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Friday, October 13, 2006

Yamada's ceramic sculptures exude just the right touch of sweetness

Seattle boasts a wealth of figurative ceramic sculptors, including Patti Warashina at Howard House; Doug Jeck and Eric Nelsen at William Traver Gallery; Jeffry Mitchell at James Harris Gallery; Akio Takamori and Terry Turrell at Grover/Thurston Gallery; and, most recently, Olympia's Kensuke Yamada, who, according to his dealer, Catherine Person, is planning to move here.

Yamada's surfaces are rough and porous, but his touch is delicate. He focuses on dreamy-eyed bird men, sideshow performers whose sweet expressions belie their odd purpose, the birds popping out of their mouths, nesting in their hair or roosting on their shoulders. Yamada's sweet, but not intolerably so.

Yamada shares space at the Catherine Person Gallery with Seattle oil painter Colleen Hayward, who's fabulous. She favors big, loose strokes that drag paint across her canvas with the force of a Mack truck. And yet the filtered light in her monotone shades is remarkable.

Through Nov. 11. Catherine Person Gallery, 319 Third Ave. S. Tuesdays-Saturdays 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

-- Regina Hackett

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