Here’s actress Lucy Lui looking sexy in a black swimsuit.
Tom Selleck, ultra cool in his Hawaiian shirt and Ferrari as TV’s “Magnum, P.I”
| “Famous Faces”: Opening reception 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, The Offset Corner, 310 Maple Ave., Snohomish; 360-862-1100, www.offsetcorner.com.
Mixed-media “alien artifacts” by Stephen Lestat: Opening reception 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Built Gallery, 3110 Hill Ave., Everett. The show is on display through March 1 and additional viewings are by appointment; call 425-259-4114. Information, www.builtcorp.com. “Les Amis en Plen Air, Provence, France”: Paintings by Shirley Cooper and Laurie Crawford, through Feb. 25 at Art Boutique, 2804 Grand Ave., Everett. The gallery is open Wednesdays through Saturdays, 425-501-2448. “Potential Fulfilled”: Alumni art show this month at Northlight Gallery in the Parks Student Union, Everett Community College, 2000 Tower St., Everett. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 5 to 7 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays. Information, 425-388-9445 or 425-388-9378. Photo show: Photographs by Ron Hammond and Joan Bowers this month at the Lynnwood Library Gallery, 19200 44th Ave. W., Lynnwood. Erotic photography and neon sculptures: Opening 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Cafe Culture, 109 E. Commercial, La Conner; 360-421-0985. The show runs through March 9. |
Paul McCartney wailing on a guitar in his post-Beatles years.
The great Muhammad Ali towering victorious over a beaten opponent in the boxing ring.
“Famous Faces” is an exhibit of dozens of autographed celebrity photographs that can be seen starting Saturday at The Offset Corner gallery in downtown Snohomish. The photos, both color and black and white, are from the collection of Rex and Teri Jennings.
An opening reception is from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Rex Jennings said their collecting hobby started more than a dozen years ago on a trip to Disneyland, when the couple wandered into an art gallery and came out with their first celebrity photo.
Since then, they have been judicious buyers of photos of the famous, from movie and musical stars to former presidents, bought mostly from a few dealers they know and trust.
“I try to collect images of people when they are at their prime,” Jennings said. “Elvis before the Army got to him,” for example.
The collection is eclectic, from President Ford to Johnny Depp in “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
Actor Steve McQueen is the personification of hip in a black turtleneck sweater. An enduring image of the young James Cagney shows him smashing a grapefruit into the face of Mae Clark in the 1931 film “Public Enemy.”
The latter is Jennings’ favorite; he’s a fan of old movies and of black and white photos.
A few of the photos will be for sale – duplicates in the collection, Jennings said – but mostly this is an opportunity for the public to enjoy a private collection built as a fun hobby.
Alien art: Imagine that’s it’s 200 years in the future, and archeologists are digging through the debris of an alien space ship that crashed on planet Earth.
What would they find?
It might be something like the sculptural art that flows from the imagination and the hands of Stephen Lestat. The Snohomish artist has created a series of brilliantly colored metal and mixed-media sculptures in collagelike fashion that are prized for their decorative value as well as the ideas of other worlds that they inspire.
An exhibit of these works goes on display Saturday at Built Gallery in Everett.
Lestat has fused his interest in science fiction and metaphysics and the idea of time travel to create these “alien artifacts.” He starts with materials such as thin sheets of aluminum, brass and copper and decorates the surface with depictions of shields, weapons, scrolls and ship fragments.
The reflective surfaces are scribed or carved with images and an imagined alien language.
“These are letters that just sort of come to me. If anyone comes in and can decipher it, call me,” he said.
“I try to use materials that you would not recognize,” Lestat said, including discarded computer parts and industrial materials.
There will be about 30 works in the show, some as large as 5 feet long by 21/2 feet wide.
Vive la France: Shirley Cooper and Laurie Crawford are the featured artists this month at Art Boutique in the Everett Public Market. The artists and friends drew inspiration from a September trip to the fabled Provence region of France.
The landscape and light of Provence have inspired generations of artists including Cooper and Crawford, who painted the scenery while attending workshops on the plein aire (in the open air) style of painting.
The show, titled “Les Amis en Plein Aire, Provence, France,” includes 16 works by Crawford, mostly pastels with a few charcoal and watercolor studies. Cooper is represented by nine pastels from the trip plus some of her older paintings. The exhibit also includes photos from their trip.
Alumni art: Artwork created by 16 Everett Community College alumni artists is on view this month at the Northlight Gallery in the Parks Student Union building.
The Alumni Invitational Art Show, titled “Potential Fulfilled,” features a variety of artwork including photography, painting and sculpture.
“The Invitational is an opportunity to honor some of our very distinguished alumni artists and share their work with the community,” said EvCC art instructor Sandra Lepper.
The show is sponsored by the Everett Community College Foundation and a grant from the Cooper Foundation.
Participating artists include Craig Barber, Jessica Bigley, Randy Binder, Amber Cash, Tim Ely, Tom Harris, Felix Haynes, Susie Howell, Philip Kramer, James Madison, Cheri O’Brien, Dan Russell, Juliette Ricci-Lagman, Regan Scheiber, Lisa Spreacker and Phyllis Uitti-Maslin.
All say Everett Community College played a critical role in the development of their artistic knowledge and skills.
Photo show: Photographs by Ron Hammond and Joan Bowers are on view this month in an exhibit at the Lynnwood Library Gallery. The exhibit includes both domestic and foreign scenes.
Black and white photographs, drawn from a series titled “Images of Burma, 2005,” were made by Bowers during a recent trip to Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). Her photographs represent impressions from her travels and most come from such exotic locales as Mandalay, Mingun and Bagan.
“I found myself captivated by the people of Burma … they are a beautiful people in physiognomy and in spirit,” she said.
Most of Hammond’s work involves street photography focusing on familiar places. “My work organizes itself into loosely defined, open-ended projects that are rarely finished but often stop in interesting places for a show or a handmade book,” he said.
Edgy show: Cafe Culture in La Conner opens a show Saturday featuring erotic photography by Bellingham artist Jim Duvall and free-form neon sculpture by La Conner artist Michael Wirth.
“Famous Faces” exhibit in Snohomish features autographed photos of (clockwise from right) Muhammad Ali, Tom Selleck, Paul McCartney and Lucy Liu.
Stephen Lestat’s artwork – including (clockwise from above) “Time Machine,” “Shield” and “Ship Fragment” – are on exhibit at Built Gallery in Everett.
Plein-aire art from Laurie Crawford and Shirley Cooper is on display at Art Boutique.
Photographs by Joan Bowers (left) and Ron Hammond (below) are on display in Lynnwood.
Neon sculpture by Jim Duvall is among the works on display in La Conner.
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