Posted in Other Openings on Apr 27th, 2008
Our friends Vanessa & Jeff turned about to be stars of AIPAD. They were widely successful in selling at the show and to some important collectors as well. Was this due to the “Carlile bump” due to mentioning them on this website Our dinner with Jeff & Vanessa (yeah I [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Apr 22nd, 2008
The April 2008 AIPAD (April 10-13, Park Avenue Armory, NYC) Photography show brought together thousands of people to see the work of hundreds of photographers being showing in around 80 galleries. This it it gave us the opportunity to have a delightful conversation with the master photographer Jerry Uelsmann (far right) and his [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Apr 14th, 2008
It’s been a few days since visiting the Whitney 2008 Biennial and seeing a lot of the works there. Unfortunately much of the show is un-memmorable and or uninspiring. I guess that speaks volumes. So I’m left trying to scratch my head for my best recollections from my sparse notes just 3 [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Apr 11th, 2008
Last night we had wonderful dinner with Vanessa & Jeff. We all had a wonderful chance to talk and laugh about all sorts of things. They are showing their work this weekend in the “A Gallery For Fine Photography” booth at AIPAD (April 10-13, Park Avenue Armory, NYC). They are quickly rising stars. [...]
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Michael T. Hensley’s “Loss/Control” show at Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW 2nd, Portland OR) was a great place to start Portland’s First Thursday this month. Chromatically you had your choice of vibrant blue or cream&rust. Both worked wonderfully for me.
The cream and rust were more numerous and had some beautiful isolated interesting intimate [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Feb 4th, 2008
Rauschenberg’s “Runts” at PaceWildenstein Gallery (534 West 25th Street, NYC, Chelsea). These works are created from Rauschenberg’s archive of photographs, which he then transfers onto polylaminate mounted on aluminum panels. These images are of a more personal nature than other commercial images that appear in earlier work.
“Mine is the need to be where it [...]
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Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Other Openings on Jan 22nd, 2008
Hap Tivey gave an artist lecture this past Friday at Elizabeth Leach Gallery (17 NW 9th, Portland OR). Hap talked about each piece of his “Sands of the Ganges” show. “Sands of the Ganges” is based on a Sanskrit metaphor for infinity.
Hap gave an energetic uplifting lecture. His work focuses on the beauty [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Dec 8th, 2007
Jenene Nagy’s work “Slope” was one of the first works I saw at the Open Studios opening at the Troy Laundry building this weekend. 20+ artists are having open studios. I always like going into studios to see finished work and work in progress and partial ideas. It is also a great time [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Nov 11th, 2007
Boxlift Buildings Open Studios show is this weekend at 333 NE Hancock Street is open Saturday November 10 4-10PM and Sunday November 11 12-5 PM. In addition to the open studios the hallways are filled with works to form a group exhibition that was curated by Mark Woolley of Mark Woolley Gallery (817 SW [...]
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Posted in Other Openings on Oct 21st, 2007
Saturday October 20th, Tom Cramer gave a talk about his exhibition, New Work. On the left is Tom pointing to his work “Moon Lake”. It was an interesting talk and he touched on lots of interesting topics. Many artist lectures that I’ve been to lately have not added much to my understanding [...]
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