Can't All Be Fab

By: Lisabeth Mood: don't know Date: 06/22/2008 15:12:29 Music: I Tunes mystery

Hey Painters,

Friday night's opening of the Hidden Gallery was, in my opinion, a bust. The only people who came were the artists and their friends, no one with enough $$$ to buy art. Three of my pieces weren't priced. I gave the woman who runs the gallery printed stickers with name, size, artist and price, but she said she wanted these cool clear labels. She got them, but wrote the info by hand, and not great handwriting.

She separated my seaweed into three places, including a tiny room off the bathroom with one wall of black and white photography, a statue of a gold bull on a tall pedistal, and a wall of my work.

Worse than that is she hung five seaweed pieces surrounded by irridescent fish and starfish and an octopus. When are people going to learn that seaweed is my medium, not my theme. I guess I must sound pretty angry, and I guess I am.

I will sit down with her and tell her that I want my work hung as a body of work, not scattered here and there, and it is not fish, octopus, crab themed, and doesn't belong with those ceramic wall hangings.

There were three sales, two suncatchers made of glass and shells, and a carved walrus for $125.

I may remove my work from the gallery and use it in online auctions, etc.

I always have such wild expectations, and sometimes they are met, like the opening of the Left Bank Gallery. I must learn to curb it, as every opening will not be the same.

I'm going to work on the portrait of my neighbor now.

Live in the light,

Lisabeth