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March 12 , 2009
Young collaborators cut through the fog with impressive works
by Adriana Grant
The Seattle P-I
"Sol Hashemi and Jason Hirata's two-man show, "Please Stand By; Stand By Me," at Punch Gallery is a quietly smart exhibit. The two-part title is apt. "Please stand by" is an old-fashioned phrase used to apologize for technical difficulties, while "Stand by Me" is a 1986 film about friendship among teen boys. "
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full story in The Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
February 19, 2009
Works at three galleries display the threads of an art movement
by Regina Hackett
The Seattle P-I
"A small coterie of Seattle artists is sewing its way into an art movement. Take Ries Niemi. He started out in the late 1970s as part of Larry Reid's Rosco Louie Gallery, moved to Los Angeles to make a mark in public art with his wife, Sheila Klein, and, when they moved back, went for the rural experience in Bow, near La Conner, to raise two kids whom Niemi feels obliged to embarrass."
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full story in The Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
November 18 , 2008
The Real America
by Jen Graves
The Stranger
"People tell Beckman, understandably, that his art reminds them of the 1960s trompe l'oeil sculptor Ed Kienholz. His acknowledged influences also include Wynne Greenwood's video "band" Tracy + the Plastics, Phil Collins's karaoke installation, and Pipilotti Rist's vampy 1990 music video You Called Me Jacky. The tone of Beckman's work is warm, open, and friendly, more Greenwood than Rist. It relaxes things, keeps them from getting too meta."
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full story in The Stranger :: Info
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September 12 , 2008
Rascally artist's "Weasels!" invade Punch Gallery
by Rachel Shimp
The Seattle Times
"The furry, wily creatures Ñ especially variants like the Ravanamangus, or "Flying Death Weasel" Ñ are probably not what you expect to see in your average Pioneer Square gallery. But some unusual representations of the mustelid family greet visitors this month in local artist Eugene Parnell's "Weasels! Cryptozoological Reconstructions," at Punch."
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full story in The Seattle Times :: Info
about the exhibition
March 9 , 2008
The Stranger Suggests: "Safe and Sound"
by Jen Graves
The Stranger
"Howard Barlow's last sculptures were made of bright orange earplugs and cubes of metal, painted in cheerful colors and riddled with bullet holes. For his new works (including Seven Pains Mended and Big Guns Make Good Neighbors) the Thorp-based artist uses institutional powder-coat colors, gun-barrel patina finishes, recycled bullet-lead solder, broken window panes, wool yarn, and abused steel—all of it knitted, hacked, shot, and shattered."
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full story in The Stranger :: Info
about the exhibition
January 11 , 2008
Listening to the voices in his head
by Sheila Farr
Seattle Times
"Got issues with cellphones? They probably pale in comparison to the self-diagnosed "paranoid rant" that opens Ries Niemi's show titled My Phone Tells Me to Do Bad Things."
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full story in the Seattle Times :: Info
about the exhibition
January, 2008
Ries Niemi: “My Phone Tells Me To Do Bad Things”
by Matthew Kangas
art ltd. magazine
"For an artist who has shown rarely since his 1979 solo debut and concentrated instead on public art and design projects around the nation, Ries Niemi has managed to make a considerable impact in each of his subsequent solo shows. This one, “My Phone Tells Me to Do Bad Things,” at Punch, is no exception. "
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about the exhibition
December 29 , 2007
“A bell is a cup until it is struck.”
Art that’s made it past a discriminating judge
by Rachel Shimp
Seattle Weekly
"In compiling my end-of-the-year Top 10 lists, one thing I realized is that in Seattle, contemporary art is seldom boring."
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full story in the Seattle Weekly :: Info
about the exhibition
November
15 , 2007
'Vertical Hold' is an engaging effort to expand video
boundaries
by Nate Lippens
Seattle P-I
"Vertical Hold, the magnetic collection of experimental
video and sound curated by Justin Colt Beckman and Andrew
Kaufman at Punch Gallery, features a handful of works that
push the boundaries of the medium in engaging ways."
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
October 3, 2007
Statement of Vindication
Rebellious collage at a rocking gallery
by Rachel Shimp
Seattle Weekly
"Joanna Thomas, who makes cheeky and thought-provoking
collage, opens A Hundred Horses in a Landscape & Other
Collages tonight. In a show last year, she pasted bright
red lips on Benjamin Franklin’s face; now, she’s
gone and inserted buttoned-up equestrians into Chinese literati
paintings, frolicking over the hills and through the calligraphy."
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full story in the Seattle Weekly :: Info
about the exhibition
September 20, 2007
'Homestead' is Justin Colt Beckman's rural shrine/sly
joke
by Nate Lippens
Seattle P-I
"It's rural minimalism but still closer to Ma and Pa
Kettle than the cabin of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Beckman's
shack is home. It's also a sly joke about the tedium of the
everyday that manages to captivate in the way our own home
lives usually don't."
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
August 15, 2007
Random acts of resistance overcome the big irony at
Punch
by Nate Lippens
Seattle P-I
"This two-person show works because it plays the domestic
and the political off of one another. Using video, performance,
works on paper and installation, the two artists put the concept
of resistance into play..."
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
April 11, 2007
Pick Up Stick – Video Tussle at Punch
by Jen Graves
The Stranger
"It is a rare and lovely thing when a work of art elicits
urgent laughter in unison with intense disturbance while touching
upon topics from sex to pedagogy to religion to puppetry to
engineering..."
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full story in The Stranger :: Info
about the exhibition
February 9 , 2007
Northwest creatures come to life in Gibbens' 'Birds
and Bees'
by Nate Lippens
Special to The Seattle P-I
"His solo show 'Birds and Bees' follows Howard Barlow's
excellent show 'Riddled' and demonstrates why Punch Gallery
is a force to be reckoned with on the alternative scene. Tapping
his background in scientific illustration, Gibbens renders
life-size portraits of insects and birds native to the Northwest
with detailed flair."
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
January 12, 2007
Cutting-edge showcases with media galore
by Gayle Clemans
Special to The Seattle Times
"Down in Pioneer Square, the aptly named PUNCH
Gallery is showing vigorous art by its three new members —
Nathan DiPietro, Patricia Hagen and Natalie Schmidt Dotzauer
— and although there isn't a deliberate curatorial theme
drawing their works together, the artists' divergent styles
and forms dance and spar with each other very nicely."
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full story in the Seattle Times :: Info
about the exhibition
December 29, 2006
Know What I Like?
by Jen Graves
The Stranger
"But what you still have a chance to see through Sunday
is Howard Barlow at PUNCH Gallery.
His safety-colored powder-coat-finish steel boxes are pocked
with bullet holes; some, like Opposing Views, deliriously
pull together the hot logic of a gun with the cold precision
of geometric abstraction."
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full story in The Stranger SLOG :: Info
about the exhibition
December 22, 2006
Barlow's 'Riddled' toys with small-town stereotypes
and American frontier myth
by Nate Lippens
Special to The Seattle P-I
"A victory lap of a different kind is happening quietly
at the hotter-by-the-minute PUNCH
Gallery. Howard Barlow's 'Riddled' is one of the most provocative
and fully realized shows of the year. It's also an indication
of how smart and rigorous this small, new gallery is."
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
November 21, 2006
Jen Graves talks to Mary Simpson and Fionn Meade
by Jen Graves
The Stranger's In/Visible: A Weekly Conversation with People
in Art
"'Billy in the Lowground' is the first live-action film
by artist Mary Simpson and writer-curator-musician Fionn Meade,
and it's built around the haunting, centuries-old murder ballad
'Pretty Polly,' performed in the film by the Foghorn String
Band. In a conversation that ranges from Alaska to Joan Didion
and the Greek word nostos, Meade, and Simpson circumnavigate
the dark heart of what they've made, which is on display at
PUNCH Gallery."
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November 17, 2006
If you need a reason to visit the galleries, here
are four compelling ones
by Regina Hackett
The Seattle P-I
"The precision of her dense marks and the authority of
her ominous, open space isn't all she has to offer. Her isolated
figures have a kind of shine. They gleam in their own trickster
light, as if waiting till the music starts to make their move."
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
September 15, 2006
Punch Gallery features the artwork of Michael Sherwin
by Regina Hackett
The Seattle P-I
"By starting strong and getting better, PUNCH
Gallery (devoted to Central and Eastern Washington artists)
has forced Seattle to revise its notion of who's out there
...
Currently featured is the casually meticulous Michael Sherwin.
"
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full story in the Seattle P-I :: Info
about the exhibition
August 9, 2007
Joanna Thomas
by Sue Peters
The Seattle Weekly
"In 'Lion Devouring Rabbit & Other Collages,' the
Ellensburg artist amusingly embellishes 19th-century French
engravings with contemporary, colorful images deftly cut from
modern magazines to create small but subversive montages.
What her efforts are doing to the value of these antique prints,
Thomas isn't sure. 'In effect, I'm destroying them,' she admits.
'But on the other hand, it's an unwitting collaboration.'"
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full story in the Seattle Weekly :: Info
about the exhibition
May 1, 2006
And the Galleries Marched in Two by Two
by Carrie E.A. Scott
Visual Codec
"...PUNCH, the newest
artist-run gallery to open on Prefontaine Place, debuting
with a show cleverly titled 'Round One'. Displaying work by
four of their eight members — yes the next show, 'Round
Two', will boast the art of the other four — PUNCH has
made a strong first appearance. Both the space and the art
are refined."
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full story in Visual Codec
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