Wow this lampshade on the kitchen table at the beach was really dingy after 20 years…time for an update…and it only took an hour or so….looks FAB when turned off, not so good when turned on…better when I applied marker around the painted images…here’s how it went…back to the drawing board?
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 […]
As it turns out, none of the above were reasons why I took a little blog vacation…it was the more mundane collapse of my computer and the subsequent purchase and installation of a NEW computer as well as…of course…the installation of a new printer that would “interface” (I actually don’t like that word) with said […]
There is something really nice about a snow day…a day without walls, a stay-in-your- jammies-all-day-if-you-want kind of day, as Ellen says (she lives in Vermont where snow days are more prevalent). I hear they are calling this “Snowpocalypse 2014”, this weekend we are entering. (Growing up in the mid-west, a scant half of an inch […]
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 […]
1945. Salamanca, New York. Fanny Black Hull opens first one and then another book shop on Main Street (19 and 61) in Salamanca. Piatt Hull is in France in WWII. Roger Hull is a tot. 2014. Salem, Oregon. Roger Hull sorts and files the papers and photos of his parents and grandparents in order to […]
January. The month of new beginnings, of hopeful restarts, of resolutions…and of cleaning the closet. Have to. Every January. This year I bought a nifty bamboo shelf for the “shoe problem” and assembled it all by myself with no directions (well, VERY sketchy directions, anyway.) I saw such a thing in a magazine…though MUCH more […]
We saw the Whiting Tennis show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art today and I was blown away by the work. Tennis is a Seattle artist, and this is his first west coast museum show…a show beautifully curated by Jonathan Bucci. Tennis is speaking on Friday, January 24th at the museum at 5:00, with […]
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 […]
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 […]
On The Way 