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Jen Graves

Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, at places like Cornish College of the Arts and Centrum. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 14 years.

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Date

  • Features

    Violent Crime on the Rise

    The Random Killing of a 21-Year-Old Student Highlights a New Problem for the City
    Posted on 05/02/2012
  • Visual Art

    Bherd Is Pronounced "Be Heard"

    An Art Gallery in a Subterranean Warren in Greenwood
    Posted on 05/02/2012
  • Visual Art

    All the Trappings

    An Attractive Shell of an Exhibition at SAM
    Posted on 05/02/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘IDxID: New Identities’

    For its first outside-curated show, the new artist-run gallery devoted to identity selected as its organizer sharp-minded artist/performer/writer C.
    Posted on 04/25/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye’

    There once were two people who so loved each other who, rather than having a child, had plastic surgery so they looked more alike...
    Posted on 04/18/2012
  • Suggests

    Kimberly Trowbridge

    There’s a new three-level gallery on Olive Way where two painters—Laura Hamje and Sara Long—have studios on top, and where the inaugural exhibition on the first two levels is by Kimberly Trowbridge.
    Posted on 04/18/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats’

    Seattle Asian Art Museum’s Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats is a cross between the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition that swept the Metropolitan Museum last year...
    Posted on 04/11/2012
  • Visual Art

    Contextual Healing

    Making Mends, from Mountains of Salt to Atomic War and Back
    Posted on 04/11/2012
  • Suggests

    Henry Open House/Gary Hill Show

    Gary Hill is brilliant, goofy, and hilarious.
    Posted on 04/04/2012
  • Visual Art

    A Gay Romp

    Two Artists Talk Back to Hide/Seek
    Posted on 04/04/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Making Mends’

    The first thing you see in the group exhibition Making Mends is a cloud rising from gallery floor to ceiling.
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Visual Art

    Gilded Turds

    The Yum and the Yuck Bump Uglies in Alwyn O'Brien's New Show
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Visual Art

    Obsessive, Crawling, Joyful

    The Five Decades of Alden Mason
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Visual Art

    Anatomy of a Painting

    A Closer Look at Lucas Cranach the Elder’s The Judgment of Paris
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Visual Art

    In Her Pants

    Forty Years After the Feminist Classic The Dinner Party, Seattle Artist Lynn Schirmer Discovers Something Shocking
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Visual Art

    Spring Art Calendar

    Everything Happening in Art This Season
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Music

    Spring Classical Calendar

    Everything Happening in Classical Music and Opera This Season
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Music

    What Killed Mozart

    The Saddest Notes in Mozart’s Requiem
    Posted on 03/28/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Hide/Seek’

    Conflicts over art have been recorded going back at least to the eighth century.
    Posted on 03/21/2012
  • Visual Art

    Throbbing Color

    You Wish Your Robe Looked Like This
    Posted on 03/21/2012

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