Rory ONeal at Black Fish Gallery

Rory ONeal at Black Fish Gallery

We are products of our environment and have become urban dwellers as of late. Mostly we by pass our surroundings to go somewhere some happening and become blind to the miracle that cities still are as they house us and protect us from nature.


Urban Hike Manhattan

more info at

http://www.blackfish.com/

Kris Hargis at Froelick Gallery

Kris Hargis
The less I speak, the more I learn

These faces are alive with story from a time that seems to be waiting to be resurrected like from some forgotten dimension of soul force. They speak in their own language silently about a promise that was not kept like a dream that was stolen form underneath our desires.



more info at
http://www.froelickgallery.com/Exhibit_Detail.cfm?ShowsID=276

Eric West Cityscape Burma at Blue Sky Gallery by Richard Schemmerer

Eric West
Cityscape Burma

The world is only different on the surface but deep down it works the same. wee the humans like to congregate in the market place to be seen and to see because we learn from watching each other. We copy the good and the bad in the hope that the good out ways the bad.
In some places every day looks like a painting to us as the banal is filtered through he ethereal.

more info at

http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/eric-west/#9

Big 500 Show pictures from the Art frenzy part one

Art frenzy part one

The show must go on the art show that is but only if their art customers buying art. Lately art walks have become the hip thing to do but the art seems secondary which is unfair to the artists. Art is not entertainment but an enterprise that requires sales to keep artists above the poverty limits.

The Big 500 hundred is not about cheap art but about giving artist a platform to meet new collectors who hopeful are willing to value not just the bargain but also the effort that goes into making the art and to display it. In this process we are all codependent and the collector gets the joy of owning something original out of it that might become an heirloom for the family.

This show organized by Chris Haberman and Jason Brown is still up at Ford Gallery on Division Street but here are some pictures of the fun event that has already happened and provided a jolly good time for everybody involved.

photography and copyright by Richard Schemmerer