Two exhibits open this weekend at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. We got to preview the fantastic George Rodriguez show during installation the other day and really…this shouldn’t be missed. The scale is huge and the work is gorgeous… Here are a few of the “Georges” Rodriguez was born in El Paso of immigrant […]
I like the two shows at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this fall. Today we went to hear Collections Curator Jonathan Bucci talk about the Russell Childers show of wood carvings that Bucci curated and that is on view at the Museum until the end of October. If you haven’t seen the Childers yet […]
This week of working in the backyard studio with Carolyn Schneider, somebody I’ve known since the 7th grade when we met in an art class, has been fun. Interesting. Poignant. Hilarious. Sad. Our own work, our dead mothers and fathers, our family dynamics, aging, our own work…all this talk whirling around while we have worked […]
Francis John Newton was a curator at the Portland Art Museum from 1953 to 1960. In 1960 he became Director of the museum until he retired in 1975. He was very involved in the Portland art community, and well remembered. We came to Oregon in 1970 and as “new kids from a different neighborhood (Salem)” […]
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 […]
Went to Jonathan Bucci’s opening last night and really liked the show…paintings, sculpture and a lino cut or two. Though a sculptor, Jonathan has been working for a couple of years on a long series of views of a sprig of oregano. One of the best things in the show for me was a black […]
A busy week for most of us…Monday for me started with assisting Nancy Lindburg who is overseeing the re-arrangement of the art collection at the Salem Public Library. Jonathan Bucci, Collections’ Curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, designed the rehanging and he and museum colleague David Anderson were installing things in new locations […]
Yesterday Sharon and I met at the museum to go with collections curator Jonathan Bucci to the Knight Library in Eugene to pick up the drawings for the show of Lord & Schryver work that Sharon and I are curating (opening at the Hallie Ford Museum on June 22, 2011…more to come)… The helpful librarians […]
Jonathan’s day job is as collections curator at the HFMA, but in his REAL life he’s an artist. We did a studio visit to see the rest of the oregano series (one currently on view in the Mayor’s Invitational) and see the new work, both two and three dimensional. Jonathan has converted the garage into […]
