Wet Collodion Process and Farm lunch…

19 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Alexandra Opie, Alisa Alexander, farm cart lunch, McGilchrist Building, MIG Farm Stand, Salem, wet collodion process

That’s a mix of activities, like any good Wednesday can provide…but first, anybody know what’s happening to the McGilchrist Building?

we were so happy to see the ugly stuff coming off an revealing the original graceful proportions or the windows…here’s hoping they are heading in the right direction!

Alisa breezed into town yesterday from Santa Barbara (where she’s working on her PhD in art history) and came for supper…

and this morning I took her along to photographer Alexandra Opie’s photo studio to “pose”. Last summer I sat for a tin type for Alexandra’s portrait series, and this summer Alexandra is examining the wet collodion process. She’s combining the photo process with traced images of period (1860-80) costume for some interesting results…

Here’s Alexandra preparing the plate she’ll use for her image of Alisa…

then down to the photo studio…where Alexandra explains how she wants Alisa to stand

then back upstairs to the darkroom for chemicals and a water bath, and to watch the image emerge…

and unlike this modern digital-instant-photo age, this whole process took two hours, but was fascinating…so we needed to repair to the countryside for a MIG farm stand lunch…

we both had the salad trio…quinoa, kale and a blue cheese on lettuce…YUM!

TWTWTW

14 Friday Jun 2013

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Art, bathroom, Constance Fowler, Craig Goodworth, George Johanson, historic Salem, Jack McLarty, Mario Gonzales, Project Space, quonsets, Salem Federal Art Center, vinatge photos

Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere…

so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art until July 21st…check it out. Last Sunday R gave a lecture and here (bad photo…from the projected slide…apologies) is Connie’s “selfie” from 1944…

and an early photo of her…

and after the lecture her niece and namesake Connie Bataille gave graceful remarks thanking R and the museum for showcasing Fowler’s work.

…then off we went to the uke “gig”…

and the week begins. We took a trip to Portland to look at some things of Jack McLarty’s in storage, bringing up a topic we’ve been thinking about lately…the dilemma of too much art on hand as an artist ages, and dies (McLarty died in 2011).

…we even found an early George Johanson painting in the mix…

Here was one of my favorites…Jack’s “Selfie” (of which he had MANY)…

a fascinating couple of hours…and then

off to New Seasons in search of a roasted chicken…

…meanwhile back in Salem Project Space opened the second show…young Chicano artists…quite smashing…here is Mario Gonzales’ wall painting…

and Rich McLoud sang at the opening…

while we all milled about…

Project Space is once again showing the edgiest work locally…this summer the shows move fast so you have to remain alert…

Project Space is under the Salem Art Association banner and here are some WPA photos of the beginning of SAA…the first gallery was in the basement of the old Salem High School, located on the property now home to Macy’s at Center and High Streets…

The gallery was built kind of in the hallway of the old school on the ground floor…and was flooded and ruined in the winter of 1942, when the Willamette River overflowed.

so I leave you with a quonset…right near my FAVORITE coffee place Crema, 28th and Ankeny SE…check it out…Have a good weekend!

Works in Progress….

09 Sunday Jun 2013

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This weekend I got OUT of the bathroom…

and INTO the studio…

where, after looking at an old painting painted in memory of the lovely William Peyron, dishwasher at the Arbor Cafe for 6 years, reader, person of great good humor (sometimes old paintings are better than photographs for conjuring people up…this is called “I Dreamed Billy Came to the Wedding”)

I turned to working on several things that have been in progress through the winter, including a couple of gouaches in a series of R and artists…details only today…

and then a series I have going about sunlight falling on the house

Just BEING in the studio in the garden is so much fun…I went out for an hour and stayed for three!

This morning I’m working on the “Spring” quilt in a desperate attempt to finish it off before the summer solstice…

but think I’d better go practice my uke…there’s a “gig” today (unbelieveable but true…!)

DAN MAY: Hooray!!!

30 Thursday May 2013

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We were both VERY excited to hear this afternoon that Salem artist Dan May has been named a 2013 Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts, along with Portland artist Cynthia Lahti and Eugene artist Mike Bray. These three were chosen from a “diverse pool” of 183 artists, and each will receive an unrestricted grant of $25,000.

Dan May has a fierce work ethic, a focused art practice and a unique view of the world, taking cues from found materials and local culture. For more than 40 years we have watched him make interesting and beautiful things, interpret this place where we live, received messages from him both intriguing and thoughtful. Roger and I could not be more pleased that the Ford Family Foundation has chosen Dan May for this award.

Carl Hall: Ephemera

28 Tuesday May 2013

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Regional artist Carl Hall left a wealth of material behind for his family to deal with after his death in 1996. His wife and daughters have generously donated paintings to many institutions in the Pacific Northwest, sold much work, and sorted and re-formatted more. Still…Carl was prolific and there is the fantastically interesting archival material left. The Hall daughters are donating these small ephemeral drawings to the Northwest Artist’s Archive at Willamette University. R and I agreed to help out by sorting several boxes of drawings…fascinating for an artist (me) to see what another artist (Carl) held on to. Many of the papers are just scraps with fascinating notations about color, or titles maybe, or methods to use…or maybe just an idea. I just thought you might like a peek at the process…

tomorrow off it goes to the archive…

Happy Birthday Harry!

19 Sunday May 2013

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found objects, Harry Widman, Quilts, Sculpture, sky, studios

We started Sunday at the beach…

but quickly jumped in the car, and headed home to get ready for Harry’s 84th birthday party. LUCKILY I can sew in the car (…and no, I wasn’t driving…) I’m still working on the spring quilt…trying to finish before summer gets here!

The sky was so beautiful today….

We arrived home and I rushed off to a uke jam, while R fixed asparagus to take up to Harry’s party (oh…and we got rear-ended on the way home…)…we then jumped back into the only-slightly-damaged car with our offering in the “catering wrap” (hi Randy…)

and headed north. After hugging and eating there was singing to the birthday guy…

and a tour of the new studio finds…Mardy recently found some crates in the garage that she thought were empty, but in fact they were full of these lovely wood sculptures Harry made in the 1970′s…

Harry is deeply into Alzheimer’s now, but the reassuring thing to me is that although he can’t remember us (though he doesn’t mind a hug), he is STILL making and arranging things…things he finds around or outside…and these are poignant and beautiful.

The studio remains full of energy and life, Harry’s life.

…and here’s an idea I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to use…Thanks Harry, and Happy Happy Birthday. XXOO

Living the Creative Life: Claudia Cave, Ella Rhoades, Cynthia Spencer

15 Wednesday May 2013

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On Monday the “Salem Tribe” (Heidi Preuss Grew, Kristin Kuhns, Corrie Loomis Dietz and me) went to the Corvallis Arts Center to see the drawing show “Making a Mark” which comes down May 18th. Though I have some drawings in the show and wanted feedback, really I was thinking they might all really like this interesting show for different reasons. The Arts Center is closed Monday but curator/exhibition director Hester Coucke met us and let us look around…

Three Corvallis artists (Claudia Cave, Ella Rhoades and Cynthia Spencer) joined us and invited us to tour each of their studios … a nice inducement for us to drive down!

First we went to Ella’s house. Ella Rhoades is a mosaic artist currently involved in a huge civic project…making mosaic panels for insertion in the utilitarian cement trash receptacles around town…

Over 900 volunteers (including the 4 of us) have helped fashion the mosaic panels which will soon be installed and grouted in place…

and after a tour of Ella’s studio and projects…

we plopped onto her deck in the beautiful garden for our lunch…

On we went to Cynthia’s. Cynthia works with clay, hand-building all manner of items both functional and not. She’s having a garden/studio sale this weekend, and also has a beautiful garden…

and a house full of wonderful ceramics pieces from a variety of artists…

We checked the garage seconds shelves (ready to move into the garden for her sale…)

and headed down to her basement studio…

including her ingenious set-up for photographing her work…

and finally on to Claudia Cave’s studio. The group got side-tracked at her floors though…sanded and painted floorboard revealed when the carpeting was taken up in 2000. Rag rolled paint, sealed…gorgeous…

We were all amazed at Claudia’s wonderful adjustable table…

We headed to Coffee Culture for a rejuvenating coffee to discuss our day…

and we were off home where my new cup from Cynthia’s sale looks pretty good with a couple of small Heidi pieces…

Thanks to the Corvallis crew for a great day full of good talk…and great images to carry home.

“Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon”

25 Thursday Apr 2013

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If you’re down Corvallis way you still have 2 more weeks to see the nice drawing show “Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon” at the Corvallis Art Center (700 SW Madison Ave)…up until May 18th.

Of course I WOULD say it’s a nice show because I have some drawings in it, but actually…it really is a nice show!

the opening was fun and well attended…

Here’s artist Yoonhee Choi looking at a Jim Adams drawing…

Dan May on the left, Michele Liccardo in the middle, me on the right…

…and last week a few of us spoke in a brown bag panel discussion at noon in the gallery…l to r Ellen Goldschmidt, Andy Myers, Elaine Green, and Clint Brown…

here’s my drawing “Tron”…surprisingly, one of the few abstract pieces in the show…

Go take a look and let me know what you think?

Room With a View

08 Monday Apr 2013

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April Waters, Art, Artists, mid-century modern houses, Nathan Good, Neskowin, ocean view, painting, Roscoe D. Hemenway, studios

Saturday we headed north up the coast…

to visit April and Nathan in their newish beach house (they got it last July). It has an amazing amazing view and April has set up her easel in the living room and is painting there as many days as she can be away from Salem…

Not only are the views beautiful but the house is a gem…built in 1948 and designed by Portland architect Roscoe D. Hemenway, Nathan is an architect and was pleased to be able to get a copy of the original drawings for the house…

The house provides great spaces for April’s paintings…

and other people’s paintings too…here’s a cheery bouquet by Nancy Lindburg in the kitchen…

so after a glass of wine and a good conversation about art and music, while staring at the view… we took one last look

and headed south…thanks Nathan and April for a warm and lovely afternoon!

“Map of the Table”

05 Friday Apr 2013

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Just finishing up my most recent sketchbook project book in preparation for sending it off to the Brooklyn Art Library…maybe it will come to Portland this summer on the Sketchbook Tour??! One more page to go but thought I’d just put it on here today…it’s called “Map of the Table” and I’ve been dragging it around with me, making small drawings on a variety of small tables around the region…

Have a great weekend!

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