Bob Schlegel is a good painter. In our world you see his work all over in public places. And though his paintings are nice, calming, interesting and the sort of paintings you can live with, it’s the other stuff he makes that I love. Stuff isn’t maybe the best word for these inventive crazy constructions…houses, […]
Category: Sculpture
Retreat from “Bag Week” Part 2
Saturday Happy Hour was at Washington High School…now home to bars, restaurants, music venues, offices all with the feel of the old high school… followed by dinner with loved ones. Sunday brunch at Rae’s Lakeview…no lake, no view, lots of mimosas and hipsters…we snuck in before the crowd… and then off to the Portland Art […]
Archival Adventure
We picked up Willamette University Archivist Mary McRobinson this morning and headed up to Portland to visit Mardy Widman. The Widman family has donated Portland painter Harry Widman’s archival papers and materials to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive (PNAA) at Willamette. Today we were going up with Mary to see Harry’s studio, the breadth of […]
Back to the Galleries
The busy summer of writing and sewing has kept us out of the Portland galleries. We were up in the city Saturday though and took in a few. We missed Jack Portland’s talk Saturday at Laura Russo but R particularly wanted to see this painting…”Thanks Louis, I’m just starting to get it.” and I liked […]
Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum, and Elsewhere…
Friday night was the opening of the two summer shows at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. The BIG summer show is the work of Portland sculptor Mel Katz, with also the very fine show of drawings by artists Christy Wyckoff and Tom Prochaska. Mel Katz was to speak at 5:00 but […]
Around Town Wednesday
We were out and about today and here’s what we saw…we drove by the storefront where Mary Lou Zeek’s new “pop-up” show BLINK opens on February 23 (in between Magoo’s and the OLCC store on SE Commercial Street). The gala is Tuesday, February 24 from 5-7 and should be fun. She has a new idea […]
Kristin Kuhns at the Salem Public Library
The Salem Public Library Foundation has raised the money for improvements to and enlargement of the Children’s Room at the Library (thank you donors!). The project is underway at the library right now, with hopes to have it ready and open this December. As part of the project, the Foundation asked Salem sculptor Kristin Kuhns […]
On the Move
I’m thinking I should change the name of the blog to “On the Move” after this week. We headed up the Gorge passing Multnomah Falls, and stopping at Boda’s Kitchen (thank you George) in Hood River for a quick and delicious lunch before crossing the bridge at The Dalles and heading east on beautiful highway […]
Robert Hess
It’s been four years since sculptor Robert Hess died and I’ve been thinking about him this week. I thought maybe I’d republish this blog post I wrote at the time of his death because I still appreciate him and miss him, I can still here his funny, hearty voice, and I like the thought of […]
Heidi Preuss Grew: Into the Wilderness
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 […]
On The Way 