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RED at the Riverfront redux

February 16, 2009

Gene Pool Red - my piece at RED

our great poster (credit Sondra)

Over the weekend, the life of St. Valentine, patron of bee-keepers, affianced couples, happy marriages, love, plague, and epileptics, was celebrated. Or actually, his death, since that is said to have occurred on Feb.14 sometime in the third century. But who’s counting?
The weekend featured a music and art extravaganza event co-sponsored by the Pink Line Project (aka Philippa Hughes), Artomatic and the Riverfront BID (aka the owners of a bunch of gorgeous but under-tenanted new residential buildings in the vicinity of the new ballpark conceived in boom times and completed in the anti-boom that is now.)

hanging - Susan Finsen and Kristina Bilonick's work

unidentified Weiss male exiting the makeout Room

Sondra Arkin and I were invited by Philippa to curate a huge three-bedroom space at the Axiom on I St. SE. With about 2 weeks’ lead time, we got together a group of over 20 artists double quick and put on a show of 35 pieces of art with. Participating artists included Pat Goslee, Joan Belmar, Susan Finsen, Brian Williams,Tracy Lee, Anne Marchand,Tom Drymon, Chuck Baxter, Kristina Bilonick, Judy Jashinksy,Veronica Szalus, Leila Holtsman,Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Don Daniels,Betsy Damos, Lynn Putney,Tory Cowles, Scott Brooks, Sondra Arkin, and Ellyn Weiss (moi)

A clutch of Chuck Baxter assemblages

not your typical art buyers

Lots of folks came to see the art in our unit and two others throughout the weekend. (Truth be told, I turned to Sondra at one point and asked “Why?”) It must have been the music tent generating a much younger crowd than the usual art opening. It’s always good when we can introduce new folks to the concept of buying original art. They may start with a $100 photo but some day move up the food chain.

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