I’m Having A Gimlet!
Posted on 12 August 2010 | No responses
My apologies for not posting. Busy moving to a new house and studio. Trying to update my blog software and losing all of my images. Hence the Gimlet(s). This maybe the only image for a bit while I sort out the damage. Arrgh.
Attention Artists! ID studio available.
Posted on 10 June 2010 | No responses
It has been a bit since I posted. Been in the crazy world of buying and selling real estate in this strange economic climate. Hard to focus on anything else. But we are heading into the final stages – I hope. Fingers crossed, but the condo has sold which was the hardest part.
Rebecca and I are moving from condo to house mid-month which means giving up my ID studio of 5 years. Which means some lucky person can have this great space.
And of course I have stuff, I mean amazing “things” to get rid of to gift to other artists, like these crates of varying sizes:
And other odds and ends.
If you are interested in the space or the crates or the odds and ends please let me know.
I’m out at the end of June.
Press For Sale!
Posted on 7 May 2010 | No responses
Sold!
Yep, that’s right. I’m putting my beloved (11 yr. old) press on the block. Just haven’t been using it enough. Plus, it looks like I’ll be having to move my studio in the not too distant future.
Asking $4,500 OBO. Comes with blankets and a bunch of ink. It can be disassembled enough to get it through a regular sized doorway.
Wow, what a beauty!
Save the date! Thursday, May 6th.
Posted on 30 April 2010 | 1 response
I’ll be opening my studio door next week for First Thursday. That’s May 6th. I’ll be there all day until 8:30 or 9 pm, so feel free to stop by early if you can’t later. If I don’t answer the door, I’m over at Uwajimaya buying supplies.
I’m across the street from the International District bus tunnel entrance. A perfect stop between Pioneer Square and Lawrimore Project.
Here’s a sample of new work:
MONA
Posted on 17 April 2010 | No responses
Have you been to the Museum of Northwest Art? If you haven’t you should. It is located in La Conner, WA just a short drive north of Seattle.
The wonderful curator, Kathleen Moles has been mounting some very interesting shows so do yourself a favor and check it out.
This looks especially tasty:
RESONANCES: CONTEMPORARY ECHOES MODERN
March 13, 2010 – June 13, 2010
Kathleen and other curators pair artists of different generations together. Can’t wait to see it!
And don’t forget to say hello to Dirty Biter while in town:
Hanging out with Adam Satushek’s photos at Platform
Posted on 17 April 2010 | No responses
Stephen is on vacation (well deserved) and I’m sitting the gallery for him today. I get to spend time with Adam’s exceptional photos.
Helicopter, archival pigment print, 40 x 63 inches, 2009, edition of 5
From the press release:
Adam Satushek pays close attention to the ways that human beings influence their surroundings through the traces that are left behind and the impact on the landscape from behaviors, movements, and alterations. His work captures the odd and unintended intersections of common, forgotten objects with the natural environment; an environment which then must bear the mark of that uninvited partnership and struggle mightily to maintain its dignity.
They are LARGE and beautifully printed. And odd – in a good way.
Adam’s photos are on view through May 8, 2010 at Platform Gallery.
Grand Coulee Adventure!
Posted on 12 April 2010 | No responses
Rebecca wanted to find some sun for her birthday, so we headed to Eastern Washington the first week of April. Grand Coulee to be specific.
Once we crossed the mountains the sun shone and our spirits lifted. First stop, Frenchman’s Coulee.
We hiked around for an hour or so, enjoying the sun. We saw wild flowers, an abandoned car and this:
We got back in the car, hit the road and stopped for lunch in Soap Lake at the B & B Drive-In. We hoped we would see Claude Zervas who has property here, but he must’ve been back in Seattle.
Meanwhile, back at the Sidereal…
Posted on 25 March 2010 | No responses
Sheila and I have been dialing in the acid bath for the perfect etch. Well, mostly Sheila, I usually just do what she says, ” Do not put your hand in the acid, please.”
Since this is a new shop, she has been ramping it back up for production work. Anyone who has ever moved understands, everything changes! All of that motor memory from the last place has to be discarded. New pathways in the brain must be formed!
Soon we’ll be etching for real, but until then a few photos of Sidereal Press and it’s environs:
There be critters:
The pool:
Back in the shop, we gather around the hotplate:
Sheila inking a plate:
And one of our many tests of the soft ground:
Quote of the Day
Posted on 20 March 2010 | No responses
Sick.In bed. On a GORGEOUS Seattle Saturday. Ugh. Trying out a laundry list of cold medicines to alleviate MULTIPLE symptoms. Don’t worry. Not at the same time. Watching college basketball with the sound down while leafing through Pauline Kael’s “For Keeps.”
Damn Straight!
I almost spewed herbal tea on my lap when I read this line from her review of Return of the Jedi from 1983, “Yoda looks like a wonton and talks like a fortune cookie.”
Thanks Pauline.
Ideat Magazine
Posted on 17 March 2010 | No responses
Ideat, a culture magazine based in France, sent a journalist and photographer to report on Seattle. Somehow they ended up ay my studio after First Thursday. Actually, Deborah Paine was their tour guide that evening and we work together at the City of Seattle. 
- From L to R: Tod Gangler, Deborah Paine, Jean Michel de Alberti, Jean-Claude Figenwald
Tod Gangler, Seattle based photographer, was our translator. Jean Michel is writing the piece, and Jean-Claude was the photographer. They were in the midst of an intense week of experiencing Seattle. They changed hotels every day, ate out every meal, had tours of cultural destinations, and had about an hour of free time a day. Sounds grueling.
We had planned to have a few beers in the studio and go out for Chinese, but ended up just hanging out. I think they were relieved not to have to go out for dinner. It was a fun evening. I look forward to seeing the spread. Until then, “Vive la France!”