Artist Walkthrough + Video
Join me today from 5-6pm at Berggruen Gallery
Thank you to all the familiar faces and new friends who visited us at Open Studios at NW Marine Artworks last weekend. The atmosphere was exceptionally warm and energetic this year, and I met and reconnected with some truly thoughtful and interesting people.
Ghost Coast at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco will continue to be on view through June 19th. I couldn’t let the show end before returning to my beloved San Francisco one more time this month for an artist walkthrough.
Please join us this evening! Bring your questions and enjoy some refreshments.
TONIGHT Wednesday, June 4th, 5 - 6pm
Berggruen Gallery, 10 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco
Berggruen made a video! Click the caption link below to watch a short 3 1/2 minute clip about the work in Ghost Coast.
More installation photographs of Ghost Coast at Berggruen Gallery by Shaun Roberts:
Looking at, listening to, and reading
The latest volume of Sharen Louden’s series Living and Sustaining a Creative Life has recently been released, and I’m eagerly devouring it.
Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Over 50 edited by Sharon Louden, artist, educator, and unendingly generous community-builder, gathers 31 essays by artists over the age of 50 sharing their insights about persevering in their careers and what fulfillment means to them. If you haven’t read Sharon’s previous collections, run out and get them:
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Besides being fascinating accounts that are intelligent, often scrappy, and made me feel seen as a working artist, these stories remind me that success truly is doing the work that is genuine to each of us, the work we must make to feel alive. There are so many ways to do that while having a partner, being a caregiver, working a 9-5 job, teaching, enduring health ups and downs, all of it.
The book’s beautiful cover is by Seattle-based Jaq Chartier. I’m particularly moved by essays I’ve read so far by Taraneh Hemami and Barry Underwood. This book meaningfully sets itself apart by spotlighting artists over 50 and noting how enriching intergenerational friendships among artists of all ages and walks of life are. I personally have benefitted from these and feel that we are all lucky that the art world is a place where we can share knowledge and build support for one another across time in this way.
Listening to the Dodos
Looking at Richard Diebenkorn: Prints from Two Decades at Crown Point Press. Velvety drypoint line, translucent veils of color— transcendent.
Thank you for reading. I hope to see you in person sometime soon.
With gratitude—
Val
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Can't wait!!