We went to “the Museum” last night…in our neighborhood that would be the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. There’s a loaned Andre Derain oil on view that is lovely, “Montreuil-Sur-Mer…Derain a fauvist who painted often with Matisse, was 29 when he painted this. Plus a nice Robert Rauschenberg screenprint from 1970, “Features from Currents”…a 2014 […]
Tag: Alexandra Opie
Wet Collodion Process and Farm lunch…
That’s a mix of activities, like any good Wednesday can provide…but first, anybody know what’s happening to the McGilchrist Building? we were so happy to see the ugly stuff coming off an revealing the original graceful proportions or the windows…here’s hoping they are heading in the right direction! Alisa breezed into town yesterday from Santa […]
Tin Types
Photographer Alexandra Opie is spending the summer with grant support learning to make tin types…an historic but little used photographic method. She is working with her student Ariel to learn the process, so that each of them can go in a different creative direction. She invited me up to the dark room to get my […]
Alexandra Opie at the Hallie Ford
Went to see Alexandra Opie’s new work at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and I thought it a stunning show… the beautiful, sepia, large format photos are playing off of her interest in old photographs and her feeling of the unsettling mystery of landscape…all used to wonderful effect in this show…really a must see…here […]
Alexandra Opie at the Salem Film Festival
And besides all the good movies at the Salem Film Festival, there was this beautiful video installation by Alexandra Opie. It involved two pieces, one from 2006 and then a new one. The fire piece, “Murmurings,” was created for a show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in 2006. The new piece is about […]
On The Way 