Friday evening 7pm. Fort Langley BC, Canada. Our youngest daughter is one of the organizers, getting nine of her 4th-year art school friends to pitch in $60 each to host their art in a commercial art gallery for three weeks.
The show is called Continuum, and doing my best to decipher the artist-speak, it represents the graduation from making and showing art in school to selling works commercially. As my daughter told me that evening, the part she hates is having to write the Artist Statement that accompanies each piece. It's difficult, because you have to write a paragraph that no one will ever understand.
Each artist is showing two pieces. One of my daughter's in under the M in Continuum. It had been hanging with pride on a wall of our newly renovated family room, but then she kidnapped it, and now it's in this gallery, together with an $800 pricetag. The winter tree scene to the right is $5,300 but that's because the artist doesn't really want to sell it. When it comes to selling your soul, there is a price.
(Stitch photography by Ralph Grabowski.)
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