Alanna Risse

On my quest to eat 365 apples in the year 2009. I’m finally caught up and might even be one or two ahead of schedule.

Apple 221. I just decided it should pose with my typewriter just for fun.

Apple 220 on the way back from Seattle. It’s our first wedding anniversary.

Watching tv in our room at the Ace Hotel Seattle.

Apple 218 at breakfast at the Ace Hotel Seattle.

Apples 216 and 217. Such a busy crappy week at work.

Apple 215 was a refreshing bowl of cold, homemade apple sauce.

Apple 214 eaten while truggling with an ever growing bug list at work.

Apple 213 was eaten while starting my 30 drawings in August project.

Apple 212 was eaten while contemplating the bee suit I’m making and wearing to Todd and Bethany’s wedding this Halloween.

I ate apple 211 cold, peeled and sliced up in a bowl.

Broken down and bought air conditioner number two for my office. I hated working from the bedroom again.

Working downtown at Flickerbox today. Apple 209 feels cool and cosmopolitan like that.

Apple 208 was eaten as I worked in our bedroom, trying to avoid the 100+ weather.

We had a lovely weekend in Seattle and saw some great art. We just visited the huge art building at 3rd and Washington. All of the following were on view there. If I was having any doubts about painting being a potent enough medium, they are gone now. Such incredible work all over the place.

Paintings and Wall Sculptures by Patricia Hagen and Punch Gallery.
I think Patricia must be the offspring on Eva Hesse and Phillip Guston. Comparisons aside, her work is absolutely stunning.

Cristin Ford
At La Familia Gallery
Beautiful ink drawings on paper or acrylic slide.

These were tiny. Maybe 2×2″

Talk about Stunning…
John Taylors model boats at Garde Rail Gallery blew me out of the water. They are made from recycled materials, lots of parts from motherboards and computer accessories.

Also at Garde Rail Gallery — Holly Farrell
Her still lifes are meticulously painted and have a shiny, polished finish to them. Great depth and detail. The subjects visually have a human skin-like quality to them and almost feel alive.

Mr. Hooper at Garde Rail Gallery.
Just cute and great.

Bill Miller at Garde Rail Gallery.
Mosaics made out of linoleum

Lise Graham at SOIL Gallery
Big, beautiful oil paints. The kind of painting you want to lick.

Loved, loved loved Cabel Griffith’s large acrylic paintings at SOIL Gallery

Julie Alpert at SOIL gallery.
Great collages made from scraps of paper. Loved her installation piece using patterns from security envelopes and other scraps of paper.

Cynthia Camlin at Monarch Studio
Beautiful, delicate watercolors on large paper of crystalline iceberg-like objects.

And I think my favorite of the day was…
Liz Tran at Monarch Studio
These are mixed media on paper, mounted on panels. The imagery looks like portraits of radical knitting projects on tree trunks.