Staff Picks<\/h2>\n
May is a month of marvels in the Seattle art scene: sticky notes filled with sweet artworks, incredible artists who are finally getting their due, secret galleries hiding away in garages.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here are six options that will inspire wonderment.<\/p>\n
\u2018Influences: Japanese Prints and Northwest Art\u2019<\/h2>\n
While it\u2019s not Mount Fuji but Baker\u2019s white peak glistening behind the tree-branched peekaboo view, Elizabeth Colborne\u2019s 1928 small print clearly bears some hallmarks of Japanese woodblock printing. Colborne (1885-1948) was a printmaker and illustrator who lived in Bellingham. This show traces the influence on her work and that of her Northwest peers of Japanese printing, featuring work by renowned Japanese artists including Hiroshige, Hokusai and K\u014dshir\u014d Onchi, father of the modernist creative woodblock movement of s\u014dsaku-hanga.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through June 7; Cascadia Art Museum, 190 Sunset Ave. S., Suite E, Edmonds; $0-$15, free on the third Thursday of every month; 425-336-4809, cascadiaartmuseum.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Call it a speakeasy gallery: Infused with a spirit of discretion, there\u2019s a bit of effort required to visit Double Garage. This carport-turned-gallery attached to a private residence on Beacon Hill is open by appointment only. The new show is a site-specific installation by Carly Sheehan, the current visiting artist and full-time lecturer in painting, drawing and printmaking at the University of Washington. Sheehan has made the garage, currently being used for storage following a house fire, part of the work: with moving blankets, Styrofoam, growing ivy and paintings drawing from damaged family photographs following a house fire in Sheehan\u2019s childhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n Through May 17; Double Garage Gallery, address on request via the website;<\/em> doublegaragegallery.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n While walking recently on Capitol Hill, my eye fell on a yellow sticky note attached to the push-to-walk button. \u201cA Life in Sticky Notes,\u201d it read, advertising a show with 6,000-plus art Post-its made by Clare Johnson. At the center stood a figure with glasses holding up little hearts. Johnson has kept up a nightly practice of Post-it drawing and writing for nearly two decades. Her vignettes show a craftsman on a nighttime stroll. A literary heroine imagined at sunset by the sea. A locker room having a funny conversation. \u201cI see Post-its as the epitome of an ordinary effort at remembering, designed to hold on to all the things slipping from your mind,\u201d Johnson once wrote.<\/a> \u201cInstead of using them to remember household lists or work deadlines, I make them a visual record of life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n May 7-June 18; Gallery 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S., Seattle; free; 206-296-7580, 4culture.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n In this installation, an office phone rings, a recruitment video plays and visitors can recline in an examination chair for a guided imagination session before filling out a survey to share their perspectives. With two new works, a video and a sound piece, artist Emma Bergman creates a surreal environment that expands on a version of the show previously exhibited in Chicago<\/a>. Walking the tightrope between tender humor and apocalyptic doom, Bergman asks: So what\u2019s next?\u00a0<\/p>\n May 7-June 13; Specialist Gallery, 300 S. Washington St., Seattle; free;<\/em> specialist.gallery<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Many exhibits purport to be \u201clandmark\u201d shows, but this one really is: When the Studio Museum in Harlem opened in 1968 in a rented loft, the first solo showing featured work by artist and community organizer Tom Lloyd (1929-96), colorful abstract sculptures of lights flashing in patterns programmed electronically. Lloyd \u2014 a vocal advocate for Black artists \u2014 was an early and still-undersung pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium, inspired by everyday city sights like traffic lights, auto signals and theater marquees. This exhibition at Frye Art Museum aims to \u201cilluminate Lloyd\u2019s lasting impact at the intersection of art, technology and Black cultural history.\u201d<\/p>\n May 16-Sep. 20; Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave., Seattle; free; 206-622-9250, fryemuseum.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n American flags, figures from famous paintings, war planes, invectives used to refer to women rendered like ransom notes \u2014 Deborah Faye Lawrence has been collaging dreamy, political collages for more than two decades, and yet these densely satirical and textual artworks feel as fresh as ever. The longtime local artist \u2014 who won the 2015 Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Achievement in Visual Art, an annual Washington state-based honor \u2014 is now downsizing her inventory with a priced-to-sell pop-up show of more than 125 collages.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1-7 p.m. May 16 (meet the artist: 3-4 p.m.); The Grocery Studios, 3001 21st Ave. S., Seattle; email nkieferart@mac.com<\/a> for more information; deedeeworks.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Staff Picks May is a month of marvels in the Seattle art scene: sticky notes filled with sweet artworks, incredible artists who are finally getting their due, secret galleries hiding away in garages.\u00a0 Here are six options that will inspire wonderment. \u2018Influences: Japanese Prints and Northwest Art\u2019 While it\u2019s not Mount Fuji but Baker\u2019s white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2384871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Top-Seattle-art-shows-to-see-in-May-2026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384876,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384871\/revisions\/2384876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2018We Left It Like This\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n
\u2018Clare Johnson: A Life in Sticky Notes\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n
\u2018The World to Come\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Tom Lloyd\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018Dee Dee Does Downsizing\u2019<\/h2>\n