Readers!! Here’s a reminder: The wonderful Henk Pander retrospective (1959-present)…curated by the engaging Roger Hull, opens Friday night, January 28th, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem. The festivities will include: 5:00 p.m. lecture by said Roger Hull in the Paulus lecture hall in the Willamette University Law School at 245 Winter Street […]
Category: Art World
Portrait Unveiling…
Back to reality today, and art reality comes first. We joined a large crowd at the Oregon State Capitol building… to witness the unveiling of the new portrait of soon-to-be-former governor Ted Kulongoski by Portland artist Eduardo Fernandez (note the painting covered with a black cloth behind the podium) There many speeches, many thank-you’s, the […]
Living the Creative Life: Henk Pander
On Sunday I rode along when R took the galleys for the book up to Henk for “color correction”… I like going to Henk’s warm and textural house, filled with art and flowers (always still-life-worthy flowers)… But before they jumped into the manuscript we went out to the studio to see the paintings he has […]
Eunice Parsons at Luke Dolkas
Eunice Parsons is a woman of such talent and focus it often takes my breath away. I wrote about her in May 2009 and a studio visit R made to see her work. Today a new show of small collages opens at Luke Dolkas art & framing (2707 SE Belmont) and I zoomed by Friday […]
Birthday Week, Day 2
The fun goes on. A couple of days in the city with the first event being DE May’s opening at PDX Gallery. An elegant strong show of beautiful work, sort of holds the gallery up to the light. The show combines 2-d “template drawings” with 3-d constructions…some using found objects some constructions..both with Dan’s mastery […]
Happy Birthday!!!
Today was R’s birthday and we managed to pack in QUITE a bit. We left the beach early in a downpour and grabbed a quick bite at Starbbucks where we discovered the answer to the question “Where does Santa Claus really live…” Answer: Lincoln City…and he has coffee at Starbucks Zoomed back to Salem to […]
Another Art Saturday…
Up to Portland today to see some art before attending the artists’ reception at 12X16. Stopped at Elizabeth Leach Gallery to look at Malia Jensen’s “Shelved” which included bronze and cast crystal pieces and then a nice selection of Lee Kelly smaller works to compliment the big show of his work at The Portland Art […]
Coffee…Art…
Actually I had this coffee on Thursday in Sellwood…not as professionally beautiful as stumptown, but good…just longing for it here on a gloomy Saturday morning…plus the need to post something that isn’t about the studio project… We went to a terrific show Thursday at the Marylhurst Art Gym…their 30th anniversary show…which was all portraits of […]
George Johanson at PNCA
Up to PNCA this evening to hear George talk about “Seven Decades as a Painter” at the PNCA alumni evening: There was a reception and all of George’s paintings to contemplate…and then the lights went down and we were welcomed by college president Tom Manley and then it was George’s turn: George graduated from the […]
“Tales From the Back Porch”
That’s the title of the Corrie Loomis-Dietz/Paula Portinga Booth show now on at George Fox University until October 21 in the Minthorne Gallery in the Hoover Academic Building on campus. Well worth a trip up to see it. Kay and I drove up today to hear Corrie and Paula talk about their work. The placed […]
On The Way 