Just a reminder…This Sunday, March 15, 2015, at 2:00 PM at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Roger Hull will give a lecture on the photographer Myra Wiggins…”Art References, Art Echoes in the Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins.” Hull has curated a nice show of Wiggins’ photos now on view (until April 26) […]
Category: Artists
Zena Zezza
In November of 1974, in New York City, the artist Jean Dupuy spent 9 hours making soup and then invited people to come to The Kitchen, have some soup and bread and apple tart and watch 38 artists each present a 2 minute performance, reading, dance, musical piece, poem, story…whatever. It was called “Soup & […]
Barbara Rowland, 1948 – 2015
The photographer Barbara Rowland was such a talented presence in our art community. I met her at the first Project Space, some years ago. She walked around and around Salem taking photos, was never without a camera. Because she was a wily photographer she was also good at avoiding being photographed herself…but I did get […]
Clay Ball
Last night was the annual Clay Ball art auction to benefit the Salem Art Association. Money was raised, art changed hands, friends were greeted… But the fun this year was the hats…glamorous or fanciful… some chose to wear “virtual” hats…(including Clay Ball originator Mary Lou Zeek who was thinking about her upcoming pop-up art show […]
“Sketching” Around Town
Drawing is one of my favorite activities, and this weekend in Salem there were some fun opportunities, if you like to draw with a group…and sometimes I do. (My brother How turned me on to the Urban Sketchers blog a few years ago…the tag line is “seeing the world one drawing at a time”.) Saturday […]
Wild Women 2015
The annual Wild Women show opened at the River Gallery last night with Sloy’s paintings shining out like beacons… this one is called “opposite dimples” and there’s a nice article about the making of this painting in the current Salem Weekly. One advantage of Sloy’s paintings is they are BIG in a room of small […]
Art All Day…Again…
I’ve used the headline “Art All Day” before, and it seems to refer to a day like Thursday…a day filled up from morning to night with a wide variety of art work to consider, which for people like us is about the best possible day. We headed to Portland early and the first stop was […]
Sleuthing Louis Bunce
The first 40 pages of the initial draft are written for the monograph Roger Hull is writing about painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). Bunce was active in the art life of Portland, Oregon, for some 50 years, spending 6 years during that time in New York City. He was a student at the Art Student’s League […]
Open Studios, Studio at the Mill
I took a new little studio this fall to do a drawing project away from my home studio. It was very economical, in an historic structure, plenty of parking, 4 minutes from home. It has been a pleasant and quiet place to work so far…and even though I share the space, I rarely coincide with […]
Louis Bunce…the work proceeds…
Louis Bunce has moved into a room in our heads these days, as R begins phase two of the intensive research and writing to prepare the show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 2017, and the book (working title “Louis Bunce: Dialog with Modernism”). He’s wading through interviews, websites, newspaper reviews and other […]
On The Way 