The View from the Edge of the Universe

QPCA.COM has launched!

   website has launched! Check it out!

79 Days.....

It's been a big two weeks for Quality Pictures. 79 days to opening day!  Gallery construction started last week and although I was in Atlanta, a little birdie told me that the demolition is complete and the walls have been framed. I’ll be back in PDX on 9/19…and on the 20^th paper goes up on the windows, so if you want to take a peek…I suppose you better do it now.

 

By the way, lighting is super expensive!  Ouch!

Our debutante ball, the Affair at the Jupiter Hotel is shaping up to be the best year ever. QP will be featuring work by all the artists exhibiting at the gallery in the first season including never-before-seen paintings on paper by  Kojo Griffin in his rapidly-maturing new style.

On Monday, our website launches!  Enjoy!

Well, Well, Well, I'm Back in the ATL

....And that person who writes the nasty comments thought that he was rid of me (I'm planning on being an irritant to you for many years to come by the way...it seems like you need something to do anyway).

I'm actually in Amarillo today, but I was in Atlanta a few days ago and managed to make the rounds.  It was great to see Brian Holcomb who I hadn't seen in months...he's been in Connecticut getting all Frenchified.

Of course, a few shameless plugs for my friends:
A soon-to-be-friend (and friend of QP artist Elizabeth Huey) has a show that opened yesterday at Garage Projects. Patrick Brennan's show is entitled "in the end we like it here just fine".  Here's a excerpt from his statement:

"The base of my work is to replace real life imagery with my own invented language.  This is so that landscapes, figures, and stories take on a new and original identity.  Most importantly I want to develop a relationship with the viewer.  I want them to read the work as a sort of invitation into my anxieties, desires, and fears.  I am very aware of my surroundings and want to reconstruct this awareness.  I have been focused on how I deal with where I live.  I am rarely comfortable and am always investigating why that is.  I work from a combination of found images/objects, photographs from my travels, fashion, and symbols.  Whether it’s a painting, drawing, sculpture or time based work I want to engage the viewer in questions that are not so easily answered.  There is a space between our memory and our imagination.  I want the work to be about that space."

And a few samples: 

Over at Marcia Wood, Katherine Taylor continues her ongoing themes in her new body of work.  The more-articulated drawings add a new dimension to the work in that they become a bit about memory as well.

And at Jackson Fine Art, I was really excited about Sanna Kannisto's sciency and forensic images of insects, repitles and plants.  The lighting (right out of a autopsy exam room) is what makes them work. 

J&L Book Sale w/ Jack Spade

Jason Fulford, publisher of J&L books, all-around cool guy and most importantly a Quality Pictures artist is having a private sale with Jack Spade this weekend in NYC.

Here's the dirt:

We've taken over a beautiful old empty orange townhouse on the east side of Manhattan. In addition to J&L books and prints, there will also be Jack Spade clothing and bags, original Buckminster Fuller serigraphs, bicycles, cookbooks, houseplants, a tarot card reader and drinks by Peroni.

Details are:

Friday and Saturday, September 8-9, 12-9pm

142 East 30th Street (btw Lex and 3rd)

Sounds uber-hip...even by NYC standards. 

The Countdown Begins! 100 days until Quality Pictures opens!

Okay maybe not quite 100...but I screwed up my math and I've been looking forward to this post for weeks!  Each weekend (until our opening on Thursday December 7th), I plan on giving my readers an update as to how things are going.
This week I'm pleased to share with you our nearly-final floor plan that will include two galleries and a video lounge (the framing/work room has been modified to accommodate video).  For you architecture nuts, Liz Hedrick's detailed drawings are here. Construction starts Tuesday, and out contractor Gary Ecko is the right guy to get the job done. 
One more tidbit for you:  Check out the business card samples that King Bee Design is working up for me here.  Saaaaawwwweeeeeeetttt! More news next week!