In 1959 there was an exposition celebrating Oregon’s centennial in north Portland along the Columbia river in the Kenton neighborhood…”The Oregon Centennial Exposition and Trade Fair”. The building pictured here, the Forest Products Pavilion, was designed by John Storrs and was built as a permanent structure, though has since been torn down. Inside the Pavilion […]
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Rothko, “Red”, and a day away…
Today we took a “vacation” day. We went to a matinee at Portland Center stage….haven’t been there yet? Do go… we went to see “Red” a play by John Logan about the painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970). The play was fascinating, mordant, funny…worth the trip up I-5… and then on to the Portland Art Museum where […]
The Amazing Way Life Is…
Still on the Manuel Izquierdo trail. For MONTHS R has been searching for a sculpture that was at the Seattle World’s Fair “Century 21” in 1962, which was called “Figure”. He had a photocopy of a B&W photo showing the piece… but nobody knew where it was. Katrina at Laura Russo tried to track it […]
Manuel Izquierdo…detective work…
If I wrote everyday about what goes on when a writer is in research mode, I couldn’t really get at it…that’s where images are so very helpful… Here is an update on the progress R is making on his monograph on Manuel Izquierdo and his work. Last week R visited Manuel’s daughter Sara at Manuel’s […]
Marie Watt at the Hallie Ford Museum…
My final picture of the 2012 version of “Dwelling” with the artist Marie Watt, her daughter Evelyn, and the big stack o’ blankets. Friday night was the ceremonial opening of the show, delayed for a month until Evelyn was born and Marie could be here from New York. Marie spoke interestingly about her work and […]
How to get to Cutler City
Nan turned me on to the Art House Co-op in Brooklyn last year and I’ve bought and sent in a couple of sketch books for their Sketchbook Project. But every week they have a free project…(one week it was to photograph your lunch at noon on a certain date and send them the photo so […]
Our Correspondents….
So…not only are WE scouring the state for Manuel Izquierdo sculptures, our friends are on alert too…this week turned up these two images for R’s growing list: this piece dates from 1996 and is located at Chemeketa Community College. Cynthia teaches there and sent this image and then Liz was at the antique show in […]
Gordon Gilkey, March 10, 2012
Gordon Gilkey gave us a lot. He rounded up lost works in Europe after WW II, he taught a few generations of students at OSU, he curated prints at the Portland Art Museum from 1978 until his death in 2000. Additionally he established the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey print Center at the Portland Art museum […]
Sign of the Times….
We drive by them daily, all of us. Being visual, I’m always attracted to the signs people hold while panhandling…Have thought of taking a series of photos, I see a cool one and then… I’m in a hurry, or there’s no place to park…I drive on by. This time I stopped and asked if I […]
…And Speaking of Books…
I got thinking of a book I made a few years ago for a show at Mary Lou Zeek’s… each artist was sent a book and had to make something out of it…I’ve always wondered where this one went?
On The Way 