White Salmon Estate Sale

Do you have eclectic taste for incredible one of a kind art that was commissioned around the world? We have a fabulous sale upcoming in White Salmon Washington with art and many other wonderful pieces of furniture, jewelry, camp gear and more! 
Plan your weekend to the Gorge and cross over the bridge from Hood River to the wonderful town of White Salmon. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own a piece or several pieces of the talented John Brandi or many other artists. My clients have enjoyed this art for over 30 years and ready to let it go for others to enjoy in their homes. If you are a collector of great art, you do not want to miss this sale! 

Will post more pictures  as we work next week at the home and get it set up. 
 

BIOGRAPHY OF John Brandi 

John Brandi, poet and painter, is a native of Southern California. He graduated in 1965 from California State University, Northridge, with a B.A. in art and anthropology. As a Peace Corps Volunteer (1966-68), he worked with Quechua-speaking Andean farmers in their struggle for land rights and civil liberties. While in Ecuador he began keeping elaborate journals, a practice which he still observes. He also began publishing his poetry in hand-sewn mimeograph editions as part of the "do-it-yourself" phenomenon that preceded the alternative-press movement. Returning to North America, he joined protests against the American War in Vietnam, and lived in Alaska, Mexico, and the San Francisco Bay Area, where he continued to write. In 1970, David Meltzer, a member of the San Francisco Renaissance, published Brandi's first collection of prose poems, Desde Alla. Soon after, he took up residence in a miner's shack in the Sierra Nevada foothills. On San Juan Ridge he met Gary Snyder, who introduced him to Japanese poet-wanderer Nanao Sakaki. In 1971 Brandi moved to New Mexico, built a hand-hewn cabin in a remote canyon, and founded Tooth of Time Books, which published the first books of several poets who would become internationally recognized.

During his early years in the American Southwest, Brandi traveled the high desert with Nanao Sakaki (Essay: Nanao or Never), compiled a collection of poetry titled That Back Road In, and earned a living by teaching as an itinerant poet. In 1979 he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He has remained a resident of New Mexico, and continues to teach, abroad and at home, where he has been honored by several awards from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry.

Brandi regards his parents as an early source of inspiration, citing his boyhood travels with them to the Big Sur Coast and the mountains of Yosemite. As he writes in Reflections in the Lizard's Eye: "Following each excursion I was asked to draw something I remembered from the trip, then write a couple sentences. These were bound into my first 'books' ... inspired by the notion that one traveled, observed, felt the world, then returned and transformed experiences into words and paint."

Brandi traveled the Americas from southern Chile to Alaska during the Sixties. In 1979 he made the first of many journeys to India to retrace his father's stay as a soldier in the India-Burma Theater. Visits to the Himalayas, China, Cuba, Vietnam, and the Indonesian archipelago have inspired many of his books, including A Question of Journey, a collection of prose, and Water Shining Beyond the Fields, haibun essays from Southeast Asia.

San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman has said of Brandi: "He has been an open roader for much of his life and like his two great forbearers, Whitman and Neruda, has named the minute particulars, the details of his sojournings, infusing them with a whole gamut of feelings: compassionate, mischievous, loving and righteous. It's what's made his poetry one of the solid bodies of work that's emerged from the North American West since the '60s."

Novelist John Nichols, in his introduction to Brandi's book of essays Reflections in the Lizard's Eye, has written: "The way Brandi interprets the world is rich with the guts and gusto of old-fashioned magicians. His is a bittersweet, loving vision, as well as a hardass, heartfelt swansong to the disappearing vestiges of a more truthful way of life."

As a poet he owes much to the West Coast Beat tradition, as well as to poets as diverse as Federico Garcia Lorca and the Japanese haiku masters. As a painter, his mixed media work, often integrating words and paint, is bright with expressionist colors, while his more subtle haiga paintings draw on Asian influences.

John Brandi's publications include poetry, travel essays, modern American haiku, haibun, hand-colored broadsides, and limited-edition letter-press books. Four of his titles have been published in India. Recent books of poetry include: Facing High Water and In What Disappears. His stories about Southwest travels are collected in Reflections in the Lizard's Eye. His new and selected haiku appear in Seeding the Cosmos.

He has been a guide and lecturer for students of Ft. Lewis College in Bali and for students of San Juan College in Chiapas. He co-curated the "Jack Kerouac and the Writer's Life" exhibit in Santa Fe, 2007; lectured on the practice of haiku at the Palace of Governor's Museum, Santa Fe; at Lindenwood University, Saint Louis; and at Punjab University, India. In 2009 he gave the keynote address for the Haiku North America conference in Ottawa. In 2011 he was honored with an exhibit of his modern American haiga at the Chavez History Museum, Santa Fe. His papers are in the University of California Bancroft Library, Berkeley. A complete selection of his books and broadsides may be found at UC Berkeley Special Collections, University at Buffalo Special Collections, and at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, Santa Fe, NM.

John Brandi lives with his wife, poet Renée Gregorio, in El Rito, New Mexico, where he continues to write, paint, and nurture a few melons in the garden.