Blog: Studio, Shows, Reading, Random Thoughts
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Art Fall Down, Go Boom
I was all ready, for Summer Art Market, probably as ready as I’ve ever been. But some sort of micro burst Friday night destroyed the tent. So if you were looking for me, and couldn’t find me, that’s why. Most of the art was not hung yet, so I haven’t discovered any damaged art, amazingly.…
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Twigs and Berries: Summer Art, and Some’re Not
Summer Shows: Colorado ‘Round the Clock, Kirkland Denver Art Museum, Sept 4, Opens 5 PM: This is actually the second part of a show that began during MoPrint, back in February. I’ll have one print in it, an etching called November Dusk, so if the dog days are in full effect by then, perhaps I…
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Twigs and Berries: Another Roadside Abstraction
I drove out with a friend to Genoa, Colorado (“Ja-NO-a”. Please don’t pronounce it like the Italian city where Columbus started for the New World) to see the World’s Wonder View Tower. The Tower, once a crumbling roadside attraction off I-70, is now being refurbished in a way that is sensitive to both its small…
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LA Di Da
I’ve done my share of tramping all over the wilderness, mostly in Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Colorado. Backpacking, National Parks, Skiing and long road trips. Nowadays, I mostly hike in museums and on city streets. One of the few cities I haven’t really toured is Los Angeles ( I actually hitchhiked through once, sleeping on…
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A Soccer For Football
I propose classes at the school where I teach months in advance, to facilitate their scheduling and promotion. I already know my tentative schedule for late Spring and Summer: A youth class in August; an adult class evenings in July, and a class for advanced beginners in late April through May. Nothing in June. The…
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Manga Miss
Manga publishing is a huge industry in Japan, which has the largest and most diverse comics industry in the world. It’s really beginning to gain a foothold here in the US, if the library shelves and bookstores are any indication. I was introduced to it in Raw Magazine in the early 80s, a special section…
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Zine But Not Heard? Hardly.
This blog is about art matters and books. The ‘intellectual’ mediums (movies, theatre, opera, literary novels) and the media once reviled as ‘lowbrow’- comics, TV, genre lit, both interest me. Do they intersect? For me, they do, and for many they always have. An influence on my thinking about pop culture was Hermenaut, a now…
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Collected Thoughts
The gentleman does not give away his thinking easily. Though he is purposeful, confident, even swaggering, and seems to be going places. Still he is hard to read. Staring intently into the space ahead of him, arms swinging as if to launch himself, he is strangely rooted, though he has 4 legs. A bit ghostly,…
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Strata Various
I sometimes like to do a deep dive into my flat files for forgotten work. They are bulging with it by now, so I guess it can be characterized as a sort of Swedish Flat File Cleaning. I’ll find old studies, test proofs or retired monotypes that I will offer for sale after years of…
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Twigs and Berries
I promised a look at MoPrint events not specifically related to my work. These are still up for a little while, in some cases, just days. I saw these with friends on lighthearted social outings, and did not take notes, so artist info is scanty, but please take my word on how striking they are.…
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