Peeping Toms and Art Aficionados
Posted on September 17, 2007
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I spent Saturday traipsing through other people’s living rooms. It felt wildly wrong, startlingly invasive but it was not illicit or uninvited prying, rather, it was South End Open Studios day. Stunningly creative people invited the public into their homes and work spaces with the hope that someone from the suburbs, traveling by SUV, wearing khakis and Lacoste would actually buy something. Having spent the weekend enduring our silly questions about medium and methods, they can now close their doors again and go back to their private artistic lives spent being disdainful of the suburbs and SUV’s and khakis and Lacoste.
At the very least, the friends with whom we attended bought art with exuberance and abandon. They wrote checks and loudly discussed the merits of each painting, dissecting the color scheme of the work in relation to the fabric on their couch. But they did their part, unlike My Better Half and I who wandered around wistfully and filled the empty space within ourselves that wanted to purchase art but lacks the funding with a thousand Hershey Kisses. We greedily filled our pockets with free chocolate set out in bowls along the way and muttered “I love your work” over and over, eyes cast downward, sheepishly shuffling through the motions of the ‘art aficionado’. We were not convincing.
I collected a few business cards. I will keep them in my drawer of longing in case we win the lottery or suddenly find ourselves the lucky recipients of a windfall because their were some very talented folks whose work I would proudly display above my gold and burgundy upholstered couch.
And if any of you all have some expendable income, please, check these artists out because, regardless of couch color, they worth a second look: Rachel von Roeschlaub with the astonishingly detailed and vibrantly graphic art of animals; Mary Mattei’sevocative work with trees and my personal favorite, Yuko Adachi’s candy shoppe colored, happy paintings of pure whimsy and rhythm.
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