Life is always surprising me, and I try to bow to reality whenever it turns things upside down. I decided many years ago to proceed as though the Universe is intelligent, and we are constantly presented with choices that we must make for better or worse. In regard to producing visual art, what does that mean? Here are examples …
Some Thoughts …
It’s been a long time since I have communicated with you all. A lot is changing in my world. On a very personal level My husband Carl took a bad fall in March and needed spinal surgery. He is recuperating from that trauma. Thank heaven he is receiving excellent rehabilitation care from some wonderful people. On another front the wonderful …
New Work At Rental Sales Gallery in Portland
2 new pieces at the Portland Rental Sales Gallery. The Curtain. This abstract which has the feeling of a somewhat tattered beaded hanging simply evolved to the point where I finally realized , it’s a Curtain,so I emphasized that thought by adding the fringe on the bottom and the cord loops on the top. Evolving Lights. Evolving Lights , demanded …
Two paintings for the Attic Gallery
One is named Bijoux, because bijou is French for jewelry. And that painting simply felt like a lot of suspended jewels. These paintings evolve and like I have learned, we humans treat or regard paintings as other humans at least that’s how our brains work, So when I’m working on the painting, I feel like I am communicating in an …
Attic Gallery Abstract Exhibit!
Jenny is part of a wonderful show in June of 30 abstract paintings at the Attic Gallery in Camas, WA. The exhibit runs though June and closes on July 1, so be sure to drop by and see this awesome gallery! The Attic Gallery is located at 421 NE Cedar St. in Camas, Washington. For more info, vist their website …
Art About Agriculture at OSU
Thursday, April 13 was the reception for my paintings at Strand Gallery at OSU. I was extremely gratified to see so many friends at the opening reception. OSU did a masterful job of presenting and promoting this exhibition. I want to think the curator of the show, the extremely capable Owen Premore. he made it so easy for me to …
Strand Gallery Exhibition
I am proud to be having a solo exhibit at OSU‘s Strand Agricultural Hall. This is something of a retrospective, covering roughly 10 years of work and ranging from straight landscape to surrealism and abstraction. Basically it follows the wanderings of my creative studio work, wherever the muse has led me. I love all these paintings no matter what the …
Lyle Hehn
It has been weeks now since Lyle Hehn passed Away. It’s still hard to say “died.” He was not only a dear friend, but an incredible and foundational creator of the Mcmenamins look. What I guess your would call the visual brand of Mcmenamins. When I first met Lyle, he had already been very active for Mcmenamins, painting in the …
Finding Willem de Kooning
When I was between my junior and senior years in college I got a job working at the Silver Seahorse restaurant and marina out on the east end of Long Island. The great attraction was being in East Hampton and Amagansett out on the island, where a lot of New York artists spent the summer. What a treat to catch site of a …
Capturing Oregon’s Magic
This past weekend I visited a show that, sadly, ended on May 1. It was at the Hoffman Centerfor the Arts in Manzanita, and was titled Capturing Oregon’s Magic. It featured a sampling ofworks included in the book, “Oregon Painters Landscape to modernism, 1859-1959”.This is a wonderful book by Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit. It was a beautiful show. I …
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