Art Lies, Volume 23, Summer 1999 Page: 8
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Collectors' Responses for Blue Star XIV:
San Antonio CollectsHow did you become interested in art?
Janet and Gary Sweeney: (Gary) I came from
an artistic family. My grandmother was a
painter, and I was surrounded by art and
creativity as a child.
Tinka and Lewis Tarver: (Lewis) I think each
of us became interested in art at birth. Tinka
did a good deal more about it than I. She
became a serious professional artist; illustrator,
painter, sculptor, jeweler and more. I became a
fellow traveler and enthusiast.
Do you have a mentor/collector?
Joe A. Diaz: I became interested in collecting
by watching my mother. She collects antiques,
Spanish Colonial art, Russian icons, and many
other things, and just watching her do so and
picking up on her thought processes about
collecting got me started.
Carla Stellweg and Roger Welch: (Carla) My
mentors and collectors have been a mix of
artists, dealers, galleries, curators and collec-
tors/friends. Over the years, the "group"
expanded into a large extended family from
around the world. People who share a similar
passion for art and the manifold meaning art
brings to our lives. At times, one person or the
other was closer, a soul mate on a journey, and
then we would move in different directions,
only to meet again at some other, new juncture
in the world of art.
What specific art draws you?
Joe A. Diaz: Art that has an edge, and art that
deals with popular culture and the human
condition.
Lynne Hicks and Alex DeLeon: (Alex): Some
of our collection is from friends who are artists,
but we are also drawn to "outsider" or "naive"
artists as well. We find these artists to be very
pointed in their beliefs and opinions.
Kimberlea Jones: If I could have one painting,
in the world, it would be Whistlejacket by
George Stubbs. He is a master of painting
horses and captures the horse's fiery character
and personality as well as the body. I like all art,
but am in a sporting art phase right now,
because horses and dogs are central to my life.
I am drawn to paintings with these animals in
them. It's like I'm re-creating a teenage girl's
bedroom, but this time it's with real art instead
of posters.
Julie and Ken Little: (Ken) Art that I am
drawn to usually puts me on some kind of edge
at first-something hard to define-but it
makes me uncomfortable. I learn from this
interaction. It changes what I think of as
8 ARTLIES SUMMER 1999from top:
Cisco Jimenez, Patas-Feet, 1996
George Condo, Untitled, 1984
Arturo Elizondo, Bailando-Danci
Francisco Toledo, Untitled, 1984
Courtesy of Carla Stellwig and R
clockwise from upper left:
Ed Blackburn, David and Goliath, 19'
Pat Schuchard, Album Covers, 1991
John Buck, The Bride Gets Even, 198
Henry Stein, Ancient Knowledge, 19'
Antony Gormley, Untitled-Hot Sauce
Karl Wirsum, Mouse Meow, 1984
Hills Snyder, Pitcher, 1993
Courtesy of Julie and Ken Little.Y: p
beauty-I don't just want to "like" it. It has to be
more than that.
Sally and George Muellich: (Sally) Just things
that we like. For example, the Anish Kapoor
sculpture [a red blob form that sticks out of the
wall] was funny; we'd never seen anything like it.
Carolyn and John Seal: An example is Vernon
Fisher, who plays word games in his art. We
became friends by discussing how one plays with
verbal imagery. This is the constant way that
humans communicate, but the ultimate form of
abstraction, because it is an integrative process
that uses the entire brain.
When and why did you start collecting?
Irene and Leo Edwards: (Leo) The collection
began about eight years ago. Thurlowe Tibbs
walked me through the initial steps of who and
why certain artists were worthwhile to collect. I
collected primarily African American artists
because I found that these individuals could
really create beautiful pieces but that galleries and
publications acted as if they never existed.
Janet and Bruce Flohr: (Janet) I bought my first
ng, 1990 print in a flea market in New Orleans in 1973,
and it turned out to be an Aristide Maillol
oger Welch etching! I was hooked.
Carolyn and John Seal: It's great to live in an art
environment-to surround yourself with art,
because art has such a strong impact on one's
94 environment. It sets a mood and tone for you to
0 live by. Having art around you forces you to
96 interact in a certain way.
Drawing, 1995 Carla Stellweg and Roger Welch: (Carla) When
I met Roger, although being from entirely
different backgrounds, we obviously shared a
similar passion and commitment to a life with
and for art, including collecting. It is for both of
us a personal, a social and political positioning of
i priorities. Our collecting together has at times
overlapped and at times greatly differed. But, in
( general, as art constantly changes and challenges
our perceptions, both individually and together,
we have discussed, learned and changed with it.
This includes revisiting some past acquisitions-
'J w$art history-and finding a fresh understanding as
well as facing previously unknown artworks that
require new insight.
Janet and Gary Sweeney: (Gary) I started
collecting when I was in college. My first major
art purchase was a William Wegman photograph
of Man Ray, for $150, and the gallery was kind
enough to let me make payments. I continued to
buy art, mostly prints, on a regular basis, but
unfortunately they were gifts for a girlfriend. The
collection in the show spans the last ten years or
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