Eva Lake - Diary/blog Archive
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June 2008: Interview magazine, Downtown 81, the market for dead artists, Jimmy Ernst, the case for Marlene Dumas, artspeak, Richard Schemmerer, Eric Franklin
May 2008: Jess, Print Arts Northwest, Sidney Rowe, eruption, Milepost 5, John Brodie, poor artists and rich husbands, Laurie Danial, rock stars and art stars, Walter Robinson, Jim Neidhardt and Kerry Davis
April 2008: memoirs, Lucinda Parker, Naomi Campbell, beauty and anger, the Impossiblists, Jason Langer, the matriarchist, Jesse Hayward, Jenene Nagy, the big 5-0, Christoph Hueppi, naked women in art, Mark R. Smith and Maria TD Inocencio, Liz Taylor, Delacroix
March 2008: confidence crushers, target collages, who can stop you from making art?, Modernism, the gallery, Live Worms at San Francisco, studio visit with Pierre Merkl, Barbara Takenaga, the back-story on a great painting, Vesuvio's, studio visit with Steven LaRose, David Levinthal
February 2008: ethics and Alfred Steiglitz, Maria T. D. Inocencio, Alfred Harris, collage in the news, Michael T. Hensley, SELLOUT, ambition, Jim Riswold, the hook, Gilbert and George, writing fiction, Molly Vidor, Anni Albers, Women's Work at the Marylhurst Art Gym,
January 2008: bad art and bad writing, space heater, cold studios, artists who suffer, installation shots, red lipstick, targets, collage, war, Joe is Home Now, Geoform, I Want to Live!, Susan Hayward, Lindsay Lohan, Lee Miller, Cynthia Star, Pattie Boyd
December 2007: the inevitable truth, blog panel, feminist journaling tradition, the "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser, the Richter Scale, his breakthrough and his breakdown, Eugene Witla, Richard Canard, subjective vs objective art, Cornell and Heartfield, conditions, art teachers, the hunger, class issues in aesthetics, Bing Crosby and Richard Hamilton, It's a Wonderful Life, the word practice, resisting paint
November 2007: the Blogger show, the invalid voice, do it yourself (Lovelake), James Kalm, a life of denial (women artists), talk is cheap, people who keep threatening to buy your work, where are you, Dorothea Tanning, my life with Max Ernst, the prime mover, the questionnaire (where did you go to school, etc.), SUBSET at Jeffrey Crussell Fine Art, the sister, Grace Henson, it's that time of year again (Miami), Sophie Taeuber Arp, Richter Scale at Augen Gallery, those spiritual aims
October 2007: John Singer Sargent, the target, size matters, she's so talented, Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him, re-emergence, lunge, artists who disappear, translation, the Blogger Show, the spectator, Charles Schultz, the Judd Montages, Herbert Bayer
September 2007: Artempo, Fortuny Museum, Venice Biennale, Odili Donald Odita, El Anatsui, Giannetto Bravi at Comune di Como, spectacle, beyond the black thing, Madeleine L'Engle, Harry's Bar, Lake Como, Richard Hamiltion
August 2007: Blow Up, Antonioni, Lisa Hunter, the woman artist in literature, interview with Michael Darling, Seattle Art Museum, the Secret Side, 1980, Anna Banana, stamp art, mail art, collaging with Donald Judd, Carolyn Zick, Yvette Franz, Dammasch, Monty Cantsin, orchid totem, the Feminist Art Project, Judy Brodsky and Ferris Olin, the state of the garden, the sensitive genius, still life painters, Elizabeth Murray, my own art history, Hannah Hoch, Joe Lewis, interview with Barbara Takenaga, get out, Nina Berman, agit-prop and anti-war art, David Cohen and Namita Gupta Wiggers, the Museum for Contemporary Craft
July 2007: green style, lawn collage, women speakers for your conference, Jen Bekman, feel safer now?, urban growth boundary, hydrangea, interview with Andrei Codrescu, and then it hit me, reconstructing your life after 25, Tristan Tzara, montaging with Donald Judd, interview with Richard Polsky, I Bought Andy Warhol, the Desoto Building, Interview with Jeanette Ingberman, Exit Art, Isabella, grandparents, make your own room, interview with Lisa Hunter, the Intrepid Art Collector,
June 2007: Spending by Mary Gordon, Interview with Charlie Finch, Interview with Nancy Baker, you cannot blink in this profession, online anonymity, Interview with Chris Ashley, opening manners, Famous Star Map, Linder, The Secret Public, Interview with Jen Bekman, Personism, Hatshepsut, painting and photomontage,
May 2007: the Pissed-off Gene, the Gaping Void, art podcasts, wall of paint, Greenstone Media, Roberta Lavadour, Pendleton, Andru Lake, vive chrome, Art & Perception, Art People, Julie Bernard, succulents, peonies, Mat Gleason, Coagula, Andrea Arroyo, Earth Quake
April 2007: PaintersNYC, a women's art strike, Lex Loeb, minimalism at PAM, mail art postcards, the diary vs the blog, civility online, under-exhibited, risk, Louis Nevelson, look like an artist, Chris Ashley, Wid Chambers, One Shot, Visual Codec, Harold Hollingsworth, Artcritical review panels
March 2007: montage, Conflict of Interest, critics who do and don't collect, John Redman, James Gallagher, reconstruction, lecherous curators, the Anti-Nazi League Rally in 1978, Rock Against Racism, David Cohen of the Museum of Contemporary Craft, cannibals, more white male presidents, Archie comics, the Children's Museum on Staten Island, Mimmo Rotella, Honky Tonk Dirt, Lucky Buster, 3 Leg Torso, leaving KPSU and Chambers, salad days, Ultravox!, R. Crumb, Charlie Finch, Ben Davis, Artnet, James and Roberta Lavadour, Pendleton Art Center, mail art, Buster Cleveland, Mark Bloch, Anna Banana, Femail Art, Yoko Ono, Glitterbest, Sex Pistols
February 2007: Cavellini, Weihong, Andi Septic (AKA Andru Layke), stretch color, lust IV, Paul Fujita, Mike Lastra, Ross Sutherland, Mary Henry, public art ruckus, Bill Rutherford, collage stash, Jane Fonda, Greenstone Media, Paper Chase, Philip Iosca, 5th and 57th, the Sartorialist, just paint!
January 2007: Exile on Main Street, Baby Smith, Kenny Higdon, Storm Tharp, Tom Cramer, Regina Hackett, Darren Orange, Dee Reich, Jenny Strayer, dream frames, Anarchism in America (the film), my first exhibition, John Brodie, the quote unquote creative class, NW Passage, PORT, Ken Butler, Don Olsen, Bernd Naber, Monty Cantsin, Stefan Eins, Colab, Fashio Moda, Matthew Courtney, ABCNoRio, Phil Bard, Maria T. D. Inocencio
December 2006: Love Prayer, Propeller, portraits of artists, ongoing saga, the girl behind the desk, Baby Smith, puppy rush, Lochlaren Collies, Lou Cabeen, Edward... Edward... Edward
November 2006: about art criticism, Regina Hackett, uneasy relationship. The Secret Side, Copwatch, passion, Artopia, the digital image, autumn bonsai, maple volunteer, Namita Gupta Wiggers and Manya Shapiro, New Embroidery,
October 2006: The art of Jim Jim, his memorial, the originals, local stats on gender bias in the A and E section of the Oregonian, the panel on the subject, the verdict of James Chasse’s death, authenticity, deleting herself out of history, evidence, Stephen Hayes, the Affair broadcast, Sika Stanton, the gentle art of making enemies, Whistler, Meet Me There by Maria T D Inocencio, Gregory Lind Gallery, Barbara Takenaga, Carolyn Cole, portraits from the Affair
September 2006: Affair at Jupiter Hotel, Jim Jim (AKA James Chasse Jr.), Jenny Strayer, music of the early 70s, a permanent archive for Artstar, Basquiat, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, the New Embroidery, How invisibility persists, Audrey, Salem trip, dahlias, Paros, Baby Smith, Skosh, art for healing, turning 50, Jesse Hayward, Alice Wheeler
August 2006: Chris Ashley, decompression, Baby Smith, Jim Demetre, artdish, Steven Vroom, Art Radio Seattle, Vroom Journal, Stieglitz, Leap into the Void, the cult of the personality, the Stranger, new orchid, the mid-career female artist, m of visual codec, the tree, Maria T. D. Inocencio, style council, Marvin Gaye, Emmy award, makeup career, self-portrait as raven, model of infinity, the Richter Scale, earthquake, artists who write
July 2006: Maximalism, Giving and getting exhibitions, Organism, herb garden, artists’ studios, the Museum of the American Indian, infinity, Is it art?, day care center, Splash!, Take off, Portland Modern, 1978 xeroxes, yard sale, Seattle, lavender field, la defense, Richter scale, Georgia O’Keeffe, Visual Codec, why have there been no great women artists?, Nicolas Gadbois, Anne Meilstrup Hogle, Mt. St. Helens eruption
June 2006: Mary Henry, Moholy-Nagy. Experiment in Totality, Ken Butler, Royal Nebeker, sleeping outdoors, the relationship, Iris, momma birds, disco, Divine, happiness, interesting life, the Marquee, Apotheke, PORT, Modernism (the gallery), Martin Muller, Orange and blue, Chevreul, Van Gogh, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, cynicism, the Modernist Woman, Richter scale, the right to die, Orchid, write well, Jim Riswold, strife, Carolyn Zick, MFA trauma, the Italian, you say I’m a bitch like it’s a bad thing
May 2006: Horia Boboia, Guy Martelet, Portland Art Center, the Mode, Frank Sinatra, my Oregon, Deeper Dive, Bill Nelson, Peonies, Rodin, Modern dance, Portland Modern, disco, The The, Research and Development, William Blake, the compilation tape, blanket
April 2006: cheap foreign product, spring, the Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan, the Bongos, B-Movie, Ron Van Dongen, UFO sightings in PDX, Lex Loeb, no Woman Artist, Warmer, the Chameleons UK, Hatshepsut, Vivienne Westwood, Seditionairies, Sally Cleveland, Ice Age Blanket, John Cale, mid-career (and not famous) artists, Saturation, Portland Modern, Mark Brandau, Visual Codec, the dBs (Stands for Decibels), love in the wild, OHSU, public art, Todd Johnson, Mott the Hoople
March 2006: Seattle, the Hideout, Francis Celentano, Davidson Contemporary, Deep Dive, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundshaft, PaintersNYC, Anonymous Female Artist, the Journals of Eugene Delacroix, the grove in Lithia Park, Comsat Angels, Julie Bernard, Juste Milieu, Amy Ross, the industrial, stalkers, Brian Eno, Make History, Francis Bacon, Elise Wagner, the camera, Charlie Finch, Je ne cherche pas, je trouve
February 2006: LSD, George Harrison, Ted Katz, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Here Comes Success, Iggy Pop, Delacroix and Romance, Mr. and Mrs. William Blake, MFA from UCLA, paint as the light source, look elsewhere for Quiet Time, cute drawing epidemic, the 50s/ 80s woman, get the picture, Matthew Haggett, in for the long haul, John Gutmann, I, Anonymous, overhung shows, Arman and accumulations
January 2006: Ray Johnson, the Inter-Dada 84 Festival, Cavellini, Vile, Anna Banana, Carl Loeffler, Heroes, David Bowie, an army, James Lavadour, Brad Adkins, Mark Kostabi, the made-up man, Duran Duran, Mathnet, Emmy award, new paintings, Night Ride, what I curate, strife, Jim Riswold, Hyped2death, Trap Sampler, Drum Bunny, the Album Cover Art of Punk, health matters of artists, Warhol blog, tintypes, Sika Stanton, Newspace, getting an education, Marat, 19th c. art, Tom Robinson, 12X16, Cary Doucette, Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People, Joy Division
December 2005: Kouros, Young Marble Giants, The Gist, Weekend, Factory Records, Peter Saville, Bed-ins for peace, Eric Kroll, light, Bowie and Iggy, Dead Dealer, art egos, It’s a Wonderful Life, John Heartfield, Tim Harvey, Robert Cottingham, the typewriter, the biennial, Chris Kelly, Suprematist Tree, Malevich, life palette, Joseph Albers, learning curve, being a diarist
November 2005: encouragement, Ogle, Process, rejections, San Francisco, Vesuvio’s, Bitchrock, the Best Living Artists, email, Howard Hodgkin, the punk genre, no shows at the radio, the latest Pride and Prejudice, how I got my John Lennon autograph, Miles Davis, Jackie Du Pre, Amy Archer, Gallery 500, the museum, Tom Cramer
October 2005: Tom Cramer, Yugoslavia, Randy Moe, nothing, Lisa Radon, Ultrapdx, Andy Warhol, Pat Boas, authenticity, Ellen George, Pete Shelley, the Buzzcocks, the Berlin Wall, Trap Sampler, Robert Yoder, Colette, the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Zach Kircher
September 2005: Roy Lichtenstein, Paul and Cindy, destroying your work, Randy Moe, Fresh Trouble, Portland Modern, the fluffer, Brendan Clenaghen, Ellen George, the swifts, black and white, Bridget Riley, Alderbrook Station, Astoria, Jesse Durost, Sauvie Island, Hannah Hoch, Dada, Ultrapdx, bald pussy, Black Cat Bone, Seattle, Carolyn Zick, Steven Vroom, Yvette Franz, Mark Smith, Rudolf Baranik, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Jennifer Mcmacken, Jenny Strayer, Boat Ride, benches by Walter/Moe, digital cameras, Sidney Rowe, Devo, 'prolific' artists, Mimi Rose, Agnes field,
August 2005: Sidney Rowe and 360 Degrees, Fresh, Fresh Trouble, James W. Bailey, Black Cat Bone, Georgia, Baby Smith, the real Dada, Agnes Field, Astoria Visual Arts, Drunk or stoned, Cut and Paste, the return of Artstar Radio, exercise, Unity and harmony, Orchid, Carolyn Zick, (Dis)still Bill, Manifesto of maturity and the right to obsession, Art dreams, Dead artists, Egon Schiele, photomontage, Neue Galerie, Paul Fujita, John Gutmann, Anna Conti, Back to nature, Charles Sheeler, Raven Schlossberg, Get involved to get a show, costume, benches by Walter/Moe, Randy Moe, Ultrapdx, viewpoint, Gregg Bielemeier, maid service, Rachel Allen, drive, the Columbia River Gorge, Jim Neidhardt, draw, I am the Blue Jay, changes, Anne Margaret
July 2005: The Marriage of Maria Braun, the complex maniac, white, Kathleen Turner, Body Heat, Blow Up, Antonioni, Veruschka, Lifeboat: Paul Middendorf and Mary Mattingly, a view of Chambers, the case of the missing cell phone, Emit, Zach Kircher, Lisa Radon, Granny, old film stars, Daniel Kaven, Victoria, Saturn does not disappoint, voice archive, chairs, achievement, criteria, simpleposie
June 2005: art world predators, simpleposie, Georgia O’Keeffe, Art Students League, Gee’s Bend quilts, Jean Arp, Paul Fujita, Yoko Ono, internal painting, Luke Berlin, Chambers, pecking order, Ed Ruscha, Starry Night, Jacqueline Ehlis, painting VS photography, James Lavadour, my succulents, Mark Kostabi, a point of view, Tom Cramer, Artnet, taking the art out of art history, McDermott and McGough, art snob, PORT, Timothy Scott Dalbow, Eric Franklin, Mark Zirpel
May 2005: RACC purchase, Beam, Jacqueline Ehlis, Passion, David Inkpen, V-Gun, Eunice Parsons, the Pander Brothers, France, drivers license, your favorite American painting, Charles Demuth, the Figure 5 in Gold, Dammasch State Mental Hospital, collectors, Coco Chanel, the Filth and the Fury, James Lavadour interview, daily practice, Risk, Seattle, Richard Speer, a 70s saga, Wisteria, Murasaki, Tiffany, Laura Fritz, TJ Norris, Mark Kostabi, Get Unfuckable
April 2005: the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, my Granddad, the USS Frederick, WW1, Julie Bernard, KBOO, Concerning the spiritual in Art, Abstract Painting, Modernism, James Lavadour, the role of the artist, History VS Style, one of my rejections, Portland Art Museum, Docents, the Weirdo Makeover, R. Crumb, Age, John Peto, Gustaf Mortier, Optimism, Tom Cramer, MOMA, the Russian Book, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Incarcerated, the art press, Storm Tharp, Over the Top, Context, Eric Freeman, Eric Fischl, the set designs of David Hockney, the night sky, San Francisco, Why Varnish?, Gamblin, Punk History, Patti Smith, Lawrence Gallery, Artist Statement, the Natural World, Light Source, Picture VS Process
March 2005: about painting, the Arts Students League, Luigi, a real genius, dance history, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker, Guest of Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, New York, Neue Galerie, Egon Schiele, Josef Hoffman, Vienna 1900, the Met, Duccio, Diane Arbus, Chelsea, Ronald Feldman, Pastis, Marne Lucas, Living Creatures, Randy Moe, Wall of Sound, 60s/ 80s, the backyard birds, No More than Decor, the 400 Blows, Edward Hopper, Michael Brophy, Carol Yarrow, Mt. St. Helens, Freedom of Speech, Duran Duran, the ‘community,’ Tom Cramer, What Would You Like to See?
February 2005: David Chelsea in Love, Ken Butler, What to Sell, Live in the Present, the Guillotine, Paul Fujita, Darren Orange, James Archer, Tri-Met Interstate Max Line, Richard Polsky, That Process, Modern Kicks, Carolyn Zick, bloggers, diaries, Haze Gallery, David Hockney, Interviews, Monologues, Paul Green, Lou Reed, Berlin, Design, Stephen Hayes, Bare and Bitter Sleep, Aging as an artist, the Whitney, watercolors, Jesse Hayward, Jacqueline Ehlis, Donna Mills, Academy Fight Song, Ash Wednesday, Old Friend, Saying No, Michael Knutson, Embrace Style, Gary Azon, Coffee, Telegraph, Let Substance Reign
January 2005: Possession, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, the art of drawing, trains, green walls, a painting called Lovelake, Gamblin, Dead vs Living Artists, Callahan, Isaka Shamsud-din, Julie Bernard, Keeping Up, Melody Owen, Starry Night, the Sky, Style, Be an Anonymous Art Critic, The Monochrome, SCUM Manifesto, Artists writing about Art, Originality, the war between men and women, Blue Jay Way, old diaries, David Chelsea, bodies of work, taking the history out of art history
December 2004: friendship, Byzantine art, the Hand of the Artist, Bruce Conkle, Horia Boboia, Finds, archaeology, the York Archaeological Trust, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wilhelm Reich, Christmas trees, Kasimir Malevich, 60s/ 80s, Rudi Gernreich, Bill Gaglione, bloggers, the Organ, Modern Kicks, Monty Cantsin, Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym, Yoko Ono, Untitled Holiday, Why we Wear all Black, the Oregonian, Imagine, John Lennon, record store, Tim Kerr Records, Singles Going Steady, Cruelty-free, Swingeing London, Pop Art, Richard Hamilton
November 2004: Risk in Painting, the Other, Richard Speer, Open space, Eunice Parsons, Secession, Exit Art, Ecotopia, Mark Zirpel, Bullseye Connection Gallery, Vive Chrome, Agnes Martin, Tracey Emin, Joseph Albers, Kasimir Malevich, Icons, Byzantium, Duccio, Talent, Dave Hickey, Girl Exploits, Maurice, E. M. Forster, Wait and Hope, the Count of Monte Cristo, the End of Nature
October 2004: Election Romance, the National Arts Club, Style, Randy Moe, Show me the Money, the window project, Mimmo Rotella, Marilyn in Art, Catch a Rising Star, Bryan Ferry, the Ramones, Gary Numan, a Certain Age, Jane Austen, My Harvard, Mt. St. Helen’s, Death Scene, Pale Male, Blue Jays
September 2004: Ecotopia, Expensive Hair, Charles Rennie MacKintosh, the Initial Image, Swifts, Jean Arp, Picture vs. Process, Birthday, Wallpaper, Pierre Merkle/ Mr. Lucky (My Private Eye), the Arts Students League of New York, the Art Career, Randy and the Randies
August 2004: Closing Lovelake, About Painting, my mom’s art gallery, art on cardboard, the Shameless Act of Self-Promotion, How I Found out about Punk, Ideas, Free Money, Tough Symbol (the swastika), Wrapped Buildings (Loren Nelson), sexist curators, I Love Paper, Tornadoes, more on the art career, Diamond Dogs, Maximalism, Fun, Portland Modern, The Moon, the 1930s/ the Depression
July 2004: The Complex Maniac: violence in women, the Financial Times, Heart of the Country, Postcards, Gilbert and George, Artist’s Books, the Greek Church Near the World Trade Center, Secrets, The Decline, Beauty, aesthetics, Bruce Conkle, Trains, the Image Rules, Escape, diary covers, Closure, No.5, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth, William Carlos Williams, Soviet Woman, the Russians, The Tale of Genji, I Hid my Love, the Target, Kenneth Noland, Fashion Plates, Yves Klein, Nothing, Crowley, Fantasy Life, Dan Ness, Ultravox
June 2004: dams, Turk LeClair, Mark Kostabi, Baird Jones, the Guillotone, the body as architecture, body painting, watercolors, Flying Tiger, a Love/Hate Relationship, Andy Warhol, Flowers, Hipfish, Melody Owen, Reading Frenzy
May 2004: vacation, being a woman artist, Criminal, the Pianist, What we Like, a Trip to Elsewhere, pastels, Chairs, fanzines, Charts for Autonomie, Beyond the Black Thing, Bitchrock, Art and Violence, George Harrison, Escape, The Lonely Metropolitans
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