Week Links Post - 17

 
No article associated with this picture, but apparently, artist  Yinka Shonibare wraps his books  in his own African wax-print fabrics. Love that idea! I could more easily accomplish this having taken pictures of my fabrics and artworks and then printing them on paper. Might be a fun project!


So, THIS is a rather depressing article, but on the other hand it's about the Seattle art scene. So if you live in Seattle, uhmmm, sorry, but for the rest of us: Phew! lol  Anyway, it's a really interesting read because the artist in question is "priced out" of the Seattle art market (which is apparently, the most depressed art market in the US); so he conducts an experiment to see if he can sell factory-made "reproductions" of his work as a: art, and b: at an affordable price that will be purchased by Seattle collectors.   I haven't quite decided what the take-away from this should be - I have to let it marinate a bit more...but it's disturbing on a lot of levels...

Over at Beautiful Decay, they're featuring Jon Crispin's photo series about the abandoned suitcases (along with their contents) of dead mental patients.  The contents of these suitcases open up so many questions - chief among them (for me)- was were these patients actually mentally ill? The fact that they were women, and in some cases artists (based on the contents of their suitcases), and the time frame in which they were institutionalized makes me think that they were just inconvenient or "ill-behaved", possibly suffragates or feminists who were put away. Anyway! They made my imagination (and my feminists principles!)  run wild. You can find those photos HERE
 
Robert Genn's letter this week inspired some rather interesting discussion in the comments. Please read his letter because it's always enjoyable, but, in short, he discovered that a "local eccentric" had stolen quite a number of his paintings from Robert's storage unit. His letter amusingly tells the tale of his learning of this and his retrieval of them, HERE. Surprisingly (to me) about half of the commenters felt that he should have left the gentleman with his stolen booty as Robert didn't even realize that they were gone, and therefore, wouldn't miss them. I was shocked by the idea that this fellow should be rewarded for his thievery, and also that anyone could think that an artist should release his or her work into the wild, for free, when that's how they earn their living, but everyone's different, I suppose. Please read the letter and then discuss. What do you think?
 
There's a rather hyperbolic article about the (truly) amazing work of a child prodigy Dusan Krtolica here; although his talent is remarkable, I doubt he is cognizant of the fact that his work is being described as containing   "...  an ineffable quality of life and vitality, as seen through the rubbing of hybrid wings, the weaving of a spider web. "  lol  Despite the breathless prose, you should check out his works. :)

Over at Contemporary Art Daily, there's a post about Heidi Bucher's very elegant fibre art, HERE

And there's an interesting article in the Washington Post about Detroit's plan to "trade" art for pensions. HERE

and

Textileartist.org has an interview with Dutch fiber artist Marjolein Starreveld HERE

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I often think that there's very little exposure or knowledge about fiber arts, so I decided to go a- searching for articles about that very topic. I was pleasantly surprised to find that there's actually quite a lot of fiber arts in the news (mostly of a local nature, but still!); so this week, I'm staring a new weekly addition to my links post called: Fiber Art in the News!



The Quilt of Belonging is going to Manitoulan Island. I saw it myself a few years back, and it's quite something! You can check out that article about it  here

The Mansfield Historical Society Museum in Mansfield, Texas, is opening for the season and have an exhibit of antique and vintage quilts. You can read more about that here

There's an article about Patricia Statzer here,, They want you to pay to join the site to read the whole article, so if you'd rather, you can just go to her site, here.

The Salina Journal out of Salina, Kansas, has an article about Shawn Marie Delker here

The Wayne Post out of Wayne County, NY has an article about an exhibition of contemporary art quilts called "Night and Day" at the Wayne Art Gallery here

The Langley Advance out of Langley, BC has an article about an exhibition of quilts by the Langley Quilt Guild here

The Leader Telegram out of Wisconsin has an article about Chris Daly's (formerly Dye Candy) quilt retreat center  here(It's really nice to see a former purveyor of beautiful dyed fabric expanding into something new!)

The Cecil Daily out of Elkton, Maryland, has an article about Barbara Tinsman's art quilts with some rather nice photos here

The  Indiana Daily Student has an article about a travelling art quilt exhibit that honours victims of drones, here.

And that's all she wrote! 

Have a great weekend everybody. See you on Monday!

Kit Lang

4 comments:

  1. I saw the quilt of belonging when it was in Winnipeg a couple of years ago -- it's amazing!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I recently bought the book for the quilt of belonging. It's the closest I was ever going to get to seeing it. Thanks for so much to "think about". I'll have to pour myself a cup of something before I go and check out all the links. As for Seattle, that is a little disturbing. It doesn't bode well for original art.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Gosh, i want those book covers. whoa.

    And thanks for the food-for-thought! Have a great weekend!

    ReplyDelete
  4. So many though-provoking links Kit. How poignant those suitcases are. I had read Robert's letter but hadn't seen the comments. I believe he was right to take back his art work and people should not expect any artist to just allow their work to be appropriated, simply because it is not currently being displayed.

    What a wonderful way to turn bookshelves into art and I like your idea of photographing artwork and using the prints.

    ReplyDelete

So, apparently I'm open for business again. :) Say hi if you like!

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.