Sam Maloof 1916-2009

Sam Maloof has passed.
He was a rare specimen, admired by Ronald Reagan, Rene Russo & very much by me.
From the LA Times: “His business card always said ‘woodworker.’
‘I like the word,’ he once said, his eyes brightening behind large, owl-eyed glass frames. ‘It’s an honest word.’

Out with the Old Party

Dearest Friends and Friendly Supporters of the shop,
We are very, very pleased to let you all know that Gravel & Gold has found a new home in the Mission. At the end of this month, we will be shutting our doors on Treat Street and dismantling our teeny-tiny space so that we can start moving [...]

Keeps You Warm, Keeps You Sharp

Quilts, of course, are composed of tiny parts that make a spectacular whole. And when you think about it, so are mathematical theorems. But it took Elaine Krajenke Ellison to figure out that tiny quilted parts could express rainbow-colored mathematical expressions while also being just plain awesome. Shown here are but a few of her [...]

27 sounds manufactured in a kitchen

John Cage.
For Wendy.

Gothic Dolphins

Update w/ Ira Glass (grumpy).

Choose Yellow

Meet Judy. We met today at Discount Builders Supply, both of us after shelving.

Judy has eight one-color outfits in her wardrobe: pink, green, sage, blue, orchid, periwinkle, white, and this, the yellow. I do not know how the green differs from the sage, but I go with it, accepting the clarification that orchid is a [...]

What We Can Live With

SARA BRIGHT
Double
oil on panel

Stoke out. Sara’s final MFA show is tomorrow night at the Berkeley Art Museum. The opening reception will run from 5:30 to 8:30pm, with Kater Murch on bass, and the show will be up through June 21st.

Sweet Pair

I’m into the high-top moc these days.

On the right, the black one is from Quoddy, an incredible handmade moccasin outfit out of Maine. While not exactly custom—that is, they make them in standard sizes—each pair is made upon order. I chose the black Ring Boot with a crepe sole for urban adventuring and mine took [...]

California Comin’ Home

Back from my “research” trip to LA and its tremendous, sprawling Rose Bowl flea market.
I go down there and it’s super Santa Ana hot, tall palms, teenagers swimming at the beach in their full blue jeans, Maseratis valet parked at the outdoor Korean barbecue joint, toenails, Deco fonts, swimming pools, clean automobiles, crawdaddy boils in [...]

Pae White & Joe Meade

Tomorrow night, New Langton Arts will be hosting an opening for In Between the Outside-In, an installation by Pae White featuring the bombastic ceramics collection of our dear friend Joe Meade.

Last year, Pae did a residency at the For-Site Foundation up in Nevada City, where she made a three-dimensional scan of the landscape, including an [...]