Meanwhile, over at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Manuel Izquierdo sculpture show (“Myth, Nature and Renewal”) that R has been working on for most of 2 years, is coming together at a rapid pace, and is going to be stunning…here are a few “behind the scene photos… …and then today…TA DA…the book has […]
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Manuel Izquierdo at the Hallie Ford Museum, Part 1
Part one of the Manuel Izquierdo show is up at the Hallie Ford Museum of art in the study gallery and the print study room upstairs. It will be up until mid-February, so you’ll have plenty of time to see the work. On January 18th the big main floor galleries will open with a retrospective […]
Rick Bartow…The Poles
Rick Bartow spoke Friday at the Hallie Ford Museum of art about his recently installed commission at the Museum of the American Indian (part of the Smithsonian) on the Mall in Washington, D.C. I got some bad pictures of the slide show, but the talk was fascinating featuring Rick, his technical assistant John Bayner (?) […]
The Manuscript Arrives!!!
Writing a book is a long and often arduous process…in R’s case a lot of fact-checking and just sitting and thinking, talking with friends/relatives/colleagues of the subject, arranging for photos to be taken, talking to collectors…LONG. But there are a few terrifically exciting moments and one such is the day the proofs arrive…TODAY for instance. […]
The Art Department….c. 1972…Willamette University…
Ran across this photo that I thought you locals might enjoy… here is the Willamette University Art Department in about 1972 or 73…left to right… Carl Hall (painter) Cameron Paulin (art historian) Roger Hull (art historian) and Robert Hess (sculptor)… but REALLY the most important figure in the group is the Manuel Izquierdo sculpture called […]
Thursday was ART day…
And Thursday began wistfully, as I had to take down my show WHICH… I thought looked smashing (she said modestly…) but…time marches on and they have to sweep up and return the key to the space on Saturday so… …off we went, with a car full of art, as usual… and later on to […]
Bloomsday
Yesterday was “Bloomsday” when all over the world (but most especially in Dublin) devotees of James Joyce celebrate the master. Salem probably was never one of the hot beds of celebration historically, but when combined with the opening of Rex Amos’ show of collage, chine colle and ephemera at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, […]
Rex Amos at the Hallie Ford Museum
Don’t forget the Rex Amos show of elegant collages and chine colles opening Saturday. Besides the beautiful finished work, there will be plenty of ephemera to look at…a lifetime of words and images and thinking about both. Wednesday I had the fun of helping R to do the layout in the cases, which were empty […]
Variety or Confusion??
Since Thursday evening we’ve been on the road and have seen such a variety of stuff I hesitate to try and cram it into one little post…but here goes… Thursday evening we went up to see Stephan Soihl’s new show at Blackfish Gallery…a real tour de force of his mechanized sculptures…created this year in spite […]
Happy Birthday Nadia!
Today was Nadia‘s birthday, and she was visiting all the way from Tunisia…(check her cool jacket, which she made…) She didn’t come all this way to visit me though…she grew up in Salem and is in Oregon visiting her family. Luckily she hitched a ride to Salem with her sister-in-law today and we shared work […]
On The Way 