Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater & Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That.
Hyunjeong Lim: Archive of the Mind
Through Dec 19
Drawing from traditional Korean landscape and Renaissance painting, Hyunjeong Lim’s landscapes have an almost fairytale-like quality, and they’re packed with so much detail, you can’t help but fall in and get lost. Her latest body of work at Winston Wächter is embroidered with scenes from the American West and Pacific Northwest: lakes, canyons, and lost highways winding around craggy outcroppings and islands sprouting like mushrooms from the sea. Look closer and you’ll find the terrain populated by tiny, quizzical blob people, unhinged grotesqueries plucked straight from Hieronymus Bosch, and even art history Easter eggs. For Lim, landscape is more than a pretty picture of a place: It serves as a container where lived experience tangles with imagination and memory. Because of that, her places feel uncannily placeless, but also like everywhere you’ve ever been. We love them because we have been there—if not in the flesh, then in dream. (Winston Wächter Fine Art) AMANDA MANITACH
An Indigenous Present
Nov 7–Feb 14
Tapestries made of AstroTurf and buckskin, blankets woven from ink and tape, a Cree prayer rendered in blood-red acrylic and powdery pastel: One of the year’s most anticipated shows (mine at least) opens this month at the Frye. An Indigenous Present is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the renowned artist Jeffrey Gibson and independent curator Jenelle Porter that includes major works and commissions by 15 Indigenous artists, spanning 100 years of Indigenous art. The exhibition embodies a shift in how Indigenous identity is represented within institutional spaces, as artists move beyond redefining their place within these institutions to actively defying the colonial constraints and expectations they have imposed for centuries. Alongside An Indigenous Present, the museum has mounted My Body Is a Basket, featuring work by three Indigenous Pacific Northwest artists—Brenda Mallory, Danielle Morsette, and Sara Siestreem—who push traditional basket weaving into unexpected conceptual and metaphorical territory. (Frye Art Museum) AMANDA MANITACH
Light the Forest
Nov 14–15
About an hour’s drive north of Seattle, there’s a magical place called Pilchuck Glass School where the world’s top glass artists convene throughout the year to whip miraculous glass art into existence in boiling hot shops and less-hot cold shops. The campus is a work of art in its own right: It spreads out like a 1970s hobbit fantasy complete with forests threaded with secret paths, stained-glass follies, and treehouses where acolytes retire to revel at the end of a long day’s work. The school isn’t typically accessible to the public, which makes the annual Light the Forest even more special. The event—a self-guided walking tour—unfolds on two dusky November nights, during which the already-ensorcelling Pilchuck campus transforms into an immersive light installation ablaze with neon. This year’s artists are Seattle-based glass baddies MiNHi England and John Sharvin (who both appeared on season 3 of Blown Away). Did I mention it’s magical? I can’t overemphasize how utterly enchanted it is. This year, they’re also offering day-of workshops, so you can walk away with your very own neon creation or hand-blown ornaments. (Pilchuck Glass School) AMANDA MANITACH
I Am Love: Rituals in Resistance
Through Nov 30
Curated by tom manzanarez, I Am Love: Rituals in Resistance stems from a broader project (I Am Love) aimed at forming new connections and providing platforms for queer artists in the PNW through exhibitions, workshops, and other opportunities. It’s only continued to grow since its inception, and this month’s exhibit at RailSpur offers a window onto the region’s multidimensional, robust queer scene. Objects like Michael Espinoza’s pairing of embroidery with i-Type Polaroids exemplify the kind of work that’s both conceptually rigorous and intimate, dexterously touching on themes of domesticity and ephemerality. (Have you ever seen a print transfer applied to a slice of processed cheese product? The poetics of the show will surprise you.) (RailSpur) AMANDA MANITACH
Opening
Artist Lecture: The Landscape Speaks with Daniel Gregory Nov 5, Photographic Center Northwest, 6 pm
Tess Michalik: Rococo Puffs Nov 6–28, Dirkse/Prim
Karon Davis: Not My Circus Nov 5–July 4, 2027, Seattle Art Museum
Sunday Best: Unpacking the Wardrobe of Rev. Samuel McKinney Nov 14–March 18, 2027, MOHAI
Ongoing
Mia Mulvey: I Contain My Outside Through Nov 6, Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Fantasmagoria Through Nov 7, Roq La Rue
Social Contract Through Nov 7, Actualize AiR
Fulgencio Lazo: Iluminando Caminos [Lighting the Way] Through Nov 14, ArtX Contemporary
In Between: A Cross and a Hardgrave—Tim Cross and Robert Hardgrave Through Nov 15, AMcE Creative Arts
For Which It Stands: The Many Threads of the American Flag Through Nov 15, MOHAI
Colored Girls for Colored Girls: Evolution of Expression Through Nov 15, Arte Noir
Kelda Martensen: First Rain Through Nov 25 with opening reception Nov 5 and artist talk Nov 14, J. Rinehart Gallery
RailSpur x Hall Spassov: The Way Is Open Through Nov 30, RailSpur
Warren Dykeman: Glyph & Ground Through Dec 5, studio e
Shutter and Light Collective and Photographic Center Northwest Present: Currents Through Dec 13, Photographic Center Northwest
Betsy Eby: Beautiful Repair and Hyunjeong Lim: Archive of the Mind Through December 19 with artist reception Nov 7, Winston Wächter Fine Art
Once Removed Presents ‘It Means: God Is Great’ by Gizelle Hadeed Through Dec 21, Actualize AiR
Ed Wicklander: My Labors Through Dec 23, Greg Kucera Gallery
Temporal: Stories of Indigenous Present, Re-imagining Indigenous Futures Through Dec 31, Thurston County Museum of Fine Arts
Project NW: David Hytone: The Lee Shore Through Jan 3, 2027, Tacoma Art Museum
Day-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance Through Jan 3, 2027, Henry Art Gallery
The Kondō Family: Storytellers in Clay Through Jan 3, 2027, Seattle Asian Art Museum
Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan Through Jan 17, 2027, Seattle Art Museum
A Room for Animal Intelligence Through Jan 2027, Seattle Art Museum
A Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen Through Feb 28, 2027, National Nordic Museum
My Body Is a Basket: Brenda Mallory, Danielle Morsette, and Sara Siestreem Through April 11, 2027, Frye Art Museum
Boren Banner Series: Blake Blanco Through April 18, 2027, Frye Art Museum
Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman Through April 18, 2027, MOPOP
Joiri Minaya: To Hell With Hibiscus Through May 2, 2027, Henry Art Gallery
Chloë Bass: Soft Services Through Aug 2027, Volunteer Park
Inconvenience Store Every Saturday and Sunday, Parnassus
Pioneer Square Art Walk Every first Thursday
Central District Art Walk Every second Friday
Capitol Hill Art Walk Every second Thursday
Belltown Art Walk Every second Friday
Georgetown Art Attack! Every second Saturday
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