Through Nov 25. Aiming to fill the vacancy left by the closure of the Shoe Building, ArtStar is offering reasonable studios and a gallery space. The grand opening features sculpture by Weisend, formerly of the Degenerate Art Ensemble. Through Nov 26. In a version of the Skin So Thick series that West showed earlier this year at Tacoma's Commencement Gallery, five video screens show a colony of coils pushing their way through a layer of latex.
West plays with ideas of dimensionality in which the oddest situations become landscapes.
The 911 storefront can't possibly be as satisfying as one of her walk-through installations, but even held at arm's length her work's visual puzzles are worth a second and third look. Through Dec 17. The City of Tacoma's Commencement Art Gallery is looking for artists to show in 2001. You must be considered an emerging artist, without major-gallery representation, and you cannot have shown at Commencement in the last two years. All media will be considered.