Saturday, January 20, 2007

It has been WAY too long since my last entry...isn't that the way most blogs go, though? At least for newbies like me it is...

The resale art biz is trucking along...two months strong and the foot traffic has increased greatly. This makes me very happy as it can feel awfully solemn sitting alone in a second floor gallery. And, can I just say...you get in via the buzzer to left of the front door - I'm not sure why it's so confusing for people to get in...I've got to work on that...our city just isn't used to second floor galleries.

One of the best bits of news to report is that the sales are happening. If you stopped in last month, you will be amazed at the change in artwork. I think about half of the items we had up have moved on and are now replaced by even more newly-consigned works - good works, too.

Six of my favorite new inventory items are:
1. Paul Horiuchi - a simple, yet lovely, monochromatic canyon landscape of collaged paper and paint

2. Guy Anderson - a large
(and early) mixed media painting (third image down)

3.
Mike Spafford - an excellent drawing from his popular Chimera series

4. Jenny Holzer - an electric LED sign with seven or her infamous "Truisms"
(see it play in a Quicktime: Holzer). This piece was created as a Democratic fundraiser years ago. (last image)

5. Jennifer Bartlett - a colorful print from the famous Four Season suite
(image at top)

6. Gregory Grennon - three great paintings
(sized tiny to large in size) of redheaded women (image second from top)

And these are just a few of the new items...check out the website or, better yet, stop by the space and see them in person. I still am stunned at the diversity of the private collections in Seattle. If you ever wanted to be a voyeur in Seattle collectors' homes...here's the chance to look openly...no "fly-on-the-wall" covert action necessary...it's on our walls, just step inside ArtRESource and see...it's intriguing, indeed.

The Week's Highlights!

This Week's Highlights:
A top highlight was a visit from Molly Norris - she's the Director of Gallery 110, but also a wonderful painter, illustrator AND a writer in her spare (yeah right) time (You have probably seen her work and just don't realize that wine label, book cover or wall art at Atlas restaurant was hers!). Molly hung out and we chatted about the biz for a while. Her article about ArtREsource should be out in next month's issue of Art Access. (I still can't believe she's older than me...that girl takes good care of herself! I thought she was in her mid-30s!!)

The Olympic Sculpture Park opens to the public today! Yippee - I hope the public greets it with open arms and utilizes is often - finally Seattle ranks up there with the other major metropolitan cities. Now if we can just figure out a way to creatively marry art and public transportation, we just might lure the Wrights and Shirleys into making an effective transit system a reality for Seattle!

(A personal nod toward the heavens for Stu Smailes [1933-2002] who was the donor who made the Louise Bourgeois fountain part of our sculpture park...I just love Bourgeois and her "Father and Son" fountain with the rising and falling water set to a timer - the idea is just lovely.)

Six new works just arrived! I'll tell you what they are next week...