{"id":902,"date":"2009-08-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/08\/if_you_climbed_john_grades\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:00:00","slug":"if_you_climbed_john_grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/08\/if_you_climbed_john_grades.html","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue Arts Museum redefines the portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you climbed John Grade<\/a>‘s wall, your footholds would be mouths.<\/p>\n

\"johngrademouth5.jpg\"<\/span>Grade (pronounced Grotty for no good reason) is part of UberPortrait<\/i> at the Bellevue Arts Museum<\/a>, curated by Stefano Catalani and featuring more than 40 artworks from 11 artists. <\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n

Grade’s rubberized lips are impressions from hundreds of his closest artist friends. Kukuli Velarde<\/a>‘s terracotta self-portraits are a vaudeville version of what she calls the “violent encounter between the European and the indigenous world.” In keeping with the current status of much PreColombian statuary, the title for her series is Plunder Me<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\"bamcoloumbian.jpg\"<\/span>Detail:
\"bamcolumbian2.jpg\"<\/span>She also offers a critique of Catholicism, the original, ritualized source of spiritual S&M:<\/p>\n

\"bamcatholic.jpg\"<\/span>
\nAh Xian<\/a>‘s painted porcelain busts make good on Mao’s false promise, to let a 100 flowers bloom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
\"bamchineseheads.jpg\"<\/span>Detail:
\"bamchinaheadred.jpg\"<\/span>I love the video that documents the burial of Brian O’Doherty<\/a>‘s protest-against-British-occupation name, Patrick Ireland. Speaking of funerals, Ledelle Moe<\/a> fails to animate his material version of brooding.  <\/p>\n

Nick Cave’s Soundsuits<\/i><\/a> are ubiquitous. This exhibit takes that extra step of showing them in motion on video as well as present in the gallery.<\/p>\n

\"bamnickcave.jpg\"<\/span>Dan Webb<\/a>‘s Little Cuts<\/i> documents the carving a block of wood from a youthful face through aging and death to a mound of sawdust.<\/p>\n

\"bamdanwebb.jpg\"<\/span>Margot Quan Knight<\/a> takes an episodic approach to daily life in Mirror<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\"bammargotmirror.jpg\"<\/span>Sonya Clark<\/a> celebrates the entrepreneurial genius of Madam C. J. Walker<\/a> with a portrait woven in combs:
\"bammadamwalker.jpg\"<\/span>Detail:
\"bammadamewalker2.jpg\"<\/span>Using white thread on black cloth, Darrel Morris<\/a> sewed a jittery version of a send-off.<\/p>\n

\"bamdarrelsew.jpg\"<\/span>I don’t usually go for this sort of thing<\/a>, but Kate Clark<\/a>‘s species-scramble sculpture (just) manages to save itself with a hint of deadpan wit:<\/p>\n

\"bamcoyote.jpg\"<\/span>Through Oct. 18. With Judy Hill<\/a> and the amazing Michael Peterson<\/a> in solo shows on the second floor, BAM has never looked better. <\/p>\n

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If you climbed John Grade‘s wall, your footholds would be mouths. Grade (pronounced Grotty for no good reason) is part of UberPortrait at the Bellevue Arts Museum, curated by Stefano Catalani and featuring more than 40 artworks from 11 artists. Grade’s rubberized lips are impressions from hundreds of his closest artist friends. Kukuli Velarde‘s terracotta […]<\/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-902","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\/902","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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}