Frye Salon features over one-hundred paintings from the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection hung floor to ceiling—a display mode referred to as a salon-style hang. The installation approximates the dramatic viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle home in the first decades of the twentieth century. The Fryes developed their passion for […]

Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, born 1984, Ferndale, Washington) layers imagery and poetic prose to create art that foregrounds relationships between communities, landscape, and language. His work intermingles English and Indigenous dialects such as Chinuk Wawa, a revived Chinookan creole of the Pacific Northwest, to consider how language shapes perception of place […]

In a suite of new works for the Boren Banner Series, Samantha Wall (born 1977, Seoul) combines intricate, hand-cut stencils with drawn elements to depict a serpent-woman—a character that appears across cultures and historical eras. In Western mythology this figure is often portrayed as grotesque and menacing, but in Korean lore the goddess Eopsin takes […]

For nearly a decade, Stephanie Syjuco (born 1974, Manila, Philippines) has delved into museum and library collections to examine how a nation preserves and narrates its own histories. Syjuco rephotographs and reconstructs archival photographs, digitally manipulating them to reveal the instability of images and the violence of the colonial gaze. Focusing on the US occupation […]