Shadows Cast: Joel Brock composes rough images from bullet casings, cigarette butts and other discarded pieces of Americana. Free.
Wes McClain and Kristin Tollefson: Wes McClain has been contributing work to BAC since 2006 when he was just a wee ninth grader. Kristin Tollefson makes smaller-scale sculptures (compared to her big public art pieces) in wood, metal, and fabric. Free.
Elizabeth McElveen: A Tragic Love and All: black-and-white photography from McElveen's recent trip to Italy. Free.
Kathy Liao: new painterly oil paintings. Free.
(Un/Re) Attached: John Osgood and Miguel Edwards reveal their months-long collaborative investigation of the forces that separate and connect. By exchanging pieces back and forth between each other, they employ a variety of media and a cyclical concept and process. Free.
Artistides Atelier Thesis Exhibition: Graduates Bobby di Trani and Stephanie K. Johnson present work completed in their final year at Gage. Free.
Students of the Artistides Atelier: Classical drawing and painting. Free.
CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics and Scraps made by Art Spiegelman, the legendary comic artist whose graphic novel, Maus, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Free.
little x little: Miniature Print Exhibition is a show of five-by-sevens by the talented Seattle Print Arts artists. Free.
Broken Mirror/Evening Sky: New York-based Bing Wright (yes, of the Seattle Wrights) takes pretty pictures of sunsets, then busts them up. His lovingly fractured large-scale color photographs are not digitally manipulated. Instead, each sunset is shot, projected on a broken mirror, and that's shot and blown up to make the final print. Their broken surfaces are strangely pristine and glossy, restored to smooth. Free.
Weird Sisters: Kate Lebo, Kat Larson, and Kate Ryan are looking to disrupt systems of meaning involving the feminine, stabbing things with hat pins and poisoning the soup (figuratively). Cooking shows, alchemy, milk, and blood are employed in the melee. Free.
Set in 18th-century Germany, Itamar Moses (Outrage, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us) composes a fictional story—structured like a fugue—about J.S. Bach vying against German organists who play dirty as they all reach for the position as prime organist and musical director. $20-$40.
The Stranger’s reviews of Cafe Nordo’s experimental dinner-theater-that-isn't-dinner-theater have been mixed. Thadius Van Landingham III thought the dishes uneven and the ambitions unmet in the company’s first show; Bethany Jean Clement found one of last year’s shows long but fairly rewarding, while Paul Constant delighted in the full-body pleasure of another. This spring, a modern spaghetti western. Will it be good, bad, and/or ugly—who can say? $130-$160 for season's membership, $600 for Chef's Table.
Fred Birchman/Julianna Heyne: A variety of new work from Birchman, including a wood and found-object installation and dozens of mixed media works on paper. Dry, hot oil paintings of the John Day fossil beds from Heyne. Free.
Scissors for a Brush: Remember the paper snowflakes you made in kindergarten? Karen Bit Vejle’s large-scale pieces are what you dreamed you could make before you confronted the limitations of your attention span and hand-eye coordination, not to mention those dumb safety scissors. The exhibition also features some never-before-seen-in-the-US paper cuts by Hans Christian Andersen. $6.