Hanging Artists, day 24

I have a couple of David James's abstract paintings. This is one of them. I worked with him when I taught at the University of Montana, Missoula.

Hanging Artists, day 23

These are chairs Tom Penrose recently refinished. Tom is the one that did one of the first paintings I posted under the tag Hanging Artists. I do not have these in my home, but I thought I would share, anyway. Tom rewove each of the seats and this is the result after he repaired them all. These comments are from his email:

"The wood is oiled teak, which is typical of Danish Modern furniture, so it rarely needs a refinish. At best it just needs to be re-oiled.

I haggled with a guy in Portland, since the seats were all destroyed by a cat. They are 1951 Neils Moller #71 chairs. They are an iconic mid-century design."

Hanging Artists, day 22

Okay, it has been a while since I posted images from other artists... This piece is a watercolor by Jana Donaho-Strong. It is based on a tight extreme close-up study of a surface of weathered rock. She dropped molten glass and burned black powder on the surface of the paper to get dark rich tones before she began painting. The white areas are spots where the paper actually burned completely away.

Hanging Artists, day 21

I went to grad school with Al Wildey. He is the Chair at Central Michigan University these days, I believe. Al did a lot of cool stuff -- this is beautiful and very traditional work from him (it is actually three images if you click on the photo for a detail).

Hanging Artists, day 20

A dancer is an artist, right? Although I didn't hang her her on a wall, you'll be happy to know... I found this image of Amy Herrman when I was going through the images of the art on my walls. Amy is a friend from my undergraduate days. She has done some amazing dance choreography (that's the arts connection). On a visit from Chicago, she stayed at our place. I made a little makeshift bed out of our couch and a futon. She seemed to like it.

Hanging Artists, day 19

Lynn Piper is an Omaha artist I met at Creighton. I love the prints she was doing many years ago. I'd love to see what she is doing these days...

Hanging Artists, day 18

Enid Crawford is an artist in Idaho. I don't know what she is doing these days, but she was doing cool small work like this about a decade ago.

Hanging Artists, day 17

Here are two more of Jim Bailey's relief prints. I have four of his pieces hanging, and these two are smaller than the large black and white one I posted a week ago.

Jim is one fine bastard.

Hanging Artists, day 16

I mentioned Amy Nelson the other day. Here is a detail of some of her work (six blocks from a massive installation she did a few years back). She has very cool new stuff that I wish I had...

Hanging Artists, day 15

Endi Poskovic, a Sarajevo born artist that lives in Los Angeles, does these absolutely fabulous massive woodcuts. Damn it is great work. Wish I could afford one of his massive pieces...

Hanging Artists, day 14

This is a work by Chad Sorg. He does this fantastic stuff trapped in resin (which you know I used to love to work with). I could have tons of his work and never get bored with it. In fact, that reminds me... I need to figure out how to get more...

You can also see work by Amy Nelson on either side.



Here is a detail of his piece.

Hanging Artists, day 13

I met Tim Kellner last Fall at VCCA. You wouldn't know from his name, but he is a German photographer. Lots of cool conceptual-type photography, as well, but this is a more straight forward shot from him. He likes black and white and distorted colors. I just got this matted recently and need to get it on the wall...

Hanging Artists, day 12

Steve Spiegel and I were also in grad school together. He does cool sculptures, but I don't have any of his large scale work. I do have a small piece I will post later, but this is an unusual and very tiny print he did years ago. This is not indicative of his style at all, but I love this tiny dry point.

EDIT:
Steve's younger brother passed away just a couple days ago (suicide)... so sorry to hear it...

Hanging Artists, day 11

Lars Rosenblad and I were graduate students in the same program. This piece is one large ceramic wall that inverts on itself like some odd wormhole in space. He was going to destroy it because he didn't want to deal with moving it. Thank goodness I talked him out of that...

Hanging Artists, day 10

I met Virginia Scotchie when we were both visiting artists at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village (Lake Tahoe). I was very, very lucky to be offered this work from the exhibit that summer. I could have rooms and rooms of Virginia's stuff...

Hanging Artists, day 9

I met Barbara Poole years ago at the Vermont Studio Center. She does a lot of great tongue-in-cheek paintings involving gender. This is a tiny, but great example. Wish I had more of her work!

Hanging Artists, day 8

John Calver is an amazing ceramist in England. We kind of traded. I gave him a small piece and he gave me a deal on this. Such fantastic stuff. Here is a detail of the six feet on the bottom:

Hanging Artists, day 7

John Thein was my undergraduate advisor. My early work was highly influenced by him (though he didn't mean to). I love his large early paintings, but since I will probably never be able to talk him out of one of those, I have settled for this print. Since he is a great printmaker, I am happy to have it.

Hanging Artists, day 6

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Mary Ann Bonjorni is another Professor up at the University of Montana, Missoula. I rarely buy art (can't afford it), but wasn't able to trade for one of hers. I just happen to be at an art auction and bid on this. And won.

Hanging Artists, day 5

Jim Bailey is the coolest artist - fun to hang out with, extremely knowledgeable, funny, talented, and very driven. You'd only know the funny and talented part by looking at his work. I have several by Jim. I love all of them. He teaches up at the University of Montana, Missoula, and I met him when I did a sabbatical replacement gig in the 90's.