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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 2012

Section

Date

  • Visual Art

    What We Lost That We Never Had

    The Ghost of 26th Avenue and the Artists He Haunts
    Posted on 06/27/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Louder Than Bombs’

    This Independence Day, a painting show in Pioneer Square goes to show that all explosions of color are not created equal.
    Posted on 06/20/2012
  • Visual Art

    Blart

    Britta Johnson at Lawrimore Project
    Posted on 06/20/2012
  • Suggests

    Olympic Sculpture Park

    Sandra Cinto’s Encontro das Águas (Encounter with Waters) is inside the pavilion at the top of the park.
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Visual Art

    Summer Art Calendar

    Everything Happening in Art This Season
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Music

    Summer Classical Calendar

    Everything Happening in Classical Music and Opera This Season
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Genius Awards

    Visual Art Shortlist

    Visual Art Shortlist
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Genius Awards

    Music Shortlist

    Music Shortlist
    Posted on 06/13/2012
  • Visual Art

    Buzzing, Glorious World

    You Must See the Amazing Cosmology at SAM
    Posted on 06/06/2012
  • Suggests

    Seattle Erotic Art Festival

    They say it will be the biggest ever. Size queens.
    Posted on 05/30/2012
  • Suggests

    Soly Cissé

    All of Soly Cissé’s juicy, confident, expressionistic paintings begin with a black background.
    Posted on 05/30/2012
  • Visual Art

    Oil Doesn't Go Away

    A Not-Entirely-Successful Attempt at Summoning the Past of Suyama Space
    Posted on 05/30/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Can’t Get There From Here’

    This exhibition set in a tall, glowing gallery that seems like a chamber of heaven probes what you want from art: transcendence? Transport?
    Posted on 05/23/2012
  • Features

    Class Art

    How to Explain Why You Feel How You Feel When You’re Standing in Dale Chihuly’s New Museum
    Posted on 05/23/2012
  • Visual Art

    The Crazy Light of Desert Prisons

    Seattle Painter Buddy Bunting's Prison Breakthrough
    Posted on 05/23/2012
  • Visual Art

    Class Art

    How to Explain Why You Feel How You Feel When You’re Standing in Dale Chihuly’s New Museum
    Posted on 05/23/2012
  • Suggests

    ‘Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art’

    This is not an exhibition of an art form that’s ancient and dead.
    Posted on 05/16/2012
  • Visual Art

    Camping

    Artist Adrain Chesser Queers the Woods
    Posted on 05/16/2012
  • Suggests

    Oliver’s Twist

    If it’s sunny, take a seat in the thrown-open front window; if gray, the area farther back is like an ideal urban cave.
    Posted on 05/09/2012
  • Visual Art

    Haven't Things Already Gone South?

    This Show Makes Me Want to Die
    Posted on 05/09/2012

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