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Repository 227: Things to Do with Your Hands and Head
This week I am a panelist for the inaugural Digital Scent Festival. I have been asked to speak with two other panelists about scent, art and design. No small feat to do virtually, I’m excited for the challenge. It’s informal, so that’s the good news. Send me in advance questions you might want discussed. I will be sure to post highlights of topics covered. The event is May 7, 10 AM PST, here are the details and please RSVP. The…
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Repository 211: Nº2 Scent Launch | An Homage to the Pencil
I’m thrilled to announce the unveiling of my latest project and collaboration with artist Rory Sparks, a scent inspired by the pencil! If you are in Portland, we will have a pop up this Friday at the Working Library from 6-9 PM. It is also available for purchase online at my shop. Here’s the back story of the collaboration: Inspired by the humble pencil, artists Rory Sparks and Catherine Haley Epstein have created an homage in scent. The scent was…
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Repository 154: New Museum | Landlord for Artists or True Visionary
Almost half a year ago I caught wind of the New Museum launching an incubator, New, Inc. – which in business speak is a place where you coddle and launch profitable businesses – the hotter it is in the oven, the hotter it will be in the marketplace. The New Museum has an awesome and radical history. Its founding director Marcia Tucker was expelled in a way from the traditional museum scene (the Whitney), and she pushed the boundaries, tore…
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Repository 140: Don’t Walk Run for the Arts | Arts in School
In honor of the queen of copy cats passing, I’ve taken liberties with a very popular design I know you will recognize. I changed the quotes to reflect the importance of art, imagination and flexible thinking in schools. I quite like the results, and hope it motivates parents to support their kids in running for the arts. Happy weekend!! xo
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Repository 134: King of Collage | Rex Ray | Gallery 16
On first blush, the thought of doing a collage sounds fairly easy, craft-like and possibly nostalgic of something you did at age 14 from ripping out pictures and words from magazines. Looking at a Rauschenburg (“Retroactive 1, 1964”), or an old Picasso collage (“Still Life with Chair-Caning”), you get the sense that there is accessibility here – that you may in fact be able to pull off the playful act that is collage. Wrong. Collage is hard. Very hard. While…
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Repository 78: Freedom is the Power to Translate
Since it’s the last week that my show is up in Portland, I thought I would post a piece or two to this forum. One of the more popoular was a chart that I made over the course of several years. It’s colorful and full of information, and open to interpretation. An installation image may be found here and here. The title of the piece is: “In a True Democracy the Many are Obligated to the Few”. A democracy implies a…
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Repository 64: Hotel as Hotbed for Creativity
Image of a reproduction of artist Richard Hutten’s installation “Llayers Llove Hotel Room”, photo by Catherine Haley Epstein. Last weekend on a trip to Vancouver, BC I had the unexpected pleasure of seeing the exhibit Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The ambitious show on the theme of hotel as pre-eminent architectural and social structure was separated into four main themes of travel, design, the social and culture. I travel often, and find great respite in…
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Repository 36: Remembering the One and Almost Only Female Architect – Gae Aulenti
I was about to post about the architect Zaha Adid, and reference my favorite female architect Gae Aulenti when I went to check the date of something, I learned Ms. Aulenti died earlier this month. I’d missed the news obviously, and indeed this post will be dedicated to Gae. Few know that this resourceful and visionary architect was responsible for renovating entire municipal buildings and palaces into homes for art. After architecture school in the 50’s Gae (pronounced “Guy”), worked…
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