In 2012 I went to Fort Bragg, California, to make art with my friend artist Carolyn Schneider, and to put up a show called “Art Laundry” at the Lost Coast Culture Machine Gallery. We had fun, worked hard, and the show was a success and held over for another month. Carolyn discovered her latent desire […]
Friday night was the opening of the two summer shows at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art here in Salem. The BIG summer show is the work of Portland sculptor Mel Katz, with also the very fine show of drawings by artists Christy Wyckoff and Tom Prochaska. Mel Katz was to speak at 5:00 but […]
I once read that the images that are imprinted on an artist’s brain in the first five years are the images that play out through all of their creative lives. I don’t know if this is true, but I can imagine that it is, after finding a book that was my favorite as a young […]
From the sublime to the sublime. We came to the beach on New Year’s day with the car full of projects and books and instruments (well…a ukulele anyway) AND the last few persimmons from Richard and Juli’s big persimmon harvest this late fall. R wanted to make persimmon chutney so we looked up recipes on […]
Busy week here with the usual wide variety of things to think about. We headed to White Salmon Wednesday for a night in the Mt. Hood room and a George Domijan dinner…plus a huckleberry G&T… Then all four of us took off for Madras for my opening. We ran into an amazing storm combination…thunder, rain […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you’re down Corvallis way you still have 2 more weeks to see the nice drawing show “Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon” at the Corvallis Art Center (700 SW Madison Ave)…up until May 18th. Of course I WOULD say it’s a nice show because I have some drawings in it, but actually…it really is […]
Just finishing up my most recent sketchbook project book in preparation for sending it off to the Brooklyn Art Library…maybe it will come to Portland this summer on the Sketchbook Tour??! One more page to go but thought I’d just put it on here today…it’s called “Map of the Table” and I’ve been dragging it […]
Over the last couple of years I’ve had a lot of fun with the Sketchbook Project…sending them a variety of small fabric pieces as well as a couple of little drawing books. They are in Brooklyn and collect small books from artists all over the world. This spring they went on the road with part […]
On The Way 