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Entries in art reflects/transports (5)

Wednesday
Jan202016

diptych # 200 / art reflects # 30 ~ one thing leads to another (maybe)

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art reflects ~ Old Montreal, QC., CA • click to embiggen
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sunrise / view from bed ~ Auberge Du Vieux-Port / Old Montreal, QC., CA • click to embiggen

Back in the saddle after our 4 day visit to Old Montreal. As is always the case (with one notable exception), the visit was replete with good food, good digs, good friends, good wife and a few other assorted goodies.

Picture making wise, I wasn't really too focused on making pictures. Nevertheless, I did come back with a few keepers to include adding one more picture to my ART ~ conveys / transports / reflects work.

Over the past 10 years the wife and I have traveled to Old Montreal a couple times a year, occasionally more. we always stay at the the same small luxury hotel, Auberge Du Vieux-Port. During most of our visits, we rarely leave the Old Montreal district / neighborhood since there are many restaurants, art galleries, boutiques and variety of other things to do - the waterfront and the Montreal Science Centre to name just two. Our car is whisked away when we check in and returned to us when we check out.

In any event, it has been on walks through the district that my ART ~ conveys / transports / reflects picture making began. In a sense, it's a picturing project that never ends inasmuch as, every time I return to Old Montreal, the art on display in gallery windows constantly changes. This situation creates a nearly endless series of changing referents so I am always on the lookout for interesting opportunities.

Speaking Writing of opportunities, on occasion one opportunity can lead to another. In the case of my ART ~ conveys / transports / reflects work, my opportunistic picturing seems to be leading to another opportunity....

.... the Auberge Du Vieux-Port, like most hotels, has artwork on the walls, in rooms and in common areas. Over the years I have noticed that artwork in Auberge Du Vieux-Port is not Montreal / Old Montreal specific. Rather, the artwork is mostly that of a generic nature and, during this visit, the artwork in our room was of NYC scenes - photographs made to look like paintings, printed on canvas with textured (clear thick acrylic varnish?) brush strokes.

So, I purposely brought along my ART ~ conveys / transports / reflects POD book with the intention of bringing it to the attention of the hotel's management. The Directeur Général was not in over the weekend but I left the book, my card, and a short note which suggested that he might be interested in acquiring prints for use on the premise.

The day after my return I received an email from the Directeur Général in which he wrote that he "is very interested in talking to you". That is interesting enough, but the really interesting thing is that the Auberge Du Vieux-Port is just one of 16 properties - restaurants(8), hotels (6), a spa - all in Old Montreal which are all owned and managed by The Antonopoulus Group. A company - founded by 2 brothers from Greece who arrived in Canada 30 years ago - which has built a portfolio of elegant restaurants and boutique hotels in historic Old Montreal.

At this point, who knows what the possibilities might be but one thing is sure, that's a lot of wall on which to hang stuff.
Monday
Jan072013

diptych # 21 (civilized ku # 2445 / art reflects # 29) ~ back in the saddle .... again

Through the looking glass ~ Old Montreal / Montreal, Canada - • click to embiggenOk, I confess ... I was only in the saddle, posting wise, for 2 days and then I dismounted and went to Montreal for 3 days. However, I've climbed back into the saddle and I'm ready to ride once again.

Thursday
Jul282011

art reflects # 27 ~ opening night

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A sign of things to come • click to embiggen
While in Montreal on Tuesday, I didn't think of making any ART ~ convey/transport/reflect pictures until this one whacked my upside the head/eyes.

In any event, this evening is the artist reception for the Twisted DNA (father and son) exhibition. Should be both fun and interesting.

PS - the offer - to anyone who says they saw it here and comes to see the exhibit - still stands ... a no-change 1-2 day (your choice) Digital Printing Workshop.

Monday
Nov082010

art reflects/transports # 22-25 ~ the long and winding road goes on and on and on ...

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Art reflects • click to embiggen
This past Friday while I was in Montreal working on securing a solo exhibition of my ART ~ conveys / transports / reflects series, I also managed to add 5 more pictures to that series. You can view them HERE - they are the second - sixth pictures, immediately following the first picture in the gallery.

FYI, over the years - in fact, over decades - I have had many of my fine art pictures accepted / exhibited in juried group exhibitions / competitions. Those juried exhibits / competitions have spanned the spectrum from local to international exhibits / competitions in scope. In several of the international juried exhibits / competitions, a few of my pictures have "won" or placed high on the awards list.

That said, it has not been until quite recently - after 4-5 years of concentration, almost exclusively, upon my "fine art" picture making - that I have felt that a couple of my bodies of work have "matured" to the point of being solo-exhibition worthy. Consequently, I have been spending a considerable amount of time (over the past couple months) fine-tuning and printing pictures from those bodies of work in order to create separate portfolios for presentation to galleries.

FYI # 2, over the next few days, I will be presenting those bodies of work - 1. ART conveys / transports / reflects, 2. Picture Windows, and 3. Decay & Disgust - in online gallery form à la the ART - conveys / transports / reflects gallery.

Tuesday
Nov022010

art reflects/transports # 1-21

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Yellow landscape ~ art reflects/transports • click to embiggen
Had a very enjoyable, with-the-wife wise, and productive, picture-making wise, weekend in Old Montreal.

All of the art reflects/transports pictures were made on Rue St. Paul in Old Montreal. View all the pictures HERE - comments appreciated.