Saturday, November 12, 2016
Migration is finished and has a place to hang out too!
Migration is finished and has a place to hang out too!
Migration (894, 895 & 896) oil on linen 66x180 (4-12-14)
When I started the year with a new goal, "painting for an exhibit that didnt exist," no exhibit space did exit! I just knew it was time for a change, a change from supplying galleries with paintings to making paintings for solo exhibits. I believe it to be a different creative process. I knew if I had the work, the work would find a venue. I also knew if I didnt, no venue would surface.
Galleries for the most part cant handle a painting like Migration unless perhaps in a solo exhibit situation. Paintings like Migration are not painted to sell but get attention! Migration is the first painting this year painted with all this in mind.
Because of other paintings like this done over the last few years, an opportunity did surface. Not exactly what I expected, I actually thought it would be a gallery. I was approached by The Cultural Art Center at Glen Allen to do a solo exhibit in their main gallery. The center and gallery space sold me; it was perfect for what I had in mind. I was on board! A good first step for an artist like me. I have six months and now Im able to paint to a space I know.
I get to fill these walls - how cool is that?
Center hall with gallery on either side
Gallery A
Gallery A
Gallery B
DELOCEANO: FROM THE SEA
Outstanding exhibit of kiln fused glass
by Cara Michele DiMassimo
Later..........
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