Missouri-based writer Matthew Ballou just published a review of the final release of 2014 from Kelly’s Cove Press, Richard Diebenkorn: Still Lifes and Landscapes. Check it out at the Neoteric Art website.
This third Richard Diebenkorn release from Kelly’s Cove Press features many previously unavailable images, all courtesy of The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation. Still Lifes and Landscapes is currently available a discounted rate. Please see our 2014 year end offer page for more details.
William T. Wiley’s recent paintings on canvas, and watercolors on paper will be exhibited at the Hosfelt Gallery of San Francisco, from February 8 to March 15.
The artists’ reception will be from 4 – 6 pm.
Read more about the show on the Hosfelt Gallery event page.
Evan Karp
July 25, 2013
As Bart Schneider was publishing Genine Lentine’s remarkable book “Poses,” a collection of writings (instead of drawings) from live models, he decided he wanted to include figure drawings.
“I figured, might as well start with the master,” he said via e-mail, and approached the Diebenkorn Foundation. Receptive, and pleased with the way “Poses” came out, the foundation agreed to let Schneider do a book of Richard Diebenkorn’s work on paper.
“When I realized how much magnificent work there was – the foundation estimates that 4,000 of RD’s 5,000 known works are on paper – I decided it needed to be two books: ‘Abstractions on Paper’ and ‘From the Model,’ ” he e-mails.
The timing couldn’t have been better: With the de Young’s current exhibit “Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966,” interest in the painter’s work is high. “I suppose the reason we got to publish so many of these works for the first time,” Schneider says, “is that people weren’t aware of what treasures the foundation holds.
“My goal is to make small, inexpensive art books, which offer viewers a direct and intimate experience of the artists’ work, without the interference of scholarly essays and analysis. Our Diebenkorn books have been flying off the shelves, which suggests that people’s direct response to the work doesn’t depend on having a specialist guide them.”
Friday night, as part of their Friday Nights at the de Young series and in conjunction with the exhibit, the museum hosts a special performance by the legendary, luminously oddball poet Michael McClure in concert with jazz improv masters George Brooks and Rob Wasserman. McClure was among those who went to watch Diebenkorn paint at California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) circa 1960. Over the phone, he said Diebenkorn was a big influence on his own work.
“He was a hero of mine. … I particularly like his early work, his middle work and his later work,” McClure said, laughing. “All of it.” Though he says, “His early (Berkeley) work I will probably always think is the most beautiful because it’s what I grew up with.
“But then again he was an improvisational painter at that time, and I’m working with two of the really great improvisational musicians George Brooks and Rob Wasserman – two enormously gifted people – and I think together it will be a real celebration of what he has done for us.”
In fact, McClure was in a band with Brooks and Wasserman, along with the Doors’ Ray Manzarek, called Big Mix, and part of the evening will be a tribute to Manzarek, who died in May. McClure says one of the poems they’ll perform will be “Maybe Mama Lion,” for which McClure wrote the words and Manzarek the music.
Both “Richard Diebenkorn: Abstractions on Paper” and “Richard Diebenkorn: From the Model” are available at the de Young. The exhibition at the de Young runs through Sept. 29.
Jazz and Poetry: 5 p.m. Friday. Free. de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. (415) 750-3600. http://bit.ly/12Yp1uh.
Evan Karp is a freelance writer and the founder of Quiet Lightning. E-mail: 96hours@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Litseen
Gretchen Giles reports on two Northern California exhibitions of Richard Diebenkorn”s work, and our two new Diebenkorn books, Abstractions on Paper and From The Model.
“Richard Diebenkorn”s casino online work comes home with de Young and College of Marin shows, and two new locally published books.”
Kelly’s Cove Press is pleased to announce the publication of two collections of works on paper by California master Richard Diebenkorn. Publication date for both books is June 3, 2013. Having worked closely with The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation in Berkeley, we are excited that the majority of the works in each collection is published here for the first time.
From The Model and Abstractions on Paper are released in connection with the show “The Intimate Diebenkorn~Works on Paper, 1949 – 1992” opening at the College of Marin Fine Art Gallery on September 28 and running through November 18. The show is slated to travel to several college galleries around the country. The De Young Museum in San Francisco is hosting a major show– Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966, opening June 22, 2003, closing September 29, 2013.
Today, December 13, 2011 is Kenneth Patchen’s 100th birthday.
Patchen’s biographer Larry Smith wrote a review of our centennial selection: NY Journal of Books Review
The next week will be a big one for Kelly’s Cove Press. Join us for one or more of our events.
On Tuesday, the 29th, I’ll appear on the 10 am (PCT) hour of Forum (KQED FM) with Michael Krasny to talk about Ambrose Bierce with S. T. Joshi, editor of Library of America’s definitive Bierce. Kelly’s Cove Press’s two Bierce volumes, The Best of the Devil’s Dictionary and Civil War Stories will also be part of the mix.
Wednesday, November 30, at 7pm, I’ll host a reading and celebration of Kenneth Patchen’s jameshallison casino work at City Lights Bookstore. Readers will include poets Bill Berkson, Lorna Dee Cervantes, David Highsmith, Genine Lentine, David Meltzer, and Jonathan Clark, editor of our volume Kenneth Patchen: A Centennial Selection.
On Thursday, December 1st,at 8pm, my one-man show, The Miraculous Return of Ambrose Bierce, with veteran San Francisco actor Felix Justice as Bierce, opens for three consecutive nights at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, 2041 Larkin Street (near Broadway) in San Francisco. One of the miracles of this production is that this will be Ambrose Bierce’s first appearance inside a church in more than 150 years.
A fourth performance of The Miraculous Return of Ambrose Bierce, will take place on Sunday, December 4, at 2pm, at Bird & Beckett, the great Glen Park bookstore at 653 Chenery St. in SF.
Come cheer on Felix in his miracle play.
