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update
So much has happened since my last post. I had a show with a long-time friend, Trina Badarak at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay, Oregon, April 25 – July 6, 2025. I had completed thirteen pieces in 3 years, I needed break from sculpture – to catch up on daily life and responsibilities;…
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Umpqua Community College Show
My solo show at Umpqua Community College is installed and will run September 16 – October 16. It includes 9 new pieces and 8 older works. I have not had the time and space to work with this much sustained intensity since grad school. Some of the pieces have been decades in the making, others…
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2023 Wrap Up
I met my goal of finishing Wisdom and completing base revisions on I am Woman and Joy (their piece statements and information remain in the 2017-2020 album). Wisdom's is in the 2021 – present album. My focused now is on my Umpqua Community College Show in October, 2024, with a goal of finishing nine additional…
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Arms
Occasionally I get asked what is the hardest part of making sculpture. Distilling an idea into an image certainly is certainly a painstaking process, with many twists and turns, often with starts and stops over years. But for me it is the arms. In grad school my figures were armless. Knowing my ability to cast…
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Checking back in
So much has happened since my last posting in December 2019. Everyone lived the world events along side me. Everyone had losses – for us it was the passing of our mom's (at 96 and 95) and brother-in-law. Everyone had blessings – for us the birth of a granddaughter. I managed to complete 13 new…
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Yayoi Kasama and John Grade
Two years ago, our son bought us tickets to the Seattle Art Museum's blockbuster Yayoi Kusama show. I admit it took some convincing for me to agree to make the long drive north. But I was newly retired and no longer had time restraints. I knew nothing of Kusama going into the show. While her…
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Back to the Basement (and Sculpture)
In 2015, I began to transition to a planned retirement in 2017. I had not started a new sculpture in over six years. My life had been overtaken by my day job after I was promoted to the Curry Campus Dean just as the dream of building a campus had a chance of becoming a…
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Russell Childers Show
Russell Childers: Oregon Outsider is currently on display at the Hallie Ford Museum in Salem, Oregon. Jonathan Bucci will be giving a free lecture on Russell Childers September 25, 2016 at 3 p.m., at the Roger Hull Lecture Hall, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon. The show will close October 23, it is worth making time to see. There…
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The Power of a Book
This summer there was a local retrospective for Carol Vernon, a long time Southwestern Oregon Community College art teacher. During the preparations, I was shown the picture they were planning to use for publicity – a young Carol was resolutely looking directly at the camera, clutching, embracing her copy of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Georgia O’Keeffe. Someone…
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For Christmas I treated myself to two new books on the sculpture of Andy Goldsworthy. Then I saw Manufactured Landscapes a documentary on the photographs of Edward Burtynsky. Much of Goldsworthy's sculpture is fleeting, made with natural materials which melt, decay or are washed away with the incoming tides. But one of my new books,…
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Guardino Gallery Show
Just back from the opening. Marcia Hindman's paintings and my sculptures are perfectly paired and gallery's owner, Donna Guardino's keen eye has hung the show beautifully. I borrowed a few of the pictures of the show from the Guardino Gallery Website to start a photo album of the show in the right column. Will add more as I get…
