Roq La Rue Gallery
presents

Sarah Joncas

“Shadow Play”
new paintings

And 

Ciou
“Mysterious Flowers”
paintings and drawings

Opening Friday February 12th 6-9pm
Show runs through March 6th

Sarah Joncas new show focuses on the theme of shadows. Her work is primarily narrative portraiture, but is imbued with a sense of cinematic spatiality and a contemporary noir sensibility. Influenced by artists diverse in scope as Van Eyck, Lautrec, Hopper, Varo, Mucha, and Frida Kahlo, Sarah was also greatly influenced by the newly emerging Anime scene as a child. As Anime became more pervasive in US culture, it was readily embraced for its approach of using complex narratives and emotional maturity within a cartoon framework. This use of a cartoon as a form of fine art “character” has been one of the stapes behind the Pop Surrealism scene and Sarah’s melancholy heroines are examples of the range of subtle nuances that can be achieved using that as a base despite its seeming limitations. She has exhibited her paintings in New York, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Rome.

Ciou hails from Paris, France. Her work features the admittedly well worn standard of spooky girls and their animals consorts, however Ciou’s unapologetic punk style (reminiscent of teenage notebook scrawls dialed up to 11) breathes a new brash life into the theme. Her sweet and sour heavy metal nymphs live out their wild carnivalesque fairytales on found vintage papers, taken from old medical books, dictionaries, and nature manuals. Her line-work is by turns thickly layered like decadent rocker girl eyeliner and then meticulously thin and ornate like stitchwork. Ciou has exhibited in Paris, Amsterdam,Brussels, Toulouse,Berlin, Los Angeles, Rome,and Barcelona. This is her first US solo show. She also has about of her work entitled “Chat Siamose”.

Come up north on Saturday Feb 13th to celebrate the rebirth of a great neighborhood dive, Darrell’s Tavern at 18041 Aurora.

DarrellsTavern.com - 18041 Aurora Avenue North

excerpt from the Moonspinners MySpace page

2/13/2010 9:00 PM at ORIENT EXPRESS w/ LES ESTRANGERS party in the train cars!
2963 4th Avenue South, SEATTLE,
Cost: $5
Hi Gang We MoonSpinners have an especially fun show coming up on Feb. 13th, not only the eve of Valentine’s day but also the start of Chinese New Year (The Year of the Tiger for those of you scoring at home). So what better venue than The Orient Express restaurant and bar in SODO (the train cars on fourth avenue once known as the beloved Andy’s Diner)? And just to make it more cross-cultural, on the slate with us are Les Étrangers - a Portland-based group that specializes in 60’s French garage-pop classics, plus the soulful stylings of DJ Miss Lilli’s scratchy 45’s. The kitchen stays open late, the drinks will be bold and the beer will be cold - come for fun & great music!

One of my favorite musicians and songwriters, Van Dyke Parks, is appearing Tuesday 2/9 in Seattle at The Triple Door.

Best known for his collaboration with Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys, but also as a session musician, composer, arranger, lyricist, and singer, he’s contributed significantly to several decades’ worth of masterpieces credited to other artists, as well as generating two or three masterpieces of his own.

You can view just a sample of his music on his website.

He was a session musician and worked with Sonny & Cher, as well as playing sessions for producer Terry Melcher on records by Paul Revere & the Raiders and other artists.

Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson

In 1998, he released a live album, and in the next decade he collaborated anew with Brian Wilson, who finally released a finished realization of SMiLE with new recordings on the Nonesuch label in 2004. Two years later, Parks began contributing lyrics to another Brian Wilson project, That Lucky Old Sun.

Information on The Triple Door website.

Saturday February 6, 9PM Doors

STUDIO 66 myspace.com/studio66

At Lo-Fi Performance Gallery (429 Eastlake Ave E, 2 doors down from the Victory Lounge thelofi.net at Eastlake and Republican.

A night of 60’s mod, psychedelic and garage rock, vintage soul, Brit-pop, acid jazz and international pop.

FEATURING:

Local faves -
THE PURRS myspace.com/thepurrs

And the Studio 66 debut of Vancouver’s –
THE ORCHID HIGHWAY myspace.com/orchidhighway

As always with Resident DJ’s DJ CHRISPO, DJ GORT, DJ VODKA TWIST

SPECIAL GUEST DJ - DJ ACE FACE

Plus Go Go Dancing by TANGERINE TONIC

$8 cover

21 + admitted

The nationwide program provides cardholders free access to 120 of the nation’s finest arts, cultural and educational institutions during the first full weekend of every month.

Offer valid the first full weekend (Sat. and Sun.) of the month. Photo ID and any valid Bank of America/Merrill Lynch credit or debit card must be presented.

Museum On Us by Bank of America

Join Luisa on her quest to save her boyfriend, Miguel, who has been transformed into a green bird by a magician. On her journeys, Luisa encounters fantastic scenes and characters including the revolutionary hero, Pancho Villa, an Aztec eagle and dancing skeletons at the festivities of the Day of the Dead. The adventures come to an exciting finale at the most famous bullring in Mexico!

NW Puppet Center presents The Green Bird by Oregon Shadow Theater

Colorful and intricate shadow puppets combine with live music, voices and sound effects to create delightful family entertainment.

Now showing at the Northwest Puppet Center

located in the Maple Leaf neighborhood
9123 - 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA 98115-3111

SHOWTIMES are:     Saturdays at 1pm & 3pm,  Sundays at 1pm & 3pm

TICKET PRICES:
$8.50 Child, $10.50 Adult, $9.00 Senior

For advance tickets, click here or call:
1(800)838-3006

If you have any questions or would like more details please call, or email, the NW Puppet Center   (206) 523-2579     info@nwpuppet.org

Guitarist Shane Mac makes an encore performance Saturday 2/6 starting at 9pm at McGilvra’s down in Madison Park, one of our favorite nightspots on the shores of Lake Washington.

Peter and Adrianna Johnson opened this night spot last year, and the menu is an eclectic mix of American and Continental favorites with a full bar and dozens of beers on tap.

The address of McGilvra’s is 4234 E. Madison at the foot of Madison Street, right across from the beach on Lake Washington.