NCECA DAY 2: Sacramento

 NCECA Day 2: Lots of pics, not much text. THB and DB climb on the bus at 9am after a short night's sleep and see much art, much of it ceramics, yet not all, much of it done years ago, yet not all, and much of it curated either by a museum or in individual collections. Breakfast in the room, lunch was from boxes stowed in the box, and dinner was at a party for 25 collectors, curator types and artists at Il Fornaio, hosted a major collector, TR, which turned out to be a lot of fun if seemingly fraught by peril: no masks, indoors, alcohol (none for THB, it was a metho day).

THB and DB are in a large suite at  the Hyatt Regency and THB has spread his crap all over the place.

Hyatt Regency

Appropriately named scooter biz

Crocker Museum

Akio Takemori

Sergei Isupov

Jun Kaneko

Unknown

Annabeth Rosen

Nancy Selvin

Peter Beasecker

DB and Chris Brown

Richard Shaw

Kehindre Wiley

Oben Abright (son of Bill and Claudia)

Jack Ogden (nothing like Bomb Squad), 3 paintings

Kata Tsubusa

Yagi Akira

Steven DeStaebler

The juried show of NCECA highlighted artists

Video of artist bitung a plate to decorate the rim

the finished product

Linda Lopez

Nazare Feliciano

Amythest Warrington

two  plates separated yet together

Janina Myronova, Polish, born in Ukraine

Winner of the best name award: Clay Leonard

Homage to Duchamp

Tour leader and tour members at rest

3D printer work: not too exciting

Abian Alvarez, we saw his work first in small Seaside gallery 6 months ago

E and J purchase this piece (if it can be placed outside)

Bathroom art

Two tour members resting up, awaiting their turn for the Live Scan

Rest of bench is wet from rain

Bob Arneson is the single most self-portrait artist ever except this one is by Tony Natsulas

Next Stop: Maija Zack's house. She was one of the early members of the funk movement and is still alive (most are not) and this is her house. Wall-to-wall of her art and portraits. THB gives you a taste of some of them:

Like THB, Maija likes to spread out (note hammer)

Maija studied with William Wiley

Roy DeForest, a contemporary

This studio is being catalogued, hence organized

A few items for sale and tour members are making their selections

JS

Next stop: home and studio of Tony Natsulas and his wife. Very curated, very loaded with art, and their actual living space

JS loves to collect mugs/cups for her collection

Photo of Robert Arneson finally taking a break

THB is fascinated with how books are shelved: this time the books are aligned by size as the ceiling curves downward

Lulu Stanley, lives at the Artists Coop in E-ville

One of the largest egg cup collections anywhere, most are from UK (not Ukraine)

E&J second purchase of the day