Michael Boonstra, Eunice Parsons and SIDNEY!

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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Art, Collage, drawing, Duplex Gallery, Eunice Parsons, Luke's Frame Shop, Michael Booonstra, Sidney

Monday is Sidney day every week. We head to Portland to hang out with a very nice young man, soon to be 2, but Monday is a day most galleries are closed. ONE gallery that IS open that we’ve come to like is Duplex Gallery. One reason we like to go is the very nice shows, but another reason we like to go is that it is from the doorway of Duplex that we can see the “red deer uptop building” that has become Sidney’s favorite…

Some Monday’s we’ve come to stand in the doorway just for the view…

but this week we went to see Michael Boonstra’s excellent show which just opened…

He’s done a lot of aerial photography, but these are graphite and ink on clay board and are really beautiful…you must go see…

We enjoyed it, Sidney took a quick selfie…

and we headed to Piccolo Park, another Monday morning favorite and especially the “ABC sign”…

After a romp in the leaves we headed to Belmont Street to Luke Dolkas’ Frame shop where the work of collage artist Eunice Parsons was on view. Eunice continues to make wonderful work now into her 100th year. I was lucky enough to show with her back in 2009 and consider her a friend. The morning turned very sunny and Luke’s shop is flooded with light so my photos don’t do the work justice…go take a look…

“Twilight” was my favorite…already sold…

and should you have a young person along, Luke has that covered too…

Shopping next, lunch at Otto’s, nap time on a sunny afternoon…

and then sandbox play while Grandfafa sits by the “fire”…

Studio Day

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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Art work, Bonnie Hull, Collage, studio, Summer

I haven’t been in the studio much…Italy, 4th of July, grandbaby….so today I sort of sunk in for a while. It’s cool out there in the studio (temperature wise, I mean) totally shaded by a walnut tree and a bay tree intertwined. As is my habit, I try to find some past work to look at…hmmm. The bridge paintings? “The Conflagration in the Garden” from the Adam and EVE series? Not today. Today I opened the book of collages I started in 2011…and, as often happens, I liked them much better than I did 3 years ago…especially the ones that are spare…

Some have a poem, some are just images…

and then I took the path home…(I think I might have put these on here once before, but if I can’t remember, you probably can’t either!?)

Whiting Tennis at the Hallie Ford

21 Tuesday Jan 2014

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Art work, assemblage, Collage, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Jonathan Bucci, painting, Whiting Tennis

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 a reception to follow. The show is up until March though, so you have time…but, for sure, don’t miss this one. I don’t have too much to say yet, but here are some images…

Blair Saxon-Hill

26 Tuesday Nov 2013

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Art work, Artists, Blair Saxon-Hill, Collage, found objects, John Brodie, Kline blue, Littman Gallery, Mongraph Bookwerks, PSU, Timmy Straw

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 (Yet Further On)”…has several pieces in a Crow Shadow show at the Hallie Ford Museum in Salem, and is getting ready for the Disjecta Biennial next March. She was speaking about her work and about the PSU show last weekend so we went to listen. The talk was a conversation between Blair and writer/musician Timmy Straw and the first image was a photo taken by Timmy Straw (particularly fitting as the talk was on November 22nd…) All the images were shown on a wall with a grid made by the wall material…in every case the criss-cross made an interesting visual effect…in this case putting Kennedy in the cross hairs…

and then Blair talked at length about her work, her interest in surfaces and collage and layering…in making an image, photographing the image and then re-working it, found objects and images, found materials…all particularly fascinating to me.

And after the talk we saw the show at the Littman Gallery… up until December 12th. Better go take a look at this interesting work…noticing the edges and surfaces, the Kline blue…

and this fantastic found piece with the fake brick print and the fake shingle print….

image of marbleized studio floor…

Rex Amos at 12X16

24 Wednesday Jul 2013

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12X16 Gallery, Art, Artists, Chine-colle, Collage, Rex Amos

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 show curated by Roger Hull…and here are the curator and artist at Rex’s opening this year…

I’ve written about Rex quite a lot…here and here for instance…better take a look!

Happy Birthday Eunice!

21 Sunday Jul 2013

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12X16 Gallery, Art, Artists, birthday celebration, Collage, Eunice Parsons, Luke Dolkas, Maureen Herndon, Phyllis Johanson, Portland artists

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 to go take a look…here’s my favorite…

and here’s R’s favorite…

though choosing a favorite is hard given this work…

…and yesterday we went to a party for Eunice to celebrate her work, her spirit, and her birthday…her 97th. Secret? Make art everyday, hang out with your friends, laugh a lot and have a beer on your birthday! Happy birthday Eunice!

Phyllis Johanson with Eunice…

Eunice, Maureen Herndon and Luke Dolkas…

Rex Amos and the Wave Crest Inn…

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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Cannon Beach, Chine-colle, Collage, Dorathy Bruce, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Hank Johnson, Rex Amos, Wave Crest Inn

Monday last found us in Cannon Beach with Rex and Diane Amos. You may remember (HA!?) that we visited them just about a year ago. The result of our first visit in 2011 will be a show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this summer (2012) of Rex’s stunning collage/Chine-colles. (OF COURSE we stopped at Wanda’s for lunch on the way to Cannon Beach…)

and then spent a fascinating afternoon looking at…first Rex’s “new” studio

and then going to the portfolios under the bed…

and the work in the garage…

Rex and Diane lived in Portland for 35 years and Rex worked through that time cutting with scissors and painting and making “combines”…writing, editing and publishing magazines, collecting junk, rabble-rousing. His life, his stories…are wonderful…but so is the art work. He developed a method over the years of making meticulously constructed collages, and then once a year taking a stack of collages to Magnolia Editions in the Bay area and doing the last step of running them through the press as Chine-colles. The show this summer will have 14 or so of these works, plus small collages and ephemera. Not to be missed, and the show opens June 16th, 2012, and runs through August 12th. More information as we get closer, but this is a must-see.

So after a long and interesting afternoon the show pieces were chosen…

and we went off to the Wave Crest Inn for a dinner cooked by R & D’s friend Hank Johnson. Hank was curator of roses for the Portland rose garden and upon retirement bought and restored the wonderful Wave Crest Inn…

and if you need a get-away to the beach let me recommend this place…it’s a B&B, no dinners, but sooo cozy and…well…perfect…and affordable. Hank had been coming here for years for R&R and when he neared retirement and the owners were elderly, he decided to buy it and continue a tradition. He has slowly redone the interior and it “wraps its arms around you”…