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    Henry Art Gallery

    3.9 (68 reviews)
    Closed 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Updated 3 weeks ago

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    Jamie C.

    Real small. You'll probably spend an hour max here. Has three exhibits at a time. One of which wasn't much to look at. Donation to enter (0-20 recommended). Had the same artist we saw at the Sam six months ago. Wouldn't say it's worth going out of the way for but might be a cheap rainy day thing for a local.

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    Judith T.

    We enjoy visiting museums wherever we go but this was not it. The layout of the exhibit and the descriptions of the art pieces were confusing. We toured the whole place in 30 minutes. As some reviews have said, you are left wondering if that was it. The exhibits are too far apart from one another and don't quite translate well from one room to the next. The whole experience was disrupted by confusing video footage - not art for us. I mean, to each their own. The fiance got in for free since he is a student but I think we paid $10 for my entrance fee. Definitely not worth it.

    Paul L.

    I get the complaints about The Henry: why does a university art gallery charge admission -- most don't -- and why is the admission charge so high for such a small gallery? First impressions count and these are valid questions. With that said, I gladly paid the admission fee for one reason only: James Turrell's 'Light Reign' skyspace installation. I think he's the most revolutionary artist -- if he's really an artist because I haven't figured that out yet -- alive today. The man works with light and our perceptions of space. It's a colossal task and his works address it with such elegance and immediacy. The Henry doesn't allow photos of the interior of Mr. Turrell's installation and, frankly, photos don't do it justice. You have to be willing to slow down when you encounter a Turrell work. As I sat in the elevated pod that is 'Light Reign', I watched some visitors enter, look up at the ceiling of an open sky and exclaim 'I don't get it' before walking out a moment later. I could have stared at the sky for hours in this oval-shaped room. The remaining portions of the gallery were given over to Ann Hamilton's 'the common SENSE'. In every art gallery/museum, the visitor is admonished to refrain from touching the works of art: dirty fingers result in dirty and damaged art. In this exhibition, not only is the visitor encouraged to touch the pages on display, the visitor can rip out the pages he/she likes to put in a commonplace book -- look up the term -- to read. As The Henry was my last stop before scurrying to the airport, it was fun to take my assembled pages with me to read on the plane. A visitor has to take chances and not every art environment can be an ideal experience every time. For such a small university gallery -- and one with a hefty admission charge relatively speaking -- I don't know that I'll forget this visit. I loved it.

    Killian B.

    Very cool exhibits, and all worthy of discussion. Layout of the place is great with many rooms for installations and a large open space downstairs for bigger exhibitions. I personally enjoyed Caitlin Berrigan's Treatise on Imaginary Explosions Vol II which had many different cool components, including an interactive sound immersion experience, artifacts, video, and fabricated prop jewelry with video screens in them. Super cool stuff. The quotes about art which adorn the space are also really nice and add a great framework to certain pieces as you enter or exit certain rooms.

    Alden C.

    I've been wanting to go to the Henry for quite a while! The pictures of all of the gray balloons people were in posted to this Yelp entry was the main selling point but I realized that the exhibit may have moved on by the time I got there, which it did. Exhibits that come here are on display here for a year. In it's stead however there was a very cool exhibit of women's hosiery and leggings stretched into all kinds of unusual positions as well as some experimental art films here too. On the main floor there was the White Snow exhibit which was a hypnotic melding of Snow White and Bambi as well as other Disney characters in a massive fusion to each piece. It was very beautiful and unusual! Of course the main staple here is the Skyspace! This exhibit seems to be a permanent fixture here and it is very beautiful! Photography is allowed inside the art gallery except for inside the Skyspace but I can see that someone didn't adhere to those rules and posted a picture of it on Yelp from the inside. Lol! Oh well... Entry fees are $10 a person except on Sundays where admission is free. They also have a free day on the first Thursday each month. The gallery is on the UW campus so parking may be pretty tight but going here on a Sunday is less so and stickered parking on campus is relaxed. It's definitely an art gallery worth going to!

    Ariel J.

    Either this place is the worst or I completely missed the mark. Employees at the front desk were awkward to the point where I wasn't sure if I was in the right place. There were hardly any exhibits to see and I was left wondering, "Was that it?" Super disappointing, even for free Admission on first Thursday. Would never recommend.

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