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What Was Art Laundry?
Carolyn took the last load out of the dryer yesterday… and we packed up, taking only a little bit of time to reflect on what happened here after we walked into a cavernous unlit space on August 24… We...
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Back to the Galleries
The busy summer of writing and sewing has kept us out of the Portland galleries. We were up in the city Saturday though and took in a few. We missed Jack Portland’s talk Saturday at Laura Russo but R...
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Archival Adventure
We picked up Willamette University Archivist Mary McRobinson this morning and headed up to Portland to visit Mardy Widman. The Widman family has donated Portland painter Harry Widman’s archival papers...
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Off to Camp Sherman
Here’s a little picture-only story of my blissful weekend last week. Katy Vigeland, Nancy Eng and I (one half of the Salem Art Group six) headed to Katy’s family cabin on the Metolius River at Camp...
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Portland Quick Trip
I headed up to Portland Wednesday with Katy and Kathy to see the Paul Allen Show of Landscapes “Seeing Nature” at the Portland Art Museum, and the Emmet Gowin aerial photos of various nuclear dumps and...
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Michael Boonstra, Eunice Parsons and SIDNEY!
Monday is Sidney day every week. We head to Portland to hang out with a very nice young man, soon to be 2, but Monday is a day most galleries are closed. ONE gallery that IS open that we’ve come to...
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Robert Schlegel
Bob Schlegel is a good painter. In our world you see his work all over in public places. And though his paintings are nice, calming, interesting and the sort of paintings you can live with, it’s the...
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The Coffee Book
Back in 2008 I started a little drawing book in which I would only record my coffees. For a couple of years it got buried in a pile of drawing books, but eventually was rescued…it started like this…...
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Compass Gallery at the Willamette Heritage Center
New Year, new adventure. Necessary, interesting, taxing, good…fun. Every year for the last few for me has begun with one major resolution…”Have More Fun.” If you’re in town this Thursday evening...
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Ayumi Takahashi
I really like Duplex Gallery at 219 NW Couch Street in Portland. I first tried to go there last year on a Saturday to see a show that interested me, only to find they are open Monday through Friday...
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Supporting Local Artists
I stopped at Salem Art Associations Bush Barn Gallery yesterday to check progress on the work going on at the annex… where I was lucky enough to be the first AIR in 2010…they’re adding an elevator...
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Eating Lunch With Dinosaurs…
After a long park visit, a quick stop to see Otto at Duplex Gallery and check the new show…including this piece by Shiloh Castello… and this piece reminding me of my childhood…now don’t get me wrong...
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Jackie Johnson at Laura Russo
Dodging raindrops was not an option yesterday as we headed north to hear Jackie Johnson talk about her new work at the Laura Russo Gallery…it was POURING! The show opened last week and runs through...
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George Johanson’s Reductive Prints at Augen Gallery
Still raining… and after we heard Jackie Johnson speak, we dashed over to Augen Gallery to hear George Johanson talk about his beautiful show of 24 reductive prints he’s been working on for a year or...
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The Proofs Arrive!
Lately it has been like this, wet and gray, day in-day out: But this morning, when we headed out very early (by our standards…) it was gorgeous…I just couldn’t stop snapping pictures as an unknown orb...
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Visiting Artists
And by that I mean the verb, not the noun. I consider it one of the real privileges I have to tag along with R when he’s off to interview an artist (future interviewees–I don’t always go, only...
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Sandgren Season
The first in quite a string of events this summer featuring the work of Corvallis painter/print-maker Nelson Sandgren happened last Saturday. In conjunction with the exhibition opening June 14th at...
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The SIX at the Beach
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...
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David Selleck, Joe Rudko and Fathers
Well we headed to Portland for Father’s Day festivities… Which started with looking at art, of course. I’m a fan of David Selleck who had a show at Blackfish Gallery R took a look at Steve Tilden’s...
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The Melange That is July…This Year
What a crazy mixed-up fun month this has been…so far. Possibly there is a limit to how much fun you can actually have in one calendar month, but I haven’t maxed out yet. The fourth of July of course...
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