La Norda Specialo

La Norda Specialo is an independent art press in Seattle, Washington which focuses on writing by and about visual artists and their friends in the Pacific Northwest. LNS publishes an occasional ’zine available for free at art spaces around the PNW, by mail or pdf. It is a project by Matthew Offenbacher. Sign up for the email list here.

Hi, you might be interested in my new publication, New Archives, a collaboration with Satpreet Kahlon that we started in February 2020. Thanks for visiting! –Matt

Table of Contents

15 - Restorative and Healing Tactics. Sara Siestreem: “Continuum”, Dåkot-ta Alcantara-Camacho: “Offering on Masculinity”, mario lemafa: “Editor’s Note”, E.T. Russian: “Prescriptions”, Shaw Osha: “Dear Grandaddy” and Amanda Hashagen: “Art for All”. With pictures of sculptures by Esmeralda Hernandez, Rebecca Bell, Charlie White, Camille Jassny, Shalease Anderson and Terry Blankenship. Edited by mario lemafa and Matthew Offenbacher. August 10, 2018. Five double-sided legal-size pages, black ink on white paper, 600 copies. Free copies available by mail or pdf .

14 - Teenage experience. Cedar Sigo: “From Becoming Visible”, Akio Takamori: “We Burned a Painting”, Rumi Koshino: “Note from the Editor”, Gretchen Bennett: “You Fucking Chariot”, Colter Jacobsen: “I Don’t Remember” and an excerpt from Chris Buening’s teenage diary. With drawings by Octavio & Cosimo Crisostomo-Dunn + Daren Wilson, Hector Uqalde and Kelis Keil. Edited by Rumi Koshino. January 31, 2017. Four double-sided legal-size pages, purple ink on yellow paper, 500 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

13 - Ownership and property. Negarra A. Kudumu: “An Appropriation Assize”, Eleanor Ford on email privacy, Jason Hirata on passwords, Minh Nguyen: “Editor’s note” and Demian DinéYazhi': “Honoring Contemporary Indigenous Artists of Oregon”. With illustrations by Alex Boeschenstein. Edited by Minh Nguyen. October 29, 2016. Two double-sided legal-size pages, black ink on white paper, 475 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

12 - Lyric essays on local arts. Leena Joshi: “On Multiples of Self”, Natalie A. Martínez: “UNA LIRICA HEMISFÉRICA”, Kate Boyd: “Pink Legacies: Paul Rucker’s Birth of a Nation”, Michelle Peñaloza: “Eventually, We Will All Flee Towards the Coastline”, Jed Murr: “some notes on preterition (n., countable and uncountable)”, Storme Webber: “in honor of Malcolm’s Smile” and Steven M. Miller: “Note from the Editor”. With photo illustrations of artwork by Mario Lemafa, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Paul Rucker, DK Pan, Julia Freeman and Shabazz Palaces. Edited by Steven M. Miller. March 17, 2016. Four double-sided legal-size pages, black ink on white paper, 420 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

11 - Living outside the art world. C. Davida Ingram: “The Ataxic body: or how to write about ego death, when your social body does not exist”, Dan Webb: “Note from the editor”, Rob Rhee: “Xenia”, Barbara Earl Thomas: “Looking for George”, and conversations with Michael O’Malley and D.W. Burnam. With illustrations by Rob Rhee, John Radtke and Barbara Earl Thomas. Edited by Dan Webb. August 1, 2015. Five double-sided legal-size pages, black and orange ink on white paper, 400 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

10 - The critical organic catalyst Issue, or who’s that brooooown? Davida Ingram: “Lyric & Line, Song & Sign (Hearing is Seeing)”, Shaun Scott: “Golden Ghetto”, R.A.W. “On Adrian Piper’s Cornered”, and Hannah Hong Frelot: “How can we give voice to those whose voices have been silenced before we were born?”, a review of Black Constellation, and conversations with Robert Wade and Jonathan Cunningham. With illustrations by Kelly Björk, Katy Itter, Laura Kinney, Matthew Offenbacher, Andrew Tsai, and David Wall. Edited by Hannah Hong Frelot and designed by Ryan Diaz. March 4, 2013. Three double-sided legal-size pages, orange ink on grey paper, 450 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

9 - Dahlia Elsayed: “Studio Manual”, Gretchen Bennett: “The Cat Moving Ever Closer”, D.W. Burnam: “Distancing Presence”, Hanneline Røgeberg, Michel de Montaigne: “Why We Cry and Laugh for the Same Thing”, Melanie Noel: “Belong/Exuberance”, Laura Neuman: “Insect Photographs”, Shaw Osha: “This is a Proposition (to speculate without knowing)”, and Dawn Cerny: “Concordance”. With two photo-collages by Dani Leventhal. Edited by Laura Neuman, Shaw Osha, Dawn Cerny and D.W. Burnam. November 30, 2012. Five double-sided legal-size pages, green ink on yellow paper, 425 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

Closed Fist Open Hand - Thirty essays written by Seattle artists about work by Jeffry Mitchell. Edited by Dan Webb and Matthew Offenbacher, with an introduction by Whiting Tennis and design by Jayme Yen. Includes essays by Dawn Cerny, Claire Cowie, Anne Fenton, Claudia Fitch, Alfred Harris, Victoria Haven, Jenny Heishman, Jason Hirata, Harold Hollingsworth, Ken Kelly, Susie Lee, Amanda Manitach, Saya Moriyasu, Nicholas Nyland, Matthew Offenbacher, Shaw Osha, Joseph Park, Mary Ann Peters, Jessica Powers, Tivon Rice, George Rodriquez, Ginny Ruffner, Anthony Sonnenberg, Maki Tamura, Cappy Thomson, Joey Veltkamp, Patti Warishina, Dan Webb and Claude Zervas. November 2012, 144pp. black & white ill., two-color cover, 7 x 5", softbound. Out of print. Read more about the book.

8 - Art History Series 1 - Czech Cubism!  Naomi Hume: “Czech Cubism: Modernist Spirituality?”, Gretchen Bennett: “There is a crack in everything”, Pavel Janák: “The usefulness of artistic industry (1911-12)”, Klara Glosova: “Czech Cubism from a vantage point of a blind spot”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Why you should care about Czech Cubism”, and Prizmism by Zara, Nina and Joe Park. With 16 photo illustrations. March, 2012. La Norda Specialo 8. Four double-sided legal-size pages, purple ink on purple paper, 333 copies. Out of print, but you can still get the pdf .

7 - D.W. Burnam on ‘subjective detumescence,’ Jo Baer: “Radical attitudes to the gallery (1977-1996)”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Power in the Gift Shop”, Brian Murphy talks about masculinity with Leo Berk, Claudia Fitch, Jeffry Mitchell, and Joey Veltkamp, and five haiku by Ilvs Strauss. With drawings by Brian, D.W., Matt, and Kimberly Trowbridge. October 15, 2010. Four double-sided legal-size pages, purple and black ink on white paper, 450 copies. Out of print, but you can still get the pdf .

Special Issue - Margot Quan Knight: “If art falls in a field and no one hears it”, Davidson Burnam and Dawn Cerny: “More. Hall. Annex.”, Claude Zervas: “Noumenism”, Philip Miner: “Missed encounters”, plus an email from Vic Haven and a story by Jenny Zwick. With illustrations by Margot, Dawn, Philip, Vic and Jenny. April 1, 2010. Three double-sided legal-size pages, black ink on grey paper, 333 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

6 - Gretchen Bennett and Shaw Osha: “Conversations”, Hollis Frampton: “A Stipulation of Terms from Maternal Hopi”, Nicholas Nyland with Saya Moriyasu, Akio Takamori and Maki Tamura: “A Day in Cathay”, Rebar Niemi: “Heathen Screams into the Fire Punishes Self Moves On”, D.W. Burnam: “Unmediated Melancholy: Debra Baxter’s ‘point of zero preconception’.” With drawings by Nicholas, Rebar, Shaw, Gretchen, Dan Carrillo, and Matt Browning. February 26, 2010. Four double-sided legal-size pages, black ink on pink paper, 500 copies. Out of print, but you can still get the pdf .

5 - Erik Peterson: “In Defense of Painting”, León Ferrari: “Written Painting (1963)”, Leo Saul Berk and Claire Cowie take time to talk, Jenny Heishman: “Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?”, Mary Ann Peters: “The Split (notes on fear and subliminal forces run amuck or tamed)”. With illustrations by Erik, Jenny, León, and Maki Tamura. October 22, 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. Three double-sided legal-size pages, black toner on purple paper, 500 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

4 - Greg Lundgren: “The Waiting Room”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Green Gothic”, Elise Richman: “Nicholas Nyland’s Fall into Color”, Martha Rosler: “Untitled Statement 1971”, Whiting Tennis: “This Head Mechanism”. With illustrations by Matt, Elise, and Dawn Cerny. June 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. Three double-sided legal-size pages, black toner on blue paper, 500 copies. Out of print, but you can still get the pdf .

3 - Debra Baxter: “Neutral Nude Part Two”, Jeffry Mitchell: “Thoughts on Roy McMakin’s Purplish”, Joey Veltkamp: “It Began with a Chair ...”, Susan Robb: “Socialites, Scientists, and Big Leather Handbags”, Emily Pothast: “Fleeting Moments in an Infinite Flux”, Jean Tinguely: “Untitled Statement 1961”. With illustrations by Jeffry, Joey, Emily, and Nicholas Nyland. February 2009. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. Three double-sided legal-size pages, black toner on green paper, 500 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

2 - Dan Webb: “I ♥ Public Art”, Heide Hinrichs: “Only There”, Debra Baxter: “Neutral Nude Part One”, Adrian Piper: “Cheap Art Utopia”, Matthew Offenbacher: “Black Fu Dogs”. With illustrations by Dan, Matt, and Heide. September 2008. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. Three double-sided legal-size pages, black toner on yellow paper, 333 copies. Free copies by mail or pdf .

1 - Gretchen Bennett: “You and I Have Memories ... / A Philosophy of Street Art”, Robert Smithson: “Cultural Confinement”, Joseph Park: “Spokane Interview”, Matthew Offenbacher: “The Underground Tour”, and Eli Hansen on architecture and pornography. With illustrations by Gretchen, Robert, and Matt. April 2008. Printed in Seattle, Washington, USA. Two double-sided legal-size pages, black toner on brown paper, 333 copies. Out of print, but you can still get the pdf .

Where to find

The current issue of La Norda Specialo can be picked-up free in Seattle, while supplies last, at:  4Culture,  in the lobby of The Alice and Bridge Productions,  the Frye Museum Store,  Glass Box Gallery,  the Hedreen Gallery,  near the lockers at the Henry Art Gallery,  the Northwest African American Museum,  On the Boards,  SEASON,  SOIL Gallery,  near the front door of X Y Z,  and in Portland, Oregon: at the Cooley Gallery at Reed College and PICA.

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Contributors

Thank-you

In 2012, the publication of Closed Fist Open Hand was generously underwritten by Carol Bennett, Mike and Cathy Casteel, Charlie Kitchings, Bill and Ruth True, and Merrill Wright. In 2010 Artist Trust contributed funds for equipment and supplies through a GAP grant. Issues 4 - 7 were supported by a generous grant from 4Culture. This website is made possible by the sponsorship of Jon Kvistad. Beginning with issue 6, La Norda has been printed on a RISO High Speed Digital Duplicator donated by Sean O’Connell of the Witt Company. The contributing artists have donated substantial amounts of their time, effort and expertise.

Index #1-11

• Ader, Bas Jan, #9 p.10
• Airbnb, #11 pp.6-8
• Alaskan Way viaduct, #1 p.2
• alchemy, #8 p.7
• and/or (Seattle), #4 p.2, #7 p.6
• Anderson, Guy, #4 p.3
• Andrews, Richard, #1 pp.1,4
• Angelico, il Beato, #3 p.3
• Antonioni, Michelangelo, #6 p.1
• Apple Computer Inc., #6 p.5
• archeology, fictional, #6 pp.1,6-7
• architecture
• authority, #1 p.3, #7 pp.4
• shelter, #1 pp.1
• desire, #1 pp.1,4
• proto-American, #6 p.6
• art collectors, in Seattle, #2 p.4
• art critics, #2 p.2
• art dealers, #2 p.2
• art galleries
• alternatives, #7 p.3
• audience, #2 p.4, #7 pp.2-3
• constraints, #5 p.4, #7 p.3, #9 p.3
• free agency, #7 p.3, #9 p.3
• neutrality, #2 p.2, #7 p.3
• as prisons, #1 p.1
• as studio, #5 p.5
• art museums
• authority, #7 pp.4-6
• as graveyards, #1 p.2
• as hosts, #7 p.6
• history, #2 p.3
• art
• accessibility, #2 pp.1-2, #5 p.2, #8 p.5, #11 pp.1-2, 6-10
• ambivalence, #7 p.3
• audience, #2 pp.2,3, #5 pp.2,4, #7 pp.2,4-6, #8 pp.5,7-8, #10 p.4, #11 pp.1-10
• avant-garde, #8 pp.7-8
• commodity, #2 p.2,5, #4 p.2, #6 p.1, #7 p.3, #8 p.5
• biology, #4 p.6, #5 p.5, #7 p.3
• elitism, #2 pp.3-4, #7 p.3
• emotion, #5 pp.1-2, #6 p.3
• everyday life, #4, pp.1-2, #5 p.6, #6 pp.1-2, #7 pp.2-3, #9 p.1, #11 pp.1-10
• excrement, #1 pp.1,3
• intuition, #4 p.5, #5 p.2
• irony, #5 p.2
• minor arts, #8 p.5
• narcissism, #7 pp.3,7, #9 p.1
• narrative, #4 p.2
• ornament, #6 pp.1,7, #8 p.4
• process, #3 pp.1,4-5, #5 pp.5-6, #7 pp.2-3, #9 pp.4-5, #11 pp.2-4,9-10
• quality, #2 p.2, #5 p.6, #6 p.1, #9 p.10
• religion, #5 pp.1,2,5, #8 pp.1-2, 6-7
• remediation, #4 pp.1-4
• risk, #9 p.10
• teaching, #11 p.4
• value, #11 p.8
• Arthur, Bea, #6 p.1
• artists
• community, #5 p.1,4-5, #7 pp.4-6, #8 pp.1-3, #10 p.2, #11 p.5
• economic status, #2 p.2, #7 p.5
• education, #5 pp.1,2,5, #9 p.1
• fear, #5 pp.1,4, #6 p.2, #9 p.1
• freedom, #5 p.6
• influence, #6, p.7
• as intellectuals, #4.p1,6
• masculinity, #7 pp.1-7,8
• performance, #7 p.4, #9 p.1
• power, #5 p.5, #7 pp.1,4-6, #10 p.5
• process, #3 p.3, #4 p.5, #5 pp.3-4,6, #6 pp.1, 4-5, #7 pp.4-6, #9 p.1, #11 pp.3-4
• regional stereotypes, #8 p.7
• romance between, #5 pp.1,5-6
• shame, #3 p.4, #5 p.3,6, #9 p.1
• social responsibility, #2 p.2, #5 p.4, #11 pp.1-10
• vulnerability, #4 p.4, #5 pp.1,3,5-6, #7 p.4-6, #9 p.1, #11 p.6
• working class, #3 p.1, #4 p.2
• Asse, Genevieve, #9 p.3
• Attia, Kader, #2 p.1
• Atwood, Margaret, #11 p.3
• Augaitis, Daina, #9 p.2
• Baer, Jo, “Radical Attitudes to the Gallery”, #7 pp.1,3
• Bainbridge Island, #5 p.1
• baldness, #7 p.8
• Baldwin, James, #11 p.2
• Blazac, Honoré, #9 p.4
• Barthes, Roland, #9 pp.2, 5, 10
• Bataille, Georges, informe, #1 p.3
• Batchelor, David, Chromophobia, #4 p.1
• Baxter, Deb, #6 pp.1,3-4
  “Neutral Nude Part One”, #2 pp.1-2  “Neutral Nude Part Two”, #3 pp.1,4
• False Hope, #6 p.1 (ill.)
• Launching Pad, #6 p.4
• Sweetness, video, #3 p.4
• Howard House exhibition, #6 pp.1,3-4
• Or Gallery exhibition, #6 p.3
• Bearden, Romare, #10 p.2
• Beaumont, Linda, #7 p.7
• beauty, #5 p.2, #7 p.7
• process, #3 p.3
• Beauty and the Beast (fairytale), #4 p.2
• Beneš, Vincenc, #8 p.2
• Benesh, Rudolf and Joan, #9 p.8
• Bennett, Gretchen
  “Conversations...”, #6 pp.1,4-5  “You and I Have Memories Longer Than the Road: a philosophy of street art”, #1 pp.1-2  “There is a crack in everything”,#8 p.3  “The Cat Moving Ever Closer”, #9 pp.2-3
• Dead Christmas Tree, #1 p.1 (ill.)
• End This Night If It Be Your Will, #5 p.6 (ill.)
• Have a Hangover, #4 p.4 (ill.)
• Hello, exhibition at Howard House, #4 p.4
• Lamp Ball, #5 p.6 (ill.)
• Nirvana (Skid Row, Ted Ed Fred, Pen Cap Chew, Bliss), #5 p.6 (ill.)
• Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
• Nirvana, #4 p.4, #5 p.6
• remediation, #4 p.4
• Berger, John, #2 pp.1-2, #3 pp.1,4
• Berk, Leo Saul, #5 p.4
  “One couple makes time to talk”, #5 pp.1,5-6  “Masculinity Conversation”, #7 pp.1,7
• Spider Hole (sculpture), #7 p.8
• Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
• bioremediation, #3 p.3
• Björk, Kelly, #10 p.1 (ill.)
• Black Constellation, An Ode to Octavia (video), #10 pp.1-2
• Black Lives Matter (political movement), #11 pp.3-4
• Black Panther Party, #3 p.1
• Bland, Sandra, #11 pp.1,4
• Blouin, Louise #3 pp.1,6
• book arts, #10 p.5
• Bourgeois, Louise, #1 p.4, #7 p.7
• Bowman, Midge, #1 p.4
• Brâncusi, Constantin, Endless Column (sculpture), #6 p.5
• Braque, Georges, Czech cubism, #8 pp.1,8
• Brakhage, Jane, #6 p.7
• Brakhage, Stan, #6 p.7
• bread, #11 pp.2-3
• Brendon, Nicholas, #6 p.5
• Brooklyn (New York), #1 p.1, #6 p.1
• Browning, Matt
• masthead (ill.), #6 p.1,
• Tradition as Adaptive Strategy (exhibition), #7 pp.1-3 (ill.)
• Bruce, Chris, #1 pp.1,4
• Bryson, Norman, #11 p.6
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, (television show), #4 p.4, #6 p.5
• Burden, Chris, #1 p.4
• Burger, John
• Ways of Seeing, #2 p.1
• and women, #2 p.2
• Burnam, D.W.
  “Unmediated Melancholy: Debra Baxter’s ’point of zero preconception’”, #6 pp.1,3-4  “Distancing Presence”, #9 p.3
• untitled essay, #7 pp.1-3
• untitled interview, #11 pp.6-9
• Burroughs, William, #6 p.3
• Butler, Ishmael, #10 p.5
• Caillois, Roger, #7 p.3
• Cabral, Amilcar, #11 p.1
• camouflage, #7 p.3
• camp, #6 p.7
• cancer, #9 pp.2-3
• capitalism, #4 p.2
• caricature, #8 pp.2-3 (ill.)
• Carr, Emily
• Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky, #4 p.3 (ill.)
• logging, #4 p.3
• Cathay, #6 pp.1,7-8
• cats, #5 p.4, #9 pp.2-3
• Celmins, Vija, #1 p.2
• Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle (CoCA), #10 p.2
• Central District, Seattle, #10 pp.1,4
• Cerny, Dawn, “Concordance”, #9 p.10
• chamomile flowers, #5 p.3
• Chase, William Merritt, #1 p.4
• Chatterjee, Raj, #6 p.6
• Chickadel, Ben,Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
• chinoiserie, #6 pp.1,7-8
• cinematic technology, fictional, #6 p.6
• civics, #6 p.4
• Cobain, Kurt, #1 p.2,#4 p.4 (ill.),#5 p.5, #6 p.5, #8 p.5
• Codrington, Andrea, #6 p.3
• Cohen, Leonard, #8 p.5
• color
• contingency, #4 p.5
• painting, #5 p.1, 3
• politics, #10 pp.1-5
• comedy, #9 p.10, #10 p.5, #11 p.3
• Cornish College of the Arts, #5 p.4
• Costco, #9 p.10
• Cowie, Claire, #5 p.4
• The Gift Shop Presents Presents (exhibition), #7 pp.5-6
  “One couple makes time to talk”, 5# pp.1,5-6
• craft, eradication by capitalism, #4 p.2
• Craigslist, #3 p.6
• creativity
• censorship, #3 p.5
• control, #5 p.6, #6 pp.1-2
• faith, #5 pp.1-3,5, #8 p.7
• mysticism, #3 p.5
• neurology, #3 p.5
• process, #6 p.4
• the repressed, #5 p.4,6, #6 pp.1-2
• Cubism
• architecture, #8 pp.3-4
• Parisian vs Czech, #8 pp.1-3,7-8
• Cufley, Tyler, Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
• Cunningham, Jonathan, #10 pp.3-4
• curators
• audience, #1 p.4
• limitations, #1 p.2
• trust, #1 p.4
• Cure, The (musical group), #7 p.8
• Daly, Drew, #3 pp.1,3
• Division: Adirondack Chair, #3 p.1 (ill.)
• Mirror Merge, #3 p.3
• Subject: Remnant, #3 p.3 (ill.)
• dancing, #9 pp.7-8
• vulnerabiliy, #5 p.5
• Darling, Michael, #5 p.2
• Darth Vader, #2 p.1
• David, Larry, #5 p.1
• de Beer, Sue
• Hans und Gretel Filmstill (pipebomb), #5 p.5
• death, #6 pp.5, 8, #9 pp.2-3
• meditation, #3 p.2
• movement, #3 p.2
• the undead, #4 pp.1-4
• decay
• symbolism, #3 p.3, #4 p.3
• vegetables, #4 p.3
• deconstruction, #5 p.2
• Denby, Edwin, #9 p.7
• desire
• color, #4 pp.1,5
• poetry, #4 p.5
• Did-Huberman, Georges, #9 p.4
• Dion, Mark, Neukom Vivarium, #4 p.2
• Donovan, Tara, #3 p.3
• Dolezal, Rachel, #11 pp.1-2
• Duchamp, Marcel, #1 p.3, #2 p.4, #11 p.9
• Duncan, Robert, #9 p.7
• Elliot, Eric, #1 p.3
• Elliot, T.S., #3 p.4
• Elsayed, Dahlia, “Studio Manual”, #9 p.1
• Elsen, Albert, #6 p.3
• Eno, Brian, #2 p.5
• erosion, #3 p.3
• excrement, #1 pp.1,3
• exoticism, #6 pp.1,7-8
• Experience Music Project, The, #10 pp.3-4
• Facebook, #11 pp.4,7,9
• fact vs fiction, #5 pp.4-6, #6 pp.1,6-7
• femininity, #7 p.7
• feminism, #3 p.4, #4 p.6, #7 p.7, #9 pp.4-5, 10, #10 p.5, #11 pp.1-3
• fermentation, #4 p.3
• Ferrari, León
  “Written painting (1963)”, #5 pp.1,3
• Cuadro Escrito, #5 p.3 (ill.)
• Filla, Emil, #8 p.1
• Fischer, Otokar, #8 p.3
• Fitch, Claudia, #6 p.7
  “Masculinity Conversation”, #7 pp.1,7
• Flack, Roberta, #10 p.5
• Flickr, #3 p.6
• Fluxus, #6 p.5
• Focke, Anne, “A Pragmatic Response to Real Circumstances”, #7 p.6
• Fontana, Lucio, #5 pp.3
• Fotuhi, Majid, #3 p.6
• Francis, Eric, #8 p.6
• Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, #6 p.8
• Fraser, Andrea, #9 p.10
• Fredericksen, Eric, Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
• Freize Fair, the, #3 p.6
• Frelot, Hannah Hong, “Introduction”, #10 p.1
  “Black Constellation”, #10 p.2  “On the Seattle Scene”, #10 pp.2-3  “Jonathan Cunningham”, #10 pp.3-4, “How Can We Give Voice to Those Whose Voices Have Been Silenced Before We Were Born?”, #10 p.5
• French Revolution, the, #2 p.3
• Freud, Sigmund, #1 p.1
• Friends, (television show), #6 p.5
• Frye Art Museum, #10 pp.1-2, history of, #1 p.4
• Moment Magnitude, #10 p.5
• Fu Dogs, #2 p.1, #2 p.6 (ill.), #6 p.7 (ill.)
• furniture, and class, #3 p.2, #6 p.3
• Futurist Manifesto, #8 p.2
• Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Anatomy of Power, #7, pp.1, 4-6
• Gas Works Park, #1 p.3, #4 pp.2-3
• genocide, #1 p.3
• geodesic map, #6 p.5
• Gerima, Halie, #10 p.2
• gift exchange, #7 pp.5-6, #11 pp.6-8
• Gillian, Sam, #10 p.2
• Global Creative Leadership Conference, the
• anecdotes, #3 pp.1,6
• Gočár, Jóža, #8 p.2
• Sofa, #8 p.6 (ill.)
• Goldberg, Rube, #6 p.1
• Godard, Jean-Luc, Contempt (movie), #9 p.4
• Glosova, Klara, “Czech cubism from a vantage point of a blind spot”, #8 pp.6-7
• Gonzalez-Torres, Felix
• Untitled (Perfect Lovers), #2 pp.5-6 (ill.)
• Grade, John, #4 p.3
• graduate school, #7 p.7
• Graves, Jen, #11 p.7
• Graves, Morris #4 p.3
• Bird Sensing the Essential Insanities, (1944), #4 p.4
• Bird Experiencing Light, (1969), #4 p.4
• Wounded Gull, (1945), #4 p.4
• Group of Fine Artists (Czech), #8 p.1
• Greenwood, Wynne, New Report, #3 p.4
• Greer, Mandy, Phoenix, #2 p.4 (ill.)
• Grosz, Elisabeth, #9 p.10
• grunge, #8 p.4
• Guangyi, Wang, Cold War Aesthetics, #3 p.6
• Guinness Book of World Records, #7 p.2
• Guston, Philip, #5 p.1
• Gutfreund, Otto, #8 p.3
• Seated women, #8 p.6 (ill.)
• Viki’s head, #8 p.8 (ill.)
• Haacke, Hans, #1 p.4
• Haag, Richard
• Blodel Reserve, #4 p.3
• Gas Works Park, #1 p.3, #4 pp.2-3
• and ruins, #4 pp.2-3
• Hamilton, Ann, #1 p.4
• Hamilton, Charles, #6 p.2
• Hammonds, David, #10 p.5
• Hansen, Eli
• on architecture and pornography, #1 pp.1,4
• exhibition at the Helm gallery, #4 p.3
• Harbison, Robert, #6 p.3
• Hardy, K8
• Burning Mud Women Mud Wrestling, #3 p.4
• Fashionfashion, #3 p.4
• queer politics, #3 p.4
• Harries, Karsten, #2 p.5
• Harris, James, see James Harris Gallery
• Hashemi, Jason, The Gift Shop Presents Presents (exhibition), #7 pp.5-6
• Hasting, Lord Michael, #3 p.6
• Heishman, Jenny
  “Do you believe in heaven above, do you believe in love?”, #5 pp.1,5
• Mud Thing, #1 p.3 (ill.)
• skepticism of romanticism, #1 p.3
• Held, Robin, #1 p.4
• Hello Kitty, #6 p.8
• Helm Gallery, #4 p.3
• Henry Art Gallery, #7, pp.4-6
• history of, #1 p.4
• Herzog, Werner
• Encounters at the End of the World, #6 p.5
• Hewitt, Corin
• exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum, #4 p.3
• Heyl, Charlene von, #9 p.4
• Hickey, David, #9 p.2
• Hill, Gary, #1 p.4
• Hinrichs, Heide
  “Only There”, #2 pp.1,5
• masthead, #2 p.1 (ill.)
• Hirata, Jason #7 p.6 (ill.)
• The Gift Shop Presents Presents (exhibition), #7 pp.5-6
• history
• erasure and modification, #8 p.4
• HIV, #11 pp.4-5
• homosexuality, #6 p.7
• and the Northwest school, #4 p.3-4
• honesty, #4 p.6, #5 pp.1,2
• hooks, bell, #8 p.8
• Horejc, Jaroslav, Coffee set, #8 p.8 (ill.)
• horses
• symbolism, #5 pp.1,3,5
• physiology and psychology, #5 p.5
• hospitality, #7 p.6, #11 pp.6-10
• Howard House, #1 p.3, #4 p.4, #5 pp.4-6, #6 p.3
• Hume, Naomi, “Czech cubism: modernist spirituality?”, #8 pp.1-3
• hunting, #7 p.7
• Hyde, Lewis, #11 pp.6,9
• Ingram, C. Davida
  “Lyric and Line, Song and Sign (hearing is seeing)”, #10 p.6  “The Ataxic body: or how to write about ego death, when your social body does not exist”, #11 pp.1-6
• Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, #3 p.4
• institutional critique, #6 p.4, #7 p.6
• International District, Seattle, #10 p.1
• Itter, Katy, #10 p.5 (ill.)
• intution, #4 p.5
• Ishigami, Junya, #6 p.5
• Jackson, Michael, #6 p.1
• James Harris Gallery, #3 p.1, #6 p.8
• Janák, Pavel
  “The usefulness of artistic industry”, #8 pp.1,5-6
• Armchair, #8 p.6 (ill.)
• Design for a memorial urn, #8 p.6 (ill.)
• Jenner, Caitlin, #11 p.2
• John the Baptist, #8 p.1
• Johnson, James Weldon, #11 p.4
• Judd, Donald, #3 p.1
• kabbala, #3 p.5
• Kafka, Franz, #8 p.5
• Kangas, Matthew, #4 p.4
• Kapoor, Anish, Cloud Gate, #2 p.4 (ill.)
• KAWS, #1 p.1
• Keinholtz, Ed and Nancy, #1 p.4
• Kelley, Mike, #6 p.3
• Kelly, Ellsworth, #9 p.2
• KEXP, #9 p.2
• Khartoum, #6 p.5
• Kinney, Laura, #10 pp.1-3 (ill.)
• kitsch, #7 p.3
• Klein, Yves, #5 pp.3
• Klima, Ivan, #8 p.4
• Kubišta, Bohumil, #8 pp.7-8
• Study for painting of Saint Sebastian, #8 p.8 (ill.)
• Kundera, Milan, #8 p.4
• Laban, Rudolf, #9 p.8
• Lawrence, Jacob, #10 p.2
• Lawrimore Projects, #1 p.3, #5 p.4
• Lee, Harper, Go Set a Watchman, #11 p.4
• Lee, Spike, Summer of Sam (movie), #6 p.5
• Levanthal, Dani, #9 p.9 (ill.)
• Lewis, Norman, #10 p.2
• linguistics, fictional, #6 pp.6-7
• logging, aesthetics, #4 p.3
• Lopez, Jennifer, #8 p.4
• Louise Blouin Foundation, #3 pp.1,6
• Love, Courtney, #8 p.5
• Lundgren, Greg
  “The Waiting Room”, #4 pp.1,6
• Mabuse, Jan, #3 p.4
• Manet, Édouard, #10 p.2
• Manzoni, Piero, Merda d’artista, #1 p.3
• Mao, Jen, #7 p.6
• Maritain, Jacques, #9 p.3
• Martin, Agnes, #9 p.10
• Marxism, #3 p.1
• masculinity, #7 pp.1-7,8
• hair, #7 p.8
• mass culture, #4 p.2
• Massumi, Brian, #9 p.10
• Mattise, Henri, #4 p.5, #11 p.10
• MacGyver (television show), #3 p.6
• MacArthur Award, #9 p.1, #10 p.6
• McMakin, Roy
• Purplish, #3 pp.1-2
• gay pride, #3 p.2
• religious themes, #3 p.2
• Magnum PI (television show), #7 p.8
• melodrama, #6 p.3
• menstruation, #7 p.7
• metaphysics
• neurological basis, #3 p.5
• versus dialetics, #1 p.2
• Metropolitan Club, The (New York), #3 p.6
• Meyer, Elizabeth, #4 p.4
• middle class, and myth, #4 p.2
• Miller, Steven
• Wedding between Steven Miller and a pile of dirt, #1 pp.1 (ill.),3
• misogyny, #4 p.6
• mistakes, #5 p.6, #6 p.4, #9 p.1
• Mitchell, Jeffry, #6 p.7
• Black Fu Dogs, #2 pp.1,5-6 (ill.)
• nude drawing, #3 p.4 (ill.)
  “Roy McMakin’s Purplish as I remember it”, #3 pp.1-2  “Masculinity Conversation”, #7 pp.1,7
• sexual themes, #2 p.5
• Mlodinow, Lenoard, #3 p.6
• modernism
• in public art, #2 p.3
• religion, #2 p.5
• Modest Mouse (musical group), #7 p.4
• Molesworth, Helen, #9 p.5
• Montaigne, Michel de, #6 p.3, “How we cry and laugh for the same thing”, #9 pp.5-6
• Mooney, Paul, #10 p.5
• Moriyasu, Saya, #6 pp.1,7-8
• Floating Worlds, #6 p.8
• Lamplight Lavish Gathering, #6 p.8
• Six generations of slip-cast Fu Dogs, #6 p.7 (ill.)
• Moule, Sara, #3 p.6
• Murphy, Brian, “Masculinity Discussion”, #7 pp.1,7 (ill.)
• Murphy, Robert, #6 p.3
• Museum of Modern Art (New York), #6 p.5, #9 p.4
• Mutharika, Bingu wa, #3 p.6
• Myles, Eileen, #9 p.10
• naturalism, #4 p.2
• nature deficit disorder, #3 p.6
• Nauman, Bruce, #6 p.3
• Neckface, #1 p.2
• Netherlands, tulip mania, #2 p.3
• neuroaesthetics, #3 p.5
• neurology, increasing cognitive function, #3 p.6
• New York City, #6 p.2, #6 p.4
• Newman, Laura, “Insect Photographs”, #9 pp.7-8
• Niemi, Rebar, #6 pp.1-2
• Nirvana, (musical group), #6 p.5
• Nochlin, Linda, #9 pp.4, 10
• Noel, Melaine, “Belonging
• Exuberance”, #9 pp.6-7, “Belonging”, #9 p.9
• Northwest African American Museum, #10 pp.1
• Book of the Bound, #10 p.5
• Novoselic, Krist, #6 p.5
• nude verses naked, #2 p.2, #3 p.4
• Nyland, Nicholas
  “A Day in Cathay”, #6 pp.1,7-8
• masthead, #3 p.1 (ill.)
• Nowhere, Anywhere, Everywhere, (exhibition), #4 pp.1,5
• Reticulum 6, #4 p.1 (ill.)
• color, #4 pp.1,5
• chinoiserie, #6 pp.1,7-8
• Oaxaca, #6 p.1
• Obama, Barack, #11 p.2
• Offenbacher, Matthew, #5 p.4, #10 p.5 (ill.)
• masthead, #1 p.1 (ill.)
  “Black Fu Dogs”, #2 pp.1,5  “Green Gothic”, #4 pp.1-3  “Power in the Gift Shop, Part 1”, #7 pp.1,4-6  “The Underground Tour”, #2 pp.1,3  “Why you should care about Czech cubism”, #8 pp.7-8
• Office of Arts and Culture, City of Seattle, #10 p.2
• Ohge Ltd. gallery, #4 p.1
• Oldenberg, Claes, #6 p.3
• Olson Kundig Architects, #10 p.2
• O’Malley, Michael, #11 pp.3-5
• One Percent For Art, #2 pp.3-4
• original sin, #6 p.2
• Osha, Shaw
  “Conversations...”, #6 pp.1,4-5, “This is a proposition (to speculate without knowing)”, #9 p.10
• Clear to a Blur, #6 p.4 (ill.)
• After the Fact, #6 p.4 (ill.)
• painting
• cinema, #6 p.4
• emotion, #5 pp.1-3
• limitations, #9 pp.4-5
• perception of, #5 p.2, #6 p.4, #9 p.3
• reverence, #5 p.2
• writing, #5 pp.3
• Park, Joseph
• I know I know Jenny and Joe (exhibition), #7 p.4
  “Spokane Interview”, #1 pp.1,4  “Prizmism”, #6 p.6 (ill.)
• parks, #1 p.2, #2 pp.1-2, #4 pp.1-3
• Peaches (performer), “Fuck the Pain Away”, #7 p.8
• Penn Station, #1 p.2
• Peters, Mary Ann
  “The Split: notes on fear and subliminal forces run amuck or tamed”, #5 pp.1,4
• Peterson, Erik
  “In defense of painting”, #5 pp.1-2
• photography, #10 pp.1-2
• cameraless, #3 p.1,5 (ill.)
• fictional, #3 p.3
• Picasso, Pablo, #9 p.4, #11 p.10
• Czech cubism, #8 pp.1,8
• masculinity, #7 p.1
• verses Duchamp, #2 p.4
• Piecuch, Joey
• exhibition at the Helm gallery, #4 p.3
• Pike Place Market, #1 p.2
• Pioneer Square, #1 p.1, #3 p.1
• Piper, Adrian, #10 p.1
  “Cheap Art Utopia”, #2 pp.1-2
• Pisano, Ron #1 p.4
• plastic water bottles, wastefulness of, #3 p.6
• Plato, Symposium, #7 p.4
• Plečnik, Jože, #8 pp.3-4
• Church of the Holy Spirit, #8 p.3 (ill.)
• Plummer, Joe, #7 p.5 (ill.)
• Work Song (exhibition), #7 pp.4-5
• poetry, #4 p.5, #9 pp.6-7,9
• pointillism, #1 p.3
• political art, doubt, #2 p.5
• morality, #8p[.1-3
• pornography, #1 pp.1,4
• portraiture, #5 p. 5
• post-modernism, #6 p.7
• Pothast, Emily Ann
  “Fleeting Moments in an Infinite Flux: artists and other windows on eternity”,#3 pp.1,5
• power
• center vs margin, #8 pp.7-8
• conditioned, #7 p.4
• personality, #7,p.4-5
• property, #7, pp.5-6
• Prague, #8 pp.1-8
• prisons, #5 p.4
• privilege, #11 pp.7-8
• Prizmism, #8 p.6
• Pryor, Richard, #10 p.5
• public art
• artists’ income from, #2 p.4
• compared to gallery art, #2 pp.1,4
• modernism, #2 p.3
• vs private expression, #5 p.5
• by women, #7 p.7
• queer politics, #3 p.4, #4 pp.1-4
• R.A.W., “Adrian Piper’s Cornered”, #10 p.1
• Radtke, John, #11 p.8 (ill.)
• Rainier Beach, Seattle, #10 p.1
• Rainier Beer, #1 p.2, #3 p.1
• Real Life (musical group), Send me an angel (1983), #5 p.1,5 (ill.)
• Red Eagle Soaring, #10 p.4
• red-lining (real estate), #10 pp.1-3
• Rhee, Rob, “Xenia”, #11 pp.6-8 (ill.)
• relational aesthetics, #7 p.6
• religion, #11 p.6 artistic expressions of, #4 pp.3-4, #5 p.5, #8 pp.1-2, 6-7
• remediation, #4 pp.1-4
• Richman, Elise
  “Nicholas Nyland’s Fall into Color”, #4 pp.1,5
• Richter, Gerhard, #5 p.2, #9 p.4
• Roach, Joseph, #8 p.8
• Robb, Susan
• biodigestor, #1 p.3
  “Socialites, Scientists, and Big Leather Handbags: the Global Creative Leadership Summit”, #3 pp.1,6
• nature deficit disorder, #3 p.6
• visual literacy, #3 p.6
• Rockefeller Center, #2 p.3
• rococo, and pleasure, #6 p.7
• Røgeberg, Hanneline, untitled essay, #9 pp.4-5
• romanticism
• in European history, #1 p.3
• painting, #5 pp.1-3
• skepticism, #1 p.3
• in the Northwest, #4 p.3
• Rosler, Martha
  “Untitled Statement (1977)”, #4 pp.1-2
• Rucker, Paul, #5 p.4
• Rushdie, Salman, #3 p.6
• Ruskin, John
  “The Nature of the Gothic”, #4 pp.3-4
• pathetic fallacy, #4 p.4
• Saint Laurent, Yves, #7 p.7
• same sex marriage, #1 p.3
• Saranac Art Project, #1 p.4
• Scarry, Elaine, #9 p.10
• scholar’s rocks, #4 p.5
• Schopenhauser, Arthur, #9 p.10
• Schumer, Amy, #11 pp.1,4
• Schweder, Alex, #1 p.3
• Scott, Shaun, “Golden Ghetto”, #10 pp.3-5
• sculpture, #2 pp.1, 3-5, classical, #6 p.3
• Seattle Art Museum, The
• history, #1 p.4
• Elles, #9 pp.3, 10, #10 p.1
• Target Practice: painting under attack 1949-1979, #5 p.2
• Hello Kitty (Maki Tamura), #6 p.8
• Seattle
• art museums, #1 pp.1,4
• parks, #1 pp.3
• sewers, #1 pp.1,3
• Serra, Richard, #3 p.1
• Seward Park, #1 p.3
• sex
• the impulse to make art, #4 p.6, #5 pp.3, #6 pp.1-2
• language, #6 pp.6-7
• lizards, #4 p.5
• painting, #5.p.2
• recreation, #4 p.6
• sadomachoism, #7 p.4
• sexuality
• architecture, #1 pp.1,4
• representation of bodies, #3 p.4
• shame, #3 p.4
• Shabbaz Palaces (musical group), #10 p.5
• shame, #3 p.4, #6 p.2
• Shelley, Mary, Dr. Frankenstein, #6 p.5
• Sherman, Cindy, #6 p.5
• Siebald, W.G, The Emigrants, #6 p.5
• Sienna, James, #5 p.2
• Simone, Nina, #1 p.1
• Sinister, Dexter, #6 p.4
• Skagit County, #4 p.3
• Skinner, B.F., #1 p.2
• Skype, #7 p.8
• slavery (American), #10 p.5
• Smells Like Teen Spirit, (song), #1 p.2
• Smithson, Robert
  “Cultural Confinement”, #1 pp.1-2
• entropy, #3 p.3
• 400 Snapshots of Seattle Horizons, #1 p.2 (ill.)
• Spiral Jetty, #3 p.3
• Snoqualmie Pass, #9 p.2
• Snow, Dash, #6 p.5
• Snyder, Gary, #3 p.5
• Stadler, Matthew, on the picturesque, #1 p.3
• Star Trek Next Generation, (television show), #3 p.6
• Stein, John, #3 p.6
• Stranger, The (Seattle), #8 p.7
• Strauss, Ilvs, “Five Haiku”, #7 p.8
• sublime, the, #6 pp.4-5, #10 p.5
• Summerson, John, #6 p.4
• symmetry
• energy, #3 p.5
• mirrors, #3 p.3
• Takamori, Akio, #6 pp.1,7-8
• The Europeans, #6 p.8
• Tamura, Maki #6 pp.1,7-8
• masthead, #5 p.1 (ill.)
• Hello Kitty, #6 p.8
• Constellations, #6 p.8
• Tate Gallery, The, #3 p.4
• Tehuantepec (Mexico), #6 p.1
• Tennis, Whiting
  “This Head Mechanism”, #4 p.5
• erotic drawing (ill.), #4 p.5
• Terminator, The, (movie), #1 p.2
• THEEsatisfaction (musical group), #10 p.5
• Theory of Relativity, the, #3 p.3
• Thomas, Barbara Earl, #11 pp.9-10 (ill.)
• time
• cinema, #6 pp.1,6-7, #6 p.4
• decay, #3 p.3
• decomposition, #3 p.2
• latency, #9 p.3
• melancholy, #6 p.1, #7 pp.2-3
• seasons, #7 p.8
• as stasis, #3 p.2
• Tinguely, Jean
  “Untitled Statement (1961)”, #3 p.1
• Tobey, Mark, #4 p.3
• totem poles, #2 p.3 (ill.)
• Townsend, Larry, The Leatherman’s Handbook II, #7 pp.1,4
• Trouvelot, Étienne Léopold, #3 p.1
• imaging of electric discharges, #3 p.5
• Trowbridge, Kimberly, masthead #7 p.1 (ill.)
• Tsai, Andrew, #10 p.2 (ill.)
• Tsai, Ryo Morikawa, #10 p.1
• Turner, Joseph Mallord William, #6 p.5
• Turrell, Jim, #1 p.4
• Twilight, (movie), #4 pp.1-2
• Twitter, #11 p.3
• Underground Tour, the, #1 p.1
• United Nations, The, #3 p.6
• University of Puget Sound, #6 p.8
• University of Washington, #5 p.6
• utopia, #9 p.2
• irony, #1 p.3
• sculpture parks, #1 p.2
• Uwajimaya, #6 p.7
• vampires, #4 p.1-2
• Velázquez, Diego, La Meninas, #6 p.5
• Veltkamp, Joey
  “It Began with a Chair...”, #3 p.1,3  “Masculinity Conversation”, #7 pp.1,7
• Viagra, #7 p.8
• Vigeland, Gustav, #2 pp.1 (ill.),2
• visual literacy, #3 p.6
• Volunteer Park, #1 p.4
• vulnerability
• in painting, #5 p.2
• when making art, #4 pp.4-5, #5 pp.1-2, #9 p.1, #10 p.6
• Wade, Robert, #10 pp.2-3
• Waits, Tom, #8 p.5
• Walker, Kara, #10 p.3
• Wall, David, #10 p.3 (ill.)
• Wölffin, Heinrich, #6 p.1
• Warhol Museum, The, #3 p.4
• Washington State University, #1 p.4
• Waterston, Darren, #6 p.7
• Watteau, Jean-Antoine, #6 p.8
• Ways of Seeing, #2 pp.1-2, #3 pp.1,4
• Webb, Dan
  “I Heart Public Art”, #2 pp.1,3-5  “Note from the Editor”, #11 pp.1-2  untitled interviews, #11 pp.2-9
• West Village (New York), #3 p.6
• West, Cornel, #10 p.1
• West, Harvey, #1 p.4
• Western Washington University, #2 p.1
• Whitney Biennial, #8 p.7
• Wikipedia, #3 p.6
• Wilson, Carletta Carrington, Book of the Bound (exhibition), #10 p.5
• Wings of Desire, (movie), #4 p.1
• Wolfe, Sylvia, #1 p.1
• Wonder, Stevie, #1 p.2
• working class, #3 p.1, #4 p.2
• Wyeth, Andrew
• Farm road (1979), #5 p.2 (ill.)
• Remembrance (exhibition), #5 p.2
• as populist, #5 p.2
• Yoder, Robert
• Send me an angel (exhibition), #5 p.1
• on display, #5 p.5
• “You Belong to Me” (song), #7 p.4
• YouTube, #5 p.1, #6 pp.4-5
• Zeki, Semir, #3 p.5
• Zižek, Slavoj
• On Belief, #1 p.3
• Zwick, Jenny, #7 p.4 (ill.)
• I know I know Jenny and Joe (exhibition), #7 p.4