Everything is set up
Well we've set up the exhibition today... It's a wonderful location! A real castle (not like a royal palace but it's big enough anyway ;-) ) with stables,and we got one wing of the stables for the gallery.
Tomorrow evening it will open with a walking dinner reception...
Oh and I got invited to show Cold-Farewell at another art-exhibition! ^___^
He really liked that triptych and he asked if I would like to show it... Yay!!!
I guess I have a new excuses to visit the graveyards more often again ;-P (for those among you that don't know this: they're one of my favorite subjects)
Since other artists look down on photography as fine-art I find this very important... I must admit I was a bit nervous about this, after all I know all those artists and suddenly I'm invited to join in their mids. I guess I would love their approval... and so far most of them came to my corner and said they really liked this or that piece... It's more than I've expected. (I really thought maybe one or two of them would come and say something nice and the others would ignore my work or say something very vague to be polite)
We'll see what the visitors will think of it after this weekend...
Comments
Wow, Peggy. You have so many wonderful things going on. I'm sooo excited for you!!! Cold Farewell is a striking triptich - very powerful. I think you will do very, very well with it.
As for artists not accepting Fine Art Photographers, in this area artists who form a group will very seldom let others in, regardless of the medium or how good they are. They create their own little circle, present a pleasant and open face, as long as you keep your distance. It's very wierd. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where I live, is considered to have a closed art community. Little enclaves will sometimes spring up now and then but if you're not invited at the start you are damned. I am an outsider- always. I accept and embrace it.
At any rate: Good luck to you in your show. I KNOW that your work will be very well received.
I got really positive feedback from almost everyone (I didn't always tell them I was the photographer as I was an "hostess" for all the artists of the gallery so people weren't just being polite :-D )
The funny thing is that my idea of which theme would be popular with which age was way off:
My flowers were praised by the age between 20-45
My doll-related pictures were a hit with the age 45 and up :-D
I really had imagined it the other way around...