Frye Art Museum
Tom Lloyd
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesArtist, activist, and community organizer Tom Lloyd (1929–1996) was an early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium. Working in collaboration with an engineer at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Lloyd developed a radically experimental practice in the 1960s that fused art and technology to dazzling effect. His electronically programmed sculptures—featuring rhythmic […]
Wallflowers
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesWallflowers is a dialogue across time centered on one of art history’s most underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together eleven paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs from eleven contemporary artists, the exhibition explores how artists from the nineteenth century to the present have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground […]
Beau Dick: Insatiable Beings
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesInsatiable Beings is the first US museum survey of the late Beau Dick (1955–2017), Kwakwaka’wakw Hereditary Chief, activist, and master carver. Internationally celebrated for his powerful formline masks and sculptures, Dick’s work brings to life ancestral stories while offering a profound critique of capitalist systems. Featuring richly adorned carvings—many made to be danced in ceremonies—the exhibition […]
Priscilla Dobler Dzul: Water Carries the Stories of Our Stars
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesWater Carries the Stories of our Stars is the expansive museum debut from artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul, who lives in Tacoma, Washington, and Yucatán, Mexico. The exhibition brings together an entirely new body of sculpture, textile, and video work to chart urgent stories of environmental harm and cultural justice. Drawing from her Maya and multicultural heritage […]
Boren Banner Series: Camille Trautman
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesEvery photograph is a reminder that the act of framing is never neutral. In Camille Trautman’s first solo museum exhibition in their hometown, the Seattle-born Duwamish artist uses photography and video to challenge colonial narratives and counter Indigenous erasure. The exhibition presents selections from their ongoing series The North American LCD—spectral self-portraits staged in varied natural […]