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Seattle Art Fair: Paul Allen Idea Lures Wheeler-Dealers of Art World. An article in the Seattle

Seattle is already recognized as a great city for the arts, but this new fair debuting this week has attracted some of the most influential art galleries in the world.

“Motherland,” by Seattle landscape artist Jared Rue. Woodside/Braseth Gallery will show Rue’s work at the Seattle Art Fair.

Natural Catastrophes

Seven painters and sculptors exhibiting regularly in Seattle and, in a few cases, nationally and internationally, have loosely coalesced into a hitherto unacknowledged group—the dystopian artists of the Natural Catastrophes School

Nathan DiPietro: nicely fooling with Mother Nature

A review of “The Structure of Things,” an exhibition of DiPietro’s paintings at Woodside-Braseth Gallery in Seattle.

Painter Jared Rue Brings Nature in Close

Jared Rue is one of those artists who plays with your perceptions. You wonder how his flat canvases can give such a sense of dimensionality. How can he achieve the depth, the layers, the images that recede into the distance? The longer you look at his paintings, the more the foreground gets closer and the background moves away.

Northwest Visionaries: A Documentary

Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, George Tsutakawa, William Cumming, Margaret Tomkins, Paul Horiuchi, Helmi Juvonen , Paul Havas, Kenneth Callahan and others discuss their lives and influences on their art.

SAM hosts a closing reception for its exhibition of Northwest Mystics

Among the Mystics, John Braseth gave a special tour of “Modernism in the Pacific Northwest” at the Seattle Art Museum

 

Mural collecting dust is a William Cumming original

The work is an original 1941 painting by William Cumming, a member of the Northwest School art movement of the 1930s and ’40s…

Modernism in the Northwest Seattle Art Museum; Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle, Washington

As dazzlingly laid out in a summer blockbuster show at Seattle Art Museum, “Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical” adheres to a tighter curatorial logic than its 2003 predecessor…

Fine-Art Photographer Johsel Namkung Passed Away

Acclaimed Northwest artist Johsel Namkung died Monday, July 22, 2013. He was known for his large-scale, deeply textured photos of the artistic patterns found in nature.

’70s George Tsutakawa Fountain finds its way back to Seattle

A Seattle art dealer has brought home a large “obos” fountain by the acclaimed artist George Tsutakawa. He is having it refurbished and hopes to find a place where it can be installed and enjoyed by the public.

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