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Americana artist at Hopmonk Alejandro Escovedo excavates his past 5
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NoMAD claims ‘maker space’ north of North ● From Willi’s Seafood to Solful, there’s potential By Christian Kallen
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The World of T Barny That would be about the time the young landscape architect,
The businesses north of North Street in Healdsburg sometimes find themselves left out of the foot traffic from weekend visitors. “It’s a no-man’s land up here, you know,” said Jim Heid, owner of CraftWork in the Mitchell Center. He may be exaggerating—there’s plenty of traffic to CVS, El Sombrero, a liquor store and Flakey Crème to keep the lot buzzing. But it’s not the sort of neighborhood a visiting pedestrian shopper might think to explore. That applies to a similar degree to Healdsburg Avenue, and a recognizable but hard-todefine contour of the part of downtown where most tourists just don’t go. So about a year and a half ago Heid, the outgoing Buzz Korth of Maison Smith, Rose Jimenez of Costeaux Baker and other
TOOLS OF THE TRADE Sculptor T Barny looks at the diamond teeth of a stonemason’s chainsaw, one of several similar saws in his tool shed off Pine Flat Road. His studio will again be on a two-weekend Art Trails itinerary.
Local rock star on tour ● T Barny has carved out a space for the Möbius in stone art landscape By Christian Kallen Upon reaching the parking area of T Barny’s Workshop and Studio off Alexander Valley Road, the first thing one notices is a gray patina over everything: a layer of fine dust over the flat tables, on the broadleaf plants, and especially in the workshop and every item in it. Including the sculptor him-
self, T Barny. He’s a big, bearded guy with a twinkle in his eye, greeting visitors with a grin and a handshake, his work apron and hat covered in dust. The workshop is an open shed of tools—saws, chisels, sanders of every shape, rotating tables to allow 360-degree access to the sculptures-in-process—everything covered in that patina of gray powder.
“We make dust, basically,” he says, though he says he’s cleaned it up a bit for our visit. Tidier, perhaps, but it’s hard to imagine the workshop of an artist who “creates stone into abstract shapes,” and has been doing so for 45 years using rock from 213 kinds of stone from 56 countries and several states, as being anything but dusty. “As you can see, it’s loud and dusty,” he yells over the noise of his assistant Hayley Pierce working a large drill nearby. “I have big fans and normally I’m
wearing a mask and hearing protection. Luckily when I first started off in 1980, I was dating a gal that was working for OSHA, and she was pretty adamant about wearing protection.”