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Current and Upcoming Art Exhibitions

Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky
November 14, 2009 - March 21, 2010

The Lightcatcher building’s inaugural exhibition surveys some of the latest developments in contemporary art. It features over more than 80 compelling works in all media – painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation art. Artists from around the world, both internationally recognized and emerging, are represented, including: Enrique Chagoya (Mexico), Long-Bin Chen (China); Chuck Close (New York); Olafur Eliasson (Iceland); Till Freiwald (Germany); Nina Katchadourian (New York); Lead Pencil Studio (Seattle), Hung Liu (San Francisco); Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam); William Kentridge (South Africa); Lucy Skaer (England).

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BLOOM: THE ELEPHANT BED
A site-specific art installation by John Grade
November 14, 2009- April 10, 2010

One of my goals with the installation of Bloom is to employ scale so that we can tangibly encase ourselves within a form inspired by the shell of a coccolithiphore (by walking under and inside one of the sculptures). I am interested in impermanence, at directing our attention to what is compelling within a state of decay or disintegration.
—John Grade

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Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010
April 24 - August 29, 2010

Show of Hands Takes In-depth Look at Northwest Women Artists
Exhibition coincides with centennial of women’s suffrage in Washington State

Featuring more than 90 works of art by 63 women artists from Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, Show of Hands opens April 24 at the Whatcom Museum‟s Lightcatcher building. Celebrating women‟s contributions to the legacy of Northwest art, this unprecedented gathering of women artists examines the myriad talents women of the Northwest have displayed in all media since 1880.

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