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Lucky in-law

Around home, Art, Local events

Growing up with two successful artist brothers has been a fortuitous education.  I got a first hand view of how their art has evolved through the years.

I’m still amazed how they’re able to render personal views/beliefs/emotions into tangible works on canvas, paper, and stone.  My older brother, Michael, paints and draws while younger bro Bryan, sculpts marble and wood.

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 Bryan in his workshop in Italy 2012

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Michael’s art at “Making Places” in Santa Fe 2013

Then I received an “extra credit” bonus in my artistic enlightenment when Michael married Linda Fleming.

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She’s an incredibly talented sculptor/teacher/artist and has a CV brimming with exhibitions titled “Tangible Mind”, “Galilieo’s Daughters”, “Perishable Industry”, “Tracery”, “Parallel Universe”, “Brainstorm”, and “Modeling the Universe”.

How can anyone produce the sculpture those titles describe?

Linda has done it with ingeniously designed manifestations using a variety of materials.

Over the years those materials have evolved to the sophisticated, laser cut, powder-coated steel layered structures she now employs to translate her nature-derived art. They’re studies in organic and geometric forms that dance with color, movement, light and shadows.

In 2007 I saw “Refugium”, Linda’s mid-career retrospective in Sonoma. In July of this year I got to experience the monumental exhibition with Michael in Santa Fe, “Making Places”.  The more I see, the more I am staggered by Linda’s imagination (not to mention her uncanny ability to construct the products of that imagination).

On November 2nd I attended the opening of her newest show, “Evanescent” at the Brian Gross Gallery in San Francisco (248 Utah St. 94103). Rather that attempt to describe it, I will simply share some photos, with the caveat that they do not do justice to the art.  You should go see it in person, 11am-6pm Tues-Saturdays until December 21st.

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If you do go to the gallery, look through the “Refugium” Sonoma show catalog; it’s a helpful historical document to understand where Linda’s imagination is coming from. As for where it goes from here…this lucky in-law can’t wait to see.

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Linda and Michael with “Fieldnotes random walker” bloggers Steve and Michele.

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Around home, Art, Local events

Linda Fleming Opening-0030Saturday, a week ago, Michele and I met Richard Taylor at Linda Fleming‘s Opening of Meanderings, an exhibition of sculpture and drawings at Brian Gross Fine Art. When I picked up my camera to bring it along, I realized that the battery was dead and I had forgotten to charge the batteries I had used up on the trip to Maine. Linda’s brother-in-law, Kirk Moore,  was there, fortunately, and he has generously agreed to post some of his pictures of the opening.

 

Soccer and the above average grandchild

Americana, Around home, Family

Charlotte -0015Our granddaughter, Charlotte, was in a soccer playoff game Saturday. Her team, the Mustaches, were playing the Mustangs in the semi-final. The program is through the San Anselmo Recreation Department and as the girls got together just before the game, I remembered that it has been at least thirty years since I have been to a girls soccer game.

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I have seen alot of women’s soccer since, including a couple of World Cup games, but this is a different game. The girls are just starting to learn to play position so there is alot more following the ball and moving the ball down field rather than passing. There was also alot less follow up when they got close to the goal. My daughter, Samantha, said They have to teach the girls to attack the goal, to take shots, and they have to teach the boys to pass. I can believe it.

The game started with the Mustaches playing into the sun and they were scored on early. .

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Also, pretty early in the game, one of the girls got hurt. I was impressed with the tenderness and compassion everybody showed (including the girls on the other team).

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As the game went on, the Mustaches started to dominate but they were unable to convert that to a score and lost one zip. Just like her mother used to be, more than thirty years ago, Charlotte was the star of the game. I hope every grandfather that was watching felt the same way, but I don’t see how they could.

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In the end, after they had lost and I saw Charlotte trying to hold back her tears and it hit home how much she was invested in winning, I thought of how much little girls playing soccer – any sport really – is changing the world. I remember a soccer game between Samantha’s soccer team and the parents and talking to an older woman who remarked, The women I know who went to college after Title Nine was passed are just less afraid to take risks. I hope so.

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OK, this is truly nuts

Americana, Around home, Travel

Corea street

In order to get place names, I used Google Earth while writing my post on going to the Schoodic Peninsula. When I get on Google Earth, it is pretty hard to get off, it is just so fascinating. In this case, I started trying to find a contemporary house Michele and I saw while driving around Corea. On a whim I decided to see if I could get a Street View and I COULD!

Google has Street Views of Corea Maine! (BTW, I am capitalizing Street View because anything that amazing should start with a capitalized letter.)

That is really crazy. Corea seems like an out-of-the-way place to me and somebody from Google – or somebody hired by Google – has driven down the road taking pictures. But, to be fair, Corea is a tourist destination, so, if you are completely jaded by technology, you could say that taking pictures of a picturesque Maine village does make some sense. I thought what is the most out-of-the-way place they might have street view. How about Gerlach, Nevada?

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Here is Bruno’s on the main drag and here is – wait for it –

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the Senior Center on one of the back roads in GERLACH!

I don’t know – I don’t think anybody really knows – have many miles of paved roads there are in the United States, but there are alot. Somewhere over 2.5 million miles. I think that it is very possible that Google has photographed all of them.

I tried the Courthouse in Dayton Tennessee, it is there (without the banner that said Read your Bible).

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Central BBQ in Memphis, a barbecue place Michele and I especially liked? Sure!

Central BarbecueThe house where I grew up? Of course, and they have recently changed the paint color to a new color I find pretty unattractive.

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Obviously, I was making it too easy. What about downtown Tamanrasset in the Ahaggar Range in southern Algeria? (A place I dearly want to go and had tickets to go to when the 1st Gulf War scared me away.)  No Street View, finally. It turns out that there are places on earth that Google hasn’t sent a team to get street views…YET.

As an aside, I couldn’t find the Corea house on street view but I did find it by Googling Modern Corea House. It turns out that  bruce norelius studios in Los Angele designed it. Check out their houses, they are all great.

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