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You might be forgiven if you thought the fourth annual Seattle Art Fair would have a lot of expensive, big-name art. Yes, there is sculpture by Pablo Picasso, lithographs by Joan Miró, silkscreens by Jacob Lawrence and even an original Norman Rockwell.

But you’d be mistaken to assume that any event founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen would not have glimpses of geeky goodness throughout.

The 2018 Seattle Art Fair, which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday at CenturyLink Field Event Center, tucks all kinds of technological and science-fictional nods into the artworks from more than 100 galleries in ten countries. And you don’t have to be a collector of contemporary or modern art to appreciate them, either.

Consider this your quick visual tour of Seattle Art Fair, from a nerd’s perspective.

The largest artwork is, without a doubt, Chris Burden’s Scale Model of the Solar System. The 13-inch sun, along with innermost planet Mercury, sit in the Gagosian gallery booth inside the Art Fair. Venus, Earth, and Mars are nearby.

But you need to venture outside to spot the other five: Jupiter is at the CenturyLink Field Pro Shop, Saturn at the Provident Building, and Uranus at The London Plane, all on Occidental Avenue South. The rest are on First Avenue: Neptune at Diva Dollz, and Pluto, nearly a mile away, at the Seattle Art Museum.

Just don’t tell Pluto it’s not a planet. Burden created the work in 1983, and Pluto didn’t know yet.

In keeping with the space theme in its gallery booth, Gargosian hung science-fiction art from private collections, everything from classic sci-fi illustrations to an original poster from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

But only admire, don’t try to buy — they’re not for sale.

Yes, that’s a neuron on the wall. …read more

Source:: GeekWire

      

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