Baren Digest Wednesday, 25 April 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1399 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:49:03 EDT Subject: [Baren 14226] Re: Art Exhibits Wanda, did not know you were in Portland. it is a tough town to get that solo show in , good luck. (I live here) Loved your story about the street kids. When i was without my drivers liscence this spring i went over town and drew people in pioneer court house square, at a bus stop and did pansies in the park blocks. there is a lot down town if we let ourselves use it. I went to school down town and remember the sketching class going outside to work every spring. I want to do a block print that is sort of a collage of these drawings, even tho many are gesture drawings. I worked with Gresham city Hall a year, hanging shows and curating one. My advice: 1. Frame simple, but well. Use good wire. It is awful to hang work that is not wired right. 2. Keep a good list of all your work. I have a digital camera and my gallery was amazed when i arrived with an inventory list that included pictures of each piece. A visual record along with a written one is helpful. 3. List the name, the media and the size of your work on your inventory list. Make several copies of this and give one to the people watching after the work. 4. Frame large pieces under plexy, glass is too heavy. ( I made this error once) My story is about loosing a painting. I was responsible for putting together a show, hanging it, getting the entertainment and taking it down. We had one lady who had done several of our shows, she is older and an attorney to boot. We were taking down one show and hanging another. Several people were doing this, so I could not totally keep track of where each piece was being set down. The ladies husband came in to pick up her work and the check for the one that had sold. He had no inventory list and knew only how many. I did not know what they looked like visually. We could not find one. He left in a rush and in came the wife, the attorney. Well in the mean time I had contacted our city hall representative who promptly looked on our web site and there was a picture of the missing piece. Armed with the knowledge that it had indeed been in the show and knowing now exactly what it looked like i went back to our gallery area. I looked behind a chair and there it was. When the attorney wife came in I had her piece, I think she might have been ready to sue and I was of course panic stricken, but all worked out. That is why paper work and even a visual record if you can get one are so important. We also rewired work because the hangers were hideous and often had to shorten wire so it did not show on the wall. Frame it right and keep a good record. marilynn ------------------------------ From: "bemason" Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:00:40 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14227] books I just got two new books from the Japanese food store near me, (they have a book store in the back), and they are full of prints. The first one is called Mount Fuji, Sacred Mountain of Japan by Chris Uhlenbeck and Merel Molenaar published by Hotei, Leiden, the Netherlands. It is a beautiful book, hard to believe there are so many different ways to print one mountain. It is a soft cover book and was $20 US dollars. The second one is titled Hiroshige by Isaburo Oka and published Kodansha Int'l, Tokyo, NY and London. It was $25 and just a wonderful book. The only thing better would be to see the actual prints. So if you find these on Amazon or anywhere on the internet, they are good and worth the money. If I could do great woodblocks by reading about it, I would be famous!!!!!!! Best to all, Barbara ------------------------------ From: "United Art World" Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:01:16 +0200 Subject: [Baren 14228] Re: books Hi Barbara if you want to see an excellent source of information for Japanese = Woodblock prints, go to the non-commercial web site of Hans Olof = Johasson at http://www.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/ =20 Hans Olof also lists all known web sites about Ukiyo-e (the name for = Japanese Woodblock Prints) including internet auctions and galleries. = Our web site is one of these at www.ukiyo-e-world.com Go to our Forum = section where we have articles, a glossary, book references and some = more about the subject. kind regards and have a nice week Dieter and Yorie ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v15 #1399 *****************************