28 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in Art work, Art World, Artists, Uncategorized
By Friday afternoon the stack is 800 blankets tall…and Angela said they are aiming for 988 and finishing by the end of the work day today! The scaffolds are now in use to reach the top of the pile, and everyone is working in stocking feet…take a look:
Maybe a little bit a fatigue is setting in??
Meanwhile, over at “Engine” things are also going pretty well, as curator Rebecca Dobkins steps back to observe…
27 Friday Jan 2012
I dropped by the Hallie Ford Museum at the end of the afternoon Thursday to check on progress and they have really been working…as I arrived the team (which included Museum Director John Olbrantz) was in their socks ready to carry and attach the cladding for “Engine”…
and here’s the interior of the lower “entrance” section
meanwhile in the large center gallery “Dwelling” is really taking shape…
It turns out that after each couple of blankets it is necessary to pound on the stack to tamp it down and eliminate the tendancy to “dome”…
By the time I left they had stacked over 400 blankets…ALMOST to the half-way mark….
Looking GOOD!
26 Thursday Jan 2012
Posted in Art work, Artists, Bonnie Hull
The 10th annual “100 Artists” show at the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery opens next week, with the “celebration” being first Wednesday, February 2nd at the gallery.
I’ve had a piece in most of these 10 shows, and it’s always fun. This year artists were paired randomly and asked to communicate with each other and find a foothold in that communication to build a small piece. My “penpal” sent a list of the alphabet with all the words filled in except the letter F…so naturally (being more than a little contrary) I did not take the 25 ideas she gave me, but chose the blank word to fill in my own idea…hence the title “The F Word.” I’ve been thinking about forests and fires a lot this year, hence my idea was formed…the piece is collage, acrylic and wax on panel, and is four- 6″ squares (which could be arranged in a line, or anyway at all). Here’s how I’ve arranged them:
The show will be up for a month…bids in silent auction style are being taken, or you can buy a piece outright…you can look on line or, better yet, go down to the gallery and see it “in the flesh”!!!
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
The installers and studio assistants arrived today…the ones with experience with Marie and these pieces. “Engine” is taking shape…
and Angela and Chelsea have begun the stack
…30 down and 930 to go…
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
Marie Watt’s show “Lodge” is starting to take shape over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art today…I dropped by to check on the piece “Dwelling” that a bunch of us worked on this month. I thought you might like to see it coming together…
Today there were stacks of blankets as yet unwrapped,
and they were just beginning to lay out the blankets for the piece “Dwelling”…
the big white square is the base on which the blankets will be stacked…
another piece in the show is “Engine” and that is taking shape too…
which will look like this when it’s all done
Stay tuned…I’ll make a progress report tomorrow…
21 Saturday Jan 2012
The flood waters have receded and, for the moment, the rain has stopped. Roger has been researching and writing, looking for photos, really doing the work for the book and show of the work of sculptor Manuel Izquierdo (1925-2009), still a year away. This week a few photos came to the surface…thought you might like to see this one since George Johanson (a classmate and colleague of Manuel’s at the Museum School) was able to identify all of the “students”.
Kneeling is well-known sculptor James Lee Hansen, then Rick Norwood, Jack Hammack, and Manuel Izquierdo at far right. The photo was taken at the Museum School about 1949.
We don’t know what Norwood and Hammack went on to do, but I’m interested in how much bigger the sculptures of Hansen and Izquierdo are, both going on to rich careers as sculptors in the Pacific Northwest. Hansen and Izquierdo were both students of Portland sculptor Frederic Littman, which causes a bit of reflection on the artistic results (even here in Oregon) of the horrific turmoil of Europe in the war years. Littman, a Hungarian, was escaping war in Paris…arriving in Portland in 1941 and teaching first at Reed College, then on to the Museum school. Izquierdo himself escaped Spain as a youngster (with his two siblings), arriving in New York in 1942, and in Portland in 1943.
20 Friday Jan 2012
Posted in City, Modern Life
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Last night the water kept rising…streaming out of the creek onto the streets…and it looked like this:
but this morning the waters were down…
so I had a coffee with a friend and headed to the gym. The gym sits on a rise above Wallace Marine park…a big park with ball fields and many paths…but not today…the Willamette River had covered the entire park…
In our community there are many homeless people and transients and the river bank usually houses camps of people and singletons…apparently somebody got stranded by the water and the resuce effort was in full swing…
But by then it was pouring rain again so I scampered home before the boat was launched…
Hold on…help is on the way…
20 Friday Jan 2012
Posted in CCRHD, Court Street, Modern Life
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Seattle is snowed in but down here in the Willamette Valley we are in a flood. I went out at noon to check a neighbor’s house who is on vacation, and saw that Mill Creek is flooding…
Then at 4:00 we thought we’d go take a survey and didn’t have to go far…here’s our corner (Court and 17th)
and we’re still several blocks from Mill creek, so we got closer and it’s not a pretty sight…
the footbridge on Court Street at the creek is awash…
and the river is still 2 feet from flood stage with at least 5 days of rain predicted…(under the bridge at the left of the photo is a paddle wheeler…DOCKED…).
The neighborhood is swarming with volunteers and sandbags are the watchword…
Fingers crossed…
19 Thursday Jan 2012
Posted in Artists, Coffee art, Project Space 3, Salem Art Association, Uncategorized
Meeting yesterday to plan this summer’s “Project Space 4″ (check here for Project Space 3)…the usual culprits and some new faces…
with unique seating possibilities offered…
Today out to lunch at the restaurant located where “Morton’s” used to be…
It’s called “Broken Bread” and here’s the menu…same staircase
but new interior paint:
I had the omelet (very good but too many pumpkin seeds) and my lunch date had the salmon melt without the bread, and salad. (She brought me a hand-picked treat from the desert…)
later, after the movies (“HUGO”…loved it)
16 Monday Jan 2012
Posted in Beach, car wash, Celebrations
Friday was sunny and bright so we went to one of my FAVORITE spots
before heading to the beach for Cheryl’s birthday weekend, wherein Ashton sang
and Cheryl made a wish…
and the rest of us just laughed all weekend (have you ever played “Apples to Apples”??), heading home Sunday with snow threatened in the pass…yup…
