Current exhibits, this month January 2017

The holidays have ended and now back to work.

 I've shipped off two works for two venues.

This first has been traveling quite a bit. 

Now it is at the Impasto Art Gallery in Longmont, Colorado.

The opening reception is January 6 and it continues till February 17.

 KISS: In Any Language is 24 by 18 inches.

Free-motion machine embroidery over hand dyed cotton.

 This piece I created when I was working with plastic tubing, 

trying many different techniques. 

This was my answer to Quill work.......

colored thread put through plastic tubing and 

then worked into designs on this 

TOO LONG COLLAR: Faux Quill.

The exhibit takes place at the 7th International Wearable Expressions

 Juried Exhibition at the Palos Verdes Art Center

on West Crestridge Road in Palos Verdes, California

from February 10 till April 16

Now to spend more studio time......

Clark Golden Adams II, A Tribute

I am writing my blog today with a few really old photos,

 about a man who influenced so many and leaves a big hole in our lives

Clark Adams during college days,

University of Utah and Georgetown University

 Clark's christening with Mom and Dad, 1953

 Cousins, Kathy and Julie, with Vicky and Clark, 1956

 Clark at his birthday party in Hawthorne, CA

Neighbors, Danny and Jeff with Clark.

 If he was here he would tell me the dates of all these pictures 

as he knew every important and unimportant date

in our lives and in history.

 Clark and Vicky

 Clark in the first grade

 Photo from an article in the Christian Science Monitor

about Four Families in a Changing World.

Vicky, Clark, Sr., BJ, and Clark, Jr.

 Grandma Newcomb, BJ, and Clark in Grand Coulee, WA.

 Clark and Vicky first Cotillion.

 Vicky and Clark, second Cotillion

 Skiing with the Dunns, Alpine Meadows (Tahoe, CA)

Ann, BJ, Vicky, Clark, Chris

 Clark clowning around with Mom and Florian.

Senior year of high school.

 Rolling Hills High School graduation, PV, CA

 College years, Clark and BJ in DC

 Moving back to California after college he met Jill.

 The two Clarks

 BJ and Clark with baby Ashley

 And with baby Lindsey

 And baby Hayley

 Jill with Ashley and Clark with Lindsey in Torrance, CA

 Clark with his three daughters at Vicky and Alan's home.

Spencer trying to get back inside.

 Clark and Lindsey.

 Skiing in Colorado, Clark, Sr., Clark, Jr., and Lindsey

 Clark and Lindsey at lunch during the work day.

 His family, Clark and Jill with Ashley, Hayley and Lindsey.

Brandon and Lindsey at their wedding. 

 On the right Clark and Jill at 

Hayley and Brant's wedding, December 2012

 Clark's three daughters,

Lindsey, Hayley and Ashley at Hayley's wedding reception

December 2012

Our family, 1970's (Vicky, Clark Jr, BJ, Clark Sr.)

We all will miss him so much, his humor, memory, 

inquisitive love of so many things,

too numerous to write about.

Many friends and relatives who loved him and he influenced

 have been left out of these pictures as 

this is a very short view of his life.

Visions Art Museum, C2C, New Image Artists, Barbara Lee Smith, and Jazz exhibits, San Diego.

Continuing a review of the current shows at Visions Art Museum.

The night of the reception I took a few pictures. 

Below is the entrance to the Coast To Coast show.

Work in the C2C show is by The New Image Artists 

and the California Fibers group.

Guests wandering around the art work.

One area of the shop.

Coming in the front door you are greeted with 

view of art and craft work available in the shop.

A view looking forward to the entrance.

Barbara Lee Smith is having a show in one of the rooms 

of the museum. Above on the left is Marshland Reflections 

and on the right, Mountain and Grasses.

Left is Salt Edge at 40 by 65 inches

and on the right, South Jetty Fog at 30 inches square.

Marshland Remembered and Marshland Morning.

Barbara's work does not photograph well. These two 

pieces appear darker in color both here and in the catalog.

 

Mt personal favorite of this show is a two part piece 

titled Mountain and Grasses, 25 by 50 inches.

Day Break is 72 by 48 inches.

Barbara drew large crowds exclaiming about 

the beauty of her work and wondering about the 

process that goes into her atmospheric landscapes.

Another show going on at the same time is called Jazz. 

Almost all of these small quilts were sold at the opening reception.

From San Diego we drove up the coast to L.A.

(a view from the old Marine Land site in Palos Verdes).

And then home to this.

Life seems to be a study of contrasts…….