Category: Art

Art Quilt Elements 2012 Artists

Here is the list of Art Quilt Elements 2012 artists…if I had unlimited time, I would find a website for each one and link it here. Yeah. So. You can do that. There’s this little thing called Google :-).

Artist Name                                  Quilt Name

Katherine K. Allen                          Bloom

Pamela Allen                                     Three Women at the Salon – Gothic 1275 A.D.

Brooke Atherton                              I Feel Free

Beth Barron                                        Implosion #3

Eszter Bornemisza                           Forgotten Plan

Pat Budge                                            Down Pat

Brenda J. Bunten-Schloesser      Encircled

Betty Busby                                        Organelle

Vicki L. Carlson                                Worlds Apart

Shin-hee Chin                                    Chinmoku: Silence

Jette Clover                                       White Wall 10

Maryline Collioud-Robert           Riflesso

Cynthia Corbin                                 Red Structures

fenella davies                                    Venetian Thunderstorm

Marcia Y. DeCamp                          Whirlpool

Susan Else                                           Forever Yours

Dianne Firth                                       Red Stones #2

Christine Hager-Braun                  More Than Just The Sum: Northern Red Oak

Abigail Kokai                                    Quilt Book

Beverly A. Kondolf                         E3: Parallax View

Paula Kovarik                                   Same But Not

Pat Kroth                                            Sweet Life

Kristin La Flamme                          War Sucks

Deborah  A. Lacativa                     Lavanderia

Eileen Lauterborn                           Climate Change

Linda Levin                                        City With Footnotes XI

Kevan Lunney                                  Archeology Fragment #15, Enso Compassion

Dominie M. Nash                             Big Leaf 27

Kathy Nida                                         Stump

Elin Noble                                           Fugitive Pieces 3

Diane Nunez                                      Twisted

Mary B. Pal                                        Memories of Gombe

Ilene Pearlman                                Not the Best Day in Pisa

Judith Plotner                                  Cooperstown Sky

Shawn P. Quinlan                            No Escape

Toot Reid                                           September 28, 2010 – March 8, 2011

Barbara J. Schneider                    Leaf Fall, Fragments var. 3

Karen C. Schoch                             Just One

Joan Schulze                                    Lens Flare

Robin Schwalb                                Bella Figura

Maria C. Shell                                  Colors Unfurled aka If Betsy Ross Had My Stash

Diane Siebels                                   Musculature

Nancy Smeltzer                              Circles Of Black,Circles of White 1

Mary Ruth Smith                            Thousands of Words

Kate Themel                                     Stars Not Included

Bette Uscott-Woolsey                  Yellow V

Kathy Weaver                                  Fragile Vibrations

Marianne R. Williamson              Indian Summer

I like to read the quilt names and try to figure out what the piece will look like. If I happen to recognize the artist’s name and I have a picture in my mind of what their work looks like, I may meld the two views together. Dominie Nash with Big Leaf 27, for example, is making a very interesting picture in my head, or Betty Busby with Organelle. I would write more, but my life is a complicated mess of places I have to be and things I have to do. This weekend has been hell for that. I may write about it later, at the soccer game. Maybe.

Considering Graffiti

I went to Ray at Night again (on Ray Street, San Diego, CA, 2nd Saturday each month) a week ago, not expecting (or getting) the crowds we saw the previous month. One exhibit caught our eye. As we walked in, we saw bright, colorful pictures of graphic images…

and then we went up close and realized they were photographs of murals. Hmmn. We had an artist moment and discussed whether (1) the photographer WAS the muralist (seemed reasonable to sell photos of your own murals) or (2) the photographer was paying the muralist. Or whether none of that was happening. I did a little research and came up with some interesting information. First of all, the muralist is Pose2/Mr. Maxx Moses, depending on whether he’s making a mural or painting graffiti…I’m sure if I hung around him for a while, I would know the difference, but let’s assume pictures (mural) and words (graffiti). Dictionary.com gives us a definition of graffiti as “writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.” So maybe the illicit is the difference? I wonder where street artists like Shepard Fairey and Banksy fit into this.

Anyway, I managed to find an announcement of the show that explains that the photographer, Catherine Koch, saw Mr. Moses’ murals and called him, and told him about the photographs, and he invited her over for tacos. So to me it sounds like the muralist is aware and hopefully approves. That said, what do you think? Should some of the profits from the photos, if they are sold, go to the muralist? I know if it’s a sanctioned mural, like many of Moses’ are, then he does get paid or get materials or both. All good. Even so, if someone makes money off photographing his artwork, I still feel like he should get the equivalent of royalties.

I don’t have details of this particular arrangement, but it did make me stop for a moment. If I thought the art was good (I did…but it turns out I think the murals are good), I might want to buy it. If I couldn’t buy the mural, I might be happy with a photograph of it. Surely the photographer has framed the picture for composition and color balance, taken a good photo with appropriate lighting, printed it out in a pleasing manner, and framed it. Compensation for all that is also part of the picture. And here I am, posting pictures of the pictures of the painting. Yikes.

I’m starting to think of Koch more as a historian, a documenter of Moses’ work.

I’m actually glad that I went home and read up on the two of them. I guess I’m bringing this up because I’ve heard fussing about the Tumblr blogs showing people’s work without attribution (one of my quilts is on a Tumblr blog and I can’t figure out how to contact the person who put it on there…my name is on the art, but no link to my website) and now Pinterest is causing some issues as well with artists who don’t want to be on there. I like Pinterest because it links to where you found the original picture. I actually work pretty hard at providing links to original artists, because I think we all need the press, but there should always be a link. This is the web. It’s changing. Copyright and ownership seem to be changing with it.

So here’s Mr. Maxx Moses’ link…I’m thinking of taking his graffiti class…seriously. Might be fun.