Esoteric Survey

Report From Portland: Erik Has Left The Building - Text b y Dave Hampton Danish-born artist and craftsman Erik Gronborg has been in the San Diego area for the last forty years - longer than most San Diegans - but the time he spent in Berkeley and Portland during the 1960s still has a lot to do with his reputation. Despite the fact that Gronborg left Portland decades ago, his connection to that city underscores  Reflecting On Erik Gronborg , an exhibition of ceramic objects at Portland's Museum ofContemporary Craft that runs through February 16, 2013. MoCC is one of the oldest institutions dedicated to craft in the country. It's been around, in one form or another, for more than 75 years. The Museum presented four one-person exhibitions of Gronborg's work between 1967 and 1977, while it was known as the Contemporary Crafts Gallery. Gronborg remained a presence in Portland long after he'd "left the building." PAX AMERICANA exterio...

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, o ver 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.

Portland SW to SE Portland Japanese Garden The promotional materials for the garden declare it as the most authentic Japanese garden outside of Japan. I did a little shopping, which included  The Good Mod . It takes up almost the entire top floor of this building.  This is what you get after a maze of hallways and a ride up a kinda sketchy elevator. Out of the all the shops in Portland The Good Mod had the best stock. It's a great space but nothing for me.