While we were driving to Seattle a few weeks ago, my mom called my cell. When I told her we were on our way to see a friend's art gallery opening, she said "Oooh... I can just picture you sipping wine in a black turtleneck with Shawna in a little black cocktail dress."

 

I laughed, because that stereotype is about as far as you could get from the hipster art scene that is Seattle... and because you couldn't pay me enough to wear a turtleneck. But I also promised to snap some photos so she could get an idea of what kind of art and what kind of people circulate around here, so take a peek at the pictures below to find out.

 

- Jas

 

The Place: "McLeod Residence" gallery, previously an old house in the middle of downtown and now a hip gallery complete with full bar.

 

The Art: "Stack: Heap: Loop" by Brent Watanabe (a long-time friend of ours), along with paintings of factories by Curtis Taylor and portraits by April Brimer. The video portion of Stack: Heap: Loop is extra cool because you can watch it for as long as you want and never see exactly the same thing twice -- the video images are composited on-the-fly by a computer program that Brent wrote to randomly control the layering of the art on screen.