Ambach & Rice in Ballard is open today and tomorrow, then Saturday and Sunday, for you to see new work by Seattle artist Grant Barnhart even in and around these here holidays. I've known Barnhart mostly as a painter, but in this show it looks like he has sculpture as well. I guess if I had to come up with a single descriptor for his art, it would be sexy.

Here's Black Box Cutter—three titles in one, right? (Black Box, Box Cutter, Black Box Cutter.) This guy looks like three miles of bad road, in the Jay McInerney sense.

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This one—another great title—is Precious Broken Elastic.

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More images here, A&R details here.