But we began this outing with a visit to Tom Cramer’s again to see the wooden chests and boxes he makes and then a visit to his clients who have a newly made chest in place in their beautiful house where every single room is a “room with a view” and as you can tell […]
Category: Art World
Henk Pander and Roger Hull, a Conversation
Sunday was the last day for Henk Pander’s splendid retrospective “Memory and Modern Life” at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. At 2:00 Henk and Roger, mostly Henk of course, talked about Henk’s work, idea methods. it was a packed house…standing room only…and pretty interesting…the crowd was responsive and asked lots of questions: and the […]
Henk & Roger at PNCA
Roger “took it on the road” last night for his “last” (I doubt this…) lecture on Henk Pander, in Portland at PNCA. Art History is always frought with technical problems, it seems, but at PNCA the excellent Bobby was totally organized and then it was “show time”! with a nice Q&A afterwords… the last chance […]
Eunice Parsons & Mardy Widman at 12 X 16
Went to the artist’s reception Sunday for Eunice and Mardy and their handsome show at 12 X 16. Eunice flew the coop before I got her picture, but her truly excellent work (all NEW work) is gorgeous Mardy’s elegant squares are glowing away on the gallery walls, result of lots of experimentation and work, but…there […]
Living The Creative Life: Tom Cramer
We stopped at Tom Cramer’s house/studio the other day where he’s finishing up the work for his upcoming show at the Laura Russo Gallery in May, and here’s a sneak preview of some of the work…most of it “figurative”…sort of…and wonderful: …and the house is an eyeful too…filled with Tom’s art and the work of […]
Henk Pander on the McCall Portrait…
An intrepid band of the general public met today at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to watch a video made in 2002 about Henk Pander and the painting of his 1982 portrait of Governor Tom McCall, and then to take walk over to the State Capitol Building to look at the painting. We were […]
LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE: MATT GLAVIN
We visited the studio of Rex Amos on Monday (see previous post) and in addition to Rex’s work, we saw the work of painter Matt Glavin…studio-mate and long-time friend of Rex. Matt (Portland/Berkeley/Cannon Beach) paints in acrylic, and for years has brought 20-24 paintings every 6 months to Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA where they […]
Living the Creative Life: Rex Amos
Our trip to Cannon Beach was all business, that turned out to be all fun too. We were meeting Rex and Diane Amos, and Roger was to make a visit to Rex’s studio to see what was on hand. As often happens, I get the fun of going along. Rex lived and worked in Portland […]
Art at the Capitol…
Besides being a day of “love,” February 14th is also the birthday of Oregon’s statehood…1859…and here’s the mural in the senate chamber at the Capitol picturing the horseman arriving (…at Champoeg maybe…?) with the announcement that Oregon is now a state… and though I AM a loyal Oregonian, I wasn’t there for the birthday party. […]
HENK PANDER/Opening, Lecture…
Two years of interviews, writing, thinking…and a lifetime of art making….all conjoined into one evening, one wonderful and interesting evening: Tulips everywhere in preparation for Henk’s arrival: But first: …and we’re off and running… …and a little bit of a family occasion for us with our son and his partner and two of my brothers […]
On The Way 