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News & ArtsWednesday, December 21, 2011
Visual Art Currently Hanging: Spaceships!
Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Is that you, Second Avenue?
The holidays need more UFOs. Screw Santa; spaceships come bearing interplanetary gifts. This Hanukkah/Christmas/Solstice in Seattle, there is an art show for Ron Paul.
The UFO paintings, photographs, and wall-drawings/cardboard-constructions by Seattle artists David Kane, Christian French, and Tim Marsden open tonighttomorrow night at Vermillion. I caught the show early, last night, before there were any labels on the walls, but I'm pretty sure the photographs are by Christian French and the dark, brooding, and therefore semi-hilarious triptych in the front window is by David Kane (it bears his thick burlappy surface, his cinematic bent).
The photographs are goofy and charming. (The whole show is pretty much goofy and charming.) In each one, a spaceship dangles from a string against a different landscape. Sometimes, it looks like nothing more than a lamp—like an homage to the special effects of old B movies. Other times, it's blurry and mystical and nostalgic, hovering over a beachside community—did you see a UFO, or not? DO YOU BELIEVE??
Opening starts at 7. The show's called This Island Earth. One of Kane's paintings—depicting the classic film shot peering through the bushes at a sky abubble with spaceships—is on the jump.
- Bad picture, sweet painting by David Kane at Vermillion.
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Thanks, Jen! I tried to remember whom to add to my alt.obituaries 2012 dead pool, and now you've helped me: This Island Earth star and Bainbridge Island resident Russell Johnson!
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