Shows, Shows, Shows!!!
This has been the week of shows, and has been a wonderful time getting to see all of them. After having many guests in town last week, and keeping busy with entertaining all of them. I was able to uninstall on Saturday, it was a relief and saddening to take down everything. Such a strange idea to have all this work, stress and chaos that leads up to this one week and after its all done, packing it up in boxes and putting it in my basement. Weird that we as artists go though so much work, just for a short amount of time in a gallery. The good news is, that not all the pieces are in my basement; one got loaded into the car for a trip to Columbus.
After uninstalling I rushed home to change and go to Joe Davis' reception for the Cosset Canoodle exhibition. What an amazing show!! It looked amazing in the gallery, fondling pots everywhere, begging to be touched and used.
There was even an entire room dedicated to cups that as you walked in, you had to hold back the desire to pour your beverage into the cups on display, and you can tell the cups won't be happy until their utilitarian purpose is fulfilled.
Joe's surfaces were also just luscious, flocked pots everywhere!! Either with clay flocking, or cotton flocking, all just begging to be touched. It was great to walk around and see everyone touching everything. The reception was a great time as well, lots of people, a great band, wonderful food and an overall good time.
The undergrads did a lot of traveling this weekend, back and forth from Columbus twice in two days. On Sunday we drove up to install the show and have a crit, and then on Monday for the reception. The installation went really well, and the work that that we (ou) brought to the table looked really great.
Our pieces were well thought out, and well executed, and looked really great in the gallery. The Ohio State students, brought some very nice work to the gallery, but it seemed to not have very large concepts behind them, and some of the concepts that they did have were often not expressed well through the work, though all the pieces were very nice. It was really interesting to have a crit with another university; it was my first time having this experience. The OSU students also gave us a tour of their facilities, I wish I would have had a camera because it was huge in there, they have the whole first floor of the building and it was loaded with all sorts of high tech equipment, they also just finished renovating parts of it so it was spotless in their. I was so impressed by the facility. It was also really cool to work with them, if you would like to see images of the show you can go to perfectreality-ceramics.blogspot.com for images of all of our work.
Tannaz also had her show this week!
It was, as you can imagine, wonderful as well. She did an amazing job making the gallery have a whole new feel to it. The translucent tubes that stretched from floor to ceiling made the space feel as thought you were a small thing in a world of big tests.
She titled it Self-Haunted and Synthetic and executed it perfectly, I really did feel as thought I was in some altered reality that may have been trying to brainwash me.

Well after seeing all those shows I'm pooped, I'm going to go relax at the film festival! Tell you about it next week.