{"id":1592,"date":"2010-02-24T14:36:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/02\/artists_reaching_above_their_s\/"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:36:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T22:36:53","slug":"artists_reaching_above_their_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/02\/artists_reaching_above_their_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Artists reaching above their station"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Seattle, it’s a problem. First, they write about art in their own publication<\/a>, refusing to let critics interested in participating do so. Second, they’re curating their own shows. What do they think critics and curators are, chopped liver? (Prince Charles is also beset by upstarts, story here<\/a>. When will it all end?)<\/p>\n

Latest outrage: Parallel Universe<\/i><\/a>, curated by artists Francisco Guerrero and Joseph Park at Grey Gallery. <\/p>\n

It’s the best group show in the city. The idea came from a deep familiarity with artists’ studios. Guerrero and Park started thinking about what they saw in studio corners, work that represents paths not taken that still could be: ideas abandoned, on hold or too recent to represent anything other than a stray idea.<\/p>\n

Claude Zervas shows these lights<\/a> at the James Harris Gallery<\/a>. At Grey are lights not found at James Harris, gleaming out of the eye sockets of chainsaw bears.<\/p>\n

\"CLaudeZervasbear3.jpg\"Jeffry Mitchell<\/a>‘s touch is a miracle of deft. When he draws, he draws silks in the air. Not this time.<\/p>\n

\"jeffrymitchellraw.jpg\"Joseph Park<\/a> is not a black velvet painter, except when he is.<\/p>\n

\"josephparkvelvet2.jpg\"What is this twerpy little piece by the ever-elegant Leo Saul Berk<\/a>, something like a diseased mouth and something like a doughnut? Titled Cloud<\/i> Flower<\/i>, it’s nothing like a cloud. More like a drain with tea leaves matted around its rim. <\/p>\n

\"LeoBerkCloudFlower.jpg\"Dan Webb<\/a> is not a cartoonist. <\/p>\n

\"DanWebbcartoon.jpg\"Claire Cowie<\/a> finishes what she starts.<\/p>\n

\"ClaireCowiedraft.jpg\"Dawn Cerny<\/a> does not do abstract art.<\/p>\n

\"DawnCernyheartI don’t know Josepf Vascovitz<\/a>‘s work well enough to know what is and is not his pervue, but these drawings are splendid, with a golden yet mucky glow. (I love the reader, reading water, and Adam with Eve, bulky as the first couple must have been, so recently associated with apes.)<\/p>\n

\"JVascovitzreading.jpg\"\"JVascovitzadameve.jpg\"<\/a>Also scoring in Parallel Universe<\/i>: Gretchen Bennett<\/a>, Eric Elliott<\/a>, Harrell Fletcher<\/a>, Francisco Guerrero<\/a>, Alfred Harris<\/a>, Victoria Haven<\/a>, Jenny Heishman<\/a>, Nicholas Nyland<\/a>, Lead Pencil Studio<\/a> and Joey Veltkamp<\/a>.
\nThrough April 2. <\/p>\n

Gallery Hours: 4pm – 2am everyday, by appointment and by chance.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Seattle, it’s a problem. First, they write about art in their own publication, refusing to let critics interested in participating do so. Second, they’re curating their own shows. What do they think critics and curators are, chopped liver? (Prince Charles is also beset by upstarts, story here. When will it all end?) Latest outrage: […]<\/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-1592","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\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}