VISPO Book One

[cheryl penn]

I divided the list up by alternating names and allocating a number 1 or two. This is the list for Book 1

Victoria Barvenko

The Rostov Region –

Taganrog -

Street Petrovskaya 15, sq 129 –

347922 – RUSSIA

 

Richard Canard,

409 S.Emerald Lane,

Carbondale,

Illusion, 62901-2140

U.S.A. 

 

Cleveland Wall

717 Spring Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018

USA

 

DK

407 South Liberty Street

Elgin, IL  60120

USA

 

Alfonso Filieri

Viale Desiderato Pietri 22

Stella Polare-Ostia

00122 Roma- Italia

 

Rebecca Guyver

Nayland Farm

Mill Road

Ringshall

Stowmarket, Suffolk

IP14 2LS

UK

 

KDJ

1224 Lake Margaret Drive

Orlando, FL 32806

USA

 

Susan Mortimer

1 Willowtree Avenue

Gilesgate Moor

Durham

DH1 1EB

UK

 

Katerina Nikoltsou

Glinou 20 Harilaou

Thessaloniki 54249

GREECE

 

Cheryl Penn

6 Kiaat Close

Glen Anil

4051

South Africa.

 

Bernd Reichert


MailWorks@Bruxelles


97, Avenue du Val d'Or


B-1150 Brussels


Belgium

 

De Villo Sloan

P O Box 1314

Auburn

New York 13021

U.S.A.

 

Matthew Stolte

1314 East Washington Ave Apt 2


Madison WI 53703

USA

 

Guido Vermeulen

Thomas Vincottestreet 81

B-1030 Brussels

Belgium

 

Janine Weiss


Route des Addoz 42


2017 Boudry


Switzerland

[cheryl penn]

O O O and Janine - sorry!! :-) X

[cheryl penn]

Safe arrival of Diane's VISPO - GREAT - thank you - things are looking good :-) - I hope everyone is one track - I think we said end February? I am REALLY pleased with all he pieces that have arrived - great Wednesday to everyone :-) XX

[Matthew Stolte]

on track - but making color copies last week the printer i was using ran out of ink!  i'm trying again this week & hope to send out the work before the weekend!  happy to be part of this project! - Matthew

[cheryl penn]

Hey Matthew - good to hear from you :-) - I am getting queries - I think we said finishing  date was end February? 

[Matthew Stolte]

Yup.  I took that to mean Feb. 29.  fingers crossed i can get my envelopes out this Friday or Saturday! - Matthew :)

[Rebecca Guyver]

Sent mine off today! Keep getting out the four I've received and looking at them. WONDERFUL.  Thank you again everyone. Cheryl's hasn't been put away yet as so enraptured I can't seem to move it to the safe tin where I have stashed the others.

[cheryl penn]

Rebecca - thank you :-) - thats a VERY nice thing to say :-) XX

[DKeys]

Cheryl's hauntingly beautiful pages arrived yesterday-very thought provoking and unusual. Thank you Cheryl-you are an inspiration

[cheryl penn]

Diane - yours arrived too - MANY thanks - beautiful! :-) X

[DKeys]

Thank you Cheryl.The project also spawned quite a bit of reject art:)

[Rebecca Guyver]

Hi everyone, have heard from Guido that my pages arrived safely in Belgium.  He commented thanking me for introducing him to Diebenkorn.  This project has helped me to reconnect with Diebenkorn's work and I've learned much that I've filtered and tried to respond to in my pages.  When I first finished them I was at one with them.  Later the regret settles in...  I thought I would say a few things about Diebenkorn that might help you to place my pages. In case it isn't clear, all of the artwork is my own, in response to Diebenkorn, made just for this project. Two images are interpretations of particular Diebenkorn images.  The industrial boxes in the snow was how I came to choose Diebenkorn.  It was at that moment I imagined how Diebenkorn might have seen/responded to his world. The words are what I was saying to myself in response to what i learned re/learned about Diebenkorn's life and practice with poetic license taken. 

For Christmas I received (chose for myself) from my husband the Diebenkorn's Ocean Park beautiful hardback monograph. This is the work that I am most familiar with.  For some reason my pages don't reflect that... 

Diebenkorn lived in California.  He spent time at Stanford University, where I studied painting and drawing.  His contemporaries were some of my professors.  They were from the 'California School': Frank Lobdell, Keith Boyle and Nathan Olivera.  Olivera taught me to use monotype.  He also made monotypes with Diebenkorn. As I read the essays in the Ocean Park book I began to see my experience from a new angle.  I saw Lobdell talking about letting symbols come onto the canvas etc... There was a strong tradition of life drawing, a place that Diebenkorn came from.  Interestingly, Diebenkorn stopped working figuratively once he embarked on the Ocean Park series.  I am at a crossroads as have just moved into a big, beautiful studio with much light.  It was a similar impetus that triggered Diebenkorn's shift. I am curious to see the impact of a place on work and meaning. The back page is an inkjet transfer of the view from my studio drawing table after I had completed the monotype for the front (an image I'm not really satisfied with at all but that marks my first foray into monotype in some years). One of the interesting things I learned about Diebenkorn was that he was one of the first artists to see the world by air.  A govt scheme took him up in a plane to see the California landscape from a plane. Diebenkorn did not ascribe to an 'art movement' so was something of an outsider, though sought after.  He wanted his painting to speak for itself. Not surprisingly, his work was called 'visual poetry' by one critic.  One of the essays in the book is by Peter Levitt, poet etc... 'Richard Diebenkorn and the poetics of place'.  Wow what a piece of writing!  I look forward to receiving the rest of your work and thanks especially to Cheryl and De Villo for coordinating. Will we talk about binding later?

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

I have 6 so far from Vispo Book One:

1. Janine Weiss (Switzerland)

2. Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)

3. Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois USA)

4.Cheryl Penn (South Africa)

5.Bernd Reichert (Belgium)

6. Katerina (mine) (Greece)