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ArtSEA: Emerging from our caves for Seattle arts events IRL

Plus, Finnish landscapes at the National Nordic Museum, an underground soundscape at On the Boards and a rainbow of colorful gallery shows.

by Brangien Davis / May 13, 2021

Another feat of artistic time travel is taking place at J. Rinehart Gallery, where painter Daisy Patton is showing To Help You Remember Me (through May 22). The show’s title comes from a line written on the back of one of the black-and-white found photographs Patton uses as the foundation of each work. She gives unknown women from the past a contemporary presence by embellishing their portraits with painted flowers, vines and leaves. (“Color is part of the process of reenlivening,” she says in her artist talk.) The result is big, bold evocative works, whose prettiness is imbued with poignancy — of discarded family mementos, of true stories untold.