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Friday, November 25, 2005
'Crime Scene' investigates noir fantasies
Curated by Seattle painter Claire Johnson, "Crime Scene" allows a range of artists to cloak themselves in noir fantasies, either as a timeout from their work or an extension of it.
Rich Lehl contributed a delicious painting titled "Cat Burglar." He gives us a gray wall with ice cream cone trees lined up in pairs against it, a silver street and a window high on the left from which a woman's fetching backside dangles.
Chris Crites paints corrupt fall guys. As Sam Spade said to a petty crook in the "Maltese Falcon," the "cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter."
Crites' colors are both gaudy and beat up, like Ivan Albright's. His smaller drawings could use a good edit, though. Take the one with the dead dog, the cop, the overturned car, the dame and the blood on the welcome mat. Eliminate the welcome mat, and it looks mighty good.
Rebecca Raven painted Charlie Chaplin in the fight scene from "Gold Rush." The trick is, she painted it on a button. Big scale, tiny fact.
The rest of it is the rest of it. Don't miss Jennifer Zwick's photos of woods in the back room, titled, "The Reader." Her ferns shine and trees tower on her overgrown paths.
Through Sunday. Soil Art Gallery, 112 Third Ave. S. Hours: Thursdays-Sundays noon-5 p.m.
-- Regina Hackett
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