![]() (If you’re like me, you’ll be tempted to reach out and run your hand over the surface but, alas, we must refrain.) This show ends soon but follow Rodriguez on Instagram to watch his fascinating progress on “Let the Music Take You,” a series of larger-than-life ceramic jazz-band figures he’s creating for the Kansas City International Airport.Īlso in Pioneer Square, at Greg Kucera Gallery this weekend, a show of recent work by longtime Northwest artist Ross Palmer Beecher generates a similarly tiled and tactile feeling. The result is thickly textured and richly colored figures that have the look of a mosaic in 3D. Instead, you’ll find something a lot more surprising: the expressive clay faces of a monkey, donkey, chihuahua, grasshopper, jaguar, iguana and other animals, including, yes, a bird - an approachable-looking “águila” or eagle, another national bird of note.Įach vessel is made in Rodriguez’s signature style, in which he painstakingly layers small ceramic pieces in patterns as tightly configured as feathers. Rodriguez’s take on the zodiac blends stories from various traditions, so don’t go expecting the 12 sun signs. ![]() Mysterious animal tales resurface at Foster/White Gallery in Pioneer Square this weekend, where Seattle ceramicist George Rodriguez is showing a new collection of Zodiac Vessels (through Aug. And in “Stupid Cupid,” a lovebird fares even worse, a few floating feathers the only things left near a cat licking its paw. Birds and bees play a role in this acrylic exploration of love, including a messenger pigeon (in “ Pigeon Post”) that appears to have gone through hell and high water - a torn love letter in its beak, bandages around its neck and leg, a still-smoking wound on its back. This moody and mythic series of paintings evokes folk tales we’ve never heard before but recognize on an instinctive level. The fairy tales continue at Roq La Rue Gallery in Madison Valley, where Dutch artist Femke Hiemstra presents Hardly My Fault (through Aug. The swan is a beak-nod to the national bird of Denmark, Nordic sustainability initiatives and Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling. In Copenhagen, Dambo is known for his large-scale sculptures made from recycled wood scraps and plastic castoffs, many of which reference fables and other lore (including a car-crunching troll that rivals our own in Fremont). Positioned at the entrance of the museum, the swan has an impressive wingspan of 13 feet.ĪrtSEA: Notes on Northwest Culture is Crosscut’s weekly arts & culture newsletter. which he cut and configured into layered feathers. On the contrary, Danish environmental artist Thomas Dambo created the giant bird out of 300 plastic buckets - former cafeteria containers for mayonnaise, yogurt, ketchup, etc.
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