Fighting the Clouds

“1,2,3…1,2,3 i don’t care//i don’t care//i don’t care//I wanted you to know I didn’t care…” Drive by Throwing Muses

I think the Throwing Muses sum up my feelings about my denied application to a part-time sales associate position at H&M…

On a positive note, I started a new painting. And while I won’t be able to enter this one or any for that matter into the RI PRIDE art show like I had hoped because I can’t swing the $20 entry fee … there is always Q@X at Gallery X… and the sheer hope of someone actually liking my work and letting me exhibit my work minus the $20-60 entry fee. Feel free to start banging down my door at any time in the near future.

Fallish

I took these fall inspired shots earlier today.

Speaking of shots, I discovered that one of my previous blogs, Hipster Cocktail, keeps showing up in my blog status as something people have googled. Allegedly people keep googling this because there are dozens upon dozens of hipster cocktail related blogs – who knew?! My post is the second one to show up in the results — hey thanks for looking! Sorry I can’t offer you a recipe for booze only a crazy picture that happens to be in the Gallery X raffle. So if you love it and can’t live without it, it’s in the Raffle, you should enter to win it!

House of Icon

Pop Icon & The Cocktail Club
Present
The House of Icon

At the Fredrick Douglas Gallery at Gallery X

Artists:
Pop Icon
Christopher Gartland
Melanie Ducharme
Berge Ara Zobian
Julian Penrose
Victor Da Silva
Charlotte Broccolo
Keith Fracassa
Heather Hughes
Steven Ortega
Michael Leduc
Mindy Hale
&
Special Opening night Performance by TreeStar

This special two week engagement of assorted and eclectic art will open Wednesday the 9th, 2011. Presented by Pop Icon & the Cocktail Club. We welcome all to come to the opening reception for food, fun, music, festivities, and most importantly to support the arts. The opening reception will be on Saturday the 19th from 7-11pm with special musical guest TreeStar. Come support some of the best artists RI & MA has to offer.

 

coming soon to a gallery x near you!

Pop Icon & The Cocktail Club Present:
The House of Icon

In the Douglas Gallery at Gallery X
November 9-20th
Artists exhibiting: Pop Icon, Christopher Gartland, Melanie Ducharme, Berge Ara Zobian, Julian Penrose, Victor Da Silva, Charlotte Broccolo, Keith Fracassa, Heather Hughes, Steven Ortega, Michael Leduc and Mindy Hale &
Special Performance by TreeStar from 7-8:30pm.

We welcome all to come to the opening reception for food, fun, music, festivities, and most importantly to support the arts. The opening reception will be on Saturday the 19th from 7-11pm.

Come support some of the best artists RI & MA has to offer!

the long week, and it’s end.

I knew it would come… the sleepless nights, backaches, headaches, sitting in front of my imac for hours and seeming to accomplishing nothing. I haven’t taken a day for myself in at least two weeks. The stack of books on my printer seems to grow every day – it’s almost midterms! The newness and happy-go-lucky feel of classes starting is officially over. I don’t want to see school, we’re all dragging our tired asses to class. It’s work, shit I have to study, a write paper, make art for school and not me, and somehow attempt to have a social/love life (both of which are suffering by the way).

some light reading materials

my cat, Felix, helping me study

I did manage to go and have some fun this weekend at the LowBrow show at Gallery X. If you missed the opening, it’s up until October 30th. It’s a fun show, it was an amazing turnout.  I rounded out an evening of classy art, food and beverages with watching Daria and Strangers with Candy with some friends.

just some of the classy food served at the opening.

LowBrow now open!

LowBrow at Gallery X
October 5–30
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7-10pm

Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music and hot-rod street culture. Most lowbrow artworks are paintings, but there are also toys, digital art, and sculpture. So if your work is too embarrassing for your mother to see, it’s Low Brow… and it’s for us!

Hipster Cocktail.

I had been asked by PopIcn to create work that adhered to the theme of “cocktails, coffee and cigarettes” for our November group show at the Douglas Gallery at Gallery X. Amongst other things, I came up with the brilliant idea of copying the Pabst Blue Ribbon logo onto a cutting board (no I wouldn’t recommend using said cutting board as a cutting board). Then, Pop went to rehab soooo the theme wasn’t really that great of an idea anymore. However, Gallery X is having this low brow art exhbit and I thought, well, this will be perfect. I’m calling it “hipster cocktail” I was going to charge and outrageous price for it in keeping with my hipster theme, but decided I actually wish to sell work and I’m hardly in a position to sell ridiculous art for outrageous prices.

More. mini. art.

The opening reception for Gallery X’s Public Hanging 22 was last night. It’s a big one as it always is, about 190 pieces  of art and all the artists brought friends to the opening. It’s up until the end of the month. Do be sure to stop on by if you missed it. Better yet go multiple times, and buy art!

Speaking of art exhibits, I’ve been slaving away for this mini art exhibit that I wish to enter.  Work can not exceed six inches! Most would just do one painting, I’ve done four, or was it five? I promise this is the last one… now I’ve just got to pick one to enter into the show.

I did this one (that is bigger than 6 inches) just because… I think it might seem a little creepy.

The 21st Annual Public Hanging!

Gallery X

Presents The 21st Annual

Public Hanging

Aug. 4-Sept. 11th, 2010

Reception: Sat. Aug. 7, 2010   7—10 PM

169 William ST.   New Bedford, MA

www.galleryx.org

Gallery X The Beginning…

Twenty years ago, Chuck Hauck and a formidable group of like-minded artist friends, in conjunction the  1990 New Bedford Heritage Days Downtown Festival, organized an exhibit- that they though would be a one-time occurrence- entitled A Public Hanging. That show, featuring a variety of works by thirty local artists, instead, started a tradition.

Displayed at 58 Spring Street, the exhibition was a rousing success. The enthusiasm that grew out of that “one-time” event led to the creation of the cooperative arts group that would be named due to the geographical proximity to the Y(WCA) and the Zeiterion) Theatre. The X remained on Spring Street until 1995, and then moved to the present location, at 169 William Street, in the former First Universalist Church.

Over the past two decades, Gallery X has mounted hundreds of exhibitions and shown the work of thousands of visual artists and artisans, as well as providing a dynamic venue for countless poets, musicians, dancers, and actors. Gallery X is a cornerstone of the greater New Bedford art community, always in flux yet always a constant.

Come to the gallery to help us celebrate the 21st Public Hanging exhibition and the Gallery X itself. It promises to be -perhaps- the largest display of contemporary art in New Bedford since…well, since the beginning of time. Join us at the opening party on Saturday, August 7th, from 7:00 -10:00 p.m.  All artists are invited to submit work up through August 1st, coincidentally the Alumni Reunion of the Swain School of Design, and many of that sorely missed institution’s alumni will have work in the Public Hanging.

call for art.

Coming to Gallery X:
Public Hanging XXI
Aug. 4—Sept. 11

Open community art show.
Public can submit up to 3 pieces of art at $10 per piece for inclusion in the show.
Work must be exhibition read; 2-D must be ready to hang.
Drop-off dates: July 28—Aug. 1, during Gallery hours.

for details: http://www.galleryx.org

Opening Reception: Sat. Aug 7, 7-10pm