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Cleaning Out the Flat-File
The painters are coming in November to paint the woodwork upstairs…which means I have to move the flat-file. Oh “ye gods” as my Mama used to say. It’s a mess back there… Some paintings on paper, some...
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Open Studios, Studio at the Mill
I took a new little studio this fall to do a drawing project away from my home studio. It was very economical, in an historic structure, plenty of parking, 4 minutes from home. It has been a pleasant...
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Art All Day…Again…
I’ve used the headline “Art All Day” before, and it seems to refer to a day like Thursday…a day filled up from morning to night with a wide variety of art work to consider, which for people like us is...
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“Sketching” Around Town
Drawing is one of my favorite activities, and this weekend in Salem there were some fun opportunities, if you like to draw with a group…and sometimes I do. (My brother How turned me on to the Urban...
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Clay Ball
Last night was the annual Clay Ball art auction to benefit the Salem Art Association. Money was raised, art changed hands, friends were greeted… But the fun this year was the hats…glamorous or...
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BLINK
Well if you blinked this week you’ve almost missed it…Mary Lou Zeek’s current POP-UP gallery show, “BLINK”, which is a nice show…four rooms of painting, sculpture, work on paper…a wide variety of...
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Barbara Rowland, 1948 – 2015
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...
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Totally Random Friday…
No organized thoughts tonight. No real focus. So many things and events, moments, people, streaking through my brain…images to tell the tale…a visit to the Saward Collection… Henk Pander… William...
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“Our” Museums
Last week in Washington DC we visited three of the many wonderful national museums there, all available to citizens and visitors from other countries (and there were MANY such visitors last week) FREE...
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Portland Art Day
It’s been a while since we had the luxury of just random looking, but today was such a day…we started with Fay Jones…up for another week at Laura Russo Gallery…the work had much in it that “spoke” to...
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Currently on View
We went to “the Museum” last night…in our neighborhood that would be the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. There’s a loaned Andre Derain oil on view that is lovely, “Montreuil-Sur-Mer…Derain a fauvist who...
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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...
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Road Trip
A busy week here getting ready to head out…some ukulele playing in Monterey, a stop in Sonoma to look at quilts, departure is imminent. I’ll just leave you with a few little Louis Bunce gouaches we...
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Portland Art Day
Off to Portland today on the Louis Bunce trail…and other artistic endeavors. A beautiful sunny day at the end of spring…we visited a Portland collector to look at his Louis Bunce paintings that R...
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“Farm Stories”
I once read that the images that are imprinted on an artist’s brain in the first five years are the images that play out through all of their creative lives. I don’t know if this is true, but I can...
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Beating the Heat
The weather forecast for today was for 100 degrees here in the valley, so we needed a strategy. It was clear the deck was out as it was already blazing by 9:00 a.m…. so we grabbed our stuff… and...
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A Refreshing Interlude
The thing I really like about the car wash is that you will never see the same image twice…it will always be slightly different. Each trip through is like a short performance…you enter, you wait and...
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Art Laundry 2
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...
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Art Laundry, Day 3
Carolyn Schneider and I have just completed the third day of “Art Laundry II”, part of Salem Art Association’s Project Space, 2015. Our proposal was to work in the space daily and build an...
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Art Laundry, Day 6
We’re still ironing, still drawing, doing a bit of mending…talking a lot about housework, sewing, raising families as artistic expression…a great deal of reexamination of the lives of mothers by almost...
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