Nancy White's studio in Palo Alto

Nancy White's studio in Palo Alto

Domestic Sculpture

This photo is from my continuing investigation of random domestic occurrences that carry the weight of sculpture.

Introducing Guarino Guarini

This is my cat, Guarino Guarini.

July 5 dinner

This is before our dinner guest (Robert and Kathrine Dunlevie, Lucy and Hugo Traeger, and Nancy and Larry White) arrived. Afterwards, I am too busy to take photos.

The Menu

-Tomato Soup
-Fettuccini with an Anchovy cream sauce
- Chicken Mole, Caramelized Carrots, and an Arugula Salad with caramelized red onions and sautéd red pepper slices.

RECIPES:

Tomato Soup with Zucchini:

8 roma tomatoes
half a can of Italian plum tomatoes
2 medium zucchini
2 cloves garlic
3 teaspoons of olive oil
1 cup of chicken broth
1 bunch of tarragon
salt
pepper
1 tablespoon of sugar

Peel zucchini and blend. Quarter tomatoes and sauté in pan until brown. Add sautéd and canned tomatoes to the zucchini in the blender with the garlic, chicken broth, tarragon, oil salt and pepper. Blend until smooth. Reheat in saucepan. Serves six to eight.

Fettuccini with Anchovy Cream Sauce:
1/2 cup milk
1" butter from stick
2 tblspns flour
2 1/2 mashed anchovies
1/2 cup chicken broth
2oz holland goat cheese
shaved Locatelly (Ramano) cheese

Melt butter n sauce pan with flour adding butter if too pasty; brown stirring constantly. Add milk slowly stirring constantly with a rubber spatula until it forms a smooth sauce. Add anchovies, cheese and chicken broth as needed to create a smooth consistency. Cook fettuccini aldanté; toss with sauce and place on small plates, garnish with freshly grated Romano cheese flakes. Serves six to eight.

Chicken with mole sauce

3 chicken breasts cut into 1 inch square cubes marinated in white wine and garlic (3 large cloves) with salt and pepper.

sauce:
1/2 can of of tomatoes
1" square cube or more of chocolate
1/2 cup of chicken broth
10 sections of white peaches
6 cloves of garlic
2 tspns of paprika
salt and pepper to taste
4 tblspns of olive oil

Put all above "sauce" ingredients into a sauce pan and simmer for an hour or more, adding broth to control thickness.

Toss marinated chicken in a very hot pan with olive oil until brown cooking through. Place chicken onto plates and cover with mole sauce.
Serve with caramelized carrots and arugula and onion salad

Carrots: cut carrots with tops still attached horizontally in half, caramelized in brown sugar in a hot pan.

Onion Salad: caramelize red onions, roast red pepper strips and arrange on plate with arugala. Dress with an herb, olive oil and vinegar dressing.

Serves six to eight.

Opening at the Lab on May 28

Opening at the Lab of the Invisible Women, Iraqi Casualty and Artforum Excavations










































I was happy to get a few good reviews. This one was in the SF Chronicle:

"Congratulations to Francesca Pastine for making Artforum involving again.

Decades ago, in simpler times, people actually looked forward to reading the magazine, when it served as the New York art world's journal of record. Since then, Artforum has followed the trajectory of the art market itself, retailing moneyed glamour and the atmospherics of contemporary art. Meanwhile, most of the intellectual substance has shifted to its outrigger, Bookforum.

Each issue of Artforum now boasts slab-like bulk and a power like kryptonite to drain the strength of any art professional who tries to face it.

But in an ingenious series showing at the Lab, Pastine has found in the magazine the makings of memorable art, by means connected incidentally to Villeglé's practice.

In "Artforums 2001: (Artforum Excavation Series)" (2008), she has meticulously carved a crater in a stack of 2001 issues. At one corner of the top cover - December - we can make out the remains of a tone-deaf banner: "Best of 2001."

The hole Pastine has cut in the magazines, stratified with color from their glossy pages, irresistibly brings to mind the physical and emotional voids left by Sept. 11 massacres.

In a related piece without obvious topical reference, she has cut an irregular hole - again looking something like a comic-book strip mine - into a single issue of the magazine, exposing a page apparently empty of all but a soft gray glow.

In two other series here, Pastine has selectively effaced pages from the New York Times to expose not very deeply underlying contradictions, such as the collision of values in advertising and war news or fashions' real and ostensible values to the women who model them and those who covet them." Kenneth Baker

housework

I am cleaning house. I have moved the refrigerator and stove to clean under them, taken down curtains, and wiped down surfaces. I have removed and individually cleaned every light bulb in the chandelier. The house has taken on a crisp character which is heightened by the clear Spring day. Standing back and admiring my efforts, I suddenly feel my grandmother in the room; she is everywhere by virtue of cleanliness. The cleansed room infused with bright light has invoked my memory of the annual introduction of Spring through my Grandmother's household ablutions. I marvel at how the ritual of housework evaporated the threshold between the living and the dead.

supermarket cart photographs

Here is a smattering of carts that I have been photographing with my cell phone.