Issue Of Homelessness Focus Of Chase Gallery Art Exhibit
We read about them. We hear about them. We sometimes see them wandering downtown streets, their eyes pointed straight ahead or cast down, focused on the sidewalk.
But who are they?
“Putting a Face on Homelessness,” an art exhibit at the Chase Gallery in City Hall, will help to personalize a problem across the country - as well as here in Spokane.
The exhibit is a collaboration of the Spokane Arts Commission, the Spokane Human Services Advisory Board and 16 member agencies of the Spokane Homeless Coalition.
“Putting a Face on Homelessness” creates a focal point to convey information about this critical social issue, said spokesman Ralph Busch.
The exhibit “will emphasize the diversity of people affected by such economic circumstances and show that the homeless have talents and value not to be discarded,” Busch said.
Included in the show are 68 black-and-white photos of “Homeless in Washington State,” on loan from the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless in Tacoma. The photographs are accompanied by narratives describing the life situations of those without homes.
A public reception for “Putting a Face on Homelessness” will be held Jan. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the gallery, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.
Galleries around town
The combined shutters of photographers Francis Ho and Mike Lundstrom created the exhibit “For the Joy of It,” which opens Wednesday and continues through January at the Lorinda Knight Gallery, 523 W. Sprague.
Ho is known for panoramic photos placing the viewer in their midst, said Lorinda Knight. His subject in this show is salmon fishing in Ketchikan, Alaska.
People - specifically musicians - are featured in Lundstrom’s photographs. He paints his own emulsion on the photographic paper so each exposed print of a musician is unique.
A reception for the two photographers will be held Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. with live music by Arvid Lundin, Carla Carnegie and Linda Parman.
The art work of Idiko Kalapacs will be shown in Romeo’s Cafe, 221 N. Wall, Monday through January.
Galleries around the area
“American Photographs: 1970 to 1980,” the conscious exploration of photography as a medium, will be exhibited at Washington State University’s Museum of Art in Pullman through Feb. 1.
Some 130 works by 32 photographers will be featured, including those by Diane Arbus, Richard Avelon, Harry Calahan, Larry Clark, Duane Michals and Richard Misrach. The photographs are owned by the Washington State Consortium.
Rod Slemmons, co-curator with Terry Toedtemier, will discuss “American Photography in the 1970s: A 20-Year Reunion,” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20, in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Slemmons teaches photography at the University of Washington.
The WSU Museum of Art is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesdays; and 1 to 5 p.m. on weekends. It will be closed until Jan. 11 and again on Jan. 19.
The works of Elizabeth Peyton, “an emerging talent in New York City,” according to Linda Williams of the Seattle Art Museum, will be displayed through March 22 at the museum, 100 University St., in downtown Seattle.
Peyton creates portraits of people she admires, including the late Kurt Cobain and John Lennon.
Also at the Seattle Art Museum, through Aug. 2, is a 30-year retrospective of the glass art of Richard Marquis, “whose work is variously outrageous, elegant or wacky, serious or frankly funny - yet always technically fastidious,” Williams said.
“Rodeo Classics and Earlier Work” of James Washington Jr. will be on exhibit at the Foster/White Gallery in Seattle’s Pioneer Square, Thursday through Feb. 1.
Washington, a primitive artist, studied under Mark Tobey, a Northwest master artist.
“The Northwest Masters,” a group show, will also be displayed at the gallery through Feb. 1.
Artists include Tobey, Guy Anderson, Paul Horiuchi and others.
The artists are known primarily for their depiction of nature, environment and spirituality.
Foster/White Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sundays.
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