Return to Webster’s Woods
A nice visit to the Webster’s Woods , part of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center which I hadn’t been to since 2004. Glad to see it is still actively in existence.
Bill Sketchbook
From the press release for the show at Shift Studio (Sept 2005)* What started as an inside joke – a single doodle of a vest worn religiously by an art school professor – turned into a full blown, year long examination of the idealized hangovers of the art world, all represented simply through the singular Read the full post…
Bill Drawings
Bill Work A good long time ago a spent a couple of years making drawings, paintings and sculptures as a method of softly poking fun at a professor I had a CWU (Country Western U) and then using the work as a device to think about the whole dynamic of the pupil/teacher relationship and how Read the full post…
Cascadia Art Museum :: Woodland Reverie
Woodland Reverie: The Art of Helen Loggie and graphite tree drawings by artist Donna Leavitt. I always feel so centered upon entering the exhibit rooms in this museum. Here are the drawing and etching exhibits you personally complain are absent in most places. That the artists being showcased are local and most likely an under Read the full post…
Always Keep the T-shirts
Things you can get mad at yourself about. I used to have a Dawn Cerney t-shirt but then it became too small and now it is gone. I bought it at the Henry Art Gallery when they used to have a shop, so now it additionally would have been an souvenir of times gone by. Read the full post…
Tiny Tortures oil enamel and oil on canvas 72″ x 60″ 11/87 Thinking a lot lately of when I first fell in love with painting and gathering up my heroes from that time. I’m certain Matisse’s The Red Studio was a heavy influence here. Also thinking about trying to find the beauty in the everyday, Read the full post…
A Life Well Lived
I am not terribly acquainted with you Mr. W. S. Merwin, but now that you have passed I hold you up as a life to strive for through your gracious poetry and ecological stewardship. This profile on the PBS site is worth a read. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was raised in the Read the full post…
War Hawks
War Hawks (Ken’s Dream) charcoal and pastel on paper 1984 (Drawing with Ken Cory) This past December, in some effort of tidying up messes I digitized 35 years of 35mm slides. It’s an ongoing organizational shamble but also a pile of joy. Lots of imagery I haven’t thought about for a long time. There is Read the full post…
Jasper Johns
Here’s one I wish I could get on a plane to go see, Jasper Johns at Matthew Marks. NYTimes Review by Roberta Smith. At the age of 88 Johns is still producing remarkable work. In 2014, the “Regrets” series (2012-14) had its debut at the Museum of Modern Art. The title comes from a rubber Read the full post…
A visit to In Tandem
A bittersweet visit to both G. Gibson Gallery and James Harris Gallery to the joint exhibit In Tandem with Fay Jones and Robert C. Jones. Bittersweet mainly as it is a goodbye to local painter Robert C. Jones who passed away this last December. Both galleries were a joy to visit since I hadn’t seen Read the full post…
Currently obsessed
with Terrence Malick’s movies. Just watched Tree of Life and now want to see the rest of his work. This started not long ago with Days of Heaven, which is magnificent. As is the lovely Sam Shepard seen above. More soon. On the cinematography of Days of Heaven (1978)] “With Néstor Almendros, we decided to Read the full post…
More of the Same
The Challenges Female Artists Face Mid-Career. A good long read about why it’s so exhausting to participate in the art world. Especially if you are a woman. “Being an artist now is…almost 50 percent celebrity-ness and charm, and in order to get past that, you have to have really strong work,” said Fox. “Men’s charm, Read the full post…
The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars–on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.” -Robert Frost Landscapes of the mind are these drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal in an exhibit called The Beautiful Brain, most recently Read the full post…
Kiki Smith
If you were to force me to pick just one artist to call my favorite the clear winner would be Kiki Smith. Kiki Smith and the Pursuit of Beauty in a Notably Unbeautiful Age. Her persistence and humility for the win. I’ve always admired her ability to not let the work become ham-fisted narratives. “For Read the full post…
To Endure
It’s a week where there has been much examination locally of what it is to live here as an artist with no actual art coverage. If a tree falls is there even any one left to get wood chips out of the situation? Yet most of us live a life where we are lucky to Read the full post…
The photos of Soichi Sunami at Cascadia Art Museum
Just back from the little museum that could, Cascadia located in Edmonds. An absolutely gorgeous photography exhibit is currently the main attraction, showcasing the work by photographer Soichi Sunami who I had not heard of before stepping foot into the show today. The exhibit is appropriately titled Invocation of Beauty, The Life and Photography of Soichi Sunami. Cascadia focuses Read the full post…
Georgetown Galleries – November
Visiting art galleries is usually a means to inspiration for me and today was a good one in Georgetown. I wasn’t going to miss the closing of Kim Van Someren’s exhibit and artist talk at Bridge Productions and I’m really glad I made it there. Kim’s discussion was facilitated by her friend and fellow artist Read the full post…
Being Nauman
[27-year old Nauman’s contortions…..] A continued meditation on Bruce Nauman while it is still in my head. Waking up with my coffee and reading the handful of articles on Nauman this morning gave me pause. The coverage is in support of the current retrospective of his work up at The Museum of Modern Art right Read the full post…
Kim Van Someren exhibit at Bridge Productions
Kim Van Someren exhibit at Bridge Productions. I laughingly told Sharon my one sentence review of the show is: “this is totally my jam”. I’m in awe of Kim’s markmaking and how she has created a little world from various shaped and patterned forms, which I detect some humor folded in there. More clues to Read the full post…
Karin Mamma Andersson at The Nordic Museum
I’ve had the good fortune of seeing the vast majority of artists whose work I admire in person with one exception. I’ve been wanting to see the work of Karin Mamma Andersson for a long time. I decided to stop by the new Nordic Museum as I had an appointment in Ballard and realized the museum Read the full post…
Circling Around A Figure
I’ve been hard on myself this week, watching myself spiral around the studio but finding ways to procrastinate. I finally sorted long languishing tools yesterday and took a very full car load to Value Village. Things I couldn’t tell what they were, things I would never use. I am waiting I think. And this morning Read the full post…
the wallpaper of our lives
To me, in my head poetry and painting are doing the same job. On Sneaking Poetry in…. My Flaming Hamster Wheel of Panic About Publicly Discussing Poetry in This Respected Forum, NEKO CASE “I think the fear began in about fifth grade. Right off the top they said poetry was supposed to have “form.” Even Read the full post…
Self – Portrait w/ Multiple Crows- Feet
I want one
I don’t know what this thing is that Chantal Joffe is sitting on, but I need one. (from a Guardian article about UK artists and their studios).
Reality Check
There was a point once where I really thought my life was going to be just like this. No really. This is a condensed version of a film called The Reality of Karel Appel from 1962. Starring of course the Dutch artist name Karel Appel. If you can’t tolerate most of it at least scoot forward Read the full post…
Utopia – Over and Out
As noted in Charles Pierce LeWarne’s book Utopias in Puget Sound 1885 – 1915, in 1898 the little burg of Edison, WA became the National Headquarters of The Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth, with the BCC hoping to establish a socialist colony. It was a short lived but hopeful measure with membership rising to 3,558 Read the full post…
Lois Dodd
JS: There is a confidence and singularity that characterizes your path, especially your choice of subject matter. How have you been able to maintain this? LD: Well, you are always influenced by the people around you. How do you find out who you are if it isn’t from other people? But painting may be the only thing Read the full post…
Every Time A Plane Leaves
Every-time A Plane Leaves, They Take Some More With Them (For Ben) Charcoal on Paper, 22″ x 34″, 8/8/2018
The Florence Experiment
My sister, brother-in-law and nephew are currently on a whirl wind Europe tour-of-duty. When I read this I loved it so much I asked (my sister) Donna if I could post her experience….also because Carsten Höller. We saw a lot of Renaissance art today, so it made sense to balance it by participating in a Read the full post…
Painting at The Alice
Grace Rosario Perkins has an painting exhibit up currently at The Alice Gallery. Every time I see a painting show I like I will post about it immediately. I wish I had taken better photos, the installation of these abstractions hug the walls and take over some of the flooring. I always appreciate someone working Read the full post…