Quilts, Lunch & Starbuck's 01-29-09

I didn't do well with pictures today - forgive me, please! I'll do better when I go to see Visions again in a couple weeks.

I drove to Oceanside today to see the Visions exhibit, and I had the great company of my friends Carol and Teresa. It was a gorgeous day with blue skies, blue/green/grey ocean and wind tossed palm trees. Of course, all the trees and everything else were tossing in the Santa Ana winds, but the palm trees are so... exuberant! Carol and Teresa seemed to enjoy having their own personal docent, but they know that when I get talking quilts it is hard to shut me up. Sort of "More than you ever wanted to know about art quilts!" We spent about 1-1/2 hours at the museum.

We had planned to go to Sammy's in Carlsbad for lunch, but it is closed for reconstruction after fire tore through the building. I don't know when it happened, but when I checked online last evening the site said it was closed and I couldn't imagine why. When we slipped off I-5 at Palomar Airport Road to see it was obvious there had been a fire. Since we had lots of time we drove south to the Sammy's on Del Mar Heights Road. Same food, different ambiance. Delicious salads - two w/grilled shrimp and my Chinese Chicken - no desserts. We all had half salads because the whole salads are each enough to feed four!

Our table was near this mosaic wall and we contemplated the strangeness of having cat grass hanging so high - long necked cats? Of course, it is artificial, but seemed to need something else... a flock of tiny birds, a couple frogs, grasshoppers? The beaded lamps are very attractive, but the light that shines below this one is actually my flash reflection. I took a few pictures to get it lined up - nice effect.

In August I posted some pictures of public sculpture around the City of Brea, just north of Placentia, and I wanted to include this one which is between the corner and the drive-thru at Starbucks. I decided to wait until they finished the massive reconstruction of the intersection, but, as you can see, they still have not completed the project. When I stopped this afternoon I thought I might as well take the picture, who knows how many more months the barriers and cones will be there?

I particularly like this piece, but cannot find a plaque w/title and artist's name. And I have not yet visited the Brea Civic Center to buy a listing of the 150+ sculptures the city has required of builders for the Art in Public Places project, but you can see twenty of them by going to: http://www.ci.brea.ca.us/custom.cfm?name=aipp_index.htm

Find the sculptures I posted previously at: http://delquilts.blogspot.com/2008/08/sculpture-city-of-brea-08-24-08.html

Quilt Visions - 2008 01-16-09

I drove to San Diego today with a stop to visit Quilt Visions at the Oceanside Museum of Art. What gorgeous quilts! The two quilts below I like very much and neither is for sale.

"Spring" Eun-Ryoung Choi - Seoul, Korea 72"W x 58"L Cotton, poly-gauze. Hand painted, snippets, machine applique and quilting

"Pirouette 4" Karin Franzen Fairbanks, Alaska 41"W x 49"L Silk organza, used clothing, wool, silk, cotton, linen, rayon, oil pastel rubbing and Lumiere paint.
http://www.karinfranzen.com/wp/2008/expressions-the-art-quilt/

And a detail. If you are thinking that Visions doesn't allow photos, you are right. I cheated!

I continued driving south to San Diego to attend the opening of the newest exhibit at Visions Art Quilt Gallery. They are showing quilts made by quilt makers who have juried one of the Visions exhibits. Some quite wonderful quilts there also. I especially like Judith Content's work - I don't have one of her quilts, but I have one of her scarves. I hang it on the long, narrow wall in the hallway. And I do wear it sometimes, but I enjoy it as if it were part of TCQC - on the wall.

A few of her quilts are at: http://www.art-is-life.com/quilts7.htm