We zoomed into Sellwood to catch Cary Doucette’s show at 12X16 the other day, and I LOVE this new work. Cary often works with recycled or cast off materials…always to good effect. His inspiration for this work was the foam sculpture made by John Chamberlain in the 1960’s, much larger in scale. With little critical […]
Category: Sculpture
Project Space 2013
Today was the first day of the three studio weeks at Project Space in 2013… and this morning the space at 365 Ferry Street SE was empty…with only master lighting/engineering trouble shooter Phil Krug there… but slowly the artists began to arrive and set up…Ann Kresge (here with technician Mike Nord): Deanna White: ME: Rollie […]
Happy Birthday Harry!
We started Sunday at the beach… but quickly jumped in the car, and headed home to get ready for Harry’s 84th birthday party. LUCKILY I can sew in the car (…and no, I wasn’t driving…) I’m still working on the spring quilt…trying to finish before summer gets here! The sky was so beautiful today…. We […]
Manuel Izquierdo: Farewell
Only three more days to get down to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art to see the Manuel Izquierdo Show. To celebrate the end of the show curator Roger Hull will moderate a panel of four regional sculptors at the museum on Sunday March 24th at 2:00 p.m., talking about Manuel and his work. As […]
Manuel Izquierdo: Almost Ready
Meanwhile, over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Manuel Izquierdo sculpture show (“Myth, Nature and Renewal”) that R has been working on for most of 2 years, is coming together at a rapid pace, and is going to be stunning…here are a few “behind the scene photos… …and then today…TA DA…the book has […]
George and Manuel…
The final final FINAL manuscript proof went to the printer this afternoon for R’s book on Manuel Izquierdo. It will look like this (only R’s name will be on the front cover too): and yesterday George and Phyllis came down to look at the first two parts of the show, which are already up…see here…R […]
Manuel Izquierdo at the Hallie Ford Museum, Part 1
Part one of the Manuel Izquierdo show is up at the Hallie Ford Museum of art in the study gallery and the print study room upstairs. It will be up until mid-February, so you’ll have plenty of time to see the work. On January 18th the big main floor galleries will open with a retrospective […]
Public Art: ODOT
The Oregon Department of Transportation Building (originally built about 1950) underwent a renovation all year at Capitol and Center Streets, and we went by the other day to check it out. 1% of the cost of building or renovating a state building is spent on art for that building, which has resulted in a rich […]
Rick Bartow…The Poles
Rick Bartow spoke Friday at the Hallie Ford Museum of art about his recently installed commission at the Museum of the American Indian (part of the Smithsonian) on the Mall in Washington, D.C. I got some bad pictures of the slide show, but the talk was fascinating featuring Rick, his technical assistant John Bayner (?) […]
The Manuscript Arrives!!!
Writing a book is a long and often arduous process…in R’s case a lot of fact-checking and just sitting and thinking, talking with friends/relatives/colleagues of the subject, arranging for photos to be taken, talking to collectors…LONG. But there are a few terrifically exciting moments and one such is the day the proofs arrive…TODAY for instance. […]
On The Way 