The Web: May, Part Two, 2025
Hey, Informality is back again (a teeeeny bit late, but we here!) with some exhibitions you don’t want to miss. Together, Senior Editor Julia Monté and Sarah Miller are here to get you out there looking at art! You might know Miller from her project, Show Your Art PNW. Check out the home of her future site here and help support her project! Now, here is Seattle’s Web for the end of May!
IN BLOOM
ONE NIGHT EVENT (MAY 24)
In Bloom will transform the Georgetown Steam Plant into a fleeting landscape of immersive art and performance. This event will feature installations, sculptures, performance art, light-based works, and music. Attendees will explore the Steam Plant's unique spaces, discovering diverse artistic expressions that celebrate the beauty of impermanence, the resilience of creativity, and the cyclic nature of renewal.
In Bloom invites audiences to embrace the present moment and find joy in the face of an ambiguous future. Like spring itself, this event is a moment of vibrant celebration that creates space for the next phase of the cycle.
It’s in these brief moments that we find divine continuity, in the face of certain uncertainty.
Image from Method Gallery’s Instagram @methodgallery.
DATE & TIME:
Saturday May 24, 2025
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm PDT
LOCATION:
Georgetown Steam Plant,
6605 13th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98108
EDITOR’S PICK:
BORDERLANDS
Location: Soil Gallery, 112 3rd Ave S
Borders are not static lines, but rather complex, shifting spaces of power that extend beyond their physical boundaries. In the exhibition Borderlands, artists Marcus DeSieno and Noelle Mason interrogate the complex political and social narratives that run through and from the US/Mexico border, a site where histories of migration and national identity converge. Both artists explore the ways in which borders act as more than geographic markers—they are sites of exclusion, control, and resistance.
Installation shot of Borderlands. Work by Noelle Mason.
DeSieno uses the landscape as a conduit to speak to the history of white supremacy that has shaped our immigration policies in this country as he documents migrant deaths in the American Southwest. Mason’s work questions the ways in which surveillance technologies serve to dehumanize our perception of undocumented immigrants – transforming these technological images through a vast array of processes and materials.
Together, their works create a multifaceted dialogue on the intersection of physical and psychological borders, and the ways in which borders shape our understanding of migration, nationalism, and control within the United States.
Visit Soil Gallery for Borderlands Friday-Sunday, 12-5PM! May 1-31, 2025.
A PERMANENT GLIMPSE
CLOSING WEEKEND (MAY 25)
Mini Mart City Park | 6525 Ellis Ave S
A Permanent Glimpse brings together paintings and sculptures from the past and the present that center around materiality, temporality, and form. The works included in this show capture and inform the image and motifs at play in a continual state of flow. Exploring moments of this trajectory, and the process therein, they project the vision, cemented in time if only but for a brief moment. The permanence resides between the glimpse and the impermanence, becoming a memory. Our exercise: to begin to see again, to become more fully aware of the present. How can we shift our perspectives and free our perception in a short period of time?
On View April 4 - May 25, 2025
Gallery hours: Thursday - Sunday, from 12–5PM
Anton Lvovich, Poem of Fire, 44x66, Protective Enamel, Auto Paint and High Gloss Polyurethane on weathered steel, 2023
SOMETHIN’ SOMETHIN’
+ if/then/yes/and
OPENING DAY (MAY 22)
Location: Greg Kucera Gallery, 212 3rd Avenue S
Greg Kucera Gallery is excited to announce our fourth exhibition by Seattle artist, Anthony White. In this exhibition, titled Somethin’ Somethin’, the artist explores media and its influence on our society. Influenced by the vanitas tradition of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch painting, White invites viewers to explore how images of people and objects come together and gather meaning through a contemporary lens.
Anthony White, BAD NEWS TRAVELS FAST, 2025, PLA on panel, 60 x 48 in.
Derek Bruno, PLANAR STUDY : 2, 2025 Latex print, PET film, acrylic, and acrylic-urethane on panel 72 x 44 x 4 inches.
Greg Kucera Gallery is [also] pleased to present its first exhibition of work by Oregon artist Christopher Derek Bruno. His work is an ongoing investigation into what happens between a source of visual stimuli and the mind. This inquiry is driven by the belief that understanding visual perception may offer insight into broader principles that shape the human experience. Bruno focuses on translucent media, incorporating CAD, model-making, printmaking, and CNC production to create work that uses color and light in intriguing abstract compositions.
May 22 - June 28, 2025
Opening Reception: First Thursday, June 5, 6-8pm.
Artist talk: Saturday After, June 7 at noon.
From Alissa Dymally Williams’s Instagram @saintellis
In icons, Alissa Dymally Williams and Noelle Whitaker decipher a palimpsest of subconscious generational knowledge through independent and collaborative practice. Employing internet fodder in the form of memes and composite images to scratch at the collective subconscious.
Cultural evolution theory defines memes as the basic unit of cultural evolution, representing information that spreads through imitation from mind to mind; essentially, the non-biological information passed from generation to generation. Interested in the impact this has on the subconscious, Williams and Whitaker turn to dreamscapes and digital landscapes to analyze shared psychological states. The artists search for common threads and turning points in shared psychology while maintaining a Jungian understanding of the personal unconscious, collective unconscious, and ego in relation to symbolism. Each category referring to both the “icons” produced in mass-represented media and one’s independent digital footprint.
To begin this work, one must understand memetics and memory as mutable lines ingested and processed through a Rolodex of understood emotional and visual landmarks. An unrelenting digging is required to process such symbolism at a collective scale. The works of Williams and Whitaker mirror this exploration in both the function of their works and through the exploration of image as material. Representation of image by way of both projected and transferred, Williams and Whitaker explore the bounds of our collective interpretation of artifact and artifice. Creating visual chaos through layers, movement, and application, the importance of texture resonates throughout. Themes of ego, vulnerability, and escape recur throughout the works, emerging and receding through humor and sentimentality, as they aim to represent the psychological state of a generation inundated with information, trying to make sense of it, and seeing themselves reflected in much of it.
Opening Reception: May 23rd, 2025, 5-8 pm
Closing Reception: July 25th, 2025, 5-8 pm
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