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Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, 800 Bellevue Way N.E. Ste.111 in Bellevue, opens from 6-8pm March 10 for an artist reception and preview of Dan Larsen’s series, “Organic Interludes. The current paintings are created utilizing an industrial resin formulated to include microscopic heat treated glass flakes, which give the paintings extra depth and durability. The show runs through April 11.

Local Color, 1606 Pike Place in Seattle, opens a group show on March 6 from 6-8pm. Included in the show are Chuck Pefley (photography), Ty Kelly (mixed media) and Ryan Doran (acrylic/mixed media).  Shown: a piece by Ryan Doran.

Allied Arts of Whatcom County, 1418 Cornwall in Bellingham, presents the “Allied Arts Annual Member’s Show” through March 26. Featured are works from over 100 Allied Arts members, including professional artists and new or emerging and range from traditional paintings to photography to contemporary sculptures and everything in between.

Anchor Art Space, 216 Commercial Avenue in Anacortes, opens Friday, March 5th for the Anacortes Art Walk from 5-8pm with with sculptural work by Stephen Kafer. “Selected Wall Works…Some Thoughts.” The exhibit continues through April 24th.

Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, 151 Winslow Way on Bainbridge Island invited several artists to participate in a group show called “Art Couture.”  The surprising results are on view through March 29. Shown at the right: Peggy Vanbianchi, Lend a Hand.

Blue Horse Gallery, 301 West Holly Street in Bellingham, opens from 6-10pm with an artist reception for Didy Lutz. Lutz will exhibit her mixed media work in a solo show through March 26.

Gasworks Gallery, 3815 4th. Avenue NE in Seattle, invites all to a party and studio opening from 8-10pm.

An opening reception from 5-8pm is scheduled at the Rob Schouten Gallery, located on Whidbey Island at Greenbank Farm at 765 Wonn Rd. C-103 in Greenbank. On view is an exhibition of eight students of oil painting instructor Milo Duke of the Gage Academy of Art who will show the results their newly acquired skills. The paintings in this show thus cover a variety of subjects and approaches to painting. The show runs through March 30.

Scott-Milo Gallery, 1004 Commercial Avenue, opens for the Anacortes Art Walk from 6-9pm with Eric Wiegardt’s “Watercolors.” Shown at the right: Monolith. The show runs through May 4.

“With the Wind,” new work by Edison artist John Simon is on view at the Smith & Vallee Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Avenue in Edison, through March 28. The artist’s work is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Northwest Art. An opening reception is scheduled for March 6 from 5-8pm.

Ten Latino artists of the Pacific Northwest open in “Sense Us 2010” at the ArtXchange Gallery, 512 First Avenue S. from 5-8pm. The exhibition, partnered with Latino arts collective La Sala, strives to raise the visibility of Latino artists in the Seattle community, as well as challenge previous assumptions about Latino art. Shown: Blooming by Marcio Diaz.

Bluebottle Art Gallery, 415 East Pine Street, is showing “Birds & Blooms of the 50 States,” through March 31. The show is comprised of the Dutch Door Press’s original illustrations of the state bird and flower of every state in the U.S. Each illustration is letterpress printed in an edition of 100.

“Paperweight,” a survey of works on paper featuring six artists is on view at the Catherine Person Gallery, 319 3rd. Avenue  S., through March 27. 

Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Avenue S., opens from 6-8pm with the work of four painters:  Marlene Bauer (Oregon), Selene Santucci (Washington), Jessie Morgan (Massachusetts) and Dory Goode (Oregon).  The works vary from pure gestural abstraction to a vocabulary of personal symbols inhabiting an implied space, inside or out. Shown at the left: Marlene Bauer’s Puff.

Artist Tom Burrows’ “Polar,” an exhibition inspired by the Arctic and Antarctic regions, opens from 6-8pm in his fourth exhibit at the Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Avenue S. #100. Burows’ work is in private, corporate and public collections around the world. Shown at the right: Moubray Bay.

Gallery 110, opens for First Thursday from 6-8pm in their new location at 110 3rd. Avenue S. in a show called “Foundations: Reaching Beyond the Simple Attire.” A preview reception also takes place on March 3 from 6-8p.

A solo show by Northwest artist Dale Witherow opens at Gallery IMA, 123 S. Jackson from 6-8pm. This is the latest series of abstract acrylic on canvas paintings display his love of color, design and hidden symbolism. The show runs through March 28. Shown at the left: Signaletics.

Alicia Basinger opens in “Souvenir” at Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S., in a reception from 6-8pm. Basinger is presently a ceramic instructor and resident artist at the Seattle non-profit Pottery Northwest.  Basinger will present an artist talk at Pottery Northwest, 226 First Avenue North, on Friday, February 26th  at 7 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.

Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Place Market, opens from 6-8pm with solo exhibitions by Ed Kamuda and Richard Hutter. Paintings by Ed Kamuda are included in the collections of Microsoft, SAFECO, Zymogenetics, and in Washington schools through Art in Public Places Program. In 1999, he was included in the Whatcom Museum of History and Art’s Beyond the Horizon: Artists of the Rural Landscape.Hutter was invited to do a residency at the Morris Graves Foundation near Eureka in Northern California. One of the series he created there, "Lake Music," comprises this small exhibition. His work has been included in a number of nationally organized exhibitions, including some juried by prominent curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum. His work was featured The Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial in 2004. Hutter will give an artist talk at the gallery on March 13 at 2pm. Shown above at the right:  Richard Hutter, Lake Music II.

“Emotional Color,” an exhibition of new works by Ursula O’Farrell, opens at the Patricia Rovzar Gallery, 1225 Second Avenue, in a reception held for the artist on Thursday, March 4 from 6-8pm in conjunction Seattle’s First Thursday Art Walk. In 2007, her work was featured in a solo show at the Art Museum of Los Gatos in California and most recently O’Farrell was juried by renowned artist Theophilus Brown to participate in Art Space 712’s exhibition titled "I'll Bet You Can't Paint a Portrait: The Genesis of Bay Area Figurative Art Now" and was awarded the grand prize. The exhibition will continue through March 29. Shown at the left: Visitation.

Pratt Fine Arts Center, 306 S Washington St, Suite 102, presents “Forged from Fire,” a group show featuring forged metal sculpture by artists Andy Blakney, Paul Casey, Lisa Geersten, Patrick Maher, Lauren Osmolski and David Tuthill. The show opens on First Thursday from 6-8pm and continues until March 26.

Punch Gallery, 119 Prefontaine Place South, opens from 5-8pm with Ries Niemi and Sheila Klein, married artists who work  in textiles and other mediums.

R E Welch Gallery, 1214 First Avenue South opens with European pastel artist Rulggeri’s new work.  Shown at the right: Poppies on the Plain.

Rock|Dement Visual Art Space, 306 S. Washington, presents “Legend,” a collaboration of eight artists exploring multiple contexts navigated in the world. A reception is scheduled from 6-9pm on First Thursday. The show runs through March 27.

Seattle ArtREsource, 625 First Avenue, opens from 5-7pm with paintings from several decades in Paul Horiuchi’s life “Paintings and Collages.” Horiuchi has been the recipient of many honors and awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wing Luke Asian Museum in 1955. His works are in the collections of major museums, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fogg Art Museum (Harvard University) and Cambridge University, England. The show continues through May 8. Shown above and to the left: Dormant Blue, 1981.

Shift Collaborative Studio, 306 S. Washington Street, opens on First Thursday from 5-8pm with emerging artist and sculptor, Jo  Moniz.

Traver Gallery Seattle, 110 Union Street, opens from 5-8pm for First Thursday by introducing “Stig Persson: Progression.” Persson focuses on glass for its structural qualities as well as delicacy, has exhibited all over Europe and the United States, and his work can be found in the permanent collections of The Glasmuseum Ebletoft, as well as the Danish Museum for Art and Craft. Shown at the left: Layers No. 1.

Gordon Woodside/John Braseth Gallery,  2101 9th. Ave.  at Lenor, opens in a reception from 5:30-8:30pm for Paul Havas’ new works. The artist has taught at the University of Washington, the University of Idaho, and Stanford University and was good friends with Northwest painter William Ivey. He has had numerous exhibits throughout his career as an artist in the Pacific Northwest. Shown at the right : Paul Havas, Grayland Light.

ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery, 4711 California Avenue SW in Seattle, features Keith Troester, Amirra Malak, Lyosha Grechishkin and Susan Bari Price in “Relics of Light” through March 27. An artists’ reception is scheduled for March 11 from 6-7:30pm. Also showing is New York video artist, Keith Troester with “In a Landscape”, a 6 minute projection of two contrasting urban scenes, inspired by avant-garde composer, John Cage. Shown: Mezzo by Susan Bari Price.

“Incubator for Artists: Revitalizing the Seattle Arts Community,” a group show celebrating the role the Pratt Fine Arts Center  has played in lives of Seattle artists throughout the past 34 years will be on display at the City Hall Lobby Gallery and Anne Focke Gallery, 600 4th. Avenue, from March 1 - April 13, 2010. A public reception is schedules for March 25 from 5-6pm. Shown: Boyd Sugiki, Composition.

Budding ceramic artists from high schools throughout Whatcom County will have their creations on display at Good Earth Pottery  through the month of March.  A reception for the students and their teachers will be held on March 20^th from 2-5pm at the gallery, located at 1000 Harris Avenue in Bellingham.

The Ouch My Eye Gallery, located at 1022 1st Avenue S., opens from 7-12pm on February 27 for their Annual International Invitational. According to the gallery, “The artists participating this year were carefully selected from a large field of international, national, and local talent who exemplify the passion to create regardless of popularity, esteem, or financial marketability.” The show runs through March 24. Piece shown by Tracy Boyd.

Eric Elliott dissects the work of student artists of all levels and reads the auguries of the next generation of artists to come out of the University of Washington in an exhibit at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, in the art building on the University of Washington campus, on view from February 24- March 20. This dissection is also a moment for Elliott to reflect back on his own relationship with the University of Washington, having received his MFA in painting from the program 3 years ago.

C Art Gallery,  855 Hiawatha Place South in Seattle, is featuring the exhibit "A Room Full of Sisters" through March 28 with an artists’ reception Thursday March 4 from 5:30-7:30pm. The show recognizes the diversity of women and celebrating Women's History Month.  Presenting the work of 17 artists in various mediums, the exhibit is inspired by Washington State Poet Laureate Mona Lake Jones poem "A Room Full of Sisters."

Carol Mallett Adelman exhibits a selection of works that combine self-portraits, art historical references and societal roles in “Little Women: Self Portraits.” The exhibit is on view from February 22 through March 20 in the Steele Gallery at the Gage Academy of Art, located at 1501 10th. Avenue E. in Seattle. An artist reception is scheduled for February 26 from 6-8pm.

The 4th Annual showcase of figurative art created by  members of the Lowell Art Works Life Drawing Group and Lowell Art Works resident artists opens at the gallery, 5205 South 2nd. Avenue from 4-9pm. The show runs through March 13.

Opening on February 19 from 6-9pm at Lawrimore Project, 831 South Airport Way, is Tivon Rice’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, “A MACROCOSMIC ZERO.”  Rice, a multimedia artist and doctoral candidate at the University of Washington’s Center for Digital Art and Experimental Medial (DXARTS), has  exhibited with solo shows at the Portland Art Academy; 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle; Lawrimore Project, Seattle; Gallery 4Culture; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; and a collaborative exhibition with Jeffry Mitchell at The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle.

In an opening reception on February 18 from 6-8pm, Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 3rd. Avenue S.,  introduces Dan Webb in his first one-person exhibit at the gallery, “Stones and Flowers.” The Seattle artist works in a variety of materials including wood, limestone and bronze. Also on view is Roger Shimomura’s “Small Paintings,” where the artist explores the racial conflicts of the 1940s war years and the unjust imprisonment of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, 60% of whom were U.S. citizens. Shimomura has a one-person exhibition, Yellow Terror: The Collections and Paintings of Roger Shimomura, at Wing Luke Museum, in Seattle through April 18. Wing Luke Asian Museum has scheduled a lecture by the artist on March 18 at 7pm. Tickets and details are available at www.winglukemuseum.org. Shown: Dan Webb, Sucked In.

Karen Fox’s paintings, “My Favorite Things,” opens February 18 for the Edmonds Art Walk from 5-8pm at the Cole Gallery, 107 5th. Avenue South in Edmonds. Gallery owner Denise Cole says, “ Come on by to meet the artist and enjoy champagne and desserts.” Shown: Party on the James T.Quigg.