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First Friday March openings

"Doors" opens in a reception from 6-8pm at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, 151 Winslow Way, and continues until April 1. Thirteen artists open those doors at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts in March. The doors may be made of glass or metal or paper. They may depict car doors or refrigerator doors; the door to the past or the door to opportunity. Shown is Carole Barrer's, O-PIN,  Photo credit: Ken Wagner.

Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial in Anacortes, opens from 6-8pm on First Friday with "Vineyards and Villas," a group show featuring the work of many local artists. The show is up until April 29. Shown at the right is Sonoma Hils Winery by Donna Trent.




March First Thursday openings

ArtXchange Gallery, 512 First Avenue S., presents “Stitched, Woven, Sewn,” a new exhibition featuring contemporary, traditional, and tribal textiles from the gallery’s collection. The exhibition, on view until March 28, includes traditional and contemporary silk weavings from around the world.

Russian artist, Alla Goniodsky is featured at D'Adamo/Woltz Gallery, 307 Occidental Avenue S., until March 31. Although this is the first show at the gallery, the artist's paintings and puppets are in collections world-wide and in the permanent collection in the Backrushin State Theatrical Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Glasshouse Studio, 311 Occidental Avenue S., is featuring the work of George C. Scott and Christopher Sternberg-Powidzki until March 31 and opens the exhibition with a reception from 6-8pm.

Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 Third Avenue S., and Foster/White Gallery, 220  Third Avenue S., are joining for simultaneous shows of Alden Mason's work. Foster/White is showing a late-career survey, and Greg Kucera Gallery has selections from the "Burpee Garden" series. Shown at the right is Rainbow Rocker.

La Famila Gallery, 117 Pre Fontaine Pl SW, opens on First Thursday with Michelle Anderst's “Drugs & Social Networking,” an artist’s homage to the Seattle Coffee Shop Scene. Michelle salutes Seattle’s Independent coffee shop in her installation work featuring two-dimensional pieces with a “three-dimensional” experience. The show is on  view until March 31.      

Lisa Harris Gallery,  1922 Pike Place, presents new work by Pacific Northwest artist Joel Brock.   Exploring architectural and still life subject matter, Brock works in acrylic as well as pastel and often incorporates gesso and charcoal .  The artist will attend the exhibition opening, Thursday March 6, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Shown at the left  is Houses of Edison.

Running through March at Pacini Lubel Gallery, 207 2nd Avenue S., and opening at reception on First Thrusday from 6-8pm., is a group show called "Texture, Color, Form, which includes paintings by Mattie Ifverson.


Patricia Rovzar Gallery Seattle, located at 1225 Second Avenue, opens new works of Paul Brigham with a reception from 6-8pm. Winner of the 2000 painting category at the Portland Art Exhibition and many other competitions, Brigham's show is on view until March 6. Shown at the right is American Redstarts.

Pratt Gallery at Tashiro Kaplan Studios is exhibiting "Print Zero Studios 5th Print Exchange. "The exhibition features 291 5x7-inch prints from artists in 17 countries. Eight instructors from Pratt Fine Arts Center are included in the show. The show is on  view until March 30.

Showing at Punch Gallery,119 Prefontaine Place South , until March 30 is Howard Barlow’s new body of work, "Safe and Sound." The artist will be in attendance the first and final Saturdays of the month.

Shift Collaborative Studio, Tashiro Kaplan Building, 306 S. Washington St., opens on First Thursday with June Sekiguchi “A Brief Walk On The Edge.” June Sekiguchi will be exhibiting plexiglass light boxes and a sectional welded steel sculpture that can be reconfigured in a multitude of ways.

Wall Space Fine Art Photography, 600 First Avenue Ste. 322, is featuring "Introspection," works from Susan Burnstine, winner of B&W Magazine's Excellence Award for the 2006 Portfolio Contest, at an opening reception March 6 from 6-8pm. The show closes April 5. Shown at the left is one of her pieces.

March at Traver Gallery Seattle, 110 Union Street, introduces world-renowned Australian glass artist Nick Mount in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Whispering Domes and Other Recent Work features three newly developed adaptations of the artist's Scent Bottle series.
The second exhibtion at the gallery is "Il Bianco e il Nero," a  large-scale exhibition showcasing the newest work of Italian glass master Lino Tagliapietra. Much of the work included in the show is, surprisingly, executed entirely in black, white and clear glass. Lino Tagliapietra has taught glassblowing throughout the world, and his work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. He has received many prestigious awards including Corning's Rakow Commission and the Glass Art Society's Lifetime Achievement Award.  Show above at the right is one of Lino's pieces.