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  • Happy 2016: Here’s a Great Beginning

    Beginning January 7, 2016, I will have my first solo exhibit since 2012. The exhibit is at the Art Haus in Milepost5, the art community and residential apartment complex off 82nd Ave. Art Haus can be accessed between 81st and 82nd on Oregon St. The exhibit will run January 7 through February 8, 2016. When James Halvorson…

  • The Plank Paintings: Playa, September 2013 — January 2014

    The “Plank Paintings”, more formally known as Summer Lake from Winter Ridge, has long been finished. I wrote about it earlier, under the rubric of The Project from Hell. I finished the last coats a bit more than a year ago, and I recorded much of the process along the way. Then life intervened and…

  • New Hockney Post on Ragged Cloth Cafe

    One of my old haunts, the blog Ragged Cloth Cafe, has published my analysis of Hockney’s drawings. Actually, this is mostly Hockney’s analysis of his own work, but I’ve gathered together a bunch of his words, trying to make them compact. David Hockney and Drawing (with Digressions, as usual) (by June Underwood) jou

  • The Project in Purgatory: it’s graduated

    Progress is being made. The 8 cedar planks have all had their first coat of paint. The slight bulge in the center that somehow started out concave has be sighted and corrected. The curve of Winter Ridge has been located and shaped at each end of the playa. Color has been laid down and more…

  • The Project from Hell

    The project from hell is the one that has at least 27 more steps to it than initially envisioned, and each step consists of 1 step forward followed fairly quickly by 1.9999 (or sometimes 4.999999) back. So, take 20 miles of a dry lake bed, Summer Lake, seen in September from a relatively inaccessible spot…

  • Playa, the Paintings

    The paintings from my Playa residency are now on this site, at Current Work. Here’s a taste: Playa, Morning Mist (2), 18 x 24″, oil on Masonite, 2013 june

  • Jerome Abstracts, summer 2013

    Jerome: Mist Rising, 12 x 16″, oil on masonite, 2013 When I returned to Portland from Jerome, AZ, in April 2013, I knew the paintings I had done there were mostly not-so-wonderful. But I had Notions about what I might do next. I was plagued by medical problems in the spring, and I’m definitely not…

  • Jerome, Arizona: Pictoral Paintings

    Slowed but not defeated by various medical adventures, in March of 2013 we escaped Portland’s winter in a trip to Jerome, Arizona. Jerome, across the Verde Valley from Sedona, couldn’t be more different from  Sedona’s iconic, well-groomed posture; Jerome is ramshackle, raucous, and delightful. First, it’s plastered up against a very steep hillside, which makes…

  • Paintings from Pine Creek: Finale

    In preparing for our extended visit to the old family home,  Cedar Pines, along Pine Creek in northern Pennsylvania, I realized that the lush green landscape required more than my usual travel supply of small boards. I needed ampler materials so I could stretch myself into the landscape. Lots of artists don’t work large, and…

  • Paintings from Pine Creek, Second Issue

    It’s now November and I have left the north-central woods of Pine Creek, had a brief visit with relatives  in Lancaster County, spent four days in Philadelphia, mostly at the new Barnes Museum, and am now back in Portland Oregon. Here’s some links to my non-painting adventures: the Saga; the Crick; the hike up Gamble…