This is the first part of my online documentation of the Cut & Paste Show I organized at Sixth Street Gallery. This is going to be longish, bear with me. First, a wide shot of most of the show.
There is a great mix of different types of wall art and sculpture/3d art. This is particularly exciting and fulfilling for me because part of my goal with this show is to simply to give the general public a much wider idea of what materials can be made into art and what can be called art. Too often I see people limited to the idea that art=painting and painting=art. I have more to say on that subject, but that is for another time. I will probably be posting more photos of the juried show in the upcoming weeks.
Another exciting part of the show is that one of the artists proposed to create an installation of cut paper shapes in whatever area we gave her. The left image shows the main installation in the middle of the wall with other wall art. It can also be seen in the first photo in this posting. The large scale of it is great as is knowing that this was created just for our gallery and just for this show. I also wanted to use the installation idea to add some art to areas of the gallery that are usually bare. The middle photo shows a support beam in the middle of the gallery and the right photo shows the top edge of the back wall. I am especially fond of the birds on the back wall, partly for aesthetic reasons but also because I like the idea that anyone who takes the time to look up will be rewarded.
Here is the back wall of the gallery which has some of my favorite parts of the show. There are a few pieces of mail art and a grid of ATCs which will be added to as the month goes on. During the opening reception on Friday night I set up supplies for making ATCs and we got 3 or 4 new additions to the grid by the end of the night. There will be more activities during the month, including another time to make ATCs.
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