Walk into the back room of Tip Toland’s exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum, where the walls are pitch-black, and there’s a naked old woman lying on her side on the floor, her back to the entrance.

This post is part of a series. Through Saturday (Dec 1) at Davidson Galleries: the latest from Seattle’s best hyperrealist sculptor, Tip Toland. They’re larger than life size, each wrinkle a cavern.

Tip Toland's life-sized, stoneware figures carry their weight lightly. None of her stunted children, naked elderly or solitary middle-aged is bogged down by class, oddity or circumstance. In lesser ...