Galleries Visits--Snow

(Cool, I can do new post now. Though I did on one of the people's comment column. I think I may just copy and paste it here as well.)

Even though I wanted to go visit the galleries Friday evening, it did not work out for me until Saturday. With the company of my husbnd, I first arrived at the Addington Gallery in River North. Dispite of not being able to attend the openning on Friday, I think the benefit of going to the galleries Satuday is that it was not as many people around. In the Addington Gallery, I was fortunate to meet one of the artists whose show was going on there. Joseph Haske, a middle age gentlemen, was willing to talk to the his visitors. The Asian printing influence and his advanture of going to Japan about a decade ago were very interesting to me. My husband and I were very suprised to get into the conversation with him and his wife. I value the communication opportunities between different people. I think I will certainly remember Mr. Haske more than the other ones that I saw because of the conversation. At the same time, I undrstand it was fortunate to talk to an artist in those gallery shows because I know a lot of them are probably usually pretty busy people.
Some other works that impressed me are the "Close and Beyond" group sculpture by Jose Cobo in Maya Polsky Gallery and the work of Sheila Finnigan in Josef Glimer Gallery. The former presented sculptures of little children playing, but in a way that they were almost too pure to be of the real world. I love when art took the focus out of what people usually tend to have in everyday life and helped them to revalue it. The later was a group of drawings that were able to help the viewers to relate very emotionally. I love the art that speaks to the audiences in its own direct and visual way that it is hard to think that other lanuages can have the exact same effect.

--Snow