Category: Art work
Manuel Izquierdo: Farewell
Only three more days to get down to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see the Manuel Izquierdo Show. To celebrate the end of the show curator Roger Hull will moderate a panel of four regional sculptors at the museum on Sunday March 24th at 2:00 p.m., talking about Manuel and his work. As […]
Elizabeth Bauman
I went over to Elizabeth’s for coffee the other day. Her daughter Alex, our constant and much-loved companion last summer in Project Space, was in school, but Elizabeth showed me Alex’s current interest…legos… (and guess what ladies…they have GIRL legos now…) Last summer Alex was painting, cutting paper, drawing…in a concentrated and wonderful way… But […]
FOR SALE
Okay…our little enclave at the beach is just so…well…adorable. Especially our street, Ebb Street… which includes our house, Mary Lou and Alan’s, Terry and LuAnn’s, Wee Packum Inn, Jim & Carol’s and nearby David and Susan, and Sharon… we’re just around the corner from Josephine Young Park which is right on the Bay… In the […]
Xun Music
Friday afternoon we went to a lecture at Willamette…a discussion of a collaborative faculty project with student involvement that proved quite fascinating. Heidi Grew teaches ceramics and Juwen Zhang teaches Chinese. Professor Zhang had gotten very interested in an ancient Chinese instrument…the Xun. A globular clay flute with 5 holes (quite like an ocarina) and […]
A Quiet Day, A little Drawing…
This morning I just took myself out for coffee with the newspapers and my little current drawing book called “Map of the Table”… and I STARTED to draw, but there was a “lady” having one of those HORRIBLE loud cell phone conversations that overtakes a huge area and everyone in it….eek…do you know those people […]
Anne’s Quilt: Reality vs Abstract
Last fall I was in California with Carolyn, setting up an installation and show at the Lost Coast Culture Machine in Fort Bragg (“ART Laundry”). I showed 2D work, but also quilts, and gallery owner Anne Beck was curious about the process. “How do you make a quilt?” she said…I said…”you just start.” We struck […]
Moving to the Abstract…Quilts
Grids, abstracted images, hidden narratives…all part of the 2D work I make, AND…it’s just dawning on me…part of why I like quilting. Quilts can be quite abstract, they ARE grids, and they certainly contain hidden narratives…on several levels if you are using “repurposed” fabric. I’ve written here about the quilt I made for baby Hendrica […]
13 Hats at 12 X 16
It was a beautiful day for looking at art today (…and what day WOULDN”T be a beautiful day for looking at art???) so we jumped into the car and headed to the artist’s reception at 12 x 16 Gallery. The show there this month is by a collaborative group called “13 Hats”(…but really there are […]
Saturday Catch-up…
Wow… a busy three days have zoomed by over here in the far west. In chronological order (I’m influenced by an art historian here…) it looked like this…celebrate Jim’s birthday (and it was a major one…) have breakfast with artists…good talk, good breakfast… go get LAST (5th) cast removed, into “the boot”, and actually SEE […]
On The Way 