I am returning to Black Wagon on Mississippi Ave for a sweet show full of things that fly! Balloons, hot air balloons and bees, flies and some evil wasps too.
November 12th to December 8th
Black Wagon
3964 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227
Opening reception Thursday November 12th 5pm to 7pm
I now have a kiln goddess watching over my next firing. This is a tradition with potters to have a small god or goddess sitting nearby to protect you from all the many things that can go wrong inside a kiln. I hope she will do a good job.
A few months ago I did the illustrations for this charming web video. My friends at Preditorial created it for NPR's Market Place and I supplied them with the drawings. Fun!
I have created a summer meadow for A Splendid Summer Show at Off The Walls Gallery in the charming town of Shelton , Washington. Local artists Glenhelen Smither and Jim Knull also contribute to the show. Shelton is at the southern tip of the Puget Sound and less than half an hour drive from Olympia, WA. Swing by if you are planning a trip to the Olympic Peninsula this summer!
July 24th to September 8th 2015
Off The Walls Gallery
112 W Cota Street
Shelton, WA 98584
360 868 2690
gallery hours
Wed-Fri 11am to 5:30pm
Sat 11am to 5pm
Sun-Tue by appointment
Here is a fresh batch of big worry warts. They looked so worried in their box, poor things. These are the first ones made from clay because- yippee!- I just got a small kiln. Expect to see more clay critters coming soon. I'm extremely excited about that kiln and a little worried about burning the house down!
Specially made for the 88 Strong group show at The Goodfoot. For this show the invited artists are given a bunch of amusing themes to choose from and apparently I am a sucker for that kind of thing. These were the ones I chose: Body Hair Is The New Black, Catfish, Daredevil and Owl Babies. How could I resist? Reception is on Thursday the 25th of June, 5pm until midnight at The Goodfoot 2845 SE Stark, Portland Oregon. This is another cash and carry show and all art goes for $ 50 a pop. They are even framed- I'd call that a bargain. The Goodfoot is a bar, so you can combine your drinking with your culture that night.
For my show in Shelton, WA I am making a whole meadow full of flowers. It was so nice out this weekend, we all got a taste of summer here in Portland.
This spider thought it was lunch time when it came by to check out the flies I am working on. Must be quite life-like. I'm making insects for an upcoming show at Off The Walls Gallery in Shelton, Washington in July. More pictures soon.
I found this rummaging through the files on my computer. I had played around with illustrating the fairy tale about the 7 little goats whose mom leaves them home alone. Later the wolf tricks them into opening the door for him and all but the littlest one get eaten. Mom just cuts open the wolf while he's asleep and frees her children. A little bit gruesome you think? Nah...
It's about to happen. Little Things will be back at the Guardino Gallery November 28th to December 28th. Yay! I love this group show, where purchased art can be taken home straight off the wall. Pieces are all 7" and under, made by dozens of different artists. I made a small army of Royals of many different species. Opening reception on November 28th 6-9pm.
My root ghosts will be part of the Siren Nation Art Show this week. It's a group show of Pacific NW women artists and this year's theme is Natural Wonders. Wonderful! The show opens Thursday November 6th at Albina Press on Hawthorne, former location of mine and Sarah Hall's River Without End. Opening reception 6pm to 8pm. Here is also the facebook link .
And so the holiday season begins.
Yesterday the first annual Art Carts happened in SE Portland. Who says carts are just for food? There were lots of cute trailers full of art, live music and blue skies. I am sure this was the start of many more to come. I set up shop with the folks from PDX Magazine , who, lacking their own trailer, had borrowed a small covered wagon from the Oregon Trail Museum . I was glad I brought my polka-dotted umbrella because it was hot hot hot.
It's hot hot hot. Have some ice cream.
From a recent show at Good Gallery. The theme was octopi and of course I couldn't resist the call of the tentacle! Decided to use one of the designs from my Pedalpalooza poster and learned that bikes have a lot of parts to sculpt.
I just got back from setting up my Crooked River in Mountain View California. It can be visited at the Mohr Gallery until July 27th. Cassidy and Stella are having a close look at the critters and I'm posing with Raquel's animation students. I wonder where this river will flow next. Let me know if your state needs a new river!
Herman would like to meet you at Guardino Gallery next Thursday.
This is why I've been hiding in the basement all year: there are two big shows opening this month and I worked and worked and worked. The first one, Crooked River, is the rebirth of our Portland show River Without End from last October, this time solo without Sarah Hall. I am going to install a new river on the walls of the Mohr Gallery in Mountain View California and bring a car full of critters with me that will reside on the banks of that river for a while. Here's the what: Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA), Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View, CA Friday, June 13, 2014 through Sunday, July 27, 2014 Opening reception is Friday, June 13 from 6pm – 8pm.
The second show will be at Guardino Gallery in Portland, opening on the last Thursday in June. It has all new work, including my recent adventures in clay. It's been great working in a new medium and the results are a bunch of larger than usual animals that will all look at you irresistibly with their googly eyes. Details for that show:
Guardino Gallery, 2939 NE Alberta, Portland, OR Thursday, June 26, 2014 through Sunday, July 27, 2014 Opening reception is Thursday, June 26 from 6pm – 9pm.
And then, when everything is up on the walls, I will be free to interact with humans again! Won't that be nice? Buy me a beer.
