I guess if you have read this blog a time or two you know that looking at art is a major part of my universe. Just reviewing this past week, I see all the ways art enlivens my own life and thinking and experience, and I hope this is true for you too. As we […]
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 […]
Friday was a day of looking at other people’s art…at last. It started early with a visit to the studios of the six senior art majors at Willamette University who are midway in the process of preparing their senior show, opening in April 2016. All six seemed motivated, excited about their work and certain about […]
A week ago we went up to the Laura Russo Gallery to see Jackie Johnson’s new show, and thought the paintings were beautiful. The colors, the symbols, the implied combo of cityscape and excavation site, were very appealing to me…take a look and then put it on your calendar…the show is up all month… the […]
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 […]
Eunice Parsons is considering giving her “papers” (and here I mean correspondence, etc., NOT all the paper that is the raw material for collage…!) to the Pacific Northwest Artists Archive at Willamette University. The University library and the University Archivist are committed to building this collection, housing the papers of artists who have worked in […]
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 […]
Went to the artist’s reception Sunday for Eunice and Mardy and their handsome show at 12 X 16. Eunice flew the coop before I got her picture, but her truly excellent work (all NEW work) is gorgeous Mardy’s elegant squares are glowing away on the gallery walls, result of lots of experimentation and work, but…there […]
Eunice Parsons is a woman of such talent and focus it often takes my breath away. I wrote about her in May 2009 and a studio visit R made to see her work. Today a new show of small collages opens at Luke Dolkas art & framing (2707 SE Belmont) and I zoomed by Friday […]
Up to Portland today to see some art before attending the artists’ reception at 12X16. Stopped at Elizabeth Leach Gallery to look at Malia Jensen’s “Shelved” which included bronze and cast crystal pieces and then a nice selection of Lee Kelly smaller works to compliment the big show of his work at The Portland Art […]
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