All Art Friday

All Art Friday

All Art Friday Spotlights

✦ Find an hour in your day for this talk by Charles Froelick about the late Rick Bartow's life, artistic career, and legacy. The discussion took place at the Froelick Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The Native American (Wiyot, Northern California) was a sculptor, painter, and printmaker whose work can be found in museum collections throughout the United States. Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, Oregon, has established The Rick Bartow Memorial Endowment Fund in Bartow's honor.

Rick Bartow (1946-2016) at Froelick Gallery, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Stonington Gallery, and Karin Clarke Gallery

Rick Bartow Obituary at Oregon Public Broadcasting, Oregon ArtsWatch, Institute of American Indian Arts, and Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (pdf)

Read Alex Jacob's "Gut Wrenching Images: Rick Bartow's 'Things You Know But Cannot Explain' Exhibition", Indian Country Today, September 9, 1026.

✦ Jewelry collector Lois Boardman donated 300 pieces of her wearable contemporary studio jewelry to Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A selection of 50 pieces from the collection—distinguished by the wide range of materials and methods it represents—is now on view at LACMA in "Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection". The exhibition continues through February 5, 2017. A scholarly catalogue, offering a comprehensive look at the collection and essays by co-curators Rose Chambers Mills and Bobbye Tigerman, as well as Helen W. Drutt English, Blake Gopnik, and Benjamin Lignel, is available.  

Catalogue Cover Art

LACMA on FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram

✦ The Artists & Makers Studios regularly features artists and their work in its "Beyond Our Doors" series. The articles are a great introduction to artists whose work you might not know.

Artists & Makers Studios on FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram

✦ There's no excuse for missing an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. Now, you can see a show virtually; the museum has digitized every exhibition from 1929 to today. The offerings are updated constantly. See Exhibition History.

✦ Have you read the Americans for the Arts 2016 Congressional Report Card? Vote, and vote smart this November! The arts matter.

✦ West Australia's Marianne Penberthy describes herself as "a textile artist who searches for an organic expression for my natural surroundings. This quest includes ideas about place, time, memory, isolation, feelings and belonging." In the video below, "Flour on the Ground: Temporary Textile Installations", a 2014 project, Penberthy talks about her beautiful work and the materials she uses.

Flour on the Ground:  Temporary Textile Installations by Marianne Penberthy from Marianne Penberthy on Vimeo.

Read about "Flour on the Ground" (pdf).

Marianne Penberthy on FaceBook

(My thanks to Judith HeartSong for the video link.)

Exhibitions Here and There

★ The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, is presenting through December 10 "Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977-2015", featuring significant work by contemporary Native American artists from the Pacific Northwest, including James Lavadour, Gail Tremblay, Joe Feddersen, James Schoppert, Conrad House, Rick Bartow, Corwin Clairmont, and Juane Quick-to-See Smith. A wide range of materials, techniques, and media (ceramics, weavings, carvings, drawings, paintings, prints, photography, sculpture) is on view.

Missoula Art Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube

★ The marvelous paper-cutting artist Beatrice Coron is showcased in "Worldwide Wanderings: Beatrice Coron" at the museum at Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona. Included in the exhibition are Coron's works inspired by literature, including a 9-yard-long scroll based on Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. Also being shown is the 3-D video Daily Battles. A selection of images is available at the exhibition link. The exhibition continues through November 27.

Read "Wednesday Wonder: Beatric Coron's Papercuts" as well as my two-part interview with Coron and producer-director James Stewart, who discuss Daily Battles: Part 1 and Part 2.

Mesa Arts Center on FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram

★ Northern Michigan University's DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, is presenting through November 6 "Correlation Matrix: Contemporary Letterpress Art by Vida Sacic + David Wolske". The exhibition features posters from Hatch Show Print, Nashville, Tennessee; and Hamilton Wood Type & Printing, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, both of which preserve and promote letterpress printing.

Here's a video profile of Vida Sacic:

Maker Profile: Vida Sacic from vida sacic on Vimeo.

Vida Sacic Website

David Wolske Website

View the Catalogue (pdf)

DeVos Art Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram

★ Visit Old London by visiting Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, and see "London at Large: A Wall Sized Map", on view through November 6. The highly detailed map, which is 7 feet x 13 feet, illustrates the 18th Century city of painters Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and others whose works are in Taft's collection.

Jean Rocque and John Pine

Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, 

and Borough of Southwark, 1737-1746

Engraving

Taft Museum of Art on FaceBook and Twitter

★ The Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, is celebrating the art of Georgia in "Lost + Found: In Search of Georgian Art". The work on view is drawn from the collections of Ellie Sonntag, Roy and Anne Jespersen, and Jeff and Helen Cardon.

Springville Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube