The work of a Salem group of women artists has been up at the Compass Gallery this month…me, Katy Viegland, Kathy Shen, Nancy Eng, Tory Brokenshire and Dayna Collins. We get together monthly, often to make work, sometimes for a brief road trip. A couple of times every year we “retreat” for four or so […]
Tag: Rick Bartow
Saying Goodbye
I felt very sad in the museum the other day to see these two nice works up in remembrance of two amazing northwest painters recently lost to us… Rick Bartow… and Mark Clarke…
Rick Bartow
Luckily I’m giving you plenty of time…Rick Bartow’s show “Things You Know But Cannot Explain” is on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus through August. If you love painting, if you love sculpture and construction, if you love Oregon, if you love the authentic point of view, […]
Art in Portlandia: October
We “scampered up” (as Harriet J. Connor used to say) to Portland Monday to see SRH and continue our training for a street Band… and for me to get to play with his toys… but we worked in a nice visit with George and Phyllis where we saw the big version of Johanson’s painting…recently back […]
“Threading the Needle,” Rick Bartow, Dave (Nic) Nichols
I like it…looking at disparate stuff. In random order. The best. Elizabeth and I raced through the pouring rain to Portland yesterday for “research”…a fiber-oriented show at the Helzer Gallery at PCC Rock Creek Campus. Though the gallery was small…only enough room for one or two pieces from each artist, each piece had something to […]
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 (?) […]
