Saturday, February 25, 2017

Can I complete one piece of work a week for the year?????

My latest finished piece "Migration" put together a couple of weeks ago, sewn yesterday and today I'm hand sewing the backing in place.  12" wide by 16" high stretched, wired on the back to hang against the wall.  Most likely I'll take down to the gallery next week and install.  I'm trying to do a new piece a week, which means I should have 52 pieces done by the end of the year, but I don't think I'll be able to keep up the pace as some work just takes longer.  And then were the heck am I going to store 52 more pieces of work, I'm maxed out as it is already.

I drove over to Blue Line Art Gallery in Roseville to see the last day of the Crocker-Kingsley Exhibit and was really very disappointed.  Both my daughter and I submitted work to the jury and didn't get in, which is okay, but then when I saw the work that was selected, I was stunned and amazed as some looked like first year art school work.  There were several pieces that were worthy of being in this exhibit....some that was just stupid and some that was so sloppy and crazy you have to wonder why it was called art.  There was only one juror and for a well known exhibit as Crocker-Kinglsey is known to be, I was surprised at that....and that's the reason the show was "the same"....everything was abstract in one way or another and the juror is an abstract artist...thus the show was as it was.  Something I really noticed was that in the prospectus there was no mention of multiple items that could be accepted and every artist in this exhibit had up to three pieces of work displayed, something that wasn't talked about when entering the exhibit.  Oh well, it is what it is...they had their exhibit and on to the next.  Only a few were sold...the pricing was very HIGH for what you got. 



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