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[mbarrick]

valerian, _disdain_ and I at the Emily Carr Institute 80th anniversary retrospective show opening. From the Fall '05 edition of "Visions"

To (sarcastically) paraphrase the third-year girl from two weeks ago:

"I don't like people taking pictures at gallery openings. It makes me self-conscious about looking at the art. I don't want my picture all over some art magazine."

Comments

[skinjob007.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord. Gobble-Gobble-Gobble-Gobble-BULLSHIT.

Fine, Girl. BE a lonely painter in an attic. In the meantime, please step aside & make some room for artists like myself who'd give a kidney for any kind of publicity & peer/professional recognition. Quit going to openings & eating the food & drinking the booze & taking up space on the gallery floor & getting in the way of the photographers. We'll thank you for stepping aside so that folks who understand that this is a business can get their names & faces in the artrags so that we can start making a living off of what we love doing & quit the timesucking grind of our dayjobs, be they cleaning up the messes made by dolts who insist that MCSE NT 4.0 is the answer to all their inter-office networking problems, or slogging at minimum wage through 8 hour shifts & still watching things like their phone bill crawl away from them.

ETA: who goes to openings to look at the art? If you want to look at the art for the sake of critiquing, make notes to yourself of what catches your eye during the opening & then go back during normal office hours when the space is next to empty & you can examine the stuff in Peace & Quiet. Openings are there for the artistic community go get together, eat some food, chug some booze, hobnob, touch base & hang out. You're there to see & be seen by your fellow artists. Jesus. What are they teaching them in Art School these days?

*gasp!**puff!* Phew! Gotta calm down. Haven't had a good rant this week. Mike, why do you keep bumping up against these people?

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've been to too many art openings where the artist in the spotlight hid in the back and cried because she didn't want to go out and actually TALK to people about her art, but then cried that she never gets promo, and then carried on because she didn't network and missed a direct request in her email for an interview.

And they all have friends who come to eat, drink all the wine, get snockered and leave.

*beat beat beat over the head with a frypan*

I could rant a lot about the whole "reluctant artiste thing"....wait. I HAVE.

Note to art school instructors: please teach a bit on the art and importance of social schmooze. Thanks.

[skinjob007.livejournal.com]

Smartpatrol's Gallery Opening Rating System.

Raw Veggies & Dip: 1 Star.
Beer & Wine: 2 Stars.
Hot Food: 3 Stars.
Liquor: 4 Stars.
SEAFOOD!: 5 Stars!

[nicosian.livejournal.com]

hehehe.

what if it's sushi, liquor and veggies? ( are the points cumulative?)

Thank GAWD!

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

As someone who makes his living by doing promotional video work for artists I couldn't agree more. Obscurity isn't noble - its only obscure.
Remaining obscure until after death SOUNDS romantic... but eating ramen noodles and living in a tiny moldy appartment in East Van isn't cool.

Without the aritst behind the work , talking about the work , showing the passion, drive and determination - all you have is a couple of sticks on a dirty canvas.

the 'starving' artist isn't noble. If the artist can be seen, heard, promoted and earn a million dollars- I say cool.


I guess I shouldn't complain though - I can probably make a million dollars myself from these artist who want promote but refuse to speak to the public about their work.