Some years, around my birthday, I’m cut free from my moorings…just floating. The new year direction hasn’t kicked in…it isn’t orderly yet, anything could happen. So I review the messages… Clean the studio… review the day: look at completed work: start something new… on line shopping?? (new lights) visit friends… (Kay Worthington’s “anatomy of an […]
So Roger Hull not only writes the books and curates the shows, he also delivers books to various places (“distributor”added to his CV) and Thursday we headed to Augen Gallery with some books for the upcoming George Johanson show this spring. Augen Gallery wasn’t open yet, so we went next door to the Froelick Gallery […]
Today we headed to Eugene to make a stop at the Karin Clarke Gallery to have a sneak preview of her new exhibit “Carl Hall: Nudes”… and to bring Karin some copies of R’s very first monograph “Eden Again: The Art of Carl Hall” written in 2001, to sell during the exhibit. It’s been many […]
Monday was Sidney day but before we picked him up we stopped by to visit Christy and Laura Wyckoff to see Christy’s new work. The work hit several chords with me, so I thought I’d share. He is one of three artists showing at Blackfish Gallery during the month of February (opening February 1) along […]
January at last. New Year, new thoughts, new work. December often feels like a month of looking back and summing up but…January is a whole different deal. Of course it also means rain… and our year/month began at the beach watching the bay… reading by the fire… appreciating the sunny days of that first week… […]
Until December 2nd you have a chance to see Lucinda Parker’s new paintings at the Russo Lee Gallery (805 NW 21st Street in Portland)…most done in the last three months. The show is entitled “Knowledge is Not Our Enemy” which sounds possibly political, but isn’t. It’s about mountains…most specifically our own MT. Hood. This morning […]
Here are the artists Sandra Loy (sloy) and Dave Nichols (nic) in a photo taken by their good friend painter Rob Bibler (with painter April Waters taking a view in the gallery tonight). She a writer/artist and he a painter/sculptor. For years they have been making art in Salem, art of a personal and terrific […]
Before we leave Temple Square and the elms let me show you this one…John Constable, English, “Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree,” oil, 1821….the fun of a resident art historian is that while one is in a reverie about the elms of one’s childhood, R is immediately struck with the similarity of the […]
But for the first time in a few years we will not be heading up for “Sidney day” because he starts full-time preschool today. Last week we had our last of such days, and though Sidney will still be a delightful part of our lives, the weekly conversation about this and that is complete. Since […]
The media is filled this morning…eclipse photos of great telescopic/cellphone beauty…ecstatic exclamations…large groups all experiencing together this moment of science and imagination…great fun. I didn’t think I’d write about it since my pictures are blurry and unremarkable in every way…but…why not. Maybe many of us though decided to experience this phenomenon in our own backyards…to […]
