A view of Patte Lopers installation Seeking Higher Ground, opening tonight at Suyama Space, of architectural models for things that should be impossible but have happened, or are happening right now.
A view of Patte Loper's installation Seeking Higher Ground, opening tonight at Suyama Space, of architectural models for things that should be impossible but have happened, or are happening right now. JG

Last night, I got to watch the artist Patte Loper as she poured paint down from a great height at Suyama Space. That great height was the top of her installation Seeking Higher Ground, which depicts a swirling scene of models of Seattle's historic Denny Regrade and its "Holdout Hills," as they were once called, and the tunnel project that's currently hollowing out the underbelly of downtown.

The show opens tonight from 5 to 7 and Loper will give a talk tomorrow at the gallery at noon.

Richard Misrach took his photographs of water from an eighth story hotel room balcony in Honolulu, where to him the floating bodies looked like the ones that fell on September 11, 2001.
Richard Misrach took his photographs of water from an eighth story hotel room balcony in Honolulu, where to him the floating bodies looked like the ones that fell on September 11, 2001. Courtesy of the artist and Winston Wächter Fine Art

A three-person exhibition at Winston Wächter titled Water is seasonally themed but far from flatly, cheerily summery.

It features the images of Richard Misrach, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Harry Callahan, all heavy hitters in photography, whose works have vast formal and conceptual range. It'll be a pleasure for eye and mind.

Untitled (Pink), 2014, by Thomas Glassford, is part of the New Measures group exhibition that opened last night at James Harris Gallery.
Untitled (Pink), 2014, by Thomas Glassford, is part of the New Measures group exhibition that opened last night at James Harris Gallery. JG

And last night at James Harris Gallery, two new shows opened. New Measures is a series of contemporary abstractions by Latin American artists Thomas Glassford (Mexico), Pedro Tyler (Uruguay/Chile), and Mariano Dal Verme (Argentina).

West Coast painter James Hayward, who earned his degree at UW in the 1970s, will show new textured monochromes, thick swipes of color on a small, luscious scale.