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Terry Acebo Davis self-portrait with miscellanous bird art, Hanover, NH slash Dartmouth slash Hood Museum summer 2011

  Terry Acebo Davis, a graduate of Cal State Hayward and San Jose State universities and a Cali native, visited the prestigious if moldy Dartmouth College in the summer of 2011 and spent considerable time at the Hood Museum. She … Continue reading

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Altoon at Shelbourne vt close crop

And artist we admire, all to insult time also known as Altoon Sultan and maybe are all knowing a personal assistant has secretly been reading kids I would do Grecian urn and is making fun of us lowly humans – … Continue reading

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Altoon Sultan, ‘Angles and Bar’ w. ‘Dark Ellipse’

Altoon Sultan, via her blog, describes briefly the relationship between two of her small recent egg tempura paintings, a couple years apart, “Angles and Bar” and “Dark Ellipse”. Both pieces are based on agricultural equipment she has seen near her … Continue reading

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Mark my words

We picked up one excellent word–a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word–‘lagniappe.’ They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish–so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds … Continue reading

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Altoon Sultan farm house and Walker Evans Poloroid SX-70

My mom and I did the 25 cent tour of the Walker Evans show at Stanford before moving on to bigger and better things: a brownie and dirty chips at the Cantor snack bar, plus a Blueberry Odwalla. I ran … Continue reading

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