I recently agreed to submit 5 pieces to an upcoming show in the Exeter Courthouse Gallery, now called CACHE. (Can’t remember what it stands for). The show is called “Locals Only”, and although I have never lived in Exeter, my studio was there for 9 years, so I qualify as a local.
This means I have to figure out what to submit. There are many things to take into consideration:
- Who will the audience be?
- Shall I submit oil, pencil, or both?
- Do I have any new oil paintings that I haven’t already shown at this gallery?
- Are they scanned or photographed, titled, and varnished?
- Do I have any new pencil pieces?
- How many are new? Oops, that means unframed.
- Do I have any frames and mats that will fit the new pencil pieces?
- Shall I unframe older pieces that haven’t sold and use those frames and mats for the new pieces?
- What shall I say about these pieces for the QR code that will allow a viewer to learn about them?
- Can I make the voice recording work?
- How will I sound like a knowledgeable confident artist rather than a silly newbie?
- How does one send a voice recording?
- How many of my current obsession (orange groves with foothills and the Sierra) is too many in the same show?
- What shall I title these pieces that all look similar? (Did Monet or Van Gogh or whoever it was just say “Haystack # Forty-eleven” or “Water Lilies # umpty-umpt”?)
These are drying in the sun; sure hope nothing natural befalls them. I’d better move them inside.
An artist could need a nap after all these difficult decisions.
