A Year of Marvelous Art at the Huntington Beach Art League

Noted Artists Demonstrated at our Monthly Meetings

November 2022 to November 2023

Son Do 

November 2022

Anne Kupillas

December 2022

Jim Ellsberry

January 2023

Dawn Buckingham

February 2023

Nancy Anderson

March 2023

Joe Oakes

April 2023

Andrew Cortez

September 2023

Rich Boyd

October 2023

Jacki Long

November 2023

Celebrating a Successful Exhibit

Exhibit Curator Roberta Wong

Portland Chinatown Museum

(May 19-October 8, 2023)

Journalist Amy Wang's story in the Portland Oregonian, July 2, 2023.

Executive Director Anna Truxes introduced the Scholars Round Table panel: Roberta Wong (art advisor and curator for the Portland Chinatown Museum), Diana Greenwold Ph.D. (Lunder Curator of American Art at Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art), Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D. (Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum), Sarah Baker Munro (called the historian of Timberline, author of Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon) and Dan Kee by Zoom (nephew of Bue Kee and early advocate for a museum retrospective of Bue Kee's work, resulting in the PCM exhibition). 

       Dr. Greenwold juxtaposed Hassan's Chinese Merchants and Bue Kee's Old Chinatown.

 

Dr. Kenmotsu presented an analysis of Bue Kee's self-portrait now showing at the Portland Art Museum exhibit Passages in American Art.  Dr. Kenmotsu arranged a preview with Collections Manager Anne Crouchley (Cousin Dennis Tong joined).

Sarah Baker Munro offered historical context for Bue Kee's art pieces 

displayed at Timberline Lodge. 

Dan Kee showed slides of his Uncle's art and shared stories.

The Bue Kee Exhibit closed on October 7, 2023. 

Celebrating a legacy rediscoved!

Links

Amy Wang's Oregonian article:

https://www.hereisoregon.com/experiences/2023/06/exhibit-rediscovers-legacy-of-chinese-american-artist-bue-kee-a-rising-star-in-the-1930s-who-fell-into-obscurity.html?fbclid=IwAR3s1hynbPStidGZYERNkUWQgDO6BaXkohhHPVZE_qWXTuJaco2VjkzOSe0

Scholars Round Table video recording on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=839369464484578

Bue Kee: An Artist's Life and Legacy--Before the Opening 

https://dwkee.blogspot.com/2023/06/bue-kee-artists-life-and-legacy-before.htmlhttps://dwkee.blogspot.com/2023/06/bue-kee-artists-life-and-legacy-before.htm

Dan's "slide-deck" will be available soon.

Bolsa Chica Wetlands walk with Grandchildren

 

Common Tern

Fence Lizard
(spotted by the grandchildren)

Cormorants

Northern Rough-Winged Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Crab
(spotted by the grandchildren)

Ridgeway's Rail nest

Snowy Egret

Bue Kee: An Artist's Life and Legacy--Before the Opening

Arrived early in Portland to help stage my Uncle's exhibit.

Let's Do it!
Exhibit curator Roberta Wong and Cousin Dennis Tong

Finishing touches--Verifying label locations and captions.
Judy with Joanna Sun (Manager of Museum Experience).

Opening night photos arriving soon...

Notes. 

Photo Credits: Judy Todd contributed three photos (Let's Do It, Susan Tong taking a snapshot of the Photo Wall set up, and Dan at the entrance of the Portland Chinatown Museum). Also, Dennis Tong provided the second photo of Bue's landscape under the ladder.

Kapiolani Lee, Online Programming and Community Engagement Manger, composited the closing poster.

Distortion in a couple of photos produced by 9mm ("fisheye") lens.

May Colors at Gum Grove Park