Last Night: First Thursday at the Tashiro Kaplan Building

Image source: http://www.punchgallery.org/exhibitions/2008-12.html

A voyeuristic show, with video works by Ira Eduardovna, one of which features six simultaneously running screens, like an open box, showing the artist in a maid's outfit. The audience watches her clean from all angles.
See another two-channel video here.
Punch Gallery
Through December 27.


A cement sculpture by Noah Grussgott. This suitcase is emblazoned with his late grandfather's name, written in Hebrew, and sits upon a headscarf his grandmother wore.
Gallery4Culture
Through December 31.


Scott Fife, better known for his oversize cardboard heads, shows a series of carefully rendered prints. A dual image Jackson Pollock, above.
Platform Gallery
Through January 3.


SOIL was packed with people trying to get a look at colorful drawings by Kim Alexander, Darin Shuler, and Sean Alexander.


Image source: http://soilart.org/currentshow/dec08.htm
Kim Alexander, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Detail)
Graphite and colored pencil on drafting vellum, 37 X 46 in., 2008
SOIL
Through 28.


In SOIL's backspace, ceramic pillows by Kinu Watanabe.
Through 27.

Work by three artists at G. Gibson Gallery:


Black and white photographs by Michael Kenna, 8" X 8" landscape
Image via http://www.ggibsongallery.com/


Sculpture by Saya Moriyasu


And photo-embedded sculptures by Heidi Kirkpatrick. Photo by Peter Mumford.
All three artist's work on view through January 3.


A detail of a large-scale mixed-media work by Rangel de Maria.
Monarch Studio, 312 S. Washington St., Suite A, (206) 382-1710.
Open Thurs.-Sat. (no Website found.)
Through January 24.

Images by Adriana Grant, except where noted.