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  • Portland Store Fixtures Residency: Post 2

    Unlike other out-of-town residencies, my Portland art-gig can’t be totally immersive.  “Home” is a demanding domain, with squawking and squeaky wheels like dentist appointments, toilet emergencies, flower arranging, vacuuming, socializing, and those ever-present to-do lists. Thus, while I was at the new studio space every day last week for an hour or so, I did…

  • Southeast Industrial District, Portland Oregon. A New Residency

    I have wiggled myself into a hometown residency in a place I have long wanted to explore. Kat and Penny, founders, owners, and head honchos at Portland Store Fixtures are sponsoring my artist residency with a studio in one of their warehouses in the Eastside (Portland) Industrial District. Portland Store Fixtures (PSF) is on SE…

  • Notes toward a new set of paintings

    You may have noted that the head above isn’t capped. That’s because I’m quite tentative about a new series. I’m tentative in part because while I’m excited about my current ideas I can’t leap into them immediately (I’m getting a hip replacement tomorrow which will prevent me from leaping for six weeks or so). It’s…

  • Dateline: Mitchell, OR, Picturing Picture Gorge, Sept 9, Day 4

    After I posted yesterday’s journal, I decided to work more on the paintings I had started earlier in the day. During the morning session, in addition to working further on the long narrow 12 x 24″ piece, I had hurriedly used up the paints on my palette  as Jer hiked up the trail toward me.…

  • Dateline: Mitchell, Oregon

    View from front porch of Hollyhock Cottage, Mitchell Oregon This is not an official artist residency, but it’s beginning to feel like it. On Sept. 6, we drove to Mitchell, in eastern Oregon, near the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. I swore this was going to be a bon-bon…

  • Wonky PDX: Gettin’ Ready

      Our Fair City. –June

  • First Friday in Portland Oregon

    It’s First Friday here in SE Portland, and I delivered a carload of painted textile landscapes to Full Circle Gallery, located inside Warehouse 640 at 640 SE Stark Street. I’m affiliated with the gallery and this month am filling in wall spaces around featured artist Dawn Tappen (I will be featured artist next month with…

  • A Breakthrough — Murals, Collages, and My Art

    “Murals are nothing more than Big Collages with a bit of history/story tossed in.” That’s what entered my brain this afternoon. That’s my insight for the day (week, month, year?). Hence, Thomas Hart Benton: Thomas Hart Benton, City Activities with Subway, 1930, from his  mural at the New School for Social Research, now in the…

  • Space and Place, the Tangle and the Wonkiness

    To continue my thoughts on space and place: I have been working on textiles, which means 10% design and 90% execution. Execution always gives me lots of time to think. So I am pondering, still, on my own art making — what I make, and why it’s not necessarily what I generally like in art.…

  • Space and Place, First Thoughts

     The Amargosa Panorama from Fra Lippo Lippi, by Robert Browning …We’re made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God…