Make a point of seeing Heidi Preuss Grew’s new show of work in clay at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, up until May 11, 2014. The work is funny, beautiful, sad, mysterious…thought provoking. The narrative thread is strong, and yesterday I went to hear her talk about her work in the gallery, hoping she […]
Category: Artists
Francis Bacon at PAM
On the way home from the farm we stopped to get a last look at the Francis Bacon triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” on view at the Portland Art Museum until March 30th. These paintings were bought last year by collector Elaine Wynn at a Christies’ auction. Christies estimated the sale at a possible […]
Eunice Parsons at the PNAA
An exciting day this week when Eunice Parsons brought her papers to the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artists Archive) at the Willamette University Library. Roger Hull and archivist Mary McRobinson have been actively collecting the “papers” (correspondence, drawing books, clippings, photographs, exhibition announcements, cassette interviews) of Oregon artists since 1997…an invaluable resource for researchers working on […]
Henk Pander, Louis Bunce, and Georgette Jones
We headed to Portland last weekend to look at art…and found some before we ever hit the galleries… Stopped in to Laura Russo to catch up with Henk Pander’s big, muscular watercolors… and while we were there R pulled out some Louis Bunce paintings as the “Louis Bunce Season” is starting up…this piece was one […]
William Park, Kristin Kuhns, Cynthia Spencer
I went to Linn Benton Community College in Albany the other day to the opening of their annual invitational show. Each faculty member invites the artist of their choice to participate. Kristin Kuhns (Salem), William Park (Portland), and Cynthia Spencer (Corvallis) were all going to be there talking about their work…and I really like to […]
Jack Portland on Louis Bunce, Blackfish at 35
To Portland yesterday to see a nice show of work on paper by Louis Bunce (1907-1983) at the Laura Russo Gallery. R has begun the long and interesting process of researching the life and work of Louis Bunce for a show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in January/March of 2017. There was a […]
Cabinet of Curiosities
Opening tonight of a nice group show at SAA’s A.N.Bush gallery featuring various spins on the theme “Cabinet of Curiosities”…drawings, cabinets of stuff, photos, stuffed animals (taxidermy is very big these days) 9 or 10 artists, nice work, too much to meaningfully photograph. Better go take a look as it’s up until February 22. What […]
Living the Creative Life: Jon Colburn, 2013
A nice way to coast down the slope of old year is to visit a studio…most especially the studio of an industrious worker. I’ve written about Jon Colburn before here and here, but haven’t visited his studio in a while. The studio is deep in the back garden and Arvo was outside to greet me…well […]
“Louis Bunce” Begins…
From January through March of 2017 the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present a show surveying the work and career of Portland painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). The show will be curated by art historian Roger Hull, and there will be a book. You don’t have to mark your calendars yet…I’ll remind you….but this week […]
QUONSET NEWS!
Well not exactly news actually, but news to me. My friend Karen is an archivist of sorts…she saves, she bundles, she files…then she purges by sending off the myriad clippings and files she has saved to the people she knows are interested. The other day this came in the mail… And she’s right…I love quonset […]
On The Way 