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 […]
R, Sidney and I have a lot of “traditions” we’ve established in the last three years and one of those is “Conker Park” in the fall. It involves loading the top of a riding toy in the park with conkers and then making them fly off… we even went in late summer, even though we […]
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 […]
Gordon Gilkey gave us a lot. He rounded up lost works in Europe after WW II, he taught a few generations of students at OSU, he curated prints at the Portland Art Museum from 1978 until his death in 2000. Additionally he established the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey print Center at the Portland Art museum […]
Wednesday was a long but fascinating day tracking down sculpture made by Manuel Izquierdo, R’s current “subject” (show coming at the HFMA in 2013). Our first stop was a warehouse where the collection of PNCA is stored. Included in their collection are some small clay sculptures recently donated to PNCA by Manuel’s estate. The nice […]
Roger “took it on the road” last night for his “last” (I doubt this…) lecture on Henk Pander, in Portland at PNCA. Art History is always frought with technical problems, it seems, but at PNCA the excellent Bobby was totally organized and then it was “show time”! with a nice Q&A afterwords… the last chance […]
Yep…our April, showing the big gals in Portland now…up at PNCA until April when they change venues…they look good… …and this just in from April…she was able to meet Vandana Shiva in Portland this month and show her the portrait…
The wealth of art and artists in Oregon amazes. It is deep and multifaceted, and includes many generations of people making things of beauty. In a way our lives of late have been like a treasure hunt…one artist discovered (Rex Amos) leads to another (Matt Glavin) and…to another. In this case Dorathy Bruce, born near […]
I forgot to mention the show in the Project Space Gallery at PNCA…up until January 10, 2011. The work of Cassandra Jones has some terrific images including my favorite…I forgot to write down the title (reporting skills go south for lack of coffee…)
Up to PNCA this evening to hear George talk about “Seven Decades as a Painter” at the PNCA alumni evening: There was a reception and all of George’s paintings to contemplate…and then the lights went down and we were welcomed by college president Tom Manley and then it was George’s turn: George graduated from the […]
On The Way 