In 2012 I went to Fort Bragg, California, to make art with my friend artist Carolyn Schneider, and to put up a show called “Art Laundry” at the Lost Coast Culture Machine Gallery. We had fun, worked hard, and the show was a success and held over for another month. Carolyn discovered her latent desire […]
The photographer Barbara Rowland was such a talented presence in our art community. I met her at the first Project Space, some years ago. She walked around and around Salem taking photos, was never without a camera. Because she was a wily photographer she was also good at avoiding being photographed herself…but I did get […]
Wow…busy week around here…but kind of a miscellaneous week to make a narrative out of… It WAS a week with ART in it though…Elizabeth, Alex and I spent two days in Corrie’s summer studio (a generous offer on Corrie’s part)…she the first artist in residence whereby the CCC gallery is turned into a big studio […]
Remember that TV show…”That Was The Week That Was?” So okay…the tile is back-ordered and the bathroom is going nowhere… so we moved on this week as best we could…starting with Constance Fowler (1907-1996), painter, print-maker, founder of the modern art department at Willamette University in 1938. R has curated an excellent Fowler show up […]
I was down at Project Space today for my daily 2 hours…Friday night, June 29th is the opening for round one…5:30 to 8:30. There will be refreshments, art and music… I’m only a couple of weeks into my project so my contribution is small… Liz Bauman has been painting like a maniac…and they’re wonderful and […]
Monday…I went down to Project Space to get set up…open hours begin Tuesday (11-2, Tuesday through Saturday). It was bliss locked in there all by myself…now that Phil has put in the lights… The artists have begun to arrive and set up work spaces…little by little we are “claiming” the space anew… So I set […]
PHEW. Finished up today and removed the mess and most of the stuff leaving only the following: the former double wedding ring and a detail of same and the collages neatly installed in a book for easy viewing
Paula and I worked for quite a while today…she preparing for a show, me just keeping on. She’s finding the large walls and open spaces in PS3 to be a tonic: I started the day thinking I’d make collages, but instead went straight to reassembling the double wedding ring:
Tuesday was a work day at PS3 with all five collaborators there at once (for few minutes…). Barbara brought a journal she found at the Goodwill it got me thinking of some small collages Paula found a color range that looked good and started working (you can see her foot and her shadow…) Sadie painted […]
Today I moved into PS 3 where I’ll work for a month with other artists including Corrie Loomis-Dietz, Paula Booth, Barbara Rowland. I’ll have two projects going which will include the old double wedding ring top: (which looks better in this photo than in real life…) which I plan to cut up and reassemble without […]
On The Way 