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 […]
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Summer at the Hallie Ford Museum…
We went to the museum this morning to see the new show of Jacob Lawrence’s illustrations of Aesop’s Fables which opened August 3rd and runs through October 27th. The drawings were done in the late 1960’s for a book of the fables, the originals now part of the Paul G. Allen Family Collection. They are […]
Catching Up…
Summer. Got to try to live in the moment, so the narrative suffers. Here’s a digested version of what’s been happening in the far west: The beach. A week. So hot in the valley most all the beach views are misty and cool… and the sunsets were, well, muted, let’s just say… There was outside […]
Sewing Circle…
ANOTHER interesting time at Project Space this year, watching work unfold, working steadily myself, exchanging ideas. My own work is winding down and I’m finishing my “set” of squares, framing them up, getting ready for the “opening” of our one week show. If you are downtown on first Wednesday (August 7th) 5-8 p.m., come by […]
…And Speaking of Gardens…
A couple of weeks ago I spent three days in the Gaiety Hollow garden, the home garden of landscape architects Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver. The L&S Conservancy asked me to do some drawings for their upcoming fund raising campaign…a campaign to repay the generous donor who bought the house and garden, and is allowing […]
Summer Day
Coffee on the deck this morning looking down into the phlox, making me happy to be in this garden, but ESPECIALLY to have such a lovely summer day. We took a bike ride to Minto Island, where last year about this time we were picking Queen Ann’s lace for the wedding! But today…we just had […]
Rex Amos at 12X16
You still have 4 days to get over to 12X16 Gallery to see the work of Rex Amos, showing with Eunice Parsons. His elegant chine colles, assemblages and meticulously cut collages are wonderful…and the play between Rex’s work and Eunice’s work is fascinating and fun. Rex showed last year at the Hallie Ford in a […]
Happy Birthday Eunice!
Until July 28th, at 12X16 Gallery (8235 SE13th Ave. No.5, Portland) you can see Eunice Parsons’ new show “Sweet, Sweet Black.” And SWEET it is. All new work and absolutely beautiful. Eunice says this might be the very last show for which she creates a singular body of work…I really can’t urge you strongly enough […]
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 […]
Blueberry Chutney and “Turbulence”
SUMMER!!!! So after visiting the MIG fruit and veg stand Saturday (and getting lunch, of course) I got up this morning with the urge for more blueberry chutney. I made some at the beach on the fourth and we’ve eaten it all already…yum. I got the recipe out of the “new” (2012) Oregonian cookbook (“The […]
On The Way 