkie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/genemcMahonpinkie.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"493\" width=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because time is a way of keeping events from happening all at once, it tends to bury the past. Anyone who wants to see it again has to dig. In Seattle, artREsource offers that opportunity. It&#8217;s a regional resale gallery, providing a secondary market for collectors and a chance for the larger audience to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}