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Posted in Art Car on Feb 12th, 2009
LACMA will show the BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg from February 12-24, 2009 at the admisssion-free BP Grand Entrance. After that, the cars in New York City’s historic Grand Central Terminal, March 24-April 6. Then on to a three-city museum tour in Mexico. Rare, behind-the-scenes footage […]
Posted in Art Car on Oct 19th, 2008
About the only place in Portland where I can park my BMW 320i art car and watch it disappear… If you missed it, the car is under the star in the center. The Mural was painted by Tom Cramer in 1989 and is on NE Shaver near the intersection with N Williams. The art car […]
Posted in 1st Thurs Photos, Art Car on Aug 9th, 2008
After seeing a variety of gallery shows this past 1st Thurs, we came back and found that the art car had a gift! MANY THANKS! Yes, 3D glasses with a wonderful note written on them that said: “Look at your car through these” They had a great effect, so we took this combined portrait: 3D […]
Posted in Art Car on Aug 2nd, 2008
My art car has been spotted from outer space! It now joins the great wall of china as something that can be seen in outer space 🙂 I was showing a friend my new GPS-enabled phone and zooming in to a parking lot where I sometimes park, low and behold there was the art car […]
Posted in Art Car on Feb 19th, 2008
I took the art car up to Mt. Hood Meadows to ski on President’s day. On the left is an image of it at the end of the day. I, of course, skiied hard till the very last lift. The filled lot had largely emptied by the end of the day. This was not a […]
Posted in Art Car on Dec 4th, 2007
Olafur Eliasson, was chosen to design the sixteenth BMW Art Car. Alexander Calder was commissioned to create the first one in 1975. You can see more about the previous cars in my posting: “My car joins a tradition of BMW art cars” Eliasson started with the BMW H2R, an environmentally-friendly liquid-hydrogen-powered vehicle, striped it shell […]
Posted in Art Car, Other Openings on Oct 1st, 2007
First of all, in October, Tom Cramer is having a solo show at the Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW 21st, Portland, OR). The opening reception is this 1st Thursday 4-Oct from 5-8p. He has been doing some very interesting new work. I’m really looking forward to the show and the opening should be fun. Art […]
Posted in Art Car on Sep 20th, 2007
After getting my art car, I’ve been hearing more and more about the art cars. I found this bit about the making of the 1997 Andy Warhol BMW art car. It also has footage from the 1979 24 hours of Le Mans where it came in 6th. “I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a […]
Posted in Art Car on Aug 29th, 2007
First, my beautiful girlfriend, Andrea Wolff (award-winning NYC photographer), was the first to ride shotgun in the art car. Andrea’s work is going to be in a solo show as part of the International FotoFest show Houston next year. This curated festival is a big deal in International photography circles. I ran into Chris Rauschenburg […]
Posted in Art Car on Aug 13th, 2007
Having just dropped a few bucks for a few art car repairs (no regrets!), I decided to flip through various service documents to get a feel for what upcoming service may be required. It seems beyond, of course, Portland artist Tom Cramer painting the car, the car may have crossed the path of another Portland […]
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