Work from some of China’s current leading artists will be on display to help examine the relationship between art and the written word during the exhibit “Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art.”
The exhibit will be on view starting Thursday and running through Dec. 2 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park.
The show features paintings, drawings, prints, artists’ books, installation and sculpture by artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Zhang Xiaogang and Xu Bing.
Certain featured works in the exhibit include “Tobacco Project: Red Books” by Xu Bing, which pairs cigarettes with quotations from Chairman Mao, or Yue Minjun’s “Garbage Dump,” which features six fiberglass sculptures of seated individuals grinning at “useless” books.
The seminal work is the installation of “A Book from the Sky” by Xu Bing, which consists of a series of books and scrolls that are produced by traditional woodblock printing techniques. Despite the familiar forms of the printed books, the characters are distorted and unreadable.
Recycle into art: Witness how everyday items are reused into fun, functional and whimsical artworks at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery’s August show, “Simply Recycling Art Show.”
The show, which runs through Aug. 31 at the gallery, 105 Cedar Ave., Snohomish, is sponsored by Karen Erickson of Simple Recycling of Snohomish and curated by Arts of Snohomish artist Raniere.
Recycled materials artists showing their work include Rebecca DeVere, Rebecca Jones, Aurora Lindquist, Karen Groff-Harrington, Salvage Studio, Raniere, Sue Hungerford and Chris Nelson. An artist reception is planned from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug 11.
The show offers 3D mixed media, 2D mixed media, jewelry and more. There’s also a learning opportunity with information on how people can recycle and the positive effects recycling has on the environment.
A farm girl in the city: Growing up on a small Northwest farm gave artist Mary Ann Case a sense of the cycle of nature and solutions to surviving change.
Both lessons were influences on Case’s eclectic styles. Those styles will be shown in an exhibit of her work as part of the Edmonds Art Walk.
The show opens Saturday and runs through Aug. 31 at Coldwell Banker Bain, 108 Fifth Ave. S., Edmonds. A reception to meet Case is set for 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 16.
This show reflects Case’s eclectic methods: oil and egg tempera landscape paintings, watercolor figures on paper and three hanging 8-foot “fountain” facsimiles made of hand-printed panels in a steel rod frame.
Art in Anacortes: The 46th annual Anacortes Arts Festival kicks off tonight with art, music and more art.
The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in downtown Anacortes. For more information, see www.anacortesartsfestival.com. The festival is free except for Concerts at the Port.
The festival includes 250 selected booth artists that span 10 blocks in historic downtown Anacortes. Art includes 2D work, photography, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, leather and metal.
Working artists will be at work, and play, on Saturday and Sunday. The demonstrations include metal forging, native carving and basketry, ceramics, stone carving, willow basket weaving and folk art painting. Also, artist Gloria Lamson from Port Townsend will do a piece of installation art from rope remnants, creating a textile passageway that incorporates public sentiments expressed on fabric ties.
The festival also has a Youth Discovery Area for hands-on projects for kids such as interactive magic, dance, theater and drumming.
More Anacortes art can be seen at the Gallery Walk, held in conjunction with the arts festival.
The walk is from 6 to 9 tonight and includes the following galleries:
Wildflower Home and Garden, 804 Commercial Ave., Jan Conklin’s oil pastels originals, prints and greeting cards; Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., a sixth anniversary with a group show of all the gallery artists; Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Plein Air Washington showcase art painted on location in the San Juan archipelago.
Digital Art Moments, 512 Commercial Ave., “Macro Photography” and “Intriguing Faces” by photographer Anne Elkins; Adrift, 510 Commercial Ave., Anacortes tattoo artist Michael Staum of Bandana Skin Art; Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., Northwest Pastel Society; Gallery at the Depot, 611 R Ave., “Artistic Woods”; Bowman Gallery, 801 Fifth St., Marius Hibbard one-man show of photography.
Artwork by Mary Ann Case is on display at Coldwell Banker Bain during Edmonds’ art walk.
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