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Gordon House
After a brief visit with Z&A to deliver the quilt we headed home and on to Silverton, to the Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house known as the Gordon House. The house was built in 1963 after a design...
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Trying to Fit it ALL in…
Phew…it was a race this week, but we managed. Martha and I blasted to Portland on an errand yesterday and got to PDX just as Ryan Wilson Paulsen was in the gallery and gave us some chat about his...
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“Louis Bunce” Begins…
From January through March of 2017 the Hallie Ford Museum of Art will present a show surveying the work and career of Portland painter Louis Bunce (1907-1983). The show will be curated by art...
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Living the Creative Life: Jon Colburn, 2013
A nice way to coast down the slope of old year is to visit a studio…most especially the studio of an industrious worker. I’ve written about Jon Colburn before here and here, but haven’t visited his...
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William Park, Kristin Kuhns, Cynthia Spencer
I went to Linn Benton Community College in Albany the other day to the opening of their annual invitational show. Each faculty member invites the artist of their choice to participate. Kristin Kuhns...
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Henk Pander, Louis Bunce, and Georgette Jones
We headed to Portland last weekend to look at art…and found some before we ever hit the galleries… Stopped in to Laura Russo to catch up with Henk Pander’s big, muscular watercolors… and while we were...
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John Brodie/Debra Beers/Ted Vogel
On our way to and from seeing Sidney (our current priority!) we swung through some college art galleries and saw a couple of terrific shows. Portland artist John Brodie’s show “Versus Artifacts” is up...
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Disjecta’s Portland Biennial, 2014
Saturday was “Biennial day” and we looked at a lot. I encourage you to visit the three or 4 venues and see the work. I’m including here the things that were most interesting to me…so this is not an...
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Lee Kelly, Tom Prochaska, Sara Siestreem
Portland Art day…had to pick up my birthday painting…a little painting by David Selleck called “Doplar Radar” which totally cracks me up (you’d have to know my family and their love of weather...
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Bill Volckening!
A few weeks ago Portland quilter and quilt collector Bill Volckening (wonkyworld) invited me to come and see his quilt collection, and as it happened my friend Tennessee quilter Mary Keasler...
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PULSE!
Mary Lou Zeek’s pop-up gallery show opens Friday night May 9th for one week only…but what a week! From May 10th to May 16 you can visit 211 Commercial Street NE downtown from 11-5 daily to see the...
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Jackie Johnson
A week ago we went up to the Laura Russo Gallery to see Jackie Johnson’s new show, and thought the paintings were beautiful. The colors, the symbols, the implied combo of cityscape and excavation...
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Robert Hess
Robert Hess, sculptor, teacher, mentor, friend, died last week. We’ll miss his great eye, his generosity, his fierce interest in the world around him. Luckily his sculpture is all over town to remind...
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New Mexico!
In July I dashed to New Mexico for a luxurious and fun week with Mary, a friend from the Chicago days (we go wayyy back…). I flew in from Portland and she from Chicago… and we met at the airport....
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“Modernism in the Pacific Northwest”
You have until September 7th to get to the Seattle Art Museum to see an excellent show of “Northwest Modernism” (i.e. SEATTLE modernism), painting from the mid 1930’s through the late 1960’s. The four...
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The Wave Crest
Last weekend we stayed at the wonderful Wave Crest in Cannon Beach, being lovers of the authentic Oregon experience, and it was fun. When owner (Daryl)Hank Johnson was a Portlander (curator at the...
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Where Art Leads You…
Sometimes you just have to sit on your hands and let it all roll over you…in a good way. Friday night was the Sponenburgh Lecture for 2014 at Willamette University…this time a favorite son. Adam...
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George Johanson at Augen Gallery
You have until November 1st to visit the Augen Gallery in the DeSoto Building (716 NW Davis in Portland) to see the pure delight that a painter can take in the act of painting, and powerfully transmit...
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Barry Pelzner, Katherine Ace, Anna Fidler
The lost is found…in this case photos. Saturday, after listening to George speak at Augen Gallery, we went next door to the Froelick Gallery to see Barry Pelzner’s knockout pieces…ball point pen on a...
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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...
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