We went to see Malia Jensen’s new show at Elizabeth Leach this morning (up until October 29th) with Sidney…he came with us to her show last year (“Homey” at Weiden & Kennedy) and loved the fox lamp and the seal and the giant cockroach…here’s a review of Sidney’s favorites from 2015… The show at Elizabeth […]
Category: City
The Cruise Interval
In the midst of the very busiest week of the summer we headed to Portland, met up with the art group members and mates, jumped onto Dayna and Howard’s boat “Rapture”, and headed out onto the Columbia River, heading west. When we first arrived at the slip though, I thought it might be the nightmare […]
The “State Street Corridor”
The City of Salem is rolling out a new plan called “The State Street Corridor” …and to that end we attended a recent neighborhood meeting where we were to sit around some tables and “brainstorm”…and the idea of planting came up, and trash, and this reminded us of the “State Street Renewal” group of the […]
Visiting Artists
And by that I mean the verb, not the noun. I consider it one of the real privileges I have to tag along with R when he’s off to interview an artist (future interviewees–I don’t always go, only sometimes.)…we smile and chat, he goes into to interview mode and I look and look. All good. […]
George Johanson’s Reductive Prints at Augen Gallery
Still raining… and after we heard Jackie Johnson speak, we dashed over to Augen Gallery to hear George Johanson talk about his beautiful show of 24 reductive prints he’s been working on for a year or two… We had visited his studio about a year ago and saw the set up and method and the […]
Jackie Johnson at Laura Russo
Dodging raindrops was not an option yesterday as we headed north to hear Jackie Johnson talk about her new work at the Laura Russo Gallery…it was POURING! The show opened last week and runs through March…terrific new paintings and Saturday Jackie was on hand to talk about the work. Even though as an artist […]
Eating Lunch With Dinosaurs…
After a long park visit, a quick stop to see Otto at Duplex Gallery and check the new show…including this piece by Shiloh Castello… and this piece reminding me of my childhood…now don’t get me wrong readers, I had loving parents who made my brothers and me into creative people BUT…or should I say BUTT…they […]
Saturday Stuff
Saturday was the kind of day I like best…lots of different stuff happening. It began here in town when the Salem Sketchers met up for coffee and drawing at Archive Coffee… and a selfie stick came in handy… …then a zydeco jam over at the Mill (hoping they do it monthly as it was FUN..people […]
Michael Boonstra, Eunice Parsons and SIDNEY!
Monday is Sidney day every week. We head to Portland to hang out with a very nice young man, soon to be 2, but Monday is a day most galleries are closed. ONE gallery that IS open that we’ve come to like is Duplex Gallery. One reason we like to go is the very nice […]
Portland Quick Trip
I headed up to Portland Wednesday with Katy and Kathy to see the Paul Allen Show of Landscapes “Seeing Nature” at the Portland Art Museum, and the Emmet Gowin aerial photos of various nuclear dumps and bomb sites “Force of Nature”…first though–lunch… and a quick run through the Desoto Building galleries…with the emphasis on Blue […]