First Fine Art Show....
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- freakpelican
It's been a long time in the works and this is nowhere near how/when i thought i would be stoked to first show at a public forum i was invited to as an artist. Not a technologist of any kind, no digital connections of me working behind the scenes with the art production... just my creative output.
It feels really good b/c after years of people building me up with more grassroots confidence for my "side stuff" its finally what ive been able to transfer full time to and the "stuff i used to know" pays for art supplies.
I'm in no delusion of thinking i made it and im an "ARTIST" now. I'm not investing in berets and black and white horizontal stripey bold neck lined shirts(blouses). Just super stoked to get asked to be a part of an event at a respected gallery space and showing with artist i am close to and collaborate with on multiple levels.
I dont know how many QBNers here get to really spend time on their own "art", but i am loving my ideas that used to feel like things i just liked doing turning into the stuff people love to see. I never dreamt i could have fallen into the flash/animation/developing/brand... career i had early in my 20's now early in my 30's ive been able to bring my original love for highly saturated graphics, maximalism, surrealism, lo-fi, diy, hand made and rough around the edges work of early punk rock covers and skate videos into the photo/videography i grew up with as hobbies and have turned into other surprise jobs as photographer, editor, motion gfx..... it just all blended into giving me this unreal toolset for my own "fine art" that the terms "mixed media" or "digital art" both feel wrong, but i dont feel like having to figure out what genre i fit into either.
I've been around the art scene of a few cities now pretty heavily for the last decade and to now be repping myself in it as an artist feels weird but totally rad.
I know most won't read this and a the lot that will inevitably make me hate ever posting this. But i check this site a few hundred times a day when adobe is giving me the spinning ball of death or just when im needing to know wtf is going on in pic of the day. I respect this community and just kinda wanted to spout off the head on a friday night when i couldnt be happier than to be at home at 12 midnight working on my own art :)
- 20020
just checked the site.
Its awesome.
- breadlegz0
Freakpelican - have you got some images?
- Have lots of images... been hoarding my "art shots" for so longfreakpelican
- b/c so many are intended for such different outputs/paper+print types... its been roughfreakpelican
- well put some up already.sea_sea
- freakpelican0
breadlegz -i got folders with that name on em!
- most is more than images, 3D/projections/sculp... tough to showfreakpelican
- ORAZAL0
- that is rad. artist?freakpelican
- yesORAZAL
- held up with string, fresh yo!utopian
- freakpelican0
^ is this your piece ORAZAL its dope af.
Im getting some real jitters for this saturdays debut. Im glad its a group show and i'm only really freaked out by the fact there is supposed to be over 400-700 people in attendance.- Not my work, I was trying to get you to post some of your stuff. It's Katja Strunz, I gave up art a long time ago.ORAZAL
- sea_sea0
don't stress it, just have some wine and have fun.
- freakpelican0
Theres a preview shot from my ipad that i got last night at the end of install.
Its somehow been the most stressful week of my life b/c instead of a deadline or a design crit.... this is showing stuff that i have made for years and felt "really good at" only b/c it got me off my macs and onto a real life medium and for however long they took to paint for that long i was free.
It's crazy to be doing this basically full time. I have a lot of work in this show and have three projection pieces i have to maintain for a long day with over 900+ people now in attendance. My nerves are shot. I can not WAIT for tomorrow when i can start looking at this with a little bit of hindsight.
- freakpelican0
And it was success. I sold every last piece :)
- freakpelican0
- this one is being asked to get reprinted a bunch.... i dont know if i should sell off the accidental f-up 19x13s i have in my studio... now i have to worry about the "intergrity of the original".
anyone on here shown their art recently? for the first time? did it hurt?
heres some more shots of my show for those who asked before it was hung
and this is me and a good friend of mine blocking the view of most of my work for the love the moment
- freakpelican0
this is my lovely girlfriend(blonde on left) who is the owner of the gallery that we did the event and one of her local model friends from one of the only dallas agencies i'd care to work with(dragonfly dallas).
the gallery is full of visually stimulating sights like this... so it was nice to have my bright paint and print/projections flying off the walls. it really did validate me in ways a good client call/meeting never ever could.- Your girlfriend's older lesbian lover looks like an asshole.detritus
- sea_sea0
Congrats, glad it was a success. Putting on a show is always like that, tons of work, stress and a night that usually goes by super fast.
I've put together a good amount of shows for others and myself. The amount of work that goes into the experience, is something i wouldn't change for anything.