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July 1, 2017 by tomdalzell
Julia Vinograd and her visual creativity
Julia Vinograd sat amidst bright quilts and pillows on the bed in her apartment at the California Apartments on University, wearing her trademark long skirt and black and yellow hat, surrounded by photographs and paintings and stained glass and beads and skulls, reading out loud from her 2006 Cannibals and Casseroles. She read “On the Berkeley […]
June 25, 2017 by tomdalzell
Asia in (Quirky) Berkeley
Asia Colombo spent the 2016-2017 school year as a foreign exchange student at Berkeley High. She is from Italy. Her name is not pronounced as we pronounce the name of the continent, but as “Ah-zia.” She was a part of my family for the year. She took a strong interest in all things Berkeley, […]
June 24, 2017 by tomdalzell
Ian Wood’s Garage Door Photos
My final post of 2016 was about painted garage doors. In response, if some months later, Ian Wood wrote me and sent me a link to his Instagram collection of several hundred photos of Berkeley garage doors. As R. Crumb would say: Wood was born and raised in Berkeley. He left in early adulthood, living in […]
June 20, 2017 by tomdalzell
Eli Leon – Collections for Sale This Weekend!
Last Saturday, I posted about Eli Leon’s many fine collections. Beginning on June 23 through 25, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., Geneva and Julie Addison will be selling his collections other than the Afro-tradition quilts in his home at 5663 Dover St. in Oakland, a few blocks south of Alcatraz Avenue. The collections […]
June 17, 2017 by tomdalzell
Eli Leon – A Life of Making Art and Collecting
I don’t know Eli Leon. He is alive but not in our world, at least as far as we understand it. His collections are astonishing. He is best known for his scholarship about and collecting of African-American quilts, but his collecting far surpassed simply the quilts. A story that he tolerated is that during […]
June 10, 2017 by tomdalzell
Debbie Vinograd and Berkeley’s Magical Doors
Debbie Vinograd has lived and painted in Berkeley since 1974. She was born in Berkeley in 1951. While she was young, her parents moved to southern California. Her father was Jerome Vinograd. This is a portrait by Debbie of her father. This photograph of Vinograd is from the archives of the California Institute of Technology, […]
June 3, 2017 by tomdalzell
Shattuck Avenue Relief & Facades
In April 2016 I posted photographs of relief sculpture in Berkeley. I learned that there is a range of relief, depending on the degree of projection of the sculpted form – high relief, mid-relief, low relief (bas relief) and sunk relief. For this here post I became a systematic flaneur (a contradiction in terms?) for six blocks of Shattuck south […]
May 29, 2017 by tomdalzell
Field Trip: Assorted Quirk in Chico
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May 27, 2017 by tomdalzell
Words
I intended to start this post with a reflection on the song “Words” by the Bee Gees. I had several of the lines running through my head. They worked as I remembered them. Good thing I listened to the song though. For me, it does not survive the test of time. Popular romantic ballads might […]
May 27, 2017 by tomdalzell