I took a new little studio this fall to do a drawing project away from my home studio. It was very economical, in an historic structure, plenty of parking, 4 minutes from home. It has been a pleasant and quiet place to work so far…and even though I share the space, I rarely coincide with […]
Louis Bunce has moved into a room in our heads these days, as R begins phase two of the intensive research and writing to prepare the show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 2017, and the book (working title “Louis Bunce: Dialog with Modernism”). He’s wading through interviews, websites, newspaper reviews and other […]
The painters are coming in November to paint the woodwork upstairs…which means I have to move the flat-file. Oh “ye gods” as my Mama used to say. It’s a mess back there… Some paintings on paper, some just plain blank paper, but MOSTLY…drawings. And most of them are life-drawings. I was thinking of going to […]
The Portland painter Harry Widman died last night after a long fight against Alzheimer’s. He was surrounded by his family and friends, and at home. We met Harry and Mardy in 2008, when Roger Hull began to write Harry’s story and curate a show of his work that opened at the Hallie Ford Museum of […]
We “scampered up” (as Harriet J. Connor used to say) to Portland Monday to see SRH and continue our training for a street Band… and for me to get to play with his toys… but we worked in a nice visit with George and Phyllis where we saw the big version of Johanson’s painting…recently back […]
The Salem Public Library Foundation has raised the money for improvements to and enlargement of the Children’s Room at the Library (thank you donors!). The project is underway at the library right now, with hopes to have it ready and open this December. As part of the project, the Foundation asked Salem sculptor Kristin Kuhns […]
The lost is found…in this case photos. Saturday, after listening to George speak at Augen Gallery, we went next door to the Froelick Gallery to see Barry Pelzner’s knockout pieces…ball point pen on a good piece of paper: dense, visceral, wonderful…simple and complex together. Katherine Ace uses pattern and texture to great advantage… …and then […]
You have until November 1st to visit the Augen Gallery in the DeSoto Building (716 NW Davis in Portland) to see the pure delight that a painter can take in the act of painting, and powerfully transmit that same delight to the viewer. George Johanson’s big show includes many new paintings from this year as […]
Sometimes you just have to sit on your hands and let it all roll over you…in a good way. Friday night was the Sponenburgh Lecture for 2014 at Willamette University…this time a favorite son. Adam Stennett graduated from Willamette in 1994 and two weeks later he was in New York City seeking his fortune as […]
Last weekend we stayed at the wonderful Wave Crest in Cannon Beach, being lovers of the authentic Oregon experience, and it was fun. When owner (Daryl)Hank Johnson was a Portlander (curator at the Washington Park Rose Garden) he often stayed at the Wave Crest, and then just up and bought it from his retiring friends […]
On The Way 