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Jerry Dodrill
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Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 29, 2006 - 12:11am PT
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Doing some market research here. Please help...
1. What is on your walls?
2. Do you collect art?
3. What medium do you like best/own most of? Why?
4. Do you own original art, or are posters/reproductions good enough?
5. Have you ever spent more on a piece of art than the cost of your television?
6. Do you own any original climbing art, including fine photography/paintings/sculpture, etc.?
7. Do you support artists you know by buying their artwork?
8. Have you ever bought art from a gallery?
9. How many times a year do you go into a gallery?
10. Do you prefer to buy directly from the artist?
11. What is the most you would ever consider spending on any piece of art?
12. What factors influence your decision to buy/not buy art? (personal tastes, price, size...)
13. What is your favorite piece of art, or who is your favorite artist? Why?
Thanks for your input.
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WBraun
climber
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Jul 29, 2006 - 12:20am PT
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1) What is on your walls?
Textured drywall.
My wife buys art, good stuff too. No climbing stuff on our drywall.
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yo
climber
I'm so over it
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Jul 29, 2006 - 12:27am PT
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13. What is your favorite piece of art, or who is your favorite artist?
Those free photos posted on the net by Jerry Dodrill.
haha, is that the answer you like to hear or not?
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goatboy smellz
climber
shakedown street
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Jul 29, 2006 - 12:32am PT
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1.Drywall then paint.
2.Does bellybutton lint count as art.
3.We are not allowed to discuss what goes on behind closed doors.
4.Yes & Yes, delusion is just as powerful as reality.
5.What's a television?
6. Of course, silly!
7.Isn't it enough I feed them, what happens in the bathroom is none of my business.
8. Yes.
9. Usually between the 1st & 3rd hour after the mushroom YAWNS dissipate.
10. Trading only.
11. I will not justify this kind of slander with a response, unless she's really, really cute.
12. See answer number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine...
13. Myself, cause our greatest work is how we live our lives.
Cheers...
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 29, 2006 - 12:34am PT
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I've sunk more into other collections but my paintings, lithographs, sculptures and photographs speak to a celebration of the skill of others to create an interpretive visual display sufficient to at least partially keep my hubris in check.
I have some paintings by Inge Price, who had a show in NYC 3 years ago and turns 91 this year.
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 29, 2006 - 12:55am PT
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"Those free photos posted on the net by Jerry Dodrill.
haha, is that the answer you like to hear or not?"
Ha! you have crappy art, yo! Go buy something better.
Funny Werner, don't you like any of it or is she wasting your beer money?
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blackbird
Trad climber
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Jul 29, 2006 - 01:27am PT
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Off the cuff answer:
Do hair bunnies from several pets count as living art/sculpture or as textile art...?
Serious answer: Absolutely.
1. several prints of original mixed media pieces (my cousin:http://www.terrycannonart.com/);, a couple of original water colors from a local artist, a photo on order
2. see #1
3. functional ceramics and textiles; they are functional.
4. both
5. what's a television??
6. yup.
7. see #1.
8. nope.
9. 10 - 15
10. yup.
11. I teach... you do the math.
12. personal tastes, price, size...
13. functional pieces because they are... well... functional.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Jul 29, 2006 - 01:30am PT
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I like Bev Dolittle's work.
I like Ralph Steadman also.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jul 29, 2006 - 01:39am PT
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Interesting, Blitzo.
I was just about to utter, "Visigoths!" and delete.
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todd-gordon
climber
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Jul 29, 2006 - 01:41am PT
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I had hundreds of Mac an' cheese boxes thumb-tacked to the ceiling .......I believe it's called "folk art" now-a-days.......quite trendy in the "New Bohemia" Joshua Tree......(Yuppies need not apply...)....Trailer Park Whitebread does have it's own style....
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 29, 2006 - 02:23am PT
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1. What is on your walls?
-Filled to the brim with art.
2. Do you collect art?
-Kinda' topped off, but did till that happened.
3. What medium do you like best/own most of? Why?
-Paintings, drawings, and photos, some ceramics, cuz it fits on my walls or shelves and 'got no room fer sculpture.
4. Do you own original art, or are posters/reproductions good enough?
-70% original, because the feel of an original engages the looker much more effectively; a sense of apprehension, of depth, of soul is present.
There is so much less life in a print.
5. Have you ever spent more on a piece of art than the cost of your television?
-Ha!
BUY a TV?
6. Do you own any original climbing art, including fine photography/paintings/sculpture, etc.?
-I've got some Dean Fidelman stonemaster era stuff, that he shot and developed, so that counts.
7. Do you support artists you know by buying their artwork?
-That's sort of the only way I've done it; or at least met the artist and engaged them.
8. Have you ever bought art from a gallery?
-Not commonly, maybe once or twice.
9. How many times a year do you go into a gallery?
-Used to quite often, now a couple/three times per year.
10. Do you prefer to buy directly from the artist?
-Yes.
11. What is the most you would ever consider spending on any piece of art?
-Sheesh, depends what I've got in pocket. Have not spent more than $600 per piece.
Good questions Jerry!
I'll get back to these:
12. What factors influence your decision to buy/not buy art? (personal tastes, price, size...)
13. What is your favorite piece of art, or who is your favorite artist? Why?
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fareastclimber
Trad climber
Hong Kong & Wales
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Jul 29, 2006 - 10:50am PT
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1. Half of my wall is blank to reflect my vacant mind, whilst the other half has photographs and topos of future objectives and images of places I plan to visit. Also pictures of my family.
2. As much as I enjoy viewing it, I do not actually collect it.
3. Photographs, particularly black & white and portrait photographs. Why? because they are the images I connect with most effectively due to, what I feel to be, their simplicity and focussed subject matter.
4. I do own some paintings produced by my sister (artist). I do not mind owning reproductions if they are produced in the same medium (i.e. I do not want a photograph of a painting).
5. No because I do not own a television!
6. No I do not own any original climbing art of any sort. However, I would if it were readily available, very cheap and in the style/medium I prefer.
7. I would only ever buy a piece of artwork if I like it, not usually for support.
8. Only small photographic reproductions (Diane Arbus), if that counts.
9. 3-6 times a year.
10. Yes because I feel art to be more than just a final product of ones creative process/express, but an authentic representation and insight into the individual character of the artist - because of this belief, I prefer to meet the artist and ask questions and see to myself in what ways the artwork reflects the artist I am speaking with directly.
11. What is the most you would ever consider spending on any piece of art? I find this a difficult question because it depends on the situation for me. I basically would never spend over anything I couldn't afford! But at this financial point in time, probably not more than a $100, but that would be in a RARE case. More like $20-40.
12. I feel I feel that I will continually derive a thought or sense of satisfaction from the piece. Price most dominately determines whether or not I will make a purchase. The colour of the piece is also important to me - I do not want something overly bright and overbearing that will drown out other things around it. The framing is also extremely important - I prefer something simple, minimilastic and not intrusive. Also, the bulk and weight of the piece... if I am on a trip, I will not take a large sculpture back with me in my baggage (for example).
13. Beside Jan Svankmajer (http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/); my favourite artist is the photography of Diane Arbus because she accurately captures the rich and often startling diversity of people in a direct manner - plus I think she was very sexy...
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Jul 29, 2006 - 01:51pm PT
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No particular order........
1 Small intarsia from a friends trip to Italy
2 43" pioneer plasma ( from my trip to Costco)
3 Large Jazzy prints from World Imports, Colors work with Cinder colored wall
4 Framed poster of National Geographic's Afghan Girl from 20 years ago, (Wife Likes it, it kinda creeps me out, she keeps staring at me...)
5 Home made sound absorbers covered in deep marron textile prints
6 Nice photo of aspens from an art aution in Winnemucca, Artist ?
7 Cool "cemetary" shot ( came with my wife), photo, artist?
8 Framed Engineering drawings, Ink on Mylar from 25 years ago, before I did everything on the computer
9 A couple of signed Kinkeads, My wifes brother went to school with him in Camino and that side of the family keeps getting them for us?
10 Signed "Fischer" Railroad Lithos, Sister in Law worked with him and he's is a reknown railroad buff, I used to be a big railffan.
11 I almost bought a "Clevenger" ( glacial lake) 15 years ago but broke up with girl freind and didn't have a home for a while.
12 A oil my mother painted in art class 30 years ago.
12b 2 Large watercolors an art student freind of my wife's painted and she purchased, but they are a little to dark for me, and are currently under the bed. They make Trent Resnor seem like a nice, well adjusted guy.
13 Frequently visit the Rowell studio in bishop, and I'm sure we will be picking up something from there soon.
14 The shots from Jerry D. are fantastic also.
15 Very regrettfully, my wife and I missed the Rodin exhibit and the Ansel Adams exibit when they came to the Reno art museum, but she's emphatic about seeing the current "100 years of chairs" exhibit, no accounting for some peoples interests.
16 A " Artwork" has to strike an emotion in me, whether triggering a memoir or evoking a feeling either positve or negative. It has to " kick "me in the gut and make me feel and realize the artists feelings and intentions for the project.
17 Art is priceless, but with our current combined income I don't think my wife and I would spend more then about 10k on something. Anything more ($) at this point I'd rather put it into retirement accounts.
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darod
Trad climber
South Side Billburg
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Jul 29, 2006 - 02:07pm PT
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Well, I live in a very "artsy" section of Brooklyn, art art art everywhere, galeries almost in every block, more than 10 thousand artists are believed to live here, from all over the world, so is almost impossible not to be involved in it, in some way at least. I'm not an artist myself (graphic designer), but I know a little about what I like, and most of the stuff i really love is installations, so, obviously not something i would buy or have the space to display. Anyway, here we go:
1. Original paintings, photographs, prints, indigenous artifacts (masks, pottery, etc) and prints, and of course, my training hang board!
2. To a point i guess, but i'm not a "collector" per se. I hope that makes sense.
3. Love almost all. Paintings and photography i own, but installation is probably my favorite, its very emotional to me.
4. Yes. Original only. No posters on my walls, except my "climbing/toys" room.
5. Umm, yeah, and I have a plasma!
6. No.
7. Yes, all the art I have is of friends that are painters and photographers.
8. No.
9. I used to go more often, several openings a year, now is more like I pop-in whenever i walk by one, but not nearly as often.
10. Yes.
11. I always struggle with this. I'm not wealthy at all, however art is such an emotional thing to me, that it's usually worth every penny. If i'm buying something, I'm not really thinking how expensive it is, but how happy it makes me. Is that crazy?
12. The decision to "buy" is only a matter of price and if I can afford it. Obviously, if i'm thinking about investing in a specific piece, I already love it.
13. Too many. Very tough question. Sorry.
darod.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jul 29, 2006 - 02:24pm PT
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1. What is on your walls?
Presently, a couple of photos printed on copier paper of my since gone-to-seed yard.
2. Do you collect art?
"Collect" in the sense of always looking for a new peice to add to the collection or increase its worth, no. But I have a few peices.
3. What medium do you like best/own most of? Why?
Whatever appeals to me.
4. Do you own original art, or are posters/reproductions good enough?
I own original art. Posters say "dorm room" to me.
5. Have you ever spent more on a piece of art than the cost of your television?
Yes.
6. Do you own any original climbing art, including fine photography/paintings/sculpture, etc.?
Yes, but it was a gift.
7. Do you support artists you know by buying their artwork?
I have, because the art was special to us. I'm not flush enough to toss my money around to give a friend's income a boost.
8. Have you ever bought art from a gallery?
If a relatively inexpensive hat crocheted out of copper wire counts, then I have.
9. How many times a year do you go into a gallery?
Once or twice.
10. Do you prefer to buy directly from the artist?
I don't buy enough art (and when I have it hasn't been part of some big plan) to have a preference.
11. What is the most you would ever consider spending on any piece of art?
That would totally depend on how much I loved a peice and how much money I had to burn on nice but non-essential things.
12. What factors influence your decision to buy/not buy art? (personal tastes, price, size...)
My budget, how much I like it, whether or not I have anywhere to put it, and, of course, whether or not it matches the sofa. ;-)
13. What is your favorite piece of art, or who is your favorite artist? Why?
I have no idea.
The art that has been the most special to me has been stuff that I either became aware of at a time in my life when I was looking for inspiration or stuff that was done by someone I cared about.
We shared a sublet of an artists loft for a couple of years while she was living in Mexico, and I grew very attached to the art that she left up/out while she was a way.
http://www.glenrogersart.com/
My cousin was (is) a full-time artist in Paris and then in NYC. When I was a kid growing up in a super small country town, I though that she led the coolest life imaginable. When I graduated from college and was heading out into the world to do what I wanted where I wanted for the first time in my life, I went to see her on a school interview in NYC and she took me around to see her friends shows at the galleries in SOHO, and I felt like the luckiest small-town gal ever. That's where I bought the afformentioned copper crocheted hat. It was, like, $30, but that was food money, and just about all of it that I had at the time. The work that I saw of hers on that trip stands out as one of my favorites...partly because I really did love it, and partly because I assoicate it with a really special memory.
(Not the print I remember seeing, but another "Georgia Marsh" that I found on the internet that combined translucent stripes and and nature.)
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NeverSurfaced
Trad climber
Someplace F*#ked!
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Jul 29, 2006 - 09:19pm PT
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Doing some market research here. Please help...
1. Pictures, primarily one’s I’ve taken and a few that I’ve either bought from artists or been given by photog friends
2. No
3. Photography (color & B&W)
4. Both
5. I’ve never actually bought a TV, so yes
6. Yes, climbing photography
7. Yes and no, photog friends usually give me photos as a show of appreciation for support in other ways
8. Gallery – No / Art Fair booth - yes
9. 0
10. Yes
11.Depends on how it struck me $1,000.00 maybe
12. Sometimes something just catches your eye, and you can’t explain it, but you just can’t turn away
13. N/A
Thanks for your input.
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Euroford
Trad climber
Chicago, IL
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Jul 29, 2006 - 11:01pm PT
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i'm an architect, so most of the house is decorated with photos of buildings, some of which i took, along with some framed orginal hand drawn prints by Mies and and Wright. also some misc stuff that just looked nice, some orginal cells from disney movies and a couple of persian rugs used as wall hangings. all B&W except for the disney stuff.
my study has framed topos and maps and stuff. el cap, the diamond, witchita mountain wildlife refuge and a poster showing all of the messier objects.
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matisse
Trad climber
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Jul 30, 2006 - 12:33am PT
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1. What is on your walls?
watercolors, woodcuts, some black and white photography. no free wall space
2. Do you collect art?
I didn't plan to
3. What medium do you like best/own most of? Why?
watercolors. mostly they're mine. not that I like them the best, it is just that my house is kinda my gallery as well.
4. Do you own original art, or are posters/reproductions good enough?
all original
5. Have you ever spent more on a piece of art than the cost of your television?
mostly I trade.
6. Do you own any original climbing art, including fine photography/paintings/sculpture, etc.?
yes but not much compared to the total volume.
7. Do you support artists you know by buying their artwork?
yes.
http://www.kirstenfrancis.com
http://www.hawkstudio.com/
8. Have you ever bought art from a gallery?
no.
9. How many times a year do you go into a gallery?
several.
10. Do you prefer to buy directly from the artist?
yes.
11. What is the most you would ever consider spending on any piece of art?
not sure.
12. What factors influence your decision to buy/not buy art? (personal tastes, price, size...)
If I see a piece and I'm still thinking about it 2 days later I seriously consider buying it.
13. What is your favorite piece of art, or who is your favorite artist? Why?
http://www.godardgallery.com/cpratt.htm
bleak austere great white north kind of stuff.
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