Category Archives: Artists
Doing just a little bit more…
December 14, 2010, 6:44 am
Standing back and regarding her handiwork, the woman who has ministered to all the medical needs of our family for the past 20 years, proclaimed, “Well, if you can live with those bunions, the scar that you’re going to have on that knee won’t present ANY problem!” The subject of her statement was my own [...]
Thieves Market … or “Mom! We made thirty-six hundred dollars!”
December 6, 2010, 11:20 pm
In her high-pitched, four-year-old, most excited voice, Maggie Campbell crowed to me through the phone receiver, “Mom! We made thirty-six hundred dollars!” The year was 1984. I was in Omaha, and I had sent Craig and Maggie off to the Thieves Market in Iowa City with a Datsun pickup loaded with my engravings. I was [...]
Stan Fellows
November 29, 2010, 10:41 pm
Heading Off / Stan Fellows / Watercolor on paper / 16 x 20 / $395 “Oh look, this isn’t right.” And with that statement, I watched Stan Fellows’ thumb smear the color that he had just brushed in as a reflection in a bottle. He was painting during our Music in the MUD event on [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 22, 2010, 9:55 pm
Holstein / 7″ x 8″ on Scratchboard / Thomas Agran In the gallery, this is the season when artists make certain to deliver work in a timely fashion. It’s a busy, happy time- a harvest of work done in solitude. Amy Plymat’s painted silk scarves are piled beside Thomas Agran’s beautifully rendered scratchboards of classic, [...]
Being a biped
October 27, 2010, 8:49 pm
I get up quite early in the morning- I always have. The mystery and quiet of the darkness at dawn has ever held me in its thrall. Lately, I have used this time to watch the flickering images of a video on my computer monitor: making her steady, but teetery, progress down a Brooklyn sidewalk, [...]
Dave Gordinier & The CR Metro Gallery Tour
September 24, 2010, 3:15 pm
“Priscilla, are you with a customer?” This is how every conversation with my friend Dave Gordinier has commenced since he moved to Mesa, AZ over a decade ago. Dave wouldn’t dream of putting himself ahead of anyone else. That excruciatingly unassuming aspect of Mid-western courtesy remains decidedly in tact, despite Dave’s now long-term residence in [...]
What I meant to say…
September 8, 2010, 12:33 pm
The Pastoral Scene by Larry Welo / Color Intaglio Etching / 18″ x 12″ “It was a nice talk, and you gave some good personal information about how the gallery started.” That was Karen Hoyt’s kind assessment of a presentation that I had given to a group of highly motivated, well-educated, civically committed women who [...]
Thomas Agran
July 22, 2010, 6:01 am
Being “in the zone” for many artists is that alchemical moment when the literal representation of a subject is overwhelmed by the sheer momentum of working spontaneously with materials, marks, form, color and light. This is possibly how I should have started my comments about Thomas Agran the night of his opening here at Campbell [...]
Introducing Thomas Agran
July 8, 2010, 7:09 am
Thomas Agran, working in his studio I remember instructing Thomas Agran to look for a small, gray-haired woman at the Grinnell College’s Bucksbaum Center for the Arts opening for the summer of 2009’s exhibit. I had a few pieces in the show, and I wanted to meet Thomas and visit his studio during the same [...]