[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Tuesday, 6 April 1999 Volume 07 : Number 516 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeanne N. Chase" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:37:25 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3847] Re: videotapes Dear Jack I requested Dave's video such a long time ago, I hope my name is still on the list. I did not hear from anyone as to the cost, where to send the check, etc; Please let me know. Jeanne ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne N. Chase" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:27:36 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3849] Re: Snakes and Sharks Dear April I missed the Japanese lessons the last time I went to the Lower East Side Workshop. Well, your prints in that show just about blew me away!!!!! They were just gorgeous. My year, is totally backed up with shows and trips now, but next year , it you are willing and can stand a person who is really indoctrinated in oil based paint and inks and cannot make a decent woodblock with water colors, I would love to take a workshop with you. There is nothing like "hands on"learning. Michelle ; Thanks for the nice compliment. Yes, it is really quite wonderful to surf through the Baren, such talent! Glad that you are in the next print exchange! Marco; Have not tried to find your url yet but here goes! Jeanne ------------------------------ From: Jacob Roquet Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:59:40 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3851] Re: Marco Flavio's site Marco -- you are a god! Excellent site. I am jealous and now must try to find time to build mine. That's what I like about [baren] it helps to get me off my duff. Tools and stuff: A while back I sent a post about "turnkey" supply list. David, (Bull) you indicated you might have some input at a later date. (That's to be read "David Bull," not "David....".. "Bull." ) Anyone interested in posting a suggested "professional" level tool list and more important, where to buy? My checkbook is ready and I need to be prepared for the exchange deadline. I AM PSYCHED! .. I am "pressed", I am "papered;" I am woodblocked, but I am tool-less. (No comments please about the last statement. You know what I mean, Ray and Graham.) Jake ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:09:40 -0700 Subject: [Baren 3852] Re: Baren Digest V7 #515 EXHIBITION The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria June 4th - July 4th 1999. Graham is honoured to be hanging with renowned Canadian artist Walter J. Phillips, 1884/1963. *PORTFOLIO* ---- http://www.members.home.net/gscholes/ ---- ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:23:44 -0700 Subject: [Baren 3853] video, etc Bea Gold Hi Jeanne, I just received Dave's video and there is just one person ahead of you on the list - Kim Itkonen - so you should be getting it soon. Anyone else interested in being on the list? Also, are you not one of the senior members of the Baren? April is teachinbg at an Elderhostel this August in Mass which I signed up for and if you are eligible and can attend it would be fun to have another Baren member there. "indoctrinated in oil based paint and inks and cannot make a decent woodblock with water colors" - me too. I was looking nforward to the NYC program in March but it didn't make, so now I have to wait for August to get that hands on experience. Meanwhile I've been watercoloring under the print and enjoying it even though each print is individual and still working away in oil (which I love the smell of). ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne N. Chase" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:34:14 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3854] Re: Baren Digest V7 #515 Dear Graham Any chance that I could sent for catalogs for either of your upcoming exhibitions? If you could send me the addresses of both, I will ask for them. Congratulations, you deserve it!!!!!! Jeanne ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne N. Chase" Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:12:50 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3856] Re: video, etc Bea Gold Dear Bea Be careful there girl, when you say Senior. I like the European way. They say "The third age", but then I wonder what is the fourth age? I would love to take Aprils class ,but as I mentioned to her. This year is taken up with shows and trips and deadlines. April is Boston, the Mary Cassatt Exhibition, May is a private Drawing Workshop (mine), June is a visit from relatives from Seattle. Disney will be the highlight I guess, July is recupperation month, August is a visit from my husbands relatives, guess what September is? Next year I want to take Aprils workshop. As I live on the East Coast it should be an easy travel. It would have been nice to have a fellow Barener to learn with though! Glad to see that you are in the next exchange. I am having so much fun in hanging each print, one at a time. Like a Tokanoma. (Did I get that right Dave? Now I am about to frame Roger Ball's Bumblebee. I have been enjoying Elizabeth Atwoods print for the past weeks. Each time I take one down, I miss it for awhile. I guess I will have to have two "Tokanomas " going since I will not have time to put all 30 up in one year. Dave; Is that the right word for enjoying one piece of art at a time? Correct me if I am wrong. And where did that come from, and what is the translation? Jeanne ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:47:18 +0000 Subject: [Baren 3857] Re: videotapes Jeanne wrote: > I requested Dave's video such a long time ago, I hope my name is still on > the list. I don't have any record of your name on the request list. Just go on over to http://www.woodblock.com/forum/video.html and fill out the form. Jack Reisland ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:36:17 -0700 Subject: [Baren 3858] Re: Baren Digest V7 #515 >Any chance that I could sent for catalogs for either of your upcoming >exhibitions? >If you could send me the addresses of both, I will ask for them. There is not going to be a catalogue for the Victoria Art Gallery exhibition. We talked this over and I personally felt that for the cost involved it was far better to put that money towards the new Gallery. It is at the embryo stage....but we have to start sometime to acquire money for the 45 million dollar complex. I am doing a poster to announce the event which I quite sufficient for the occasion. I have not talked to the people in Dawson Creek about a cataloge. I will keep you posted. Graham ------------------------------ From: April Vollmer Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 19:09:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Baren 3859] Marco's web site Marco, nice prints! Especially liked Mercedes' strong face. April Vollmer ------------------------------ From: James G Mundie Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:00:50 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3860] Jacob Landau Exhibition You can hardly swing a dead cat in Philadelphia these days without hitting a Jacob Landau exhibition, but you won't hear me complaining. I thought I'd share this little announcement with you: "The Heroic Obsession: The Graphic Art of Jacob Landau" at the Woodmere Art Museum (9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia) 11 April to 27 June 1998, opening reception Sunday 18 April 1998, 2 - 4pm From what I read somewhere (probably in that terrible rag _Art Matters_), this exhibition is supposed to contain several hundred of Mr. Landau's woodcuts. Allegedly, the exhibition will be traveling to other venues around the US, but the folks I talked to at the Woodmere weren't able to say when or where when I spoke to them. This major retrospective at the Woodmere will coincide with the Earl Horter "Mad for Modernism" show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the companion show devoted to works of Horter's students (including Landau) at the Fleisher Art Memorial, another exhibition of Landau's prints at the Print Center, and a Ben Shahn exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum. Cheers, James Mundie ------------------------------ From: steiner Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:26:14 +0900 Subject: [Baren 3861] KIWA Exhibition from Richard Steiner, Kyoto The Third Kyoto International Woodprint Association's exhibition will be held from June 8 to 18 this year. The deadline is April 30. BAREN members April Vollmer and Matthew Brown joined us last year, and Matthew even sold. I am thinking of submitting the set of Baren Exchange prints I received to the exhibition, if this is OK with the other 28 printmakers. Please let me know if you have any objections to this. There is no entry fee, and there will be prizes offered for the first time. Much earlier I explained the rules, but again, in addition to the above, very briefly: size limit is 150cm by 150cm (but smaller prints have a better chance of selling); only woodblock prints, or works that utilize wood for a major part of the image; all prints become the property of the KIWA Collection, so do not send more than one print of the same image; APs are OK; works are for sale so please note the price on the labels; no commission is taken by KIWA; we will do everything we can to ease communication between the buyer and the artist, but we are not an artist's agent, the printmaker must mail the purchased work directly to the buyer; we will act as a limited go-between by making sure the buyer understands the artist's address and how to order the prints desired; KIWA does all the framing and matting, so do not send work in frames; every artists after the show will receive a hand-carved Certificate of Participation and photos of the show; this year, the exhibition will travel to north Japan in the fall where the works will be also for sale. If printmakers other than the 28 who participated in the Print Exchange want to join this year's exhibition, e-mail me your mailing address and I'll get an Entry Form off right away. Steiner/Kyoto ------------------------------ From: James G Mundie Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:55:06 -0400 Subject: [Baren 3862] Oh, and another thing... I forgot to mention in my last little missive, that one of my prints can be viewed for a brief time on the Fleisher Art Memorial website (http://www.fleisher.org). I am participating in a staff exhibition that will run for only a brief time (the only time the gallery was available), hence the name of the show: "Window of Opportunity." James Mundie ------------------------------ From: woodcuts@concentric.net (D. Joseph/R. Sexauer) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:21:59 -0800 Subject: [Baren 3863] Re: Jacob Landau Exhibition To piggyback off of Jim's message about Jacob, he will also be showing his woodcuts at the Toby Moss Gallery here in Los Angeles from June 22 to July 9th, and then the work goes to the George Krevsky Gallery in San Francisco from September 9th to October 2nd. I know that he is planning on being out for the LA opening, & I imagine, (as his grandson is going to Berkeley) he'll make the show opening in San Francisco as well. Roxanne ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:53:36 +0900 Subject: [Baren 3864] Re: Jake's tool Jacob wrote: > Anyone interested in posting a suggested "professional" level tool > list and more important, where to buy? Like to help Jake, but there really is no such thing as a standard tool set for woodblock printmaking. I can certainly give you _my_ list of tools (it's in [Baren 60], included in the digest stored at: http://woodblock.com/forum/archives/vol01/v01_012.txt) ... but those knives are chosen to suit rather delicate work in very hard wood. Munakata probably didn't have a single one of them in his tool box. So what's best for you can really only be answered by you. What and how are you going to cut? Head over to a craft shop (there must be such a place _somewhere_ near where you are that has general purpose woodcarving tools) and look at some of the knives, chisels, and gouges. Stand there and think of your design, and heft some of the tools. Try and imagine which ones would be most suitable for the kind of cutting you're going to be doing ... For one's early experiments in woodblock printmaking, I don't think you have to worry about having the 'official' tools. As I have mentioned here before, my first half-dozen or so prints were all done with an Exacto knife, and whatever wood was lying around the house. It would be most instructive to hear from some of the participants in the last exchange - can you give us a quick run-down on what tools you used to make your exchange prints? *** Jeanne wrote: > I am having so much fun in > hanging each print, one at a time. Like a Tokanoma. (Did I get that right > Dave? > Is that the right word for enjoying one piece of art at a time? Correct me > if I am wrong. And where did that come from, and what is the translation? The word is 'tokonoma', and refers to the shallow alcove found in one room of many Japanese homes. Some years ago I would have said 'most' Japanese homes, but modern apartments, being built of pre-cast concrete slabs, don't allow of niches or alcoves ... My place here doesn't have one. But it would be pretty much inconceivable to build a house (not an apartment) that didn't have a tokonoma. I'm sure you've seen photographs of such rooms: tatami mats on the floor, completely devoid of furniture, perhaps a low table in the centre of the room. And over in one wall, the alcove, in which is hanging a scroll, accompanied by a delicate flower arrangement ... And yes, the basic idea is that the flowers and art work must match the season/weather, so the piece on display is changed frequently. Many of my collectors keep one of my prints displayed in such a fashion, usually selecting them on the basis of the mood or season depicted in the poem. Hang it up, enjoy looking at it, and then pack it away before it becomes stale ... *** Somewhat to my surprise, the exchange didn't fill up immediately yesterday morning. As I write this, there are eight spots left. To anybody who is hemming and hawing to him/herself, trying to decide whether or not to jump in, I can only remind you of the postings that will be flying back and forth on [Baren] three months from now, when the completed folios have been mailed out. "I can't wait to see it!" The current list of participants, and the sign-up sheet, are at: http://woodblock.com/forum/exchange_sign-up.html Dave ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V7 #516 ***************************