Living the life

I spent this past weekend seeing what there was to see in the museums and galleries of our art city. It was a perfect respite in spite of the fact that many galleries were closed - and well, its the low end of the art season. Recent VCU grads were in two shows in Chelsea so there was the added attaction of seeing their work on the walls. The disparity elsewhere made their work look even better!

There a few exceptions to the norm: I wound up getting into Chelsea from the south since I spent a night on Wall St. I jumped off the 1 train at 18th near the entrance of the Affordable Art Fair... an ideal place to research galleries from across the globe since it features artists whose work sells for less than 10,000! I was most interested in the London and West Coast Galleries since I don't have regular access to that part of the world.

Another chance encounter led me into the studio depicted above. This woodworking sculpture has taken over a space not far from Edward Albee's theatre. He's covered the facade with recycled wood and created niche windows for viewing small examples of his work. It was very exciting and looked just like I would imagine the dream studios of many former VCU sculpture grads. More recent alums aren't so interested in these types of materials so I can't imagine what their dream atelier would look like. Their work is as eclectic as ever as it can be seen in the FRESH MEAT exhibition at Kim Foster gallery.

If I could have stayed longer I would have traveled to Soho this week and visited the Painting Center. Vic Colazzi has curated an exhibition which includes work by fellow blogger Anaba. Vic is an excellent painter and writer so I am sure it will be a show worth seeing.