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Last night I talked with my next artist about interviewing him for an article to be made online and at the opening exhibit. He was a little reticent, offering instead the information he’d already written down about himself or cut from previous interviews. The artist currently showing in my gallery tried the same thing. I chuckle. No faith! No faith in me at all! Their fears are unfounded.
I love my artists. I love what they stand for. And I stand for them. I wouldn’t dare say an unflattering word. It so happens that I find articles that are little more than lists of shows and accomplishments to be highly unflattering unless the accomplishments are qualified by personal experience. Why was the task so tough? What makes the accomplishment special for that artist?
The current showing artist, Kimberly Pimm, qualified the accomplishment of her exhibition by revealing the circumstances of the time the paintings were begun many years ago. It has been my experience, and Kim’s work exemplifies my opinion, that whatever is created from a mixture of passion and adversity shines with an unmistakable beauty.
I encourage the artists to reveal and expound upon their various disabilities and how they altar, enhance, or simple don’t even reflect at all upon their work. It’s always a mixture of those three. Note that I said “altar” instead of “detract”. There are no mistakes, remember…only new paths! The next artist was reticent about revealing all of his disabilities. One, in particular. I encouraged him to consider that his resistance is what points to the revelation of that disability as being the most valuable offering he can make to a public who needs to hear about it.
Which reminds me…as one of the exhibiting artists, I guess I have some writing to do on my own behalf.
Steph
