We headed north today to drop off a piece of mine as donation to the silent auction at Disjecta (November 16th)… and to see the current Biennial on view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (8371 N. Interstate). From 1949 to 2010 the Biennial was at the Portland Art Museum, but more recently has been on […]
Two exhibits open this weekend at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. We got to preview the fantastic George Rodriguez show during installation the other day and really…this shouldn’t be missed. The scale is huge and the work is gorgeous… Here are a few of the “Georges” Rodriguez was born in El Paso of immigrant […]
There is a week between delivering my work to the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and my actually seeing the exhibit up on the walls. A week for the curator, Sarah Cuevas, to arrange, decide, place. I’ll see the exhibit (“Little Me”) in place next Monday when the curtain goes up […]
Beginning May 13th and running until July 19th, I will have a solo exhibition of paintings (plus two quilts) at the Minthorne Gallery at George Fox University in Newberg. Always anecdotal, my work of the last two years has been defined by memory and image. All the ingredients of the work I’ve been making all […]
Dan slipped off the island this week and won’t be coming back. All of us Islanders are bereft, and others in the greater world too. Artist, poet, maker, gatherer, friend. Dan lived his life here. He left a few times but always came back, even though…it had its difficulties… His presence here made Salem an […]
You still have 10 days to go see Seattle painter Kyle Cook’s show (https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/01/14/events-excavations-constructions/) at the Helzer Gallery at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus, gallery hours 9-5:30 M-F…up until February 22, 2019. The paintings are handsome with a map-like quality which hovers between landscape and abstraction. Bits of the road are embedded in the […]
Today was first Thursday, which is good news for you guys. It means you have a whole month to get to the Russo Lee Gallery at 21st and Johnson NW in Portland to see new paintings by Lucinda Parker, who currently has a newly opened retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem […]
We dropped in to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art today to see the progress on the installation of the exhibition of Lucinda Parker’s paintings. R’s cousin Lisa was visiting overnight and though she has her copy of R’s book on the work of painter Lucinda Parker, she won’t be able to be at the […]
Years ago I made a little painting (now in the collection of the Salem Public Library) called “Everything, Everything”…all the thoughts, all the feelings, all the activity of a life. And now in this season of my own life I guess that’s the way I think. The categories are loosening, the sense of the whole […]
It WAS Sidney day but it began quietly on the deck doing my five 1-minute warmup drawings of my breakfast (Hi Katy)… then the dash to Portland to pick-up Sidney from Camp and grab some lunch for us… before heading off to the last swimming lesson with Sam who miraculously has taught this boy to […]
