ERIN TORMEY'S FARMERS MARKET REPORTS
Rick Bartow (above) intends to dedicate at least two of the works he creates while in Half Moon Bay to two community projects that have captured his attention: The HEAL Project, and Puente de la Coast Sur. In addition to being a stunningly talented visual artist, Rick is well-known in his home state of Oregon for his prodigious musical career. A prolific songwriter and masterful slide guitarist, Rick has been wowing unsuspecting audiences who happen into one of the Oregon Coast haunts where he has performed regularly for the past three decades. One of his musical partners is singer-songwriter Barbara Turrill, also of Newport, Oregon, but originally from Palo Alto. Rick performed at both Coastside Farmers Markets this week. Here are links to two of his more prominent galleries and his Wikipedia page.
My Eye, a retrospective of Rick's work, foreword by Barry Lopez, by Rebecca J. Dobkins <http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Rebecca%20J%20Dobkins>
Rick Bartow (b. 1946) is a Native American artist who lives and works on the Oregon coast, yet has built a remarkable web of connections with other artists and art traditions around the world. Bartow, who is of Yurok heritage, draws on his own Native American mythological traditions, as well as those of Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Bartow's work can be understood, as he asserts it to be, as part of a continuum of work incorporating animal/human images in the world art history that stretches back to early cave paintings in Europe and rock art in North America, to 16th-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch and contemporary Native American artist Harry Fonseca,
http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=227&InTheNews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bartow
http://www.davisandcline.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=322
http://www.stoningtongallery.com/artistselect.php?fn=Rick&ln=Bartow&artist=3&topic=works&artType=0&page=1
Erin Tormey
Coastside Farmers Markets
May to December
In Half Moon Bay @ Shoreline Station
Saturdays, 9 am to 1 pm •
In Pacifica @ Rockaway Beach
Wednesdays, 2:30 -6:30pm
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