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 […]
Tag: Art work
Whiting Tennis at the Hallie Ford
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 […]
And So a New Year Begins…
Every year since 2004 I’ve had only one resolution…”Have More Fun.” I’ve stuck to it faithfully. This year I ‘m adding a few things to the list… Get the Hull archive in order: Sort my own work, including these boxes of work on paper that just came to light: Consider getting a few very old […]
Blair Saxon-Hill
We first met artist Blair Saxon-Hill through archives… Blair and artist John Brodie own a book store in Portland, Monograph Bookwerks which handles new and used, rare and out of print art books…and occasionally archives come their way. Blair currently has a show up at the Littman Gallery at Portland State University, “From the Beginning […]
“Threading the Needle,” Rick Bartow, Dave (Nic) Nichols
I like it…looking at disparate stuff. In random order. The best. Elizabeth and I raced through the pouring rain to Portland yesterday for “research”…a fiber-oriented show at the Helzer Gallery at PCC Rock Creek Campus. Though the gallery was small…only enough room for one or two pieces from each artist, each piece had something to […]
Love Your Library II: Kristin Kuhns
First, let me remind you of the upcoming fund-raiser for the Salem Public Library Children’s Room renovation, which is on Thursday, November 7th… The Children’s Room renovation will include (according to library staff): “The existing Children’s area activity room and adjacent under-utilized space (where the teen collection was previously housed) will be transformed into a […]
D.E. May at PDX, and on…
R and I jumped into the car today with Irene and Jon and headed to Portland in a TORRENTIAL downpour for the penultimate day of Dan’s show at PDX. Spare, elegant, but juicy. Wish I had made this post at the beginning of the show so you’d have had time to see it. You know, […]
Friday Report…
Wow…busy week around here…but kind of a miscellaneous week to make a narrative out of… It WAS a week with ART in it though…Elizabeth, Alex and I spent two days in Corrie’s summer studio (a generous offer on Corrie’s part)…she the first artist in residence whereby the CCC gallery is turned into a big studio […]
Living the Creative Life: Claudia Cave, Ella Rhoades, Cynthia Spencer
On Monday the “Salem Tribe” (Heidi Preuss Grew, Kristin Kuhns, Corrie Loomis Dietz and me) went to the Corvallis Arts Center to see the drawing show “Making a Mark” which comes down May 18th. Though I have some drawings in the show and wanted feedback, really I was thinking they might all really like this […]
The Spring Quilt
This winter I was “confined” and had a lot of time to read, to sew and…to surf the internet. Somewhere along the way I ran across the work of Japanese illustrator Siota Mako … and the idea for the spring quilt was born…here are a few more of the inspirational flowers of Mako’s that I […]
On The Way 