back of house

view from tentbase

Montana is pretty

Annabelle

A nice review

The Seattle Times has published a review of my show. It was written by Matthew Kangas, the same guy who curated me in to the Bumberbienalle. Go figure.

Carolyn over at Dangerous Chunky is generous and gracious as always. She also has published a little slideshow of my opening.

Anaba gives me a little nice mention, too.

Through a Thicket at Gallery 110

This one is Grullo Nimbus, 22 x 18".


"Numna" a better picture.


This is "thicket" the piece on the card

From the front of the gallery, these two look like they are the same size. On the right, Numna, 22 x 18; on the left Pura Sangre it's 42 x 32

These work as a diptych

I think these two work well as a diptych. On the left, Bucephalus Field, on the right, Quantum Spur.

In the gallery window

These two are in the front window of the gallery . The yellow one "Heliotrope Trigger" fought me all the way, It was resolved with barely enough time to dry. Actually it still is not so dry..... The other one is Numna

installaton shot. From left to right: Fluent Pastern, Neapolitan Overo, Verdant Cannon, Grullo Nimbus and Pura Sangre.

This one is a little hard to see, but in person is really beautiful. It's called Quantum Spur, and is 11.5 x 14"

This one is 10 x 8 and one of my favorites. It is called Spring Neap.

Sayulita, Mexico

the main beach we hung out on

Playa de los Muertos

Trees at the beach

Iguana

today was a beautiful day in seattle. But I really wish I was in Mexico.

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Watercolors I did in mexico

what I've been doing

Every graveyard is a photo essay

Sayulita graveyard




A row of tombs -- People are buried above ground, because of the low water table. 5 or 6 people are in each grave.


We are going to heaven.




I think these are graves for pets. At least I hope so.


Peek-a-boo cross.


Check out tile 4;2 -- I bet his wife was pissed.


This is what is at the end of the road through the graveyard -- Playa de la muertos, or the beach of the dead.

As some of you know, Scott and I will be away for christmas, we will be in Fabulous Sayulita, Mexico. We have rented the top half of a villa. It's apartment, really. I tried to get something really authentic, but all I could get is a relatively new construction. Click on the "pictures" link. It's currently 81 degrees there, according to the Weather Channel. I can hardly wait.

I see London

Uh, Mr President, I see france

Studio.....

Lately, I have been doing mostly prep work on the panels. I am trying to get a rich, deep surface, with lots of layers of paint. It is way harder than I thought it would be. I don't know why, but I am surprised every single time at how much time it takes and how much work it is.




It is easy to find landscapes in the rubbed and sanded surfaces. This can be distracting, but it's fun.



I have been gathering pictures for color and subject reference.


I like this little tableau, it's on top of the TV, so of course I see it alot.


Drawing to think--I need to to more of this.

Documentation of the Stolen Election

Steal Your Election
Documenting what could be the highest crime in the history of our country

Satan Resigns

komo news | Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns:
"Ashcroft, in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush, said, 'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved."

Wha-aa-a?

I think Rudy Giuliani wants his job. My prediction.

Installation shots of "Between Reprieves" Scott's show at Gallery 110

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" Between Repreves" at Gallery 110

My wonderful husband, Scott Mansfield, has an opening tonight at Gallery 110, at 110 South Washington Street in lovely Pioneer Square. You may think I am biased, but this show looks excellent.


This is the piece on the card








Really Super Honesty

Scott and I were going to the store and saw this truck......

Work

We have finally rolled out the website. The whole team has been working on it for over two years, and I joined the team about a year ago. So, here it is: Capital Improvement Program (CIP) I think it looks great. AND on top of that I get a new cube:

Note the window. (right now spare furniture is being stored in it)

This is the view. Perfect for watching the junkies.

I also won the costume contest yesterday. I was a Flying Zebra princess. I just had this stuff laying around the cube, threw it together, and viola. (yes I did too have this stuff just laying around)

art is a verb

I got an email update from Hamlett Dobbins today, a great guy I went to grad school with. Easily, of all the people I went to school with, I respect and admire Hamlett most of all. Not only are his paintings beautiful, evocative, enigmatic, suggestive, personal, inclusive, and compelling, he paints with an easy virtuosity I would envy if I could get past the feeling of wonder they evoke in me as a painter. His website, art is a verb has tons of images of his work. There are new images of his posted on the 'Paintings' and 'Studio Views'. And, as a bonus, he has an entire section dedicated to his visits to other artist's studios. I really like looking at the other people's studios; it helps me to feel less like I am working in a vacuum, and lets me daydream about having a real studio of my own.

On another note, I got the November 'Harpers' in the mail the other day, and there is this wonderful article in it by Mark Slouka, titled " Quitting the Paint Factory -- On the virtues of idleness". (the paint factory referred to is industrial, not artistic) As a bonus, it is illustrated by Brad Yeo. His illustrations look like they are wood block prints, but these days who knows, it could be illustrator. Method of construction aside, they are beautifully designed and compelling. Anyway, back to the article -- It basically examines the obsession with work and how even hobbies and leisure activities are measured by ones work.

"Leisure is permissible, we understand, because is costs money; idleness is not, because it doesn't. Leisure is focused; whatever thinking it requires is absorbed by a certain task: sinking that putt, making that cast, watching that flat-screen TV. Idleness is unconstrained, anarchic. Leisure--particularly if it involves some kind of high-priced technology--is as American as a Fourth of July barbecue. Idleness, on the other hand, has a bad attitude. It doesn't shave, it's not a member of the team, it doesn't play well with others. It thinks too much, as my High School coach used to say. So it has to be ostracized. "

I am just getting into the studio in earnest, for my show coming up in April. It has been hard, because I have had niggling thoughts of "what are you doing, no wants to buy one of these" and "what a stupid, expensive waste of time." This article has struck just the right cord with me, appealed to my rebellious nature, and has me itching to make a bunch more of those little pictures that no one but me wants to take home.

Air America is in Seattle

Hello dear reader , Sorry for going dark there for a while, Personal reasons, bla, bla.

So, this news is too important to keep to myself, Air America is now in Seattle! AM 1090. I don't have a radio at work, so I will still have to listen via RealPlayer while there, but all you devoted readers (...) out there, tune in right now! If you don't have a radio either, here's the link to listen on line.

p.s. I'll have some images up on New Work soon, I promise

I can't escape.

I AM 55% TORTURED ARTIST! Art is significant in my life, people are scum but I have the capicity to deal with it. Give it a few more years and I will either forget about art or hate the world. Take the TORTURED ARTIST test at Fuali.com

Grr

Ok, so I wrote a whole big entry for today, way longer than I usually do, and when i clicked the "publish" button, it hung there, and then deleted the post. I'm just going to paraphrase. I got the new McSweeney's Quarterly It's edited by Chris Ware. (Make sure you keep clicking the "more chris ware" hotlink for more .gifs.) Bla bla, yeah whatever. I had a nice little blurb on this, but to no avail. I really appreciated CW's essay on Phillip Guston.

McSweeny's Internet Tendancy Today's Dispatch be sure to check out the Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush.

Bumbershoot

SO, I am finally in a Bumbershoot show, (this piece) but I must say my enthusiasm for it has been seriously dampeded. I have to deal with a local curator who will remain nameless. He is the most horrible, sad, snotty person I have encountered since middle school in a small town in Texas. He was literally verbally abusive to me, screaming in the middle of the opening, because I was eight minutes late. Now, in the rest of the art world, eight minutes late is a half an hour early. And to top it all off, I can't say or do anything, because this is such a podunk town, that not only would he review my next show for the sole purpose of a nuclear pan, but he would condemn every show I am involved with -- for god only knows how long. And he is basically the only reviewer in town. So tomorrow I have to gallery sit with this charming individual for four hours. I can hardly contain my glee.

Newt Gingrich's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president

Anyone who knows me knows I love a good rant (just ask me sometime about the normalizaton of millitary uniforms in fashion-- do you think Hitler would have been half as popular with the kids if Hugo Boss hadn't designed the uniforms? ). And I have to say Garrison Kellior has a great one in the middle of his excellent essay for the August 26th In These Times
"We're not in Lake Woebegone Anymore"

Here's the best passage, if your'e in a hurry:

"The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous."

excellent.

new paintings

Howdy my ever faithful reader, I have a few new paintings at New Work
Here's a sample:

This one is tentatively called ok1. I don't know why.

The Squirrel scott found.

So, we are the proud parents of a squirrel. Right now the plan is to raise him until he's old enough to take care of himself. But then agan, Maybe Not.

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004 Archives

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: August 08, 2004 - August 14, 2004 Archives: "As long as we're re-examining the 1960s, looking for signs of character, trying to decide if a man who volunteered for combat and was decorated five times was more or less courageous than a guy who didn't even show up for his own medical exam... here's George W. Bush during his college days, hitting a fellow sportsman in the face."

I am becoming incapable of tolerating let alone understanding anyone who can look me in the eye and say " I'm voting for George Bush". I immediately intensely loathe that person, knowing they admire this horrid lying bully. I am reminded of the cretinous creatures masquerading as human beings I encountered in Iowa Park Texas, when I lived there. Calling them cretins insults cretins. They are proof of evil in this world, and I hope all those Christians out there are right, just so they all can fry in hell for eternity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson Dies at 96

Henri Cartier-Bresson was the father of photojournalism. I always say photography is cheating, but this guy was pretty good.

Top Ten

Ok, so today on Carolyn's blog Dangerous Chunky she links to ArtJournal asking the impossible question: "Who is your Top Ten, and with one word, Why?" So in no particular order:

• Kerry james marshal -- honesty


• Diebenkorn -- space


• Cranach the Elder -- contranst


• Phillip Corbet -- Shameless self-promotion


• Louise Bourgeois -- Strength


• chuck close -- paint


• Odd Nerdrum -- odd


• Balthus -- f'ed up


• Fioretino Rosso (and all the other mannerists) -- fabulous wierdness


• Leonardo da Vinci -- duh

This one was not necessary

so I am deleting this post. It was just mean.

Here comes the Sun

It's that time again, Solstice, which means only one thing, the Republic of Freemont's Solstice Parade.


According to the PI:
"The parade will follow a new route this year -- the longest ever -- and begins with an entrance through a grand archway. Sponsored by the Fremont Arts Council, the longer route will allow the hordes of visitors to spread out more, allowing for better views."

Hm, I'll believe that when I see it, as hordes descend on Freemont

Here's a map of the new route.

I can hardly wait!

Ray Charles Died Today at 73

Many folks, even here in Seattle don't realize that Ray Charles sort of got his start in Seattle, where he met Quincy Jones, and also where in 1948 he formed the first black group to have a sponsored TV show in the Pacific Northwest, the McSon Trio.

The BBC has set up a page where people can send a little tribute to the memory of Ray Charles. Many of them are quite touching, and they are from all over the world-- of course the UK, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, the Canary Islands, and this one from daftjack, South Africa:
"I remember travelling 200 miles from Manchester to London just to buy a Ray Charles record (in the 60s). I would still have gone had it been a thousand. Great singer, great voice, great man. The heavenly choir will have some competition tonight."

Ray Charles was truly a great American: optimistic, hard working, and sincere.

I will refrain from sullying his memory by comparing him to Ronald Regan; a man who began his political life being an FBI informant for the McCarthy Committee, and ended it with the blood of Nicaragua, Guatemala and Grenada on his hands, not to mention arming the Mujahdeen in Afganistan....wait I said I wasn't going to bring all that up.

David Sedaris is on KUOW today

Today at 2:00, David Sedaris will be on KUOW to promote his new book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. and I plan on reading it despite this horrifying review:

"Sedaris is the J.K. Rowling of American humor writers....This summer release is not recommended for beach reading. Laughing so hard will cause everything to jiggle." Colleen Kruse, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Ahem. Thankfully, Mary Brenan, the Seattle Times book reviewer also liked it.

I am a geek

I was reading my favorite gurly mag, the fabulous BUSTMagazine, that my equally fabulous friend Laura Nooney introduced me to, (she just made producer! Yay Laura!) when I noticed a little ad for SEW FAST SEW EASY! they offer ON LINE sewing classes -- and offer super cute patterns, including this great 1/4 circle skirt! I need this skirt. really. Here are pictures of real people wearing it. I get paid tomorrow -- I can hardly wait!

FOUND Magazine

A friend of mine, Jay Rothschild, alerted me to the fact that the amazing FOUND Magazine folks are going to be in Seattle next week. It seems they will be performing on 6/9 at Elliott Bay at 7:30 and & at 6/10 U Bookstore at 7.

We went to montana this last weekend, and they have the best flea-markets in the world.