Our quilt group meets the first Tuesday of the month. I’m the newby and haven’t been to see everybody’s work and sewing room yet….so was bowled over today when we met at Ethelwyne’s house in the country. She had the welcome sign out for us on her porch… and we saw her sewing room… with […]
Category: Art work
Francis Bacon at PAM
On the way home from the farm we stopped to get a last look at the Francis Bacon triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” on view at the Portland Art Museum until March 30th. These paintings were bought last year by collector Elaine Wynn at a Christies’ auction. Christies estimated the sale at a possible […]
Disjecta’s Portland Biennial, 2014
Saturday was “Biennial day” and we looked at a lot. I encourage you to visit the three or 4 venues and see the work. I’m including here the things that were most interesting to me…so this is not an encyclopedic list. An early stop was at the Upfor Gallery at NE Flanders and 9th where […]
Eunice Parsons at the PNAA
An exciting day this week when Eunice Parsons brought her papers to the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artists Archive) at the Willamette University Library. Roger Hull and archivist Mary McRobinson have been actively collecting the “papers” (correspondence, drawing books, clippings, photographs, exhibition announcements, cassette interviews) of Oregon artists since 1997…an invaluable resource for researchers working on […]
TOO Much Fun…
Kate invited me along to her quilt group this morning, and what a fun group they are. A variety of ages, a variety of interests, and very welcoming. Our hostess was Linda whose entire house is a quilting treasure trove…here’s a brief tour…she collects buttons… including this cute as a button pup named Buttons… and […]
John Brodie/Debra Beers/Ted Vogel
On our way to and from seeing Sidney (our current priority!) we swung through some college art galleries and saw a couple of terrific shows. Portland artist John Brodie’s show “Versus Artifacts” is up at the Linfield College Gallery until March 22 and is well worth a trip to McMinnville.. This one is called “Hello, […]
Kate Wagle/Keith Achepol
Print maker Keith Achepol has a show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this month…a suite of prints based on imagined narratives derived from Italian ex voto images. Thursday night metal smith Kate Wagle of Portland spoke about the history of the ex voto, and her own interest in them as metal objects. Ex […]
Henk Pander, Louis Bunce, and Georgette Jones
We headed to Portland last weekend to look at art…and found some before we ever hit the galleries… Stopped in to Laura Russo to catch up with Henk Pander’s big, muscular watercolors… and while we were there R pulled out some Louis Bunce paintings as the “Louis Bunce Season” is starting up…this piece was one […]
Snowpocalypse? Snowmageddon? Valentines??
As it turns out, none of the above were reasons why I took a little blog vacation…it was the more mundane collapse of my computer and the subsequent purchase and installation of a NEW computer as well as…of course…the installation of a new printer that would “interface” (I actually don’t like that word) with said […]
Snow Day
There is something really nice about a snow day…a day without walls, a stay-in-your- jammies-all-day-if-you-want kind of day, as Ellen says (she lives in Vermont where snow days are more prevalent). I hear they are calling this “Snowpocalypse 2014”, this weekend we are entering. (Growing up in the mid-west, a scant half of an inch […]
On The Way 