{"id":1761,"date":"2010-06-03T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/06\/last_first_thursday_gallery_wa\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T19:31:28","slug":"last_first_thursday_gallery_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/06\/last_first_thursday_gallery_wa.html","title":{"rendered":"Final First Thursday @ Howard House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billy Howard’s gallery<\/a> on the northern edge of Pioneer Square is open for its final First Thursday Gallery Walk tonight, 6-8 p.m. (Previous post on his closure here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Howard’s last exhibit is Patti Warashina<\/a>, a pioneering figure in West Coast ceramics, one of a trio who brought Seattle ceramics to national attention in the 1970s. (The others – all from the art faculty at the University of Washington – are the late Howard Kottler<\/a> and the late Robert Sperry<\/a>, the latter her husband.)<\/p>\n

Kottler had no false moves. Sperry had one great one – cracked, sea-foam surface plates<\/a>. Warashina is the most erratic – across her long career scoring big and striking out. The nerve and wit of her best work derives from a fundamental simplicity. Her worst is overworked, sporting surface decoration that has little to do with the figure underneath it. <\/p>\n

Besides being way too crowded (the gallery’s fault), the current show presents Warashina at her most festively inert. <\/p>\n

Patti Warashina
\nFigure D
\n2010
\nwhiteware and mixed media
\n22″ x 18.5″ x 17″<\/i><\/p>\n

\"pattiwarablck.jpg\"For comparision, consider how Claudia Fitch uses color on a ceramic figure. (There’s a hole in the world like a great black pit\/ and it’s filled with people who are filled with shit<\/i>….via<\/a>)

TORSO (2), 2006
\nCeramic porcelain
\n13.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 inches<\/i>, Greg Kucera Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n

\"claudiafitchblckhole.jpg\"Through June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Billy Howard’s gallery on the northern edge of Pioneer Square is open for its final First Thursday Gallery Walk tonight, 6-8 p.m. (Previous post on his closure here.) Howard’s last exhibit is Patti Warashina, a pioneering figure in West Coast ceramics, one of a trio who brought Seattle ceramics to national attention in the 1970s. […]<\/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-1761","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\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}