950 Hart Gallery: A History
RSSPosts tagged with "Art"
July 2011 at the Life Cafe 983
What’s so funny ‘bout a little peace, love and art battling?
3. There’s a way around every wall.
****
-To do well, we had to become innovative and always work harder on the upcoming show. For our fifth show, it was the fifth year of Bushwick Open Studios. Bil Bond revamped his installation for the “Garden of Eve”. Inside the gallery Kronenberg and I hung track lights that our guardian angel had given to us. From there, Kronenberg put a bar up across the sprinklers. I climbed our borrowed ladder to suspend Raquel Echanique’s paintings from wires.
****
950 Hart! Big D…………………….s!
2. Don’t pack the wall too tight.
****
-Michael Alan was sitting back, he had decided not to hang his own work, as is the privilege of having someone else curate a show. Myself and Kronenberg looked at the wall for imperfections to hide behind the paintings and drawings.
****
“Give it room to breath.” he said.
What caused this art gallery to come into existence? What would we do with it?
****
First there were three artists: Antoinette Johnson, Mikki Nylund, and Michael Kronenberg.
****
We started asking friends and people we’d met on the street if they wanted to show art in the premiere exhibition of an art gallery. “Where?”
****
“950 Hart Gallery.” We decided to take advantage of the sign the landlord had attached above the door at the entrance. What else can you do when you see an opportunity?
****
We borrowed Naked Paul’s ladder, hung lights, hung our friends’ artworks, and invited them to invite their friends.
****
There were small breakthroughs in knowledge I learned and relearned again. These will be chronicled in 5 lessons over the next five blogs.
Resident artist, co-founder, lover, fighter, master painter, Michael Kronenberg discusses why he finds the 950 Hart Gallery community so profound in our world.
About 950 Hart Gallery: A History
