art and travel

I am heading off to Seattle on friday for 3 days. A lovely university art accediation conference, myself and a colleague are going to represent our art department. I am hoping to sneak away as much as possible to see some sights. I have only been to Seattle once around 4-5 years ago. Im crossing my fingers for some nice weather and exciting art exhibitions.

a week or 2 later I will be going to NYC on a day trip with school to see some art. Very excited about this one! I find that city so crazy and get a lot of inspiration from the galleries in Chelsea, usually. It will be a wonderful day. I wish I could stay longer though.

Next month I am off to Long Beach CA to do a visiting artist gig at California State University. Ill be there for 4 days. Im a hoping to see some really sweet art while there as well. Ill also be visiting my friend Kimiko, which will be a true pleasure, I miss her a lot.

Last week was our bus trip to Philly and that was okay. Philly is not exactly a hoping art mecca although I did see a nice little Polly Apfelbaum exhibition at Lock Gallery. I have been a huge fan of her work for years. If you unfamiliar with it, you should become familiar, its worth it. Although I must admit, I am more into the earlier stuff. A very nice gallery I was not familiar with. I will be going back to it.

I was very disappointed in the new Fabric Workshop. There was only one smallish gallery and you were not allowed to go into the workshop without an appointment. It was kinda an odd deal I thought. The old building and setup was much better, in my opinion. Also, I had been to this very sweet gallery on second street before and was excited about going into it again, well it was out of business. Seemed to be a pretty big theme there unfortunately.

Now at Gallery Joe I saw a great show of Alexander Gorlizki

Now the web does not do the work justice by any means. This stuff is crazy detailed and so obsessive or meditative, I really enjoyed it! Funny, I almost walked right by it. That would of been a big loss. Interesting, life is like that often, isn't it? To the point we dont even realize it half of the time......

well, just wanted to blog about something. I haven't done so in awhile. Maybe Ill start doing so about each place I go to and about the work I am interested in. I have always wanted to do that actually. But you know, time? I am unsure why I am writing this now when 1 I should be sleeping and if I cant sleep (a theme, yes, a theme) I should be writing one of the grants that are due before I leave on friday or grading the student work I need to grade or writing my self evaluation that is due next week! Ha! I simply hope that I do not loose my mind before the end of the year with all of these "things" I must do.