Gentle Snark
Roq la Rue will fete its tenth year much in the way you'd expect: with cupcakes, beer and a "greatest hits" show that'll warp your mind. On Friday, July 11, the gallery begins its second decade with a group show featuring Mia Araujo, Chris Crites, Brian Despain, Lori Earley, Femke Hiemstra, Travis Louie, Scott Musgrove, Lisa Petrucci, Mark Ryden, Shag and many more.
By Geoff Carter | July 10, 2008
Gentle Snark
Located in a handsome vintage bungalow at the corner of Summit and Mercer on Capitol Hill, Cairo is a gallery and boutique with a lifeforce worthy of the triumphant city it's named for. Its bright and breezy interior is wholly defined by the art that hangs upon its walls, the locally- and internationally-created art, jewelry and fashions that it sells, and the artists that call it a second home.
By Geoff Carter | June 23, 2008
Gentle Snark
I find myself promoting shows at Kirsten Anderson's Roq la Rue Gallery fairly often. The reason for this is a basic one: The gallery puts up exceptional shows month after month, almost without fail. Every new exhibition is a feast of images to delight and disturb. Roq la Rue is responsible for some of my most wonderful nightmares and some of my most terrifying dreams.
By Geoff Carter | February 6, 2008
Convergence Zone
There's a television writer's strike going on, you know. That means you're watching less television, and consequently your capacity for looking at other, non-television things has increased. I don't wanna tell you what to do with that increased capacity, but if I were me (and I am!), I'd check out the Scott Musgrove, Ryan Heshka and Brian Despain show that's now hanging at Roq la Rue. It's much more exciting than the current season of "Heroes," much more gory than the current season of "House" and much smarter than the supermodels and Ben Stein combined.
By Geoff Carter | November 16, 2007
Imagine a bucolic island, in a storybook setting with snow-capped mountains looming in the distance. Imagine that it's close to a leading West Coast city, but has a timeless aura. Imagine you can get to it quickly and cheaply, via a short, scenic ferry ride.
Is it Bainbridge Island? Whidbey Island?
Both apply, but guess again. This is also a description of British Columbia's Bowen Island, a sylvan spot in Howe Sound just north of Vancouver.
By Misha Berson | November 9, 2006
Five years ago, Renee Pound looked all over Seattle for a place to build her glass-art studio. She tried the usual haunts, including Belltown, then six months into the search came upon Ballard.
"I walked by this little garage with a handwritten for-lease note on the door, and I knew that was it," she recalls. "It was called Larry's Auto, and we still get their mail!"
On the corner of Northwest Market Street and Leary Avenue Northwest, the business is now Art by Fire, with a gallery in front and giant ovens in back for blowing glass.
By Connie McDougall | January 10, 2002
VANCOUVER, B.C. — Rain lashed the streets, and it was depressingly dark by midafternoon. I was tempted to scurry back to my hotel room and hide under the covers.
Instead, abandoning my Robson Street window-shopping, I scuttled, dripping wet, into the nearby Vancouver Art Gallery.
By Kristin Jackson | December 20, 2001
CANNON BEACH, Ore. - It's an Oregon travel poster.
It was here when William Clark (of the Lewis and Clark team) hiked over Tillamook Head in 1806 to strike a deal with local Indians.
Gazing down from a cliff in what now is Ecola State Park, on the edge of Cannon Beach, Clark saw a long, tawny strand of sand and a lofty, sea-sculpted rock.
The explorer made this entry in his journal: " . . . from this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing prospect which my eyes ever surveyed."
By Stanton H. Patty | March 20, 2001
