Eunice Parsons. Artist, teacher, mentor, mother, friend, neighbor, scrabble whiz. Artist. Eunice died last year at 108, ready to go. Monday at Mark Humpal’s gallery, formerly the 12×16 Gallery, friends, students, family, neighbors gathered to talk about her out loud to each other for one last time. Those comments, those images, aren’t on this page […]
I’ve used the headline “Art All Day” before, and it seems to refer to a day like Thursday…a day filled up from morning to night with a wide variety of art work to consider, which for people like us is about the best possible day. We headed to Portland early and the first stop was […]
An exciting day this week when Eunice Parsons brought her papers to the PNAA (Pacific Northwest Artists Archive) at the Willamette University Library. Roger Hull and archivist Mary McRobinson have been actively collecting the “papers” (correspondence, drawing books, clippings, photographs, exhibition announcements, cassette interviews) of Oregon artists since 1997…an invaluable resource for researchers working on […]
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 […]
What a fun weekend so far…art all the way. Friday night was Jon Colburn’s opening at Bush Barn, and before hand we checked out Jon’s rather wonderful studio (Jon is on the right): filled with art and artists (Jon Bunce, Cary Doucette, Jackie Johnson, Mardy Widman): and tools of the trade Eunice Parsons was there […]
We left the Johansons’ and went over to Sellwood to see Cary Doucette’s show at 12X16 Gallery. These pieces are all cardboard and he thinks of them as templates, maquettes, for future wood or metal sculpture: this one is big–as tall as a mantle (which is what it makes me think of). The simplicity of […]
On The Way 