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!
23 Saturday Mar 2013
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I published this on my birthday in 2009, and every year since, but I still think it tells the first part of my story, so let’s go again…
Today is my birthday and I’ve attained a certain age. I have plans, things to do, places to go. But today I’m looking back.
(I tried to cut my own bangs–oops.)
For a few years after “the war,” I was an only child. We lived in an apartment in Chicago where I played.
I REALLY wanted to be a “cowgirl.” I dreamed of the far west. I idolized Hopalong Cassidy.
While I was running around the suburban streets pretending to be this and that, my parents were building a new house and having a new baby (or three…).
I noticed immediately that the driveway made a PERFECT stage:
Time passed and many new houses were built filling up the street. New brothers arrived, new cars.
Eventually they all moved into a bigger house, but by then I was gone, starting a new life. I moved to the far west to be a cowgirl.
Here’s to another year of fun, out on the ranch…!
06 Thursday Dec 2012
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New adventure…a few clues like…1963 and 2012….
building preparation…
…tools
trip…hallucination…??
mood elevation…!!!
Home to heal!
26 Wednesday Sep 2012
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I leave Friday for California, for a 10 day sojourn in Fort Bragg. Carolyn Schneider and I will be doing an installation at the Lost Coast Culture Machine…”Hull and Schneider met in a seventh grade art class in the Chicago suburbs, where Lake Michigan is the ocean.”
We’ll be examining the iconography of a mid-west girlhood where we leave some things out, but use every medium at hand to examine our co-past. (I know…two former wild girls roaming sedately around the Lost Coast. Now really, doesn’t it sound like fun?)
Last week I packed off some boxes of quilts…and they have arrived…
but we are considering drawing, book-making (the object kind, not the betting kind), ironing, sewing, quilting, drawing, washing, mending, drawing. The show opens October 6th and for the month Carolyn will be appearing in the gallery for “ironing hours.”
My first laundry piece was made in 1977…I was in a lint mode…washing and drying certain things together (a sweater and a towel with frayed fabric, for instance) to produce good looking lint…
The “tag line” for our show is “DRAW SORT CUT SEW WASH DRY MEND FOLD REPEAT” and we have lots of clothes line and clothes pins…I think you can expect a little bit of resonance with Andries Fourie’s beautiful installation (silk screen on sheeting) down at Project Space 2…165 Ferry Street SE…think it will be open Friday night between 5 and 9 (but I’ll already be in California so I won’t see you…). You can get a view through the window if you are out and about this week. Go see…it’s a wonderful space.
11 Saturday Aug 2012
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Back to reality today, a week after the wedding. I begin to think about hanging a little show of my summer work down at Project Space. I hope to have it all up Friday the 17th, and the “opening” will be First Wednesday, September 5th, 5-8 p.m. Come see if you are out and about. Project Space is open T-S from 11-2 on Liberty Street, between State and Court. Yesterday I finished the little “random” quilt. The methodology for this quilt grew out of a series of conversations with other artists about “random mark-making”…in this case random cutting, random assembly and random quilting. It still came out pretty cute (…waiting for the next baby??…anybody??).
It grew along with the other summer work down at Project Space…
and is the companion piece to the 2010 Project Space quilt (which now belongs to Violet Booth):
In addition to the quilt and the fabric pieces constituting the series called “My Mother’s Hand,” I completed two mono-print series of 14 pieces each. The first series is called “Walden” and includes these three…
and the second series is called “Homage” and includes these three…
Project Space is a scruffy place filled with lots of room to think and interesting people to talk to and has been the catalyst for me for a few years. Hope you can get downtown to see my work and the work of the other 7 or so artists going up this week…(which I will report on a bit later.) In the meantime here’s the beginning of a new series which I believe we can ALL relate to, no? “I was not like other children…”
Okay…off to ukulele practice!
20 Friday Jul 2012
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Friday is the first day of the three day art fair in the park here in Salem, all in aid of the Salem Art Association. Thursday night 5 artists sat in the rose garden making drawings to be auctioned later in the evening…after the sponsors ate a BBQ meal…they called the event “Quick Draw”…it was HOT in the flowers, but Dia was ready for it…
(there’s some sort of western theme this year…hence all the cowboy hats…)
R mentioned this morning there was “a hand” on the front page of the paper…guess who??…don’t miss the art fair!
18 Wednesday Jul 2012
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Remember that song? We do. Here’s R (the tall guy) at Hayden Lake Idaho
Carolyn on the left, Jennifer on the raft, Chris on the right, maybe about 1954, but you can still almost feel the cold lake water on your skin , NO??
Meanwhile back in the midwest, Driveway Bon is gearing up for a show on the cement…
You can kinda tell we were meant for each other…? So, in July of 1969 we got engaged!!!
(I just have this stuff on the brain since our son’s wedding is coming up…hope you readers can cut me some slack here…:)
11 Wednesday Jul 2012
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Consumed as we are by the flurry of summer activity around here, it’s kind of nice to check our long ago past activities…me as an “only child” (which didn’t last too long…) up near Ishpeming, MI…
R helping his Dad white wash the basement for a TV room, with sister Carolyn possibly helping and Piatt in charge…Wallace, Idaho…
29 Friday Jun 2012
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I was down at Project Space today for my daily 2 hours…Friday night, June 29th is the opening for round one…5:30 to 8:30. There will be refreshments, art and music…
I’m only a couple of weeks into my project so my contribution is small…
Liz Bauman has been painting like a maniac…and they’re wonderful
and so are the paintings of her small daughter Alex…
Ann Kresge and Rosemary Cohen have more realized “exhibits” (which I forgot to photograph due to conversation with Niels Nielsen about his interesting “instruments” which include this one that started life as a cello but is now an electric bass…)
and so is this one…and they will be making music Friday night…
and check his motorcycle!
At 7:30 performance artist Michael Reinsch will be doing his one man parade and today he was making the “floats” …can’t wait!
See you at the parade!
19 Tuesday Jun 2012
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Monday…I went down to Project Space to get set up…open hours begin Tuesday (11-2, Tuesday through Saturday). It was bliss locked in there all by myself…now that Phil has put in the lights…
The artists have begun to arrive and set up work spaces…little by little we are “claiming” the space anew…
So I set up my table, my “design wall” (as quilters say), my working light…
My monoprint bases (4-12″ squares, 8-6″ squares)…
and as I watched the lovely young woman wash the windows I realized the true fun thing…people outside can’t really see in at all, but from the inside you have a clear view!!!
Okay…the work begins in earnest tomorrow…
