New West - Best of the West; Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art at Seattle Art Museum - Brief Article

Sunset, Oct, 2003 by Lisa Taggart

How do you portray the Pacific Coast? Opening this month at the Seattle Art Museum, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art tackles this question in a show involving five curators, four museums, and 33 artists who depict the mythic and future West, "There are lots of works that deal with cliches of the frontier," says Lisa Corrin of the Seattle Art Museum, "and many dealing with the war between suburban development and what used to be called wilderness." Oct 9-Jan 4, 2004, at the Seattle Art Museum (206/654-3100).

The exhibit travels to San Diego in mid-January (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, www.mcasd.org); Vancouver, B.C., in June (Vancouver Art Gallery, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca); and San Francisco in October (CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, www.wattis.org).