GO Arts » turquoise eyes and cartoon wrinkles. Nancy Johnson http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts Everything new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound. Fri, 24 May 2013 12:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Artists focus on themselves in “Self-Portrait” at Tacoma’s Brick House gallery http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2012/01/31/artists-focus-on-themselves-in-self-portrait-at-tacomas-brick-house-gallery/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/2012/01/31/artists-focus-on-themselves-in-self-portrait-at-tacomas-brick-house-gallery/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:32:59 +0000 Rosemary Ponnekanti http://blog.thenewstribune.com/arts/?p=3671

Amid the snow and ice, a couple of Tacoma galleries stood staunchly open last week – and Brick House was one of them. The upper downtown gallery had just opened a self-portrait show by 20 established local and regional artists, and while there are a few unremarkable works, most take on the topic of self from unusual viewpoints.

Two of those come from Alan Hopkins: The Bay area artist uses himself as a metaphor for larger human issues with inventive grace. In “Painting Through It,” Hopkins positions an iconographic, waist-up nude of himself behind a thick wire screen. Despite …

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