Gallery Crawl!!

Gallery Crawl was fun! I didn't get to go to all the districts, but I went to River North galleries. Gallery Crawl was incorporated into date night, which added to the fun :)

The first gallery we went to was the Habatat Gallery on West Superior Street. I really enjoyed Christina Bothwell's work! The title of her series of sculptures was "The Landscape Within". The sculptures were transparent women with child or future child. They were all cast glass with some racu clay and were painted with oil paint. The landscape within, quite literally, was the child or the adventure of the life of the child to come. She also had a piece that reminds you of the Russian nesting dolls--you know, one inside another, inside another, inside another. It was awesome seeing the lineage of great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and child, all within each others' bodies!

They had other cool works in there also, but what distracted me after the Bothwell works was the curator's french bulldog, Stella. She was roaming around the gallery as people were looking at works, and she caught my eye. I admit, I am a HUGE english bulldog and french bulldog fan. This is also the FIRST time I see a french bulldog in person! Long story short, the curator asks me not to steal his dog, which gave me the sense that he probably wouldn't let me take a picture with her. HAHAHA!

The next stop was a couple doors down at a gallery complex. I thought it was super convenient that all the galleries were right next to each other! In this complex, there were a couple galleries we went to: the David Weinberg Gallery, the Judy A Saslow Gallery, the Catherine Edelman Gallery, and the Zg Gallery, Inc. There was also a Jenny Yoo dress collection in the midst of all the galleries--which I thought was good advertisement for her dresses. To be in the middle of all those art galleries, why not check out her chic dresses!

We went to the David Weinberg Gallery first and saw the David Burdeny exhibition. He had some really beautiful large photography prints of international places. In the same gallery, there was also the 2010 MFA Graduate photography exhibition from Yale University School of Art.

We went to the Judy A Saslow Gallery next, where I really enjoyed Rebecca Kinkead's paintings! I did find her "Fountain" piece kind of questionable, but enjoyed the rest of her work. The food station in this gallery was also the best! Massive station to load up on some good food--we were definitely hungry by then. We kept moving around and there were some pieces that were done in pencil on cardboard by (I forget the name). Jermaine did not like those at all. He thought it was robbery for how much they were being sold for. It was interesting to see other works that we found more enjoyable and more developed to be selling for less than what these drawings were going for. I met Rebecca Kinkead too! I took a picture with her and talked with her a bit.

In these galleries, I definitely was able to pinpoint the gallery owners. They were being swamped by some artists that want to show in their gallery and were showing their portfolios right there on the spot. It was interesting to see it happening.

We also went to the Catherine Edelman Gallery to see contemporary photography. I really loved the pieces in there, especially Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison's works! I love the aura and feeling that their pieces had. It was cool to see that a lot of works in the gallery were accompanied by contact sheets, which is something I haven't seen before in galleries.

We then went across to the Zg Gallery where Justin Henry Miller was showing his "Remnants of a Radiant Tomorrow" series. I got to meet him too and talked to him about how he put together his work. He said he went to garage sales, buy old portraits, spray them with something to keep them from deteriorating and then he would paint on top of it.

Throughout the night, I saw the prices and the red dots that Prof. Yood was talking about! I saw some blue dots as well!

(I know it was supposed to be 6-8 sentences, but this was my first gallery crawl)