From the Seattle Summer Events Guide:

July 7
Hit the streets of Pioneer Square for the monthly First Thursday Art Walk. Museums are free and open late; galleries pour wine and showcase new work.

If it stays overcast like it is now, it’s a good day to wander the neighborhood and duck into Greg Kucera Gallery, where internationally acclaimed artist Deborah Butterfield is showing new sculptures: free-standing horses that appear to be made of wood, but are actually fashioned from twisted bronze and scrap metal. The process is pretty incredible: Butterfield starts by making a frame out of sticks, branches, logs, and other slabs of wood, then covers the wood with a heat-resistant plaster. She fires the horse in a furnace and burns away the wood so only the mold remains, then pours molten bronze into the mold. After chipping away the plaster, what’s left is a metal stallion that looks eerily fragile—like the poor beast was forgotten outside of a saloon in a Wild West town and only its skeleton remains. See Butterfield’s work through July 30.

Exhibits opening this weekend:

Debra Baxter: Wanting Is Easier Than Having at Platform Gallery (opens July 7)
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age at Henry Art Gallery (opens July 9)
Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul at the Frye (opens July 9)