Entry 628 — New Vocational Triumphs
Just when I thought my visual poetry career was going nowhere, I had a pleasant surprise at an Arts & Humanities gathering last night. It was an annual affair where local visimagists get together with people representing public places. The latter look over the works brought to the event, three pieces per artist, and offer exhibition space to those whose work they like. A bank lobby, for instance. I went to one of these long ago, but my work wasn’t chosen, and while I’m (probably insanely) persistant at continuing to make art, I have just about no stick-to-it-ive-ness so far as getting it to where people can see it and maybe like it. Well, with the encouragement of Olivia and Judy, of the Arts & Humanities Council, and thinking maybe now that I had my current exhibition, someone might think me worthy of another elsewhere, I brought the following three pieces to the main library, where the affair was:
I was going for accessibility with the top two. I added the bottom one to show a little of what I was doing with long division and color. In any case, I’m now down for three more exhibitions, two more this year and one in 2013.
I got to talk with fellow artists, too. One of them did abstract-expressionist stuff with the word, “love,” embedded in them–another local visual poet! I came across another artist who uses some kind of transparent, screenlike fabric in her work: she paints an image on it and hangs it in front of regular fabric with a background painted on it. I thought it worked really well, and have vague ideas on what I might do with it. So, quite a good hour or so!
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Good news. Congratulations, Bob!