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Michael Boonstra, Eunice Parsons and SIDNEY!

10 Tuesday Nov 2015

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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…

red deer

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

deer hunt

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

Duplex front (1)

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…

Duplex

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MB1

Boonstra grid

We enjoyed it, Sidney took a quick selfie…

gallery viewerselfie

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

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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…

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two at Luke's

Atelier Cezanne

“Twilight” was my favorite…already sold…

Twilight

train

Eunice

Me

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

Sidney

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

sunny afternoon at Caruthers

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

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Studio Day

10 Thursday Jul 2014

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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…collage book

Some have a poem, some are just images…

The illustrations for my life story

Solstice 2

Memory

antennas

earth angel

Sage

Alice

Summer quilt

Summer, 2011

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!?)

path home

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whiting Tennis at the Hallie Ford

21 Tuesday Jan 2014

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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…

Whiting Tennis

Gallery shot 2 gallery shot

Tennis QUilt piece

Tennis Quilt piece detail

studio wall

maquettes Grid cardboard construction

 

Blair Saxon-Hill

26 Tuesday Nov 2013

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We first met artist Blair Saxon-Hill through archives…

Blair..

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…

Timmy Straw's photo

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.

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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…

Blair 3

Blair 4

Blair 5

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

Blair 6

Blair 7

image of marbleized studio floor…

Blaqir 8 studio floor

Rex Amos at 12X16

24 Wednesday Jul 2013

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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 at opening

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…

R&R

chinecolle

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

rex's pin

Happy Birthday Eunice!

21 Sunday Jul 2013

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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…

"Eunice No"

and here’s R’s favorite…

Eince R's fave

though choosing a favorite is hard given this work…

Eunice via cavour

Eunice "Big One"

Eunice wall with flower

…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 and Phyllis

Eunice, Maureen Herndon and Luke Dolkas…

E laughing with L

Eunice alone

Rex Amos and the Wave Crest Inn…

05 Sunday Feb 2012

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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”…

with a terrific kitchen…

and Hank did us oysters on a sizzling-hot salt block (this was VERY fun)

between bites Diane played ragtime on the piano…

and before we left town Rex and Diane donated several very nice Dorathy Bruce paintings to the museum, including this one…

all in all pretty much a perfect way to launch February…