Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Theater Performance, Film, Food Drink, This That. Hyunjeong Lim: Archive of the MindThrough Dec 19Drawing from traditional Korean landscape and Renaissance painting, Hyunjeong Lim’s landscapes have an alm ost fairytale-like quality, and they’re packed with so much detail, you can’t help but fall in and get lost. Her latest body of work at Winston Wächter is embroidered with scenes from the American West and Pacific Northwest: lakes, canyons, and lost highways winding around craggy outcroppings and islands sprouting like mushrooms from the sea. Look closer and you’ll find the terrain populated by tiny, quizzical blob people, unhinged grotesqueries plucked straight from Hieronymus Bosch, and even art history Easter eggs. For Lim, landscape is more than a pretty picture of a place: It serves as a container where lived experience tangles with imagination and memory. Because of that, her places feel uncannily placeless, but also like everywhere you’ve ever been. We love them because we have been there—if not in the flesh, then in dream. (Winston Wächter Fine Art) AMANDA MANITACH An Indigenous PresentNov 7–Feb 14Tapestries made of AstroTurf and buckskin, blankets woven from ink and tape, a Cree prayer rendered in blood-red acrylic and powdery pastel: One of the year’s most anticipated shows (mine at least) opens this month at the Frye. An Indigenous Present is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the renowned artist Jeffrey Gibson and independent curator Jenelle Porter that includes major works and commissions by 15 Indigenous artists, spanning 100 years of Indigenous art. The exhibition embodies a shift in how Indigenous identity is represented within institutional spaces, as artists move beyond redefining their place within these institutions to actively defying the colonial constraints and expectations they have imposed for centuries. Alongside An Indigenous Present, the museum has mounted My Body Is a Basket, featuring work by three Indigenous Pacific Northwest artists—Brenda Mallory, Danielle Morsette, and Sara Siestreem—who push traditional basket weaving into unexpected conceptual and metaphorical territory. (Frye Art Museum) AMANDA MANITACH Light the ForestNov 14–15About an hour’s drive north of Seattle, there’s a magical place called Pilchuck Glass School where the world’s top glass artists convene throughout the year to whip miraculous glass art into existence in boiling hot shops and less-hot cold shops. The campus is a work of art in its own right: It spreads out like a 1970s hobbit fantasy complete with forests threaded with secret paths, stained-glass follies, and treehouses where acolytes retire to revel at the end of a long day’s work. The school isn’t typically accessible to the public, which makes the annual Light the Forest even more special. The event—a self-guided walking tour—unfolds on two dusky November nights, during which the already-ensorcelling Pilchuck campus transforms into an immersive light installation ablaze with neon. This year’s artists are Seattle-based glass baddies MiNHi England and John Sharvin (who both appeared on season 3 of Blown Away). Did I mention it’s magical? I can’t overemphasize how utterly enchanted it is. This year, they’re also offering day-of workshops, so you can walk away with your very own neon creation or hand-blown ornaments. (Pilchuck Glass School) AMANDA MANITACH I Am Love: Rituals in ResistanceThrough Nov 30Curated by tom manzanarez, I Am Love: Rituals in Resistance stems from a broader project (I Am Love) aimed at forming new connections and providing platforms for queer artists in the PNW through exhibitions, workshops, and other opportunities. It’s only continued to grow since its inception, and this month’s exhibit at RailSpur offers a window onto the region’s multidimensional, robust queer scene. Objects like Michael Espinoza’s pairing of embroidery with i-Type Polaroids exemplify the kind of work that’s both conceptually rigorous and intimate, dexterously touching on themes of domesticity and ephemerality. (Have you ever seen a print transfer applied to a slice of processed cheese product? The poetics of the show will surprise you.) (RailSpur) AMANDA MANITACH Opening Artist Lecture: The Landscape Speaks with Daniel Gregory Nov 5, Photographic Center Northwest, 6 pmTess Michalik: Rococo Puffs Nov 6–28, Dirkse/PrimKaron Davis: Not My Circus Nov 5–July 4, 2027, Seattle Art MuseumSunday Best: Unpacking the Wardrobe of Rev. Samuel McKinney Nov 14–March 18, 2027, MOHAI Ongoing Mia Mulvey: I Contain My Outside Through Nov 6, Jack Straw New Media GalleryFantasmagoria Through Nov 7, Roq La RueSocial Contract Through Nov 7, Actualize AiRFulgencio Lazo: Iluminando Caminos [Lighting the Way] Through Nov 14, ArtX ContemporaryIn Between: A Cross and a Hardgrave—Tim Cross and Robert Hardgrave Through Nov 15, AMcE Creative ArtsFor Which It Stands: The Many Threads of the American Flag Through Nov 15, MOHAIColored Girls for Colored Girls: Evolution of Expression Through Nov 15, Arte NoirKelda Martensen: First Rain Through Nov 25 with opening reception Nov 5 and artist talk Nov 14, J. Rinehart GalleryRailSpur x Hall Spassov: The Way Is Open Through Nov 30, RailSpurWarren Dykeman: Glyph Ground Through Dec 5, studio eShutter and Light Collective and Photographic Center Northwest Present: Currents Through Dec 13, Photographic Center NorthwestBetsy Eby: Beautiful Repair and Hyunjeong Lim: Archive of the Mind Through December 19 with artist reception Nov 7, Winston Wächter Fine ArtOnce Removed Presents ‘It Means: God Is Great’ by Gizelle Hadeed Through Dec 21, Actualize AiREd Wicklander: My Labors Through Dec 23, Greg Kucera GalleryTemporal: Stories of Indigenous Present, Re-imagining Indigenous Futures Through Dec 31, Thurston County Museum of Fine ArtsProject NW: David Hytone: The Lee Shore Through Jan 3, 2027, Tacoma Art MuseumDay-to-Day: Rhythm, Routine, Resistance Through Jan 3, 2027, Henry Art GalleryThe Kondō Family: Storytellers in Clay Through Jan 3, 2027, Seattle Asian Art MuseumMonochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan Through Jan 17, 2027, Seattle Art MuseumA Room for Animal Intelligence Through Jan 2027, Seattle Art MuseumA Ballard Story: Pacific Fishermen Through Feb 28, 2027, National Nordic MuseumMy Body Is a Basket: Brenda Mallory, Danielle Morsette, and Sara Siestreem Through April 11, 2027, Frye Art MuseumBoren Banner Series: Blake Blanco Through April 18, 2027, Frye Art MuseumRebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman Through April 18, 2027, MOPOPJoiri Minaya: To Hell With Hibiscus Through May 2, 2027, Henry Art GalleryChloë Bass: Soft Services Through Aug 2027, Volunteer ParkInconvenience Store Every Saturday and Sunday, ParnassusPioneer Square Art Walk Every first ThursdayCentral District Art Walk Every second FridayCapitol Hill Art Walk Every second ThursdayBelltown Art Walk Every second FridayGeorgetown Art Attack! Every second Saturday Find all these listings and more on our sister site, EverOut Seattle! EverOut.com/Seattle The post Things to Do in November: Visual Art appeared first on The Stranger. ...read more read less