Esoteric Survey

Pre-Antique Show parking lot swap meet at the Portland Expo Center
This pretty much sums up the parking lot scene
The Portland Expo Center, over 1,000 dealers in two buildings.  One of the old timers told me it used to be in three buildings.

$30 gets you in during set up. These are the few scraps of modern in the whole place.
There was a booth that had some cool pots. That's an Andrew Bergloff on the left.  All but the blue one are by Henry Takemoto.
I picked up a small pile of things at the show, which included this wood piece.

Nice pot cutie
Look at the way she's handling those Soleri bells
Wow!
The girl next door can throw a nice pot
Henry Takemoto is keeping an eye on that one
How much, baby?
Sorry Billy, I can't go out tonight. I'm working on glaze formulas.  
I've heard that it got pretty wild in Paul Soldner's studio. 
This Ceramic Monthly ad for Soldner's pottery equipment gives a little insight on the way Paul rolled.  Source: Official Website of Paul Soldner
All the photos, except for the Solder ad above, are from the Scripps College/ Claremont Colleges Photo Archives, hosted by Luna
I was turned onto these archives by a post onan ambitious project collapsing.  There is some good stuff going on over there.

Pacific Standard Time at the Getty. I went onthe last day of the exhibit, February 5th.  I guess there was a big football game going on that day too.  The Central Garden, by Robert Irwin
This is the PST nerve center.   It's set up like a war room to plan your attack on all the PST exhibits.
# 8, 1966, John McLaughlin.  The Marilynn and Carl Thoma Collection. Image courtesy of Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York Photo: Getty Archives Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970 The first gallery in Crosscurrents is a mix off hard-edge paintings, like the John McLaughlin above and  big clay pieces by Peter Voulkos, John Mason and the Henry Takemoto pot below.
Here he is with his pot at the studio of John Mason and Peter Voulkos,  Los Angeles, ca. 1959. Image courtesy of Henry Takemoto Photo: Getty Archives
Avocado Mountain, 1959, Ken Price.  James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles.  Permission courtesy Ken Price Studio