Originally published Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 6:59 PM
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Seattle Art Walk wanders into fantasy and myth, May 6
Seattle art walk picks: Jonathan Wakuda Fischer at ArtXchange Gallery; Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre at William Traver Gallery; Patti Warashina at Howard House, Chris Collins at the Provident building; SOIL at ACT; Parskid at Flatcolor Gallery; and Carlos Aguilar at Tether Design Gallery.
Seattle Times staff reporter
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COURTESY OF TRAVER GALLERY
The work of brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre is at Traver Gallery in the show "Pimp My Glass."
C/O JONATHAN WAKUDA FISCHER
Jonathan Wakuda Fischer's spray-painted "Fly Me to the Moon (The Princess Returns)" is part of his show at ArtXchange Gallery.
COURTESY HOWARD HOUSE
Ceramics by Patti Warashina are on exhibit at Howard House.
First Thursday Art Walk
Participating Pioneer Square and downtown Seattle art galleries stay open till 8 p.m. on May 6 to welcome visitors. For more information, go to www.firstthursdayseattle.com.
This Thursday, during downtown Seattle's monthly art walk, travel to a land of fantasy, filled with mystical creatures, ghosts, religious iconography and spirits.
ArtXchange Gallery
"Future's Past: The Black Ships": Seattle artist Jonathan Wakuda Fischer simulates Japanese woodblock prints with stencils and spray paint. He describes his graffiti style as "historical surrealism," recalling 1853 when Commodore Perry led four black ships into Japan's Edo Bay (present-day Tokyo). Foreigners take the form of aliens and ghosts in his pieces, expressing the culture shock that accompanied Perry's mission to Japan.
Reception: 5-8 p.m. Thursday.
Address: 512 First Ave. S., Seattle (206-839-0377 or www.artxchange.org).
William Traver Gallery
"Pimp My Glass": Brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre reflect life on the Mexican and American border, with a colorful glass exhibition fusing the iconography of pre-Hispanic Aztec gods, the Roman Catholic Church and North American Protestantism.
Reception: 5-8 p.m. Thursday.
Address: 110 Union St., No. 200, Seattle (206-587-6501 or www.travergallery.com).
Howard House
"Conversations": With a style described as "lyrical absurdist," local ceramicist Patti Warashina takes on the human form, with detailed faces and simplified extremities. Her exhibit also includes prints from the last decade, with darker manifestations of these figures.
Reception: 6-8 p.m. Thursday.
Address: 604 Second Ave., Seattle (206-256-6399 or www.howardhouse.net).
Provident building
"Teen Gods": Former New York paparazzi Chris Collins displays 50 paintings of bronzed athletes, buxom cheerleaders and fashion plates, all rendered in his "bubble gum/baroque" style.
Reception: 5-10 p.m. Thursday.
Address: 570 First Ave. S., Seattle (www.theNEWportrait.com).
SOIL at ACT
SOIL gallery and ACT Theatre kick off a new and ongoing partnership with a series of window displays representing a season of plays from the 1950s to the 2000s. Each of ACT's windows was assigned a decade, which SOIL artists illustrated in a palette of whites and creams, accented with only one color.
Reception: 5-7 p.m. Thursday.
Address: ACT, Kreielsheimer Place, 700 Union St., Seattle, windows visible from Seventh Avenue between Pike and Union streets (206-264-8061 or http://soilart.org).
Flatcolor Gallery
"Isolated Frontier": For more than a decade, Parskid has been active in the Seattle underground art scene as well as exhibiting his art internationally. For this solo exhibition, he breathes life into ethereal forests, animals and spirits, with spray enamels and custom stencils.
Reception: 5-9 p.m. Thursday.
Address: 528 First Ave. S., Seattle; (206-390-6537 or http://flatcolor.com).
Tether Design Gallery
"Lessons in Cruelty: After the Laughter": Mixed media artist Carlos Aguilar introduces his dark fairyland of cartoons, accented with knives and malevolent googly eyes.
Reception: 6-9 p.m. Thursday.
Address: 323 Occidental Ave. S., Seattle (206-518-6300 or www.tetherdesigngallery.com).
Marian Liu: 206-464-3825 or mliu@seattletimes.com
