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 […]
Tag: Art
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 […]
“Theatrical Heartscape” and the Friends of the Mural
In 1983 painter and teacher Jim Mattingly submitted a proposal to paint a mural in downtown Salem. The mural was to grace the rear wall of the Elsinore Theater, then a movie theater, but with a long history of vaudeville before the movies. Mattingly’s proposal was chosen and in the summer of 1984 he went […]
“SPRING”…bye bye…
Hooray…I finished the spring quilt only two days after the solstice! it’s all different than my beginning intentions…less detailed maybe…but springy all the same. And, it’s DONE! Hooray…here’s a detail…each square quilted differently… and I signed it BIG…which I’ve never really done before… …now on to “Turbulence”…goody…
Marie Watt/Project Space/Tour of Homes
This seems to be the week for odd splices on this blog…bear with me (as Mark Siegel used to say…). Brooklyn artist/sculptor Marie Watt is doing a specific blanket piece for the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. To that end I’m donating a family blanket to the project. Each blanket will have […]
TWTWTW
Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere… so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up […]
Works in Progress….
This weekend I got OUT of the bathroom… and INTO the studio… where, after looking at an old painting painted in memory of the lovely William Peyron, dishwasher at the Arbor Cafe for 6 years, reader, person of great good humor (sometimes old paintings are better than photographs for conjuring people up…this is called “I […]
DAN MAY: Hooray!!!
We were both VERY excited to hear this afternoon that Salem artist Dan May has been named a 2013 Hallie Ford Fellow in the Visual Arts, along with Portland artist Cynthia Lahti and Eugene artist Mike Bray. These three were chosen from a “diverse pool” of 183 artists, and each will receive an unrestricted grant […]
Carl Hall: Ephemera
Regional artist Carl Hall left a wealth of material behind for his family to deal with after his death in 1996. His wife and daughters have generously donated paintings to many institutions in the Pacific Northwest, sold much work, and sorted and re-formatted more. Still…Carl was prolific and there is the fantastically interesting archival material […]
On The Way 