The painting exhibition “Journaling From France” went off without a hitch. I hung it in a rarely used stairwell at the university on a slow Friday afternoon for two hours, and two people saw it, one even on purpose. The other was a family friend from years ago who just happened to be teaching a class across the hall. After class, I pulled him in and we talked for several minutes, but not about the art, which is par for the course for the majority of visitors to any exhibition. In my experience, socializing beside his art is the bane of the artist. People carry too much anxiety to make peace with the creator and his work in a crowded room.
The other visitor was a fellow painter, and he gave a perusal of the show, (while talking, it’s human), and we actually talked shop for a few minutes, which made the poorly attended free art exhibition a resounding positive, I think. That’s a 50% connection rate. For that reason alone I think I’d chalk this one up as a Black Ivory success story. He also took a piece of free art home, to boot.
Watch for my next Free Art Frees Art exhibition , “Fraternal Twins” on Monday, November 23, somewhere yet to be determined in the Boston metropolitan area.