That's a great photo, Bruce. Any thoughts I entertained about going were dashed by that little early evening snow squall. Hope to get by to see it before the show ends.
Sounds like a great night all around! Have to admit that I'm a bit uneasy about art "competitions", especially between different media as seems to be the case here. Just being included makes you a winner! cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> Sent: January 17, 2013 1/17/13 To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <PDML@pdml.net> Subject: Re: I've been selected for a juried art show, VAM35 Well, the opening is over, and it was really well attended. In fact it was a crush of the kind where inching sideways was necessary to navigate at times. Surprising as Mississauga is not in any way a cultural hot spot and it was also pretty cold (-9C) and snowing tonight. I'll have to wait until my wife's P&S is emptied to see if there are any stills to share. I took my K20D but didn't really bother with it. Seemed more of an enjoy-the-moment kind of evening to me. Met some friends, drank some wine, had a couple of veggie spring rolls. Wondered how on earth a few of the works ever got selected, but on the whole enjoyed the show. This was the first year (of 35) that photography was included with traditional fine art media, so I was proud to have been selected and to represent the photographic intruders. :-) I printed my shot at 30 by 20 inches on gallery-wrapped canvas, which I thought was plenty large enough, but it was dwarfed by the paintings, some of which were probably eight feet tall. I'd say the size of the average work in this show is 3x4 feet -- clearly Big Art is In. But interestingly the show's First Prize winner was a conceptual piece made up of a collage of photos. Not strictly Photography per se as it's documentation of the work which is really an installation, or a series of smaller installations. I didn't win anything, except for a warm buzz of participation -- or from the wine; unsure which. I've made my shot public again, so you can see it here: http://www.flickr.com/bruce_m_walker/8207621870/ On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > The new year was only a couple of days old when I got some great news: > I've had an image selected for the Visual Arts Mississauga 35th Annual > Juried Show of Fine Arts. The opening is January 17th, 6pm-8pm, Art > Gallery of Mississauga, in the City Hall. For anyone in the area who > can make it out, I would love to see you there. > > Apparently there were an unprecedented 248 submissions from which 48 > were selected for the show which will run until March 2. > > Some of you have seen the winning shot, "Trio", as I posted it here as > a PESO briefly in November. I had to quickly take it offline when I > decided to submit it to the show as their rules include "not > previously published" and I'm unsure how anal they are about it. (If > you're interested to see it write me and I'll send you a link.) > > https://www.visualartsmississauga.com/news.php > > -- > -bmw -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
