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<p>Sadie Barnette, <i>Room to Live</i>, 2019. Mixed media installation, holographic vinyl sofa, metal flake TV, archival inkjet prints, metal flake security cameras. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of <i>In Plain Sight</i>, 2019, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Mark Woods.</p>

In Plain Sight

November 23, 2019 – June 28, 2020

<p>Dola Mae Litzenburg. <em>Portrait of Mrs. Horace C. Henry</em>. 1900-1910. Oil on canvas. Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry Collection, 26.165.<br /></p>

<p><p>With the billowing red curtain and the throne-like chair, as well as her formal dress and stiff posture, this portrait of Mrs. Horace C. Henry (née Susan Elizabeth Johnson) references traditions of royal portraiture that were adopted by the wealthy, and checks most of Freeland’s boxes.</p></p>

Eyes on the Collection: What Makes a Portrait?

04/14/20 – 05/31/20

<p>Jean-François Millet was committed to the role of art in representing agricultural practice and peasant life in the nineteenth century. Two issues significant to nineteenth-century social history that intersect in his study of rural life include the status of the working classes and the position of women. In the prints pictured here, Millet depicts women outside in pastoral fields as well as within humble interiors, performing childcare and domestic crafts such as knitting. Millet portrays the female figure as nurturer and dutiful laborer, emphasizing ideological definitions of femininity and virtue. In nineteenth-century France amid the Industrial Revolution, the peasant woman embodied a positive image associated with a return to innocence. Identified with the uncorrupted realm of nature, the pastoral woman symbolizes the personification of sanctity in opposition to the perceived moral threat of the urban woman, as well as that of the urban environment to a woman’s innocence. The intimate prints emphasize the acts of spinning, sewing, or knitting, and caregiving as devotional, quasi-religious activities, connecting holiness to rural and domestic labor.</p>

<p><p>Image credit: Jean-François Millet, <em>La Cardeuse (The Woolcarder), </em>1855-1856. Etching on laid paper. Henry Art Gallery Stimson Collection, gift of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, 77.129.</p></p>

A Dialogue Between Jean-François Millet and Jeanne Dunning

05/09/20 – 06/28/20

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Discussion Seminar: Takahiro Yamamoto

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James Turrell. <em>Light Reign (Exterior detail)</em>. 2003. Permanent skyspace and exterior illumination work. Copyright: James Turrell. Photo credit: Lara Swimmer.</p>

Permanent Installations

Light Reign: James Turrell Skyspace

Upcoming

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Order & Chaos (noon session)

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Order & Chaos (evening session)

<p>Math Bass. <i>Newz!.</i> 2020. Gouache/canvas. Courtesy of the artist.<br /></p>

Math Bass

07/11/20 – 02/07/21

<p>Diana Al-Hadid. <em>Smoke Screen. </em>2015. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, plaster, pigment. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.</p>

Diana Al-Hadid

07/25/20 – 02/07/21

Hugo House Scribes Summer Writing Camp

<p>Bambitchell. Set Documentation of <em>Bugs & Beasts Before the Law. </em>2019. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Florian Clewe.<br /> </p>

Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law

08/08/20 – 01/10/21

Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

08/22/20 – 01/10/21

Past

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Art of the Triptych (Evening Session)

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Art of the Triptych

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: To the Stars

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: L'Appel à la Danse (The Call of Dance)

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Community Action Center

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Built Environment

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Built Environment

Re-visiting Awaiting Oblivion...

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Sight Lines - Video Poetry Showcase

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: The Tuba Thieves by Alison O'Daniel

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Re/frame: Selections from the Henry Teen Art Collective

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Re/frame: Selections from the Henry Teen Art Collective

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Hidden (Escondido) & Space Needle: A Hidden History

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Laboring in Plain Sight: From Cosmic Generator to the Pacific Northwest

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Lisa Robertson

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Lisa Robertson

CANCELLED - Mindfulness Meditation