tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34699829781974649912012-01-31T13:50:19.651-08:00This is about art and artists.Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.comBlogger6001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-9452027023302348662012-01-29T08:25:00.000-08:002012-01-31T13:50:19.660-08:00

Listen to the interview here. Brenda Mallory has a big installation down Concourse A at the PDX Airport right now. The piece is called the Mechanics of Hither and Yon. She will be my guest on Art Focus this coming Tuesday, the 31st.

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I had fun with Todd Tubutis of Blue Sky today at KBOO. We talked about the current Robert Frank show  and other exhibitions at the gallery, plus his own path to Blue Sky. Listen to the interview here.

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I've lived in my house for over 8 years, but in some ways it seems like only yesterday that I moved in - until I started getting ready to leave it. For now I can fully assess what happened here. I made half of Vive Chrome, all of Take Off, all of the Richter Scale and Drape in this house. That’s over 75 paintings. But what the house really provided was my first truly designated

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Thanks to everyone who voted for my collage in the Saatchi Collage Showdown. It made it to the next round of judging! There were 1960 submissions and now it is down to 300. I've made a lot of work I've yet to post here. Above is Anonymous Woman No. 26. This piece was very exciting piece for me to put together. I have loved gold forever - in clothes, in makeup, in paint, in leaf, in fashion,

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These are intense times. There is a house is to be sold, garage sales in the freezing clime to be had and now, colds to be endured. I was all gangbusters but am now in bed with Barbara Pym, someone you can count on. Strange that through all the chaos, I could still make these Anonymous Women.

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PLEASE NOTE! Due to illness this interview has been rescheduled for the 24th. I am looking forward to having Todd Tubutis, the Executive Director of Blue Sky Gallery, as my guest on Art Focus this coming Tuesday, the 17th. We will cover the current Robert Frank show, Painkiller. From the PR:  Painkiller is an original exhibition of 48 Polaroid images by groundbreaking photographer

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Robert Tomlinson will be my guest on Art Focus this week, on January 10th. He currently has a show of mixed media drawings at the Guardino Gallery. He also curated recently the Globe Show at 23 Sandy. I first met him a few years ago when he curated my Lonely Metropolitans into a show in Centralia. Robert does so many things; a half hour will barely scratch the surface.

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I am in the Collage Saatchi Showdown. If you can, please vote for my work. Thanks!

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This month Augen Gallery hosts a group show of gallery artists. It opens tomorrow and I have two pieces in it. These particular pieces reveal a little of how I arrive at something. I made them at the same time (2011) and out of the same original image in Life Magazine – a big photo of Garbo. For the Target, I used only a slice of her famous and perfect visage. Then of course I had the

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Forwarded to me from Charlie Finch, amazing images from another era. .... some of the first color photographs. You can practically touch and smell from them. I see my grandparents in some of them too.

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Listen to the interview here. Local homeless youth are collaborating with artists and businesses to beautify our town, via New Avenues for Youth. From the PR: "Billions and Billions of People collaborative art Installation is transforming a construction site into a work of art. With the vision and support from a premier real estate development company, TMT Development, thirty local homeless

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Many thanks to Richard Speer at Willamette Week, who gave the Independent and Brad Carlile the Best Photo Show of 2011.

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Listen to the interview here. Carolee Schneeman - Nude on Tracks D This coming Tuesday Elizabeth Leach will be my guest on Art Focus. Her gallery is currently showing Body Gesture. I can’t wait for this conversation.To read the PR for this show is deeply satisfying. There, they said it well, so it doesn’t have to come from this middle-aged woman artist. Still I cannot help but observe how so

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For reasons too mundane, sad or confusing to mention, I probably will not trim a tree this year. So when I came across this short and sweet reminder at Hyperallergic about the Met's tree (see above), I had to pause. For many years it was the only tree I had. I used to think of it as mine and had no idea at least 5 million other New Yorkers felt the same way. The holidays were a big retail trudge

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Listen to the interview here.There are some nice shows up this month, (anytime Eric Stotik shows, it’s a good month) but the paintings of Molly Vidor at PDX are especially delicious. She titled the show perfectly too: Honeydrippers. These are still lifes juicy and shiny, dark and deep, small yet vast and of course satisfyingly loaded with paint. When I did videos on Youtube, we had a conversation

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A woman in the sky, or some part of, can be a Surrealist device. I guess Man Ray’s fabulous lips across the universe is the first image to come to my mind, but I think there must be other examples. In the case of the Anonymous Women however I am not thinking of just sexy dreams and desires, but of how glamorous women function in popular culture, what they hawk and promote, where they are supposed

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Listen to the interview here.Robin Olsen and Lorraine Jones of the Portland Art Collective will be my guests on Art Focus this coming Tuesday. There’s more than one art world. Portland especially has an art community that goes way before the formal gallery system. I was kind of surprised at how many creatives were in this single, loosely defined community alone, but I shouldn’t be.The Collective

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Listen to the interview here.Jeff Jahn has curated foreGround at the Littman Gallery. Artists include Ben Young, Jim Neidhardt, Zach Davis, Arcy Douglass, Jacqueline Ehlis and Matthew Picton. Jahn and Douglass will be my guests on Art Focus this coming Tuesday, the 22nd.

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Natalie Wood's death is back in the news. It never seemed quite right to me, although I surely don't have enough facts to have an informed opinion. I made work around it instead.I remember when I first considered the collage above. I was a little uncertain at first about obscuring the target. But if you make as many collages as I have around the target (so far, 58), you're going to find many

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1979 by Randy Moe at the Independent brings my past out of the woodwork. Friends I haven’t seen in many years stop by. They tell the tales of some of the people in this show. For instance, Brian, above in the red, owns a record store in Vancouver, WA. Phil, in the shades, is unfortunately no longer with us. Ed Casey, looking like a movie star above, is a filmmaker today in NYC. He was sweet

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-48636576575974332122011-11-13T10:24:00.000-08:002011-11-15T18:07:12.295-08:00

Listen to the interview here.My next guest on Art Focus is Laurie Danial, who has a show at Froelick right now. The show is comprised of paintings and prints and is called Control Release Control. I think you can trace the origin of the name by just looking at the work. The paintings reveal a multitude of directions, thoughts, marks, meandering, some hard and some not and very much just letting

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Tonight is the Disjecta auction. I have donated a diptych - Hot Spot and Van Gogh. They came from the Richter Scale. Sure, you can hang them separately and I painted them separately, but they look cool hung together, horizonally or vertically. These are some great artists contributing this year.

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-37742070103193235242011-11-09T07:51:00.000-08:002011-11-09T08:07:00.634-08:00

The two most recent Anonymous Women couldn't be more different. No. 31 was 70s-like spage age. But No. 32 is from The Middle Ages. The paper was old, thin and sepia toned. I've always liked those cathedrals. I held on to the image, not sure how to use it for years. Well, the paper of the woman is almost just as old. That is sometimes how things happen. The physical materials dictate content to a

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Listen to the interview here.Last year Martha Lee took over as owner of the Laura Russo Gallery after Laura died from cancer (D. K. Row reported on it here). She already was the director for many years. It took me awhile, but she'll finally be my guest on Art Focus.I've been on hiatus from the show for almost six weeks. The residency at Crow's Shadow was part of it and also I've been able to get

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Thanks to everyone who came out for Randy Moe at the Independent.It was the best attended opening so far. And talk about a wild crowd. The show closes December 3rd.

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A couple of years ago I worked extensively on the documentary film Alien Boy, first in production and then, as a photo archivist. I tracked down photos mainly dating from Jim Jim’s punk period, which is when I knew him. This also meant collecting posters, vinyl, any kind of memoirs - a real treasure trove. During this job I discovered that the artist Randy Moe had a great collection of Polaroids,

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How could I miss Nicola Tyson? Better late than never. I’m not in NY, but I’d love to see this show – and more to the point, I'd like to witness this reading she gave. Her various letters to great male artists are so satisfying for me to read. I think she’s courageous too because no doubt so many want to say “Get over it” and “That’s the way it’s always been.” Some of my quote unquote best

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-14034762784372198832011-10-28T19:12:00.000-07:002011-10-28T19:23:43.167-07:00

Making those prints prompted a remembrance of the road to that particular kind of reductive image making and what it meant to me. Above you see the cover of Book No. 65, my diary covering Dec 22, 1991 through March 2, 1992. I had been sick but was edging my way back. I wrote about part of that time via collage here, but there was a paint story too, a hidden pact. In the diary I made note of the

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This is indeed a show to lust after, a reason to go to New York. I understand that the works take many years to make, occurring in layers of spontaneity vs. precision and time. When I first came across him he seemed like such a hidden marvel. I had never read about him. Sometimes that is the best way to reach something. No critics, no context, you find all about that later. This happened to me

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-36109106331158688412011-10-25T08:43:00.000-07:002011-10-25T18:43:12.860-07:00

Coming back from Crow’s Shadow and Pendleton was one big crash into “reality.”In another life, at least 2 boyfriends said I lived in a fantasy. I often wondered how they knew - and did they know how deep I was in? Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – fantasy beats reality, almost every single time. Putting reality into quotations like that reminds me of Malevich who said he was

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-81266573115169237622011-10-20T07:42:00.000-07:002011-10-20T17:19:07.972-07:00

Above is the final 4th proof. I could have created a whole suite of monochromes, but settled for one. The idea was to hedge pink, violet, orange and red together, so that they can blur into one. I did something similar with 60s/80s. I wanted something very hot, optimistic, female and even fashionable.I started here at Crow's Shadow thinking the work would be more specific, but it became broader

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I could say My Favorite So Far, but I'm not sure. Every piece here has been a real adventure, has said something different. And I still have one more to go. The above proof is related to pieces in The Richter Scale - especially Hot Spot and Clear Lake. What is really wild about this print is that from a distance, it turns pink. But there is no pink - your eye mixes the colors like crazy.

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-73276299929814618662011-10-18T08:00:00.000-07:002011-10-18T08:12:46.373-07:00

I walk along golden hills bristling with wheat, comparing endless expanses of yellow and blue. I take drives. I have a ton of freedom and not many responsibilities.What are my responsibilities? What must I do today? Create a color story at Crow's Shadow. Attempt a red like the sky here the other night. Gee, life is tough.It's great to see how different the second edition is from the first (both

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-62892537827294026572011-10-15T08:24:00.000-07:002011-10-15T08:44:56.116-07:00

Above you see the progress towards the proofs. Neither is probably complete. The one on the left may take on a golden plate yet. And the one on the right is just a red/orange/yellow run and yes, it is a different palette than the one on the left.As I imagined, we are doing things I could not do in paint.Here you see the roller, full of the green/chartreuse run. And below you see how we plot out

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-35937323735624452372011-10-13T13:02:00.000-07:002011-10-13T13:13:36.485-07:00

It’s taking quite awhile to get to that first proof. In oil painting you can add and take away so easily, but the print process takes careful planning. Above you see Frank Janzen with (Crow’s Shadow Interim director) Melissa Bob, are working on the plate. Then you see below the stretch of the palette. A fat yellow and a rich chartreuse will be at the center of this image, holding it all

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-27452628937547664552011-10-12T16:07:00.000-07:002011-10-12T16:12:00.793-07:00

Thanks to Richard Speer at Willamette Week for this great review of Damien Gilley at the Independent.

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I recall James Lavadour telling me that when he learned printmaking his entire concept of how to make a painting changed. I wasn’t sure what would change for me, going into it, save to say that change is the only constant. I rely on it. And just two days into this venture, there’s a distant rumble.Here at Crow’s Shadow we work with the master printer Frank Janzen. The artists arrive with ideas

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-12930861709076466402011-10-10T18:54:00.000-07:002011-10-10T18:59:07.368-07:00

When I finished the last piece of Drape, I ended with a searing golden band, so woven in dark edges some said it was like blonde hair. This struck me as an important development, a painting finally hedging in autobiographical territory. For years I knew I wanted to do it, I just wasn’t sure how.This printmaking residency at Crow’s Shadow, funded in part by the Ford Family Foundation, is my way in

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-31551831015092896112011-10-06T08:06:00.000-07:002011-10-06T08:42:13.928-07:00

Tonight the Independent will host an artist talk by Midori Hirose (work above) and Damien Gilley at 6PM sharp. Of course we're be open for First Thursday and then til the end of October.May as well state here that I am on a six week break from Art Focus. Wendy Webb and Paige Prendergast (from Breeze Block) will be guest-hosting and I'm grateful for their help. KBOO is mainly run and hosted/

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Most of my Anonymous Women I've yet to post. That's because I am hoping to show them next year and would like to save the images. But I just finished this one today and had to share. It is a little weird for me - she made me uncomfortable from the start, not a bad sign. She almost looks sci-fi and she was that way on plain paper too, before she ever got placed on the background. The stones I've

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-10455503642887411432011-09-28T14:26:00.000-07:002011-09-28T14:27:48.852-07:00

Another from my ongoing works with Demuth's 5 and friends who turn 50.

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Listen to the interview here.This coming Tuesday my guest on Art Focus will be David Eckard. The Art Gym is giving him a mid-career retrospective which opens on October 2nd. David Eckard: Deployment will present approximately 40 artworks, including new paintings, sculpture and performances, and a selection of past sculptures, drawings and documentation. It will also include documentation and

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I am still making the Anonymous Women. Overnight everything changed and suddenly it was autumn. The evening walk is a dark thing now and once the rains set in, it can disappear. I used to embrace this time - it meant hats and gloves. Right now it feels like turning redhead.

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Womb with a ViewListen to the interview here.Currently Augen Gallery is showing Grace Weston's Angles of Incidents. Weston will be my guest this coming Tuesday on Art Focus. I was fortunate enough to visit her studio once. She's making magic from a very small set with all kinds of wild parts. I love the humor, the juicy color and the subversive narratives. I'm also lucky to have made friends with

Evahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04526963554623770078noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3469982978197464991.post-45810569153773796962011-09-14T21:15:00.000-07:002011-09-15T14:20:04.049-07:00

See Me Feel Me by Midori Hirose. Part of her exhibition at the Independent, opening tomorrow.

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Tomorrow the Independent presents two solo exhibitions: Infinity Games by Damien Gilley (above) and Boners and Blobs by Midori Hirose (below). This is going to be good. It will be an interesting contrast between the angular and the curved, order and disorder, chaos and calm, clean and oozing. It involves plexi, paint, prints, sculpty, light, sound, motion and I'm sure I'm leaving something out.

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Whoop Dee Doo are a part of the PICA TBA 2011 Festival. They will be my guests on Art Focus this coming Tuesday.From the PR - An all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams, and drag queens—all for an audience of wide-eyed children. This

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Listen to the interview here.PICA's TBA Festival is coming up and Art Focus will devout 2 episodes to it. This week our guest will be Kristan Kennedy, PICA's Visual Art Curator (who is also an artist). The PICA Resource Room online will give you all the details about the festival.

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Anonymous Woman No. 29 Once Drape was finished, I went back into cut and paste. There are several bodies of work in progress at once – the Judd Montages, the Targets and also, the Anonymous Women, of which the above is one. Perhaps out of them all, I’ve enjoyed these women the most. They are made of everything that interests me. I suppose you’d think that all collage would be that way, but it

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Listen to the Interview here. Joshua Berger and Tiffany Lee Brown of Plazm will be my guest on Art Focus this week. Plazm celebrates 20 years in print this year. Plazm, an annual publication of art, design, literary and cultural works is based in Portland.

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Listen to the interview here. One of my happy childhood memories is going to the dump outside Jacksonville, Oregon with my dad. He had an antique store (where Bella Union is now) and often came home with great finds. Back then people wanted new, new, new, a leftover mindset from the 1950s. But my dad liked the old. I think somewhere back there was the beginning of my own collage practice. Now

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Earlier this year I caught up with a friend I hadn’t seen in years. When she saw my work in print, she immediately said: “I want to buy some.” But I think I surprised her when I was quick on the uptake, figuring how to get some work in front of her. I think when I knew her 20 years ago, art was more my lover or my church. But it is now my business and I’m OK with that arrangement. A few years

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The last time a friend turned 50, I made this previous collage. It turned to be right as he is a fiend for the open road. This piece tells a different story. She's a sensitive and beautiful woman who appreciates what we call the finer things in life. This is a toast to her.

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Whoa, fresh in from Willamette Week, a good idea: WW has a feature, encouraging artists to submit their work. It's their hope that I Made This will help Portland's incredibly creative artists and designers find new markets, as well as enhanced attention and respect, for their work. The feature includes a large color image of the art for sale, information about the artist, the price of the item,

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Listen to the interview here. Tomorrow Lynda Ater is my guest on Art Focus. She has a show called Inside Out up at Blackfish this month which riffs on Albers and his Hommage to the Square. Ater has embellished the square with cancer cell shapes, something she's very familiar with via a long profession in laboratory medicine.

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Responses from people walking into a pop-up can really vary. The Independent wasn’t there yesterday and has that look of transience. Sometimes they stumble in and ask me: “Is this a gallery?” It is indeed, I say. And then they walk right out. I am also a little surprised at how many come in and within 60 seconds tell me they are an artist in that rather hopeful, dodgy way which sounds like the

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Thanks to everyone who came out to Drape last week. The show runs all month at Augen Desoto. Meanwhile you can still find me sitting at the Independent, where Brad Carlile is showing Tempus Incognitus. John Motley gave it a great review in the Oregonian. The last day of that show is Sunday, August 14th.

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Listen to the interview here. Last week Lisa Radon was my guest on the radio. It was so much fun to bat the ball back and forth with someone extremely savvy about stuff I am not. "No, Eva, it's not about that. And let me tell what else it's not about." I loved it and learned a lot. If I had my way, Lisa Radon would be my co-host for Art Focus. This week at KBOO promises more of the same

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This week Drape opens.It will wrap around two walls in the back room at Augen Desoto. It was actually Bob Kochs, owner and director of Augen, who suggested the cornering idea and I liked it. All the lights are on the wrap. The darkness elsewhere lets you feel that you're coming across something.Some say my painting is warm. Vincent Romaniello called it hot. I think we often associate geometric

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Listen to the interview here.Lisa Radon will be my guest tomorrow on Art Focus. Radon is writer and poet and turned curator and we're all excited to see what she does. The group show is called Reading. Writing.Is writing an answer to why?By reading do we know why?Is there an appreciable difference between writing and reading? Bordowitz, Gregg. Volition. New York: Printed Matter, 2009. 141.

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Drape No. 7These paintings are not particularly "about" anything, save I can make color do interesting things. In the past I made work about the landscape or about a journey, but really I am just after an experience via paint. Here, I feel like I came across something interesting and so I painted it. That's all really. Drape No. 6

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Listen to the interview here.A few years ago I had Cynthia Mosser on Artstar, my old show at KPSU. She told me back then that she liked luxury and one of her luxury items was time. I think this is still evident in her work, which is up a Augen Desoto this month (disclosure: I show with Augen too). This current show is all about the egg, small and large pieces, layer upon layer of the oval. Some

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Drape No. 1Soon I will show a small body of work at Augen called Drape. It will be seven paintings, all 30 inch square, which will wrap around the corner of the back gallery.

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Thanks to Richard Speer for the fabulous review in the Willamette Week, all well deserved for Brad Carlile at the Independent.

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Listen to the interview here.Tomorrow my guest on Art Focus is Andrea (Ray) Boyle, who curated Coffee with Cardamom at Place II at the Settlement in Pioneer Square. This show includes the solo exhibition Can You See Me Now? (Part One): Reflections on Palestine by Sarah Farahat, who will also be my guest. Coffee with Cardamom also includes the group Exhibit Mirrors: A Middle Eastern/ American

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From the moment I saw Brad Carlile’s Tempus Incognitus online, I knew it was special. At the time I had no idea how it was made. Those concerns were not primary – I’ve always gone with my gut first. But the more I know about it, the more it makes sense that it would be made the slow way, just like slow food. Days and hours of light and time pour in to make a single image.There are many reasons

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A shout-out and thank you to Lisa Radon, who wrote a nice bit about the Independent in the extremely new Oregon ArtsWatch. All art press is very welcome here! Oregon ArtsWatch is the brainchild of Barry Johnson (photo from the site, via our great show of photographs by Brad Carlile).

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The Independent is pleased to present photographs by Brad Carlile as our inaugural exhibition. Carlile was one of the winners of the 2009 Hearst 8x10 Photography Biennial, an international competition for emerging photographers. The Hearst Biennial judges Peter Lindbergh, Mary Ellen Mark, Steve McCurry, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, & John A. Bennette, III. chose 8 photographers from over 1,000

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This is a great year. I had a wonderful time at reCover in New York and I hope I will be back. But all along I have been plotting out another adventure here in Portland.More than once I've interviewed on Art Focus an enterprising curator or artist behind a pop-up. Every single time I was inspired and lusted after one of my own. Now is the time.On July 7th the Independent will make its debut,

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Jessie HensonI am thrilled to participate in a summer group show based on collage at frosch&portmann in New York City. It's a five person show and we're all cut and pasting the body, reshifting identity. Garrett PruterFrom the PR ~frosch&portmann is pleased to present “reCovered”, a group exhibition with Rafael Grassi, Jessie Henson, Eva Lake, Thomas Lowe and Garrett Pruter.Opening reception:

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Listen to the interview here.On June 28th my guests on Art Focus will be from Appendix Project Space – Joshua Pavlacky, Travis Fitzgerald and Zack Davis. The upcoming show at Appendix is Neverland by Daniel J. Glendening and Michael Welsch.

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Listen to the interview here.This coming Tuesday Paige Prendergast, director of Breeze Block, will be my guest on Art Focus. Their current show is Concrete and Steel, a multimedia exhibition of urban geometry, features the work of Nick Makanna, Joe Chambers and Kit Crenshaw.

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We’ve had this conversation before here. Some slag Facebook, but one thing it is giving me is a powerful introduction to a big network of a special breed: those who work towards a reductive view. Maybe there are other types of artists making their networks, but this one has really come to my attention. I’m meeting them from all over the world.While on my way to the Don Voisine exhibition at

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Anonymous Woman No. 27The last time I was in the Met I spend time in the period rooms. I used to find a lot of Romance in period rooms – an interior experience in more than one way. I still do, but in a different way. Environments become more significant the more I work with the Anonymous Woman. She’s no more than décor, something to look at, something to occupy, like the pretty cage she’s in.

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During the April visit to NYC I lost my camera so I am back to shooting with my old 35mm. My mom gave me the camera in 1987 and it's all I ever used until the past few years. Maybe the loss is a blessing in disguise as it takes a much better picture. The above is today's peonies and below, Japanese Iris, all from the garden.

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Listen to the interview here.John Graeter has organized all kinds of art extravaganzas around town, being sometimes hard to pin down. Now he’s opening a gallery! He’ll be my guest on Art Focus this coming Tuesday.

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Listen to the interview here.Tomorrow Tom Cramer will guest host on Art Focus. He and Jeff Jahn will present The Architecture Show.

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Listen to the interview here.I’m back at Art Focus this week with Curtis Knapp of YU Contemporary. Yu has been in the news a lot lately. It’s the new non-profit with grand aims and an even grander building. You can’t help but be inspired when you walk in there. The first exhibition is an archive from PCVA.

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For at least a year now Wendy Webb has been helping me out with Art Focus. She was already guest hosting at KBOO, doing film reviews. We met elsewhere and immediately began to fast and furiously riff about art. I realized she was the new ingredient Art Focus so badly needed. This week she will interview Donivee Finnell, who is showing at Bare Bones. Webb says the work at Bare Bones is "ironic,

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Listen to the interview here.Friends of the Library have opened up a pop-up on NW 23rd - where the beloved Music Millennium used to be. This pop-up will have revolving art shows from a huge community of artists as well as books on sale. Lenall Siebenaler is the director of the store and Judy lindley is on the board of directors - they both joined me on Art Focus tomorrow.

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Every year P:ear Mentor has a big fundraiser called P:ear Blossoms. It's tomorrow - and it's always a big party. The theme for this year is alchemy and bearing this in mind, they've asked me and Jeffrey Kyle to contribute to the Transformation Bar at the event. We are both fierce makeup artists who will transform you with silver and gold bodypaint. Looking forward!

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Last time I was in New York I traveled to a small but very significant gallery called Minus Space. I saw some smashing work, including a great piece by Gabriele Evertz (whose work Joanna Mattera featured in a cool post about the diamond shape in art). Now I see that Minus Space is hosting a show by Erik Saxon. He means something to me as I saw his work at Modernism in San Francisco while still

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Listen to the interview here.Tom Cramer will be my guest this week on Art Focus. His new show features Oregon landmarks. It's like he went all over the world in his technique, skills and interests and brought it all back home. Tom is always fun and I'm looking forward to the interview.

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Listen to the interview here.Speaking of collage, tomorrow I interview Robert Yoder on Art Focus. He is showing Cover You and Smother You at the Froelick Gallery. He has an interesting history in this medium, has cut and pasted in many different ways. He also directs an exhibition space in Seattle, Season.

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Anonymous Woman No. 22 Posts about the show Cutters Edges at the new Gestalten Space say it signals and celebrates “a new heyday of contemporary collage.” And Ana Ibarra asked me in Elephant: Do you consider yourself as being part of a movement? I said it was always around. It’s just getting a better reception right now.Just in NYC alone – Thornton Dial at Andrew Edlin and a fabulous Romare

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Tomorrow is the CAP Auction, which is a very big art event in this town. Every year since 1990, CAP has hosted the art auction and party to raise money to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to provide services. There's a gala event and a dinner. The live auction is only part of an immense art show, with just about every kind of art available. This year's live auction features 15 pieces from

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James Gallagher is my hero. We were both in Paper Chase, curated by Jenny Strayer, at Guestroom years ago. Since then he has curated me into three international collage shows, all of them with the word Cutters in the title. On the 28th this month a new gallery opens in Berlin. Gestalten Space will open with a Cutter show which will exhibit three of my Targets. Gestalten used Target No. 6 (

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This week I will have Jim Neidhardt on Art Focus. He has a show of photographs up at Blackfish. Neidhardt captures the museum ritual of photographing the art experience rather than actually having one. Or maybe the intimate relationship we have with our cameras is deeply imbedded in whatever art experience we have, for better or worse.(Review in the Vanguard.)

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Sonia Delaunay at Cooper Hewitt was the perfect show for me. She’s a crossover dream in more ways than one. I have a foot in paint and another in graphics. Not everyone is at ease with this. But she was like Let’s Go Dancing, yanking both feet.While some of the paintings didn’t hold up that well, the textiles are unbeatable – they truly can compete with any quote-unquote serious painting. In fact

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Listen to the interview here. On Tuesday I'll have Holly Andres on Art Focus. Her new show at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, "The Fall of Spring Hill ," continues her examination of a personal feminine narrative. In large-scale, lush color images, the artist ponders the brevity of childhood, the fleeting nature of memory, and female introspection. As in her previous work, this new series is

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Listen to the interview here. I’m back at KBOO this Tuesday with an interview with Cris Moss, who curates at Linfield College. Opening this month is Bearing Witness: Daniel Heyman. Heyman is a storyteller. The exhibition features portraits of individuals who have endured great personal hardship — former Abu Ghraib detainees, African-American fathers who have been in and out of jail, and new

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Anonymous Woman No. 19Several people have asked me about a post on Liz Taylor. I think one of the reasons I held back is because I didn't feel done with her, even though there’s already six Targets of her. I was surprised she left this soon. And perhaps the best of the stash I’ve yet to cut. I mooned over the images and didn’t feel like risking them, yet. Good art in general takes risk. Collage

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Listen to the interview here.I was able to nab an open spot at KBOO and so tomorrow (the 23rd) there will be a special edition of Art Focus. At 11:30AM Matt Cosby will join me on the air. He has a painting show called Peaks and Troughs up at Augen Gallery this month.

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The controversy of Richard Prince and his case spread like wildfire through my Facebook and friends. Photographers tended to lean towards one side, as did copyright lawyers. But artists, we were all over the place.It’s rare that someone gets bugged by my use of magazine images (some including art reproduction), but it has happened. It’s never been from the actual photographer though. It’s always

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Timothy Buckwalter has curated a very interesting show at the National Insititute for Art and Disabilities called Twist and Crawl. It comes in three parts and three of my Targets are in the second part Life of The World to Come: Darkness Falls Upon Us. Buckwalter is combining the efforts of mainstream artists with artists from NIAD. I am especially amused by the mix because I know a lot of crazy

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Listen to the interview here.When I recently collected some art writers for a panel at KBOO, a few people asked me: Why isn’t John Motley there?OK, he’s going to be my guest this coming Tuesday. Motley contributes pieces to the Oregonian. He’s also just published a collection of critical essays that were developed alongside exhibitions at Fourteen30. The book is called Stay Time. Originally

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Anonymous Woman No. 17Kyle Chayka writes in Hyperalleric: Is Ambient Creativity Killing Our Ambition? The article and title really hit me because I was just thinking of how online creativity revolutionized my collage making. And all for the better.You probably couldn’t say that about many forms of art. The article mostly dwells on the written word and how it has been diluted to a tweet. The

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It's not just the young who drift to new sites away from blogging, as stated in this Times piece. The further entrenched in Facebook I became, the less I wrote here. It's understandable that pictures of dogs and gardens would find their way to my circle of "friends." But I have also written much less about art and artists here and that was the reason I started Blogger to be begin with.Part of it

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Listen to the interview here.Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson joins me on Art Focus this week. She is the new curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum and has recently announced the finalists and winners of the Contemporary Northwest Art Awards. As everyone knows, this show replaced the Oregon Biennial. That show never made everyone happy and neither has this one. I'm looking forward to hearing

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Anonymous Woman No. 14In painting I do pattern. I like endlessness and the idea of an experience that seems uniform from corner to corner – and is not.Some of that is just the reward for continuing to look in decorative facades, the lovely and dangerous marriage of surface and substance. It happened in painting and is now explored in Anonymous Women. She’s the wallpaper, she’s the décor. She’s

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