Until December 2nd you have a chance to see Lucinda Parker’s new paintings at the Russo Lee Gallery (805 NW 21st Street in Portland)…most done in the last three months. The show is entitled “Knowledge is Not Our Enemy” which sounds possibly political, but isn’t. It’s about mountains…most specifically our own MT. Hood. This morning […]
Here are the artists Sandra Loy (sloy) and Dave Nichols (nic) in a photo taken by their good friend painter Rob Bibler (with painter April Waters taking a view in the gallery tonight). She a writer/artist and he a painter/sculptor. For years they have been making art in Salem, art of a personal and terrific […]
So leaving Carolyn, we headed to Bakersfield, CA… to see a set of five large paintings by Lucinda Parker, the Portland painter who R is currently writing about (and thinking curatorial thoughts about for a show in January of 2019 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem). These paintings were a series of […]
A couple of weeks ago we hit the road to Seattle with stops along the way. I had mending, R drove and we zoomed north along with scary log trucks, heading to Longview, Washington. R is deep into the manuscript he is preparing for a monograph on Portland painter Lucinda Parker, which will be published […]
A loyal reader recently wrote and said she would enjoy seeing where Roger Hull writes his many monographs about regional art and artists. As he is currently using both offices (the winter office and the summer office) I thought I might visit. (Also, I have noted that when I write about Roger or quilts, my […]
My blog posts have fallen off (and so have my statistics!)…maybe blogs are going the way of all things in this fast world of ours? My need to provide a narrative thread for this blog is slipping as I do more and more on Instagram…quick image, one line…done. The trouble with it is you have […]
Life changes in a second or two…we have come to know that. A misstep, a speeding paint truck, a diagnosis, a sloppy politician who has the nuclear codes, a tsunami or earthquake…poof…our beautiful lives are gone or irrevocably changed. While we are in these lives though, it is worthwhile to notice them, to be impressed […]
Saturday we left home early to hear George Johanson talk about his new show at Augen Gallery (in the DeSoto Building)…the paintings are lovely and lively, as is the painter. I particularly liked this self portrait…(just above George’s head in the upper left of the painting is Louis Bunce’s life mask, which hangs in George’s […]
Salem artist/quilter Kate Speckman is doing a five week AIR at The Annex in Salem, She is interested in setting aside some time to think about future quilting projects, especially delving into the ideas of traditional patterns from carpets and how this might translate into her quilting work. She got her sewing machine set up […]
Recently we visited painter Jackie Johnson’s studio in Portland on the occasion of a purchase/donation to the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. A generous donor bought one of Jackie Johnson’s paintings for the museum collection, and on that occasion Jackie offered to donate a painting of hers to go along with the earlier donation. We […]
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