Baren Digest              Friday, 17 November 2000      Volume 13 : Number 1217


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From: "C. L. Stevens" <clswdcut@intersurf.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:59:14 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12127] Editions 

Dear Le Green, I really liked the way you expressed the idea about
editioning:   " I have alot of respect for alot of different ideas about
limited and
unlimited editions. When the philosophy and the art and the marketing
come
from a "true" place in the artistic heart, it works, because in this
world,
each artist is allowed to choose those rules they wish to follow, or
make
rules of their own."  I think we each are trying to live our lives in
truth, even when we make "mistakes" and don't follow our own path, but
follow someone else's path.  Thanks, Catherine

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From: "C. L. Stevens" <clswdcut@intersurf.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:24:19 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12128] Works on Paper 

Dear Jerelee,  I know how you feel about the slides.  It is very
discouraging to have to use them at all, but the sheer logistics of
doing anything outside of your homeplace makes it more reasonable.  I
often don't enter because of the slide issue.  Now, please do not take
this as defense of the situation, but as another perspective.  I have
learned that there are always reasons for the way things are done, and I
try to see those other issues so as to be able to either come to
acceptance for those things I can't change or to find alternative
solutions for those that I can.  In this show, I believe that one of the
issues is expense.  It costs money to bring a juror in to view the work.
The money has to come from somewhere.  The exhibition fees that we as
exhibitors pay are kept low so we can afford them.  But the costs of
hanging exhibitions has gone up, I believe.  Since I have been working
the "other side" so to speak of the art community (hanging exhibitions
as opposed to being the exhibitor),  I see things differently than I did
when I was just an exhibitor.  There are always expenses in hanging a
show:  space is needed so there are expenses for that space, labor
costs, mailing costs, etc.  You can see that it is not simple.  I wish
that we had some simple answers.  Best regards, Catherine

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From: "C. L. Stevens" <clswdcut@intersurf.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:32:54 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12129] To Peter 

Dear Peter, I have not been able to email you directly for some reason.
No, I won't be there for the reception.  I will have gone to see the
oldest bald cypress tree in the country (maybe world) that day and will
be leaving town the next morning, so will go home and rest.  The show is
hung except for tweaking the spots and doing the name.  I only work in
the gallery when there is a show to hang.  I like to see others work and
this also gives me a chance to "create" in a spatial sense.  It is fun
to try to get such diverse art to not only not clash with each other,
but to even "work" with each other so that the overall effect is one of
celebration.  Best Regards, Catherine

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From: "jerelee" <jerelee@main.nc.us>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:24:33 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12130] Re: Works on Paper Show at LSU charset="iso-8859-1" 

Thanks Pete and Marie for you comments. Money is an incentive but exhibiting
by slide process alone seems to cheapen the work. I'm so turned off by that
process that I think I'll forego this one. jerelee

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From: Artsmadis@aol.com
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:18:53 EST
Subject: [Baren 12131] print site-Estonian printmaking 

Here's an Estonian printmaking site with a lot of prints, some very 
interesting things.  Some woodcuts and wood engravings.  Click on Pildid.  <A 
HREF="http://www.estograph.ee/ajalugu.shtml">Ajalugu</A> 
http://www.estograph.ee/ajalugu.shtml

Darrell




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From: "Dr. Rectangle" <dr_rectangle@dr.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:38:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Baren 12132] RE: Baren Digest V13 #1216 

lezle,

i once had an art professor (who will remain nameless, i suppose) who sort
of "crashed" a student print show at a gallery by showing his/her own
work... s/he had one woodcut on the wall, i believe, and then a fat stack of
xeroxes of the wooducut--selling for $5 each.  now that isn't $250 (i think
asking $250 for a xerox itself is a bit "prohibitive" to the buyer, if you
know what i mean).  i myself don't consider them very limited, editiony, or
terribly arty.  ;)

love <3 & lint * !
kat
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~katherip/art.html




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From: "Daniel L. Dew" <ddew0001@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:52:25 -0500
Subject: [Baren 12133] My Oh My 

My, have we grown quiet!
As Dave said, no censorship, but that doesn't mean no conversation.
I've got 9/10ths of my New Years card done, and I love it.
A gold, winding, Escherish snake on a field of dark blue with fireworks all
around.
I have recently gone back to old blocks I hadn't editioned and wasn't happy
with and recarved: sometimes with color and sometimes as a reduction.  New
and interesting viewpoints.
Remember, we can still communicate, just a heck of a lot slower is all.

dan dew
Exchange #7 almost ready to ship, just waiting on a couple stragglers.




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