Big thanks to SERTOMA Club of St. Augustine and their support of the Sculpture One Coffee Club over the last three semesters(yup we've had 3 shows already). Thanks as always to Doc and Les for their extra hard work to make this happen and to Christina for staying late during install. Thanks to Asilyn and The Naysayers for climbing a ladder to play the opening. Ya'll are the best! Thanks to all of the artist for working really hard and throwing yourselves into your projects. It's the only way! Congrats!!!
p.s. My battery died during Kayleigh's performance so this is only a 5 second clip. Sorry Kayleigh!
whaaa whoooo! people came! i was not expecting that kind of turn out. i'm sending a big online thank you to the band. and to mike for having the cutest kid in the world!
ReplyDeleteagreed. everyone's work was amazing! i love how nobodys was even close to being similar...how differently we all think :) it's wonderful
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ReplyDeleteSertoma was great! The music was amazing and a good amount of people turned up for it being in the creepiest mall. Do we meet at Simple Gestures tonight??
ReplyDeleteI agree. The diversity of each piece made for a very interesting show. The first hour was rather uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteThe book itself is remarkable, yet a little hard to follow at times. Dealing with modern art for me is never really an easy thing to do. it's a complicated matter that one can try to comprehend but unless one devotes themselves to it, can never really prevail in achieving the ultimate knowledge that is 'Modern Art'. However, with the aid of the book I have found that I have come to understand things a little better in the areas I refused to bother with due to a grand lack of understanding. I would definitely fit into the 'timid, shy away from' group that ultimately fears modern art.
ReplyDeleteStill, I must admit I do question modern art less, but I still have questions as to what counts as art. Looking at some of the pieces shown in the 'trips' from museum to museum, I found myself wondering how it could possibly be taken seriously and end up on display in a gallery. It makes me remember when I visited JMOMA (when it was still called that) and on the second floor, just to the left, it had the whole wall to itself. A large white canvas, with nothing except for a medium sized orange blob, and it was simply titled "Hope". It made my blood boil thinking that a two year old could preform such a simple action and the furthest it would get is the refrigerator, maybe with the coolest magnet holding up, but a museum? It was preposterous! Something like that can make it to an art gallery and yet something along the line of an anime inspired drawing is simply looked at as a cute "cartoon" sketch. But that's another track that I will not go down for the sake of the reader, or readers. (God forbid) But I assume that is exactly what this book is dealing with. Trying to explain to people like me, who just don't understand how to look at it, and as stead fast as I am to stay in my 'brush it off' mannerisms, it does explain things in a way that I can more readily try to understand it and see beyond the surface. I'm sure whoever did that painting put 'a lot' of thought behind it. Anyway, overall I did enjoy the book, though I will be honest and say I did not read it in it's entirety. It did open my mind, and make me more accepting of certain aspects of modern art, in a word it was a 'journey' somethings unwilling abut an experience, one for the better I think, nonetheless.