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Gigi Spratley and Jack Waltrip Li'l Beasties

About the Mural

The mural for Quality Mending Co., Veil of the Eternal is a 3-D work conceived as a space between dreams and meditation where veiled potential can be revealed,just as the 3D glasses reveal an alternative experience for the viewer. The mural grew out of an ongoing project they’ve been involved in which includes the development of a book and animation project collectively known as the Li’l Beasties

About the Artists

Gigi studied abroad in Rome at the St. Stephen's School from 1974 until 1976.

After her time at St. Stephen’s Gigi moved to Claremont, California where she earned a BA in art from Pitzer College and a MFA in painting from Claremont

Graduate University. She then moved to Los Angeles where she lived and worked as an artist from 1983. In Los Angeles in 1985, working primarily in two-dimensional media, painting and drawing, she acquired her first computer and sought to integrate digitally produced imagery into her drawing practice.

Since moving to New York in 1995 she’s expanded into sculpture, assemblage, photography, digital prints, stop action animation and collaborations with her husband, musician and artist Jack Waltrip. She has an interest in organic formsfound in nature, the phenomena of light, pop culture, and technology.

Jack has lived in New York City for thirty years, and has been forging a unique and innovative musical style during that time. His latest recording Monoceros, is primarily defined by his interest in middle-eastern tonalities and rhythms, to amazing effect. Having played with Miles Davis, John Scofield and Darryl Jones among others, he continues to explore groove/soundscapes that are beautiful in their darkness.

Gigi and Jack work together on many levels in music and art. They’ve made a short anti-war stop frame animation entitled All You Need is Love, which can be viewed on YouTube. Their collaborations include 3-D digital prints, designs for jewelry and fabric as well as forthcoming music releases.

JUNE 2011

Little Annie Bandez (also known as Annie Anxiety or Little Annie Anxiety Bandez) is a New York born singer, songwriter, painter, poet, writer. performing and recording artist, pastor and stage actor

biography

Little Annie-aka Annie Anxiety-aka Annie Bandez O'Connor, who survived her teenage angst and matured into a smokey contralto, has been "real" ever since. She is an adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, ordained minister, high school drop out, juvenile delinguint, self taught painter, and multi-media artist and post modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career who had defied catagorization, limitation, restrictions and sometimes the law.

Her solo LPs and numerous collaborations (with Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sounds stable, Paul Oakenfold, Kid Congo Powers, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, the late Bim Sherman, Coil, Fini Tribe, Collapsed Lung, Christophe Heeman, and many fine others) span the spectrum from reggae & hip hop to torch and the avant garde. She has written three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces, and films, and continues to tour extensively with pianist and co-composer Paul Wallfisch of Botanica.

Frank Zappa in his 1980 interview with Songwriter magazine said of Little Annie "But when I go to a place like Max's Kansas City in New York and see a group like Annie and the Asexuals, I can really enjoy it. I don't know if that band will ever get a record contract and I don't think they care. I watched them for an hour, painful as it was - their show was real personal and disorganized. This girl was wearing winter underwear with a black leather coat on top of that, and she had a paper bag with a bottle of vodka in it, and she was backed up by five guys who had just bought their instruments, apparently. She was screaming about thorazine and being in a mental hospital and it was real ! You don't get that commitment to just spewing your guts out among L.A. groups."

Tim Kerr was born and raised on the Texas coast on the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Galveston. There he began to surf and play guitar . He had a wonderful childhood, but hated high school. He will tell you that surfing, music and his friend and later-to-be-wife, Beth saved him during those high school years.

Some of his continuing musical influences were formed early and include British invasion bands, soul music, British folk and acoustic music (Bert Jansch, John Martyn, etc.)

Tim moved to Austin in 1974 to attend The University of Texas at Austin and there he earned a degree in painting and photography. While in the art department, he studied under famed photographer Garry Winogrand and was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for his work.

Rich Jacobs was the very first artist to show on the Quality Mending Art Wall back in 2005.  

Rich Jacobs (born 1972, Long Beach, CA) is an American artist and curator who currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. Jacobs has exhibited in the United States,[1] Europe,[2] Australia, New Zealand and Japan. In 2008 his work Minor ThreatFamily Tree was featured prominently along with other works by Jacobs at the London Ontario Live Arts Festival in Canada.

Inspired by graffiti, psychedelic and folk art, Jacobs' raw, colorful work frequently appears on a broad range of materials such as magazines, books, CD and LP covers (including most of the albums for Salt Lake City-based group Iceburn), footwear, apparel (such as parkas, skirts and dresses), skateboards, buildings, pillows and so on

Check out his site for more of his current work:

http://mywebsiteisinyourmind.com

We carry Rich Jacbos designed scarves in the store and online @ workclothingsport.com