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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.

More Articles by Jen Graves from 2011

Section

Date

  • Books

    The Heroic Victim

    Empathy and Depravity in a Sort of Korean Pride and Prejudice
    Posted on 08/17/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Alone in the Wilderness’

    Alone in the Wilderness is about the kind of loneliness that comes from longing to know what’s going on in other minds and other places.
    Posted on 08/10/2011
  • Visual Art

    Drowning, Disease, and a Demonic Pinup

    Gabriel von Max Is Back from the Dead
    Posted on 08/10/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Come to Now’

    Posted on 08/03/2011
  • Visual Art

    This Gay Show

    Tacoma Art Museum Stands Up for the Gays
    Posted on 08/03/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘Walls’

    When an artist begins to tear down the moldy wallpaper in her house, you can imagine that the discards won’t end up in the trash.
    Posted on 07/27/2011
  • Visual Art

    No Sense of Complacency Whatsoever

    Exchanging Words with the New Head of Modern and Contemporary at SAM
    Posted on 07/27/2011
  • Suggests

    Bollywood Panorama

    Remember that time when Seattle Asian Art Museum hosted a show of Indian paintings and everyone lost their minds with happiness? Indian-art-induced Stendhal syndrome may be making a comeback at SAAM.
    Posted on 07/20/2011
  • Suggests

    'Mad Homes'

    When you come upon Mad Homes—an apt title for an installation that wildly colonizes three Capitol Hill houses that are about to be demolished for condos on quiet Bellevue Avenue—it looks as though the neighborhood has gone haywire.
    Posted on 07/20/2011
  • Visual Art

    Visceral, Violent, Charming

    Fourteen Sweaty Artists Colonize Three Doomed Houses
    Posted on 07/20/2011
  • Visual Art Column

    In Art News

    The Seattle Sculpture That Has Its Own Powerful Constituency
    Posted on 07/20/2011
  • Suggests

    'Three Families'

    While science tries to find the gene for art, Francine Seders Gallery displays the evidence: an exhibition of three families of artists from around the way.
    Posted on 07/13/2011
  • Suggests

    Jennie C. Jones

    Posted on 07/06/2011
  • Suggests

    'Beauty & Bounty'

    Posted on 07/06/2011
  • Visual Art

    Perversion and Chicanery

    Take Your Lying Eyes to These Two Shows
    Posted on 07/06/2011
  • Visual Art Column

    In Art News

    Penises Done Right, Penises Done Wrong
    Posted on 07/06/2011
  • Suggests

    Boat Street Cafe

    Posted on 06/29/2011
  • Suggests

    James Lavadour

    Posted on 06/29/2011
  • Features

    What It Does to Your Space Is Amazing

    The Very Surprising Art Collection of a Seattle Housepainter
    Posted on 06/29/2011
  • Visual Art

    Feminism, Rocks

    Strange Happenings at an Indian Burial Ground
    Posted on 06/29/2011

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