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New York-based Pakistani singer-songwriter Arooj Aftab blends conventional Urdu poetry with mild people guitar and ambient components that completely cradle her ethereal voice. On her latest album, Evening Reign, Aftab collaborates with a variety of musicians, together with Kaki King, Moor Mom, Elvis Costello, and Chocolate Genius, Inc. for a haunting mix of Pakistani people music and bebop jazz. With the album’s atmospheric electronics, neo-classical piano melodies, and heavenly vocals, it’ll certainly sound simply as magical stay. AV
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
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British DJ Jamie xx—greatest recognized for his work because the digital wizard behind dream pop band the xx—launched In Waves, his first solo album in 9 years, in fall 2024. Drawing inspiration from “emotional crescendos” and the “thrilling volatility of a mystical evening out on the membership,” the long-awaited album reunites Jamie together with his xx bandmates and options appearances from Robyn, the Avalanches, Kelsey Lu, John Glacier, and Panda Bear. AV
(WaMu Theater, SoDo)
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Tarriona “Tank” Ball is the founder and frontwoman of the funky, gospel-inspired hip-hop troupe Tank and the Bangas, who you could know from their wildly fashionable NPR Tiny Desk Live performance (the video has over 14 million views!) Do not miss this native tour cease as they play tracks off their newest launch The Coronary heart, The Thoughts, The Soul. The album leans into neo-soul grooves and jazz thrives with appearances from Jill Scott, Aja Monet, and Samara Pleasure. AV
(Neumos, Capitol Hill)
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Bay Space gem thủy attracts inspiration from early aughts pop divas like Britney Spears, Brandy, and Mariah Carey for her shiny R&B tracks that sound like a sonic interpretation of those sun shades. In the event you’re a fan of PinkPantheress, Beabadoobee, or Ariana Grande (notably her everlasting sunshine album), queue up thủy’s newest album wings. She’s going to cease by to assist the album, bringing like-minded soul-pop singer ASTN alongside. AV
(The Showbox, Downtown)
READINGS & TALKS
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Native author-activist and Stranger interim information editor Marcus Harrison Inexperienced will chat with political correspondent, journalist, and historian Juan Williams, whose newest launch New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Motion charts a brand new period. Williams appears carefully at “the Obama presidency, Charlottesville, January sixth, and a Accomplice flag within the Capitol,” exploring how demographic shifts and the digital age form our present panorama and the way forward for civil rights. LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill)
COMEDY
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I really feel like regardless of the 2025 equal of a “hipster” is after I espouse my love for alt comedy, however voices like Joe Pera, Connor O’Malley, Jo Firestone, Jacqueline Novak, Kate Berlant, and John Early actually do maintain me alive. I am excited to rely Ikechukwu Ufomadu, deemed the “gentleman-scholar of alt-comedy” (New York Journal), amongst my new favorites. Armed with books, a cup of tea, and a slideshow, the Ziwe author’s absurdist one-man present Amusements defies style and makes some astute observations. (“I perceive a lot of you might be ‘right here’ tonight,” he notices.) LC
(Right here-After on the Crocodile, Belltown)
READINGS & TALKS
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I am a easy reader: After I see the shortlisted picks for the Booker Prize, I put these books on maintain on the library. High of my checklist this 12 months was Percival Everett’s James, which was finally overwhelmed by Samantha Harvey’s Orbital for the prize, however was no shock to seek out on the Booker shortlist—it gained this 12 months’s Nationwide E book Award and the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Everett’s retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn facilities the experiences of Huck’s previously enslaved buddy, Jim. Everett will talk about the “masterpiece” (Chicago Tribune) at this discuss. (Psst—do not be shocked if James is customized for movie.) LC
(City Corridor Seattle, First Hill; in-person tickets bought out, streaming passes out there)
FOOD & DRINK
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The plant-based, natural doughnut specialist Mighty-O stays a stalwart native favourite of vegans and non-vegans alike. Assist them rejoice the primary decade of enterprise in Ballard with freebies, an unique birthday drink specials, and reward card giveaways as much as over $500 from neighborhood companies. JB
(Mighty-O Donuts, Ballard)
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The long-time indie-rock outfit led by prolific singer-songwriter Conor Oberst will play songs off their eleventh album, 5 Cube, All Threes, which options collaborations with Cat Energy, the Nationwide’s Matt Berninger, and the So So Glos’ Alex Orange Drink. I have never been a Vivid Eyes listener since their 2005 album, I am Extensive Awake, It is Morning—which sounded nice to my lovelorn teenage ears however now reads pathetic to my present grownup ones. Nonetheless, I like Cat Energy sufficient to have given the newly launched duet “All Three” a hear. The mix of Oberst and Marshall’s drastically totally different tones supplies an attention-grabbing conflict that brings out the most effective in one another’s voices—his shaky, on-the-verge–of-tears crooning, and her ethereal, unrestrained talk-singing. Oberst and co. will assist the album alongside Christopher Owens, the previous frontman of indie rock band Women. AV
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown)
PERFORMANCE
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Hear ye, hear ye, theydies and gentlethem: Described as “fantasy and hilarity on a magical journey” by the South Seattle Emerald, drag queens of the bard, druid, and paladin selection will play the legendary tabletop sport of monsters and mayhem on this recurring present. Dungeons and Drag Queens has been making waves from the West Coast to NYC, and it is what the high-fantasy trend queens deserve. Mysterious Dungeon Grasp Paul Curry will as soon as once more cleared the path by way of the “rollicking, frolicking” improvisational fantasy drag comedy present. LC
(The Crocodile, Belltown)
COMMUNITY
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LED lamps be damned, as a result of you’ll be able to attempt beating SAD with SAM once more this 12 months. The artwork museum will provide free, first-come, first-serve wellness actions on choose Saturdays this winter to assist guests battle the drab seasonal doldrums. Drag your self away from bed and head to Olympic Sculpture Park for an intriguing menu of choices, together with workshops and stay performances on Saturday evenings and sound baths, dancing, installations, and extra on “exercise days.” LC
(Olympic Sculpture Park, Belltown; bought out)
FILM
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In the event you’re a sucker for old-school cinema with a component of shock, this recurring sequence introduced by the Sprocket Society has your title written allll over it. Grand Phantasm will proceed a longstanding custom with its seventeenth season of matinee classics screened alongside a secret characteristic movie each Saturday, all in dreamy 16mm. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District)
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Russian-German avant-garde artist, poet, and musician Mary Ocher showcases her versatility and dedication to preserving underground music by pulling sounds from trad people, storage rock, ambient soundscapes, and African and South American percussion. She’s going to carry out songs from her most up-to-date album Your Information to Revolution after a gap set from native singer-songwriter Eli Wills. AV
(Fremont Abbey Arts Heart, Fremont)
FILM
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SIFF’s For Your Consideration sequence affords an opportunity to compensate for Oscar contenders earlier than the large evening. The primary of Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino’s two 2024 flicks follows Zendaya as Tashi, a prodigy tennis player-turned-coach whose coaching remodeled her husband right into a nationwide champion. Issues get bizarre and perhaps attractive when she forces him to play a pro-tournament “Challenger” occasion alongside her former boyfriend. Do I care about tennis? No, in fact not. However I do not ask for a lot—Zendaya and a psychosexual plotline are sufficient for me. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown)
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Jacques Audiard’s newest movie Emilia Pérez appears to be on everybody’s thoughts recently, and largely for the more severe; the Oscar hopeful is a no-go on Letterboxd and was deemed dated by The Minimize. The movie’s problematic rep is sufficient to make up my thoughts to not watch, however in the event you’re , the Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez-fronted musical-thriller—which additionally stars Karla Sofía Gascón, the primary trans actress to win the Cannes Movie Pageant Award for Greatest Actress—will display screen as a part of SIFF’s For Your Consideration sequence, which affords an opportunity to compensate for Oscar contenders earlier than the large evening. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown)
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EverOut Arts Calendar Editor Lindsay Costello writes: “Tim Heidecker, the legendary weirdo behind Tim and Eric Superior Present, Nice Job! and On Cinema on the Cinema, is nothing if not polarizing—Vice describes his work as ‘failure-centric’—however in the event you ‘get’ him, you are in all probability an enormous fan.” Heidecker will return to Seattle together with his distinctive model of absurdist meta-humor and unique music to assist his ’70s country-rock-inspired album, Slipping Away. Do not miss a gap set from former SNL comic Kyle Mooney, who’s one among my favourite forged members of the final decade (watch him experience with “the man from Soul“ in the event you want a healthful stomach snigger.) AV
(Neptune Theatre, College District)
COMEDY
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Kayla Brown and Dan Hurwitz, creators of the mockumentary That is Spinal Harm, introduced the first-ever disability-focused comedy competition within the Pacific Northwest in 2023, and it is returning for one more spherical of guffaws this 12 months on the Northwest Movie Discussion board. The Disabled Listing Comedy Pageant will showcase filmed sketches and stay stand-up by native humorous people with disabilities, together with John O’Donnell, Gibran Saleem, and Deaf queer activist Hayden Kristal, plus some to-be-announced particular visitors. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Friday–Sunday)
EXHIBIT
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Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós launched their first correct album in over a decade final 12 months—EverOut music calendar editor Audrey Vann described ÁTTA as “cinematic, serene, floaty, and harmonious.” Because it seems, although, lead singer Jónsi’s creative observe extends past his immediately recognizable falsetto. Alongside his sisters (who make up the family-run artwork collective and perfumery Fischersund), he’ll current Fake Flora, an immersive number of sculptures, sounds, scent experiences, and extra impressed by Icelandic native vegetation. The sensory exhibition imagines new plant species and explores “the scientific relationship between scent and reminiscence.” LC
(Nationwide Nordic Museum, Ballard, Tuesday–Sunday; closing)
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Gong Xi Fa Cai! Wing Luke’s New 12 months’s All 12 months Spherical exhibit is again within the Uwajimaya & Moriguchi KidPLACE Gallery, slithering into the 12 months of the Wooden Snake with recent shows on lion dances, New 12 months’s demonstrations, and meals traditions. LC
(Wing Luke Museum, Chinatown-Worldwide District, Wednesday–Sunday)
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I am going to begin this blurb with some brutal honesty: I discover the trailer for A Full Unknown to be corny, annoying, and positively angling to snag Tiny Tim an Oscar nod. Is that this partially as a result of after I was a young person, a boy “broke up” with me by copy-pasting the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s “Do not Assume Twice, It is All Proper” into his AIM away message, thus cementing my everlasting and near-lifelong disdain for the grumpy troubadour? Perhaps!! However perhaps you like Bob Dylan, during which case A Full Unknown would possibly enchantment to you. The biopic is about in NYC’s ’60s music scene and follows Chalamet because the snarky, mysterious Dylan. LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Tuesday–Thursday)
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In the event you do not wish to be the one who’s like, “Wait, what’s that?” when you’re watching the Oscars this 12 months, now could be the time to meet up with the entire award frontrunners. One apparent choose is the stacked-cast drama The Brutalist, which follows visionary architect László Toth’s (Adrien Brody) postwar arrival in the USA. He settles in Pennsylvania, the place the industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Man Pearce) notices his expertise. LC
(SIFF Cinema Downtown, Belltown, Tuesday–Thursday)
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The historic, volunteer-run Grand Phantasm Cinema is bidding farewell to its present location. When the lease ends in February, the theater will shut its doorways at 1403 NE fiftieth Avenue and relocate, doubtlessly staying inside the U District. Which means this month’s screenings are your final likelihood to catch a flick within the beloved area. Drop by for a mixture of classics and cult flicks all through January, like Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr, Ghost within the Shell, Harold and Maude, Cinema Paradiso, and the anti-patriarchal jubilee Daisies. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Tuesday–Sunday)
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Discover a seat for From Floor Zero—the anthology undertaking was shortlisted for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic on the 2025 Oscars and it is poised to be probably the most talked-about movies on the ceremony this 12 months. Spearheaded by famend Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi, From Floor Zero assembles 22 quick movies created amid the continuing genocide by filmmakers from Gaza, providing a wanted platform for Palestinian creators to share their tales. Count on a mixture of genres, together with narrative, documentary, animation, and experimental cinema works. LC
(Grand Phantasm, College District, Tuesday & Saturday)
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How a lot do you actually find out about Charlie Chaplin? In the event you’re on the youthful aspect, you would possibly say one thing like, “He did slapstick and had a mustache,” and to be honest, you would be proper. However the Little Tramp was additionally an interesting man with fairly radical views for his time, and his movies are extra complicated than they may appear from a distance. I like to recommend Fashionable Occasions, which is basically a plea for employees’ rights disguised as a sequence of humorous mishaps. LC
(Central Cinema, Central District, Friday–Sunday)
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In the event you requested me what I did on December 25, you would possibly count on my reply to be “Christmas stuff.” And you would be partially proper. Like, I positively did Christmas stuff within the morning. However come afternoon, I had one aim. Notions of tinsel and mistletoe light from my consciousness like so many ephemeral snowflakes. The sky darkened. A fanged creature launched untold terrors upon nepo child Lily-Rose Depp. And I, expensive reader, was seated for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu. Contemplate such a plan for your self this week. When has Eggers ever disenchanted you? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Tuesday–Thursday)
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A sure blisteringly scorching Italian man would approve of the Beacon’s newest movie sequence, which asks, “What would occur if we spoke reality to energy with gun in hand?” The Beacon punctuates Doubtlessly Sick-Suggested: Movies About Assassinating Your Political Leaders with some delightfully acerbic quotes, like “The second of assassination is the second when energy and the ignorance of energy come collectively, with Demise as validator” (Thomas Pynchon) and “One of the best authorities is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination” (Voltaire). Let it’s recognized that I am not endorsing something right here. However, like, it’s best to in all probability go see these movies for cinema’s sake, proper? I like to recommend snagging seats to the subsequent one on the docket, John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, which follows soldier-turned-criminal Snake as he navigates a dirty, futuristic Manhattan. LC
(The Beacon, Columbia Metropolis, Tuesday–Saturday)
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In the event you hang-out the Elliott Bay stacks with any regularity, you’re possible conversant in Sigrid Nunez, whose work has inked the pages of literary powerhouses like The Paris Assessment, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. She’s philosophical, but her prose is unadorned—it is an intoxicating combine. She’s maybe greatest acknowledged for her ebook The Pal, a private favourite of mine, however Pedro Almodóvar has elected to adapt Nunez’s cheeky, sleek 2020 novel What Are You Going By. The story follows Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton), two former journal staff whose paths diverge when one turns into an autofiction novelist and the opposite a battle reporter. What’s going to occur after they meet once more? LC
(SIFF Cinema Uptown, Uptown, Tuesday–Thursday)
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For these with little interest in visiting Park Metropolis, Utah, initially: I perceive. Secondly, you do not have to! Sundance Institute’s 2024 Indigenous Movie Tour brings eight quick movies by Indigenous administrators (4 from the 2024 Sundance Movie Pageant, three from the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant, and one quick movie from the 2005 Sundance Movie Pageant) straight to Northwest Movie Discussion board. The curated choice is a stable alternative to interact with new work by Native administrators like Erica Tremblay, Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo, and private favourite Sky Hopinka, who blends English and Indigenous dialects like Chinuk Wawa in his ground-quaking works. LC
(Northwest Movie Discussion board, Capitol Hill, Wednesday–Sunday)
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Whereas I am not a daily listener of Canadian nation star Colter Wall, Google advised me that he started his profession opening up for Lucinda Williams and was then signed to Rick Rubin’s American Songs publishing firm, so I’m giving him my seal of approval. Whereas dipping my toe in his discography, I discovered Wall’s sound impressively timeless together with his Johnny Money-esque vocal growl and stripped-down acoustic manufacturing harking back to Blaze Foley and Townes Van Zandt. He’ll assist his newest album Little Songs alongside an unidentified ensemble of his “pals.”
(Paramount Theatre, Downtown, Tuesday–Wednesday)
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Acclaimed Seattle-born singer-songwriter Damien Jurado will convey his melodic and shapeshifting indie-folk again house for a two-night stint. He’ll honor his fourth album, I Break Chairs, by enjoying it in its entirety. Launched again in 2002, the album leans into moody indie rock and comprises extra electrical guitar solos than you would possibly anticipate from this indie people favourite. Native indie rocker Byland will open each nights. AV
(Tractor Tavern, Ballard, Wednesday–Thursday)
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Music competition season is behind us and it is solely becoming (given the style’s unpredictable nature) that the off-kilter Lollygag Improvised Music Pageant has sprung up this winter like a rose rising out of the snow. The competition brings collectively musicians and comedians from throughout Seattle for a pleasant weekend of ephemeral music spanning freestyle rap, jazz, percussion, pop, opera, rock, people, and extra. AV
(West of Lenin, Fremont, Friday–Saturday)
PERFORMANCE
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As Iranian immigrant Azam Kabiri shares tales of her life with others ready on the airport baggage carousel, she begins to meditate on wider questions of “what she is bringing together with her, and what she has left behind.” The place Is Right here? / اینجا کجاست؟ is a co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Ensemble and Seattle Public Theater. The solo present, conceived by playwright Naghmeh Samini, might be carried out in English by Azadeh Zanjani and in Persian by Sarvin Alidaee in separate performances. Keen on seeing each? No sweat—the theater has deliberate “double present days” with each performances cut up by a brief intermission. LC
(Seattle Public Theater, Inexperienced Lake, Thursday–Sunday)
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Modern dance firm Whim W’Him will unveil one other mix of performances by artist-director Robyn Mineko Williams, Tla’amin First Nation member Cameron Fraser-Monroe, and Whim W’Him founder and creative director Olivier Wevers on the Cornish Playhouse and Vashon Heart for the Arts phases. It is a good way to compensate for nationwide and worldwide dance developments—the choreographers have carried out in Canada, throughout the USA, and past. LC
(Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Heart, Uptown, Friday–Saturday)
READINGS & TALKS
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The College of Washington’s winter 2025 lineup of public lectures showcases must-hear audio system like Wesaam Al-Badry, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Megan Ming Francis, and others. (They will remind us that there’s “no time for hate,” which could be onerous to swallow when a sure somebody took workplace this Monday.) Present up for considerate reflections on the aftermath of the election, the function of artwork and journalism, the Tulsa Race Bloodbath, and transnational feminism, plus performances by Quetzal and Gangstagrass and a collective songwriting workshop. LC
(City Corridor Seattle and Digital, Wednesday & Friday)
SPORTS & RECREATION
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Kraken hockey is again, and whereas the group appears to alternate successful and dropping fairly persistently, we’re nonetheless watching to see how participant additions and staffing adjustments this season (a brand new head coach and the NHL’s first lady assistant coach) play out. In the event you want further incentive, the primary 10,000 followers on the sport on January 23 will rating a bobblehead of Jamie Oleksiak brandishing a fish, and the primary 5,000 children on January 25 will slide into a brand new pair of Buoy slippers. If you do not have a ticket to a sport at Local weather Pledge, you’ll be able to all the time head to one among these bars to observe or cease by the Seattle Heart Armory for pregame festivities earlier than choose house video games. SL
(Local weather Pledge Area, Uptown, Thursday & Saturday)
VISUAL ART
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I have been a fan of Daybreak Cerny ever since I wrote about her pandemic-era cellular exhibition Weeping Willow Folding Chair again in 2021. “There’s suspense in suspension,” I wrote on the time. “This rigidity is fixed in our lives; we’re all studying to steadiness, endlessly.” This nonetheless feels true of life and of Cerny’s work—the Seattle artist’s summary sculptures really feel theatrical but humble, wavering inside terrains of artifice and earnestness with subtly humorous undertones. Exhibit A? The coupon tucked to the aspect of a latest wall sculpture. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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The Frye Salon served as a solution to beat the warmth this summer season, however spending the afternoon in a classy (and heat) museum area isn’t a nasty observe for getting by way of the winter, both. Over 100 work from the museum’s founding assortment are displayed in a salon-style cling that dates again centuries. “The set up approximates the dramatic viewing expertise loved by guests to Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle house within the first many years of the 20 th century,” the Frye explains. Fancy! Periodically, the museum invitations artists to “experiment inside the conventional assortment show,” and Daybreak Cerny (whose exhibition Portmeirion runs concurrently with Frye Salon) was as much as the duty. She’ll stage her sculptures close to the Frye Salon to “think about how we stay with artwork.” Guests will discover a window minimize into the wall between the 2 exhibitions, creating intriguing conversations between the works. LC
(Frye Artwork Museum, First Hill, Saturday–Sunday; opening)
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TIMBER! is plenty of issues. Speculative? Test. Cyborgian? Test, verify. Boundary-blurring? That too. What it isn’t is an actual forest in Washington state (or wherever else). As a substitute, artist Justin Hartunian creates a facsimile forest by way of robotic types, prompting that “if a tree falls within the woods…” query in an entire new manner. “Hartunian phases an ambiguous setting, the place the glow of synthetic fireflies is powered by an artificial mild slightly than the chemical response of luciferin of their abdomens…In the meantime, a grassland grows beneath engineered suns,” the present’s promotional supplies clarify. Now this I’ve gotta see. LC
(Gallery 4Culture, Pioneer Sq., Tuesday–Sunday)
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“Native artist Maja Petrić’s elegant work is greatest skilled in particular person,” the Seattle Occasions says. I am apt to agree: In Specimens of Time, the artist’s mild sculptures use generative algorithms to conjure the influence of local weather change in once-pristine pure environments. The dynamism of Petrić’s work serves as an instance the affect of human life on these delicate environments; upon coming into the exhibition, you would possibly discover the influence of your individual presence within the area. LC
(The Vestibule, Ballard, Thursday–Saturday; closing)