Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events for Capitol Hill Art Walk. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find a bunch of great options for the September 12 edition. But, below, we've compiled our critics' picks—the new shows you shouldn't miss, like Colleen Louise Barry's The Trophy Room Past Event Like List and CoCA's Marathon and Auction Past Event Like List . Follow the links for more details and images, and check out our complete visual art calendar for even more events, including the shows still on view from the Pioneer Square Art Walk.
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Beyond Borders: Oaxaca-Seattle Exchange
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Discover the work of artists from a country famed for its printmaking history, Mexico—specifically, from the southern city of Oaxaca—who've collaborated with Seattle printmakers for this cross-cultural exhibition.
Consulate General of Mexico
Carmen Cano
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Seattle-based, Madrid-born and trained Carmen Cano paints ghostly yet sensual paintings which focus on women, symbols, archetypes, the elements, and natural imagery. Curated by Ghost Gallery.
Ritual
Close to Home
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Sanoe Stevenson-Egeland has chosen 12 intriguing local artists—among them Monyee Chau, Morgan Quick, and Lionel Vance—to create work about the concept of home.
Joe Bar
Colleen Louise Barry: The Trophy Room
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In The Trophy Room, artist-writer-poet Colleen Louise Barry will be creating an ephemeral, immersive, site-specific installation made out of papier-mâché inside the Factory. I’ve seen the Instagram stories of the practice installs, and they’re wild. Expect bright colors and smiley faces. In this space, the visitor can feel like “a winner AND a loser living in an absurd reality.” There will be 80 trophies placed around the room; each one is paired with a line from a poem. You can even take one of the text-sculptures home—imagine that. JASMYNE KEIMIG
The Factory
The End of Mall Things
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God, I love the mall. Well, love is a strong word—I am very familiar with the mall. As a suburban tween, malls were one of the first places I experienced freedom. My mom would drop me off at Bellevue Square so I could smear things on my eyelids at Sephora with my friends. Looking back, I think we were just learning how to consume. Expect music from local artists, drag, interactive and visual art, a mini-market, a photo booth, and a cocktail bar at this festival/art show/variety night that celebrates a place that almost always has an Auntie Anne’s. JASMYNE KEIMIG
Fred Wildlife Refuge
Endless Summer: The Art of Goldsuit x Blake Blanco
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Check out vibrant, surreal paintings by Goldsuit and Blake Blanco and eat food from the grill.
Steve Gilbert Studio
Julian Peña
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UW School of Art graduate Julian Peña reflects on society and his Japanese and Dominican Republican ancestry and queer identity in wildly colorful and textured paintings.
Elbo Room
Kathy Acker in Seattle Symposium
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This symposium will be dedicated to the important experimental and feminist author and proto-Riot Grrrl Kathy Acker, who came to Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art for residencies in 1980 and 1989. She worked on two important novels while in Seattle, Blood and Guts in High School and Great Expectations. The gathering is co-organized by University of Cologne's Daniel Schulz and Fantagraphics's Larry Reid. At this event (the symposium lasts all weekend), discover art and artifacts from Randy Ericksen, Marilyn Stablien, Kathy Acker and others, and listen to readings by Marilyn Stablein, Gary Wilkie, and Paul de Barros.
Goethe Pop-up Space
Kerstin Graudins
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This prolific, punky artist works in painting, bronze and glass sculpture, installation, print, and even taxidermy, excelling at portraying organic material in life and death. See a variety of her works alongside Jessica Mercy's eight-color print.
Cloud Gallery
Marathon and Auction: CoCA Magic!
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Nearly 20 artists will converge for an art-making marathon, and you're invited to discover the works during Art Walk. Watch art being born as Lisa Myers Bulmash, Leah Gerrard, Eliaichi Kimaro, Anna Macrae, and others toil.
The Summit
Nate Gowdy: The American Superhero
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Nate Gowdy, a Stranger contributor and a master at capturing telling glimpses of spontaneous human expressions, turns to studio portraiture in this exhibition about non-traditional American superheroes. Among those featured: drag queens Gaysha Starr and Aleksa Manila, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Washington State Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu, and former Houston mayor Annise Parker. Gowdy's exhibition is inspired by the "Sikh Captain America," the performance artist Vishavjit Singh.
Vermillion
Rebecca Reeves and Danielle Schlunegger-Warner: Slipping Below
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In this East Coast/West Coast collaboration, Reeves and Schlunegger-Warner fashioned impressive (and appropriately ghostly) resin ships, which seem to contain atmosphere and oceans within their hulls, before splitting off to develop their own installations.
Ghost Gallery
Sabella
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Sabella, aka "the monarq," creates portraits that are "love letter[s] to black women" and that seek to right the imbalance in their representation.
Retail Therapy
Travis Louie: Biodiversity
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Louis exhibits animal portraits that combine anthropomorphism with hyperrealism.
Roq la Rue
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