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<p>Sadie Barnette, <i>Room to Live</i>, 2019. Mixed media installation, holographic vinyl sofa, metal flake TV, archival inkjet prints, metal flake security cameras. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of <i>In Plain Sight</i>, 2019, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Mark Woods.</p>
Exhibitions

In Plain Sight

November 23, 2019 – June 28, 2020
<p>Dola Mae Litzenburg. <em>Portrait of Mrs. Horace C. Henry</em>. 1900-1910. Oil on canvas. Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry Collection, 26.165.<br /></p> <p><p>With the billowing red curtain and the throne-like chair, as well as her formal dress and stiff posture, this portrait of Mrs. Horace C. Henry (née Susan Elizabeth Johnson) references traditions of royal portraiture that were adopted by the wealthy, and checks most of Freeland’s boxes.</p></p>
Exhibitions

Eyes on the Collection: What Makes a Portrait?

04/14/20 – 05/31/20
<p>Jean-François Millet was committed to the role of art in representing agricultural practice and peasant life in the nineteenth century. Two issues significant to nineteenth-century social history that intersect in his study of rural life include the status of the working classes and the position of women. In the prints pictured here, Millet depicts women outside in pastoral fields as well as within humble interiors, performing childcare and domestic crafts such as knitting. Millet portrays the female figure as nurturer and dutiful laborer, emphasizing ideological definitions of femininity and virtue. In nineteenth-century France amid the Industrial Revolution, the peasant woman embodied a positive image associated with a return to innocence. Identified with the uncorrupted realm of nature, the pastoral woman symbolizes the personification of sanctity in opposition to the perceived moral threat of the urban woman, as well as that of the urban environment to a woman’s innocence. The intimate prints emphasize the acts of spinning, sewing, or knitting, and caregiving as devotional, quasi-religious activities, connecting holiness to rural and domestic labor.</p> <p><p>Image credit: Jean-François Millet, <em>La Cardeuse (The Woolcarder), </em>1855-1856. Etching on laid paper. Henry Art Gallery Stimson Collection, gift of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, 77.129.</p></p>
Viewpoints

A Dialogue Between Jean-François Millet and Jeanne Dunning

05/09/20 – 06/28/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Discussion Seminar: Takahiro Yamamoto

05/29/20
<p> James Turrell. <em>Light Reign (Exterior detail)</em>. 2003. Permanent skyspace and exterior illumination work. Copyright: James Turrell. Photo credit: Lara Swimmer.</p>
Permanent Installations
Light Reign: James Turrell Skyspace
Ongoing
Upcoming
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Order & Chaos (noon session)

06/18/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Order & Chaos (evening session)

06/18/20
<p>Math Bass. <i>Newz!.</i> 2020. Gouache/canvas. Courtesy of the artist.<br /></p>
Exhibitions

Math Bass

07/11/20 – 02/07/21
<p>Diana Al-Hadid. <em>Smoke Screen. </em>2015. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, plaster, pigment. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.</p>
Exhibitions

Diana Al-Hadid


07/25/20 – 02/07/21
Teens

Hugo House Scribes Summer Writing Camp

08/03/20
<p>Bambitchell. Set Documentation of <em>Bugs &amp; Beasts Before the Law. </em>2019. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Florian Clewe.<br /> </p>
Exhibitions

Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law

08/08/20 – 01/10/21
Exhibitions

Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

08/22/20 – 01/10/21
<p>Mary L. Bennett. <em>“Housetop”—nine-block variation</em>. c. 1975. Cotton, denim, cotton/polyester blend, cotton knit. Henry Art Gallery, purchased with funds from William L. True and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.1.<br /></p>
Viewpoints

A Gee's Bend Quilt by Mary L. Bennett

09/26/20 – 01/10/21

Past

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Art of the Triptych (Evening Session)

05/21/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Art of the Triptych

05/21/20
Screenings

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: To the Stars

05/20/20
Screenings

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: L'Appel à la Danse (The Call of Dance)

05/13/20
Screenings

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Community Action Center

05/06/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Built Environment

04/30/20
Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Built Environment

04/30/20
Programs

Re-visiting Awaiting Oblivion...

04/17/20
Screenings

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Sight Lines - Video Poetry Showcase

04/15/20
Programs

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: The Tuba Thieves by Alison O'Daniel

04/12/20
Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Re/frame: Selections from the Henry Teen Art Collective

03/19/20
Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Re/frame: Selections from the Henry Teen Art Collective

03/19/20
Screenings

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Hidden (Escondido) & Space Needle: A Hidden History

03/18/20
Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Laboring in Plain Sight: From Cosmic Generator to the Pacific Northwest

03/15/20
Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Lisa Robertson

03/12/20
Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Lisa Robertson

03/12/20
Mind & Body

 CANCELLED - Mindfulness Meditation

03/12/20