Weaving Demonstration with Master Zapotec Weaver, Florentino Gutierrez

Florentino, Susanna, Eloisa and Hugo
Flo­renti­no, Susan­na Starr (own­er), Eloisa and Hugo
pho­to © John Lamkin

 

Dur­ing the annu­al Taos Wool Fes­ti­val Mas­ter Zapotec weaver Flo­renti­no Gutier­rez will be demon­strat­ing weav­ing in Starr Inte­ri­ors’ his­toric courtyard

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You can also view a pho­to show from Susan­na Starr and John Lamk­in’s new book, Our Inter­wo­ven Lives with the Zapotec Weavers: An Odyssey of the Heart. Copies of the book will be for sale at the gallery. Flo­renti­no is fea­tured promi­nent­ly in the book. He will be glad to sign your copy.

Book signing & photo show a great success

 

Book signing and photo show room
Book sign­ing and pho­to show room

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The pho­to show and book sign­ing were a great suc­cess. Many peo­ple attend­ed and many bought books. More infor­ma­tion about the book, “Our Inter­wo­ven Lives with the Zapotec Weavers: an Odyssey of the Heart” can be found on pre­vi­ous posts. If you’re in Taos, the book is for sale at the gallery.

Book launch and photography show at Starr Interiors

Book Front Cover
Book signing and photography show at Starr Interiors

June 21, 2014

5 – 7 PM

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Starr Inte­ri­ors

117 Paseo del Pueblo Norte

(2 doors south of the Taos Inn)

Starr Inte­ri­ors is joy­ful­ly cel­e­brat­ing its 40th year anniver­sary with a book launch of a new book writ­ten by Susan­na Starr with pho­tographs by John Lamkin. A book sign­ing will be held in the his­toric build­ing that hous­es Starr Inte­ri­ors. The book, Our Inter­wo­ven Lives with the Zapotec Weavers: An Odyssey of the Heart, chron­i­cles three gen­er­a­tions of deep con­nec­tion and par­al­lels the lives of Starr and spe­cif­ic weav­ing fam­i­lies of the small Zapotec vil­lage out­side of Oax­a­ca, Mex­i­co through text and stun­ning pho­tos. It has already received acclaim for its cul­tur­al impor­tance in var­i­ous coun­tries as well as the U.S.

MAY — Pre-Columbian Designs

Serpent and Jaguar by Isaac Vasquez
Ser­pent and Jaguar by Isaac Vasquez

 

Jaguar and Heart - Triumph of the Spiritual over the Mundane
Jaguar and Heart — Tri­umph of the Spir­i­tu­al over the Mundane

 

In cel­e­bra­tion of spring in Taos, New Mex­i­co, Starr Inte­ri­ors is fea­tur­ing Pre-Columbian images from one of its finest col­lec­tions of weav­ings. Start­ing back in the sev­en­ties, we acquired what has to be the most exten­sive col­lec­tion under one roof of the work of Isaac Vasquez, inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned Zapotec Indi­an Mas­ter Weaver.

This fea­ture piece of the Ser­pent and the Jaguar was done by him short­ly before he appeared at Starr Inte­ri­ors some years ago where we held an expo­si­tion of his work. It was and con­tin­ues to be an hon­or to show the work of this famed weaver. The pieces being shown this month encom­pass images from var­i­ous Zapotec codices includ­ing the Bor­gia, Dres­den and the Nut­tal codices. Their intri­ca­cy and detail go far beyond what most peo­ple asso­ciate with Zapotec weav­ings. These rep­re­sent an art form at its finest and we are delight­ed for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to present this show.

Dancing Jaguar
Danc­ing Jaguar

Meet­ing don Isaac so many years ago was the begin­ning of a long rela­tion­ship and we are extreme­ly proud to be able to rep­re­sent this out­stand­ing col­lec­tion that has spanned decades. Along with the late don Emil­iano Men­doza, these two men pro­duced some of the finest art weav­ings their vil­lage has ever known.

Pre-Colombian Maya Design
Pre-Colom­bian Maya Design

Includ­ed in this show are Vasquez, Men­doza and sev­er­al oth­er out­stand­ing Zapotec weavers.

PRIVATE COLLECTION OF PRE-COLUMBIAN DESIGN TAPESTRIES BY MASTER ZAPOTEC WEAVERS NOW FOR SALE!

We are now offer­ing for sale our muse­um qual­i­ty pri­vate col­lec­tion of these weav­ings. There are about fifty pieces in this col­lec­tion and we will sell them as a group or individually.

Accord­ing to Susan­na Starr, Starr Inte­ri­ors owner,

This amaz­ing col­lec­tion of some of the finest weav­ings to have ever been pro­duced in the Zapotec Indi­an vil­lage of Teoti­t­lan del Valle is now being offered for sale, either as a com­plete col­lec­tion or by the indi­vid­ual piece. They were pro­duced in the late nine­teen six­ties and ear­ly nine­teen sev­en­ties by three mas­ter weavings.

Emil­iano Men­doza, who passed away in 1990, wove some of the finest inter­pre­ta­tions of images from var­i­ous ancient codices, pri­mar­i­ly the Bor­gia codex. The com­plex­i­ty of each piece and the per­fec­tion of their exe­cu­tion reflects the pride and ded­i­ca­tion of this impor­tant weaver and out­stand­ing human being, hon­ored in his vil­lage as Mayordomo.
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His son, Arnul­fo, a mas­ter weaver in his own right, worked with his father to pro­duce what could be deemed the most valu­able piece ever to have come out of the vil­lage. Mea­sur­ing 9’4”x9’4”, this piece is done in ango­ra wool, in the finest detail pos­si­ble on a loom. It is the Rit­u­al Sequence from the Bor­gia Codex. His own weav­ings from the sev­en­ties are tak­en from his orig­i­nal paint­ings in his own dis­tinct style, but done with the same amaz­ing atten­tion to each detail.

Isaac Vasquez, anoth­er acknowl­edged mas­ter weaver is also rep­re­sent­ed in this col­lec­tion. Now in his eight­ies, he is not weav­ing much any more. His work, how­ev­er, appears in many col­lec­tions and has received recog­ni­tion for many decades both in the Unit­ed States and Mexico.

I start­ed col­lect­ing these weav­ings indi­vid­u­al­ly over a peri­od of about ten years dur­ing the nine­teen eight­ies know­ing, even at that time, that they would nev­er be done again. They were nev­er woven for the mass mar­ket but, rather, as an artis­tic expres­sion of the indi­vid­ual mas­ter weavers, being sold to col­lec­tors who could appre­ci­ate their intrin­sic value.

The many pieces of the Men­doza fam­i­ly were acquired grad­u­al­ly and I remem­ber vivid­ly pur­chas­ing the orig­i­nal images of Arnulfo’s paint­ings that he had giv­en to his father, don Emil­iano, who decid­ed to sell them to us under very emo­tion­al cir­cum­stances. He obvi­ous­ly was very proud of them and they were espe­cial­ly mean­ing­ful to him.

Now the time has come to divest myself of this amaz­ing col­lec­tion and, for the first time, offer them for sale as a com­plete col­lec­tion or on an indi­vid­ual basis. They are a trea­sure, as they tell the sto­ry of ancient cul­tures of the Amer­i­c­as before the arrival of the Span­ish. The codices that inspired these weav­ings are the only ones to have sur­vived the Span­ish con­quest, the oth­ers being burned. To have them inter­pret­ed in these amaz­ing tex­tiles has been a labor of love, prob­a­bly nev­er to be dupli­cat­ed indi­vid­u­al­ly and, def­i­nite­ly not, as a com­plete collection.

The Zapotec Indi­an cul­ture goes back many thou­sands of years. Many of the tem­ples that they built are still stand­ing, the most notable, Monte Alban in Oax­a­ca. They have pro­duced endur­ing work in met­al and stone, gold and sil­ver, and jade. These tapes­tries rep­re­sent a con­tin­u­a­tion of record­ed art in fiber.”

An exam­ple of this fine work was done by the late Emil­iano Men­doza and his son Arnul­fo. The piece, woven in alpaca wool, took a few years to complete.

Image from Borgia Codex 9'4" x 9'4" by Emiliano and Arnulfo Mendoza
Image from Bor­gia Codex 9′4″ x 9′4″ by Emil­iano and Arnul­fo Mendoza

You can con­tact us at sales@Starr-Interiors.com for more information.

It’s spring here in Taos, New Mex­i­co and view­ing this out­stand­ing col­lec­tion would be an excel­lent excuse for a trip here.

 

 

 

Alcove Show Honoring Taos’ Remarkable Woman, Ann St. John Hawley

Ann St John Hawley in her studio
Ann St John Haw­ley in her studio

On Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 8th, from 4 PM until 6 PM, a recep­tion for the alcove show fea­tur­ing the work of renowned Taos painter, Ann St. John Haw­ley, will be held at Starr Inte­ri­ors, 117 Paseo del Pueblo Norte in Taos, New Mexico.

Ann St. John Haw­ley 1919 — 2010

As an artist, Ann St. John Haw­ley pro­duced a prodi­gious num­ber of pieces of art rang­ing from oil and acrylic por­traits, land­scapes, water col­ors, pen and ink fig­ures, block and mono prints, Sumi and Butoh draw­ings to ceram­ic pots and wood sculp­tures. Her goal was to com­mu­ni­cate through her artis­tic medi­um the divine dance of nature, col­or and form. For Ann, every­thing she saw around her inspired her to reach for new and dif­fer­ent forms of artis­tic and spir­i­tu­al expres­sion. That includ­ed new ideas, new thoughts and philoso­phies. She nev­er grew old in spir­it, con­stant­ly involved in tak­ing class­es, whether in drum­ming or in the study of world reli­gions at the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co, often attend­ing lec­tures, rel­ish­ing the mys­ti­cism in reli­gions. All of this pro­vid­ed more inspi­ra­tion for her painting.

Ann is not only remark­able because she was a work­ing artist until the end of her life in 2010, nor only for the amaz­ing col­lec­tion of work she pro­duced while being the moth­er of six, but for her spir­it which per­me­at­ed all she did. Her work encom­passed a wide vari­ety of expres­sion, con­stant­ly evolv­ing as she was.  Although nev­er pro­claim­ing her­self as a philoso­pher, she was. In a quote in Fifty and Beyond; New Begin­nings in Health and Well Being, here’s what she said about cre­at­ing anew, “I also like chaos. You have to have some chaos in order to find a new way. Although it’s painful and you feel lost, out of chaos comes some kind of direc­tion or insights – some­thing new emerges.” She nev­er stopped search­ing for that some­thing new.

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The Gift 30 x 15in - Ann St. John Hawley
The Gift 30 x 15in — Ann St. John Hawley
Ann St. John Hawley © R Steinbach
Ann St. John Haw­ley © R Steinbach
Ann in Veil
Ann in Veil

Artwork by Ann St. John Hawley
Art­work by Ann St. John Hawley