Fall 2024 Exhibitions Opening

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Frye Art Museum’s latest exhibitions: Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes Recent Acquisitions Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick Enjoy a preview of the exhibitions and reception with no-host bar.

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Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

In her new suite of collages, Natalie Krick deconstructs pictures of Marilyn Monroe from Bert Stern’s book The Complete Last Sitting, complicating the voyeuristic viewing imposed on its iconic subject. 

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Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes interrogates conditions of migration and immigration in the West. In her largest museum solo presentation to date, Kahraman (born 1981, Baghdad) draws upon her longstanding motif of heavily browed, lidded eyes to expose the simultaneous surveillance and erasure of othered bodies. The exhibition features all new work encompassing paintings, […]

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Mary Ann Peters: the edge becomes the center

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

Seattle artist Mary Ann Peters (born 1949, Beaumont, Texas) has attended to overlooked narratives for almost forty years, interpreting her research through mediums including painting, sculpture, and installation. Peters unearths hidden diasporic histories, often through travel, and contextualizes them within her experiences of the contemporary Middle East as a second-generation Lebanese American. the edge becomes the […]

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Twilight Child: Antonia Kuo and Martin Wong

Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

A study in personal and artistic resonance, Twilight Child brings together the work of Antonia Kuo (born 1987, New York, New York) and Martin Wong (born 1946, Portland, Oregon; died 1999, San Francisco, California)—two queer diasporic Chinese artists born more than forty years apart. The presentation continues an informal series of intergenerational and “artists’ artists” pairings mounted […]

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