Alive in the Gray Area- GC Myers
My show opens tonight at the Principle Gallery. I head down the highway early in the day and settle into my hotel and relax for a short time before the opening. Have a bite to eat and try to take my mind off the show. I still have anxiety over the whole thing, as I talked about in yesterday’s post. But it’s not so much of a panic after 25 or so solo shows.
Just try to keep the flop sweat down and be grateful for those who show up.
Dancing in the Gray Light
This year, I’m bringing a couple of pieces with me on the day of the show. They are two smaller paintings done in shades of gray and black with touches of color. I started these this week as an exercise, sort of to clear my palette. Go back beyond color then come forward again. These were primarily done as such and were not meant to be shown but I found that they really appealed to me and gave a different flavor to my normal compositions. Taking the focus off the color made my eye instead fall to subtlety of line and tonal differences in the grays.
It was still my work but I was seeing it in a different way. Like hearing a song you know very well played in a much different manner. You recognize all the things about it that you liked in it normally but notice things that evaded you before.
That’s kind of how I feel about these pieces.
So I decided to show them tonight if only to get a bit of feedback.
So if you’re in Alexandria tonight, stop in at the Principle Gallery and say hello. Maybe take a look around. There’s plenty of color to go along with the grays…
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