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Article: THE ART MEETS THE CHALLENGE OF OUTSHINING THE VIEW.(Special Section)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 18, 2007
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Byline: REGINA HACKETTP-I art critic
The Olympic Sculpture Park looks like a 9-acre, art history pop-up book. Turn a corner, and sculpture jumps out at you over bridges and train tracks, rises to soar out of a valley and makes memorable intrusions into the waterfront's horizon line, with Puget Sound in the foreground and the Olympic Mountain Range in the rear.
The art takes visitors on a tour through contemporary sculpture's high points.
Some of these high points focus on light. Light pours in photomontaged, Technicolor shades through Teresita Fernandez's "Seattle Cloud Cover." Light bounces off the outrageously fake surface of Roxy Paine's ...