For one night only, on Wednesday, May 9, the Berkeley Art Museum presented In Protest, a collection of protest posters commissioned by a variety of artists and writers, including Zarouhie Abdalian, John Baldessari, Amy Balkin, Amy Franceschini, Doug Hall, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Shaun O’Dell, Rigo 23, Piero Golia, Jordan Kantor, Kevin Killian, ... More
Posts Tagged “Jack Spicer”
In Protest at Berkeley Art Museum
05.11.2012 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
Palimpsest 11
05.20.2011 | ByFiled under: Projects/Series
“Palimpsest, i.e., a parchment from which one writing has been erased to make room for another.” H. D.
“It was a magic process.” Fran Herndon
Jack Spicer and Fran Herndon, poet and painter, were the best of friends. When they first met, Fran hadn’t started painting yet. As she got to know Jack, she turned that corner.
San Francisco, 1959 to ’60, it was a most exciting time for the pair. Spicer was working on “Homage to Creeley,” an amazing series of poems that became a sequence in Heads of the Town up to the Aether. Jack wou... More
from the SPICER & JESS Collaboration
04.23.2011 | ByFiled under: Back Page
R. H. Quaytman and Jack Spicer
01.06.2011 | ByFiled under: 151 3rd, One on One
Jack Spicer was an American poet, born in 1925 in Los Angeles, and something of the grit and the gold of Southern California clung to him throughout his life, even after moving to Berkeley, then San Francisco, when the Second World War ended in 1945. There’s supposed to be a giant feud between LA and SF, but I can’t say I’ve seen it in actio... More
A Less Shadowed Place
07.10.2010 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
Dodie Bellamy and I had only a few hours to see what seemed beforehand to be an impossible number of shows in Los Angeles. First off we drove to the far side of Culver City to LAXART on La Cienega, where our San Francisco friend Colter Jacobsen was having his first solo show in Los Angeles (Searchin’ Vs Buildin’, through June 26). The show draws from different bodies of Colter’s work, stretching way back to the very first drawings of his I remember seeing, the “Woods in the Watchers” pictures he showed on one wal... More
Deborah Remington R.I.P.
05.19.2010 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
I read in The New York Times that the American artist Deborah Remington died last week, nearly 80; what a wave of regret and desolation blew through me when I read these words. And yet I can say I had a grand encounter with her, just last year. Yes, I met her but once yet it was unforgettable.
I was writing a biography of the California poet Jack... More
