Art on Display
Yes, I know I posted it briefly before, but this post is a bit more official. And it has pics :)
So I now have four pieces hangin for public display. This is a pretty big deal for me, because this is a first. I've never had my art publically displayed before, and I am really quite excited about it. The coffee shop where they are hangin is about a block from my company's corporate office, and a couple coworkers stumbled in on a break and saw my stuff, which was pretty cool.
So anyone who happens to be in the Spokane area, I encourage you to stop in and check the place out.
The place is called Coffee Social. It's an organic cafe and espresso bar at 113 W Indiana, Spokane. It's a neat little place with awesome coffee and food run by rachel_y.
But for those of you who have geography as an excuse, I'm posting pics...
The place is divided into two rooms. There is a large dining area on the street, and a smaller area in the back. My work is hung in the smaller area, which tends to act as a foyer for those ordering, and it's the door to the parking lot anyways, so it gets most used. Walking in the door, my largest piece "Silly Goose" is on the right and has the wall to itself, making it not look nearly as large as it actually is. Oh, and that is the_questess and gulgothica talking to rachel_y:
Directly in front, to the left of the dessert case is a small bit of wall with an ambiguas piece of furniture, somewhere between a desk, shelf credunza, and baker's thingy. It's got games and stuff on it, and above it is hung my small piece "ganesha":
To the left of the door and over the single solitary table in the room hang my other two pieces, "hound" and "purple me". The lighting in all these pics is less than ideal. I took them at night (as you can see by the window), and my flash was causing all sorts of reflections off the art:
So in the face of prohibitive framing costs, I ended up mounting the two largest pieces direcly onto foam-board. Naked, so to speak. And in the end, I think it was fairly effective. Here is "Silly Goose" on it's wal. Again, it makes me question the wisdom of focusing on self-portraiture for so long, as I neer really intended to have a giant picture of me grinning like an idiot plastered on the side of a coffee-house wall. And as you can see, there I am in the background, mortified at myself, as if I knew what was coming when I created the piece. Or maybe there I patterns in my life that erpeat themselves, lol:
Here is a closeup of "ganesha". It ended up taking a lot of work, as I came up with the framing and leaf-matting myself. More sculpture than digital art at this point, but the final efect is very much life looking into a wooden crate full of leaves with a picture in the middle of it. It makes me happy:
And here is "hound". I am very happy I'm able to see this in such a large format, as it was always intended to be. The layers of detail come out so much more effectively than they do digitally. I've changed approaches several times in my digital artwork, and this is one of the strongest pieces which were done in that particular aproach. I was erally glad when rachel_y selected that one:
In fact, all four of these were selected by her. I approached her on LJ about whether she might be interested in displaying my artwork and sent her a link to my gallery. She went and looked, and requested these four pieces, then I ordered prints. I was a bit surprised when she ordered "Purple Me". It was the third digital layering piece that I had done, and the first in which I combined separate photos into one piece. It never really had an official title, since I really considered it more of an experiment than anything. Purple Me was just something to call the file so I knew what it was. But I like, so it's in my gallery. And now it's on a coffee house wall XD. The purple looks realy nifty against the yellow wall, which may have been what rachel_y was thinking when she requested it. The framing was a bit of an inspiration. It is an adjustable window screen which came with the house. It's old and weathered with a lot of character. I mounted the print on foam board, then glued the board onto the screen. Ta-daa! art. Apologize for the blurriness of the photo:
So that's them. As I've said before, I'm under no illusions that this is going to be my big break into the art world, but I am awfully happy that I have some pieces out in the world where people can see them and interact with them as they go about their daily lives. *squee*
So I now have four pieces hangin for public display. This is a pretty big deal for me, because this is a first. I've never had my art publically displayed before, and I am really quite excited about it. The coffee shop where they are hangin is about a block from my company's corporate office, and a couple coworkers stumbled in on a break and saw my stuff, which was pretty cool.
So anyone who happens to be in the Spokane area, I encourage you to stop in and check the place out.
The place is called Coffee Social. It's an organic cafe and espresso bar at 113 W Indiana, Spokane. It's a neat little place with awesome coffee and food run by rachel_y.
But for those of you who have geography as an excuse, I'm posting pics...
The place is divided into two rooms. There is a large dining area on the street, and a smaller area in the back. My work is hung in the smaller area, which tends to act as a foyer for those ordering, and it's the door to the parking lot anyways, so it gets most used. Walking in the door, my largest piece "Silly Goose" is on the right and has the wall to itself, making it not look nearly as large as it actually is. Oh, and that is the_questess and gulgothica talking to rachel_y:
Directly in front, to the left of the dessert case is a small bit of wall with an ambiguas piece of furniture, somewhere between a desk, shelf credunza, and baker's thingy. It's got games and stuff on it, and above it is hung my small piece "ganesha":
To the left of the door and over the single solitary table in the room hang my other two pieces, "hound" and "purple me". The lighting in all these pics is less than ideal. I took them at night (as you can see by the window), and my flash was causing all sorts of reflections off the art:
So in the face of prohibitive framing costs, I ended up mounting the two largest pieces direcly onto foam-board. Naked, so to speak. And in the end, I think it was fairly effective. Here is "Silly Goose" on it's wal. Again, it makes me question the wisdom of focusing on self-portraiture for so long, as I neer really intended to have a giant picture of me grinning like an idiot plastered on the side of a coffee-house wall. And as you can see, there I am in the background, mortified at myself, as if I knew what was coming when I created the piece. Or maybe there I patterns in my life that erpeat themselves, lol:
Here is a closeup of "ganesha". It ended up taking a lot of work, as I came up with the framing and leaf-matting myself. More sculpture than digital art at this point, but the final efect is very much life looking into a wooden crate full of leaves with a picture in the middle of it. It makes me happy:
And here is "hound". I am very happy I'm able to see this in such a large format, as it was always intended to be. The layers of detail come out so much more effectively than they do digitally. I've changed approaches several times in my digital artwork, and this is one of the strongest pieces which were done in that particular aproach. I was erally glad when rachel_y selected that one:
In fact, all four of these were selected by her. I approached her on LJ about whether she might be interested in displaying my artwork and sent her a link to my gallery. She went and looked, and requested these four pieces, then I ordered prints. I was a bit surprised when she ordered "Purple Me". It was the third digital layering piece that I had done, and the first in which I combined separate photos into one piece. It never really had an official title, since I really considered it more of an experiment than anything. Purple Me was just something to call the file so I knew what it was. But I like, so it's in my gallery. And now it's on a coffee house wall XD. The purple looks realy nifty against the yellow wall, which may have been what rachel_y was thinking when she requested it. The framing was a bit of an inspiration. It is an adjustable window screen which came with the house. It's old and weathered with a lot of character. I mounted the print on foam board, then glued the board onto the screen. Ta-daa! art. Apologize for the blurriness of the photo:
So that's them. As I've said before, I'm under no illusions that this is going to be my big break into the art world, but I am awfully happy that I have some pieces out in the world where people can see them and interact with them as they go about their daily lives. *squee*