Thank you all to those who came to our opening. It was a beautiful day, and I really appreciate your sharing the gorgeous afternoon with us.
It was truly a positive and valuable experience for me and I think for Gail as well to put this show together. Our main goal was to break out of the superficial categorization and to focus on the visual, textural, and perhaps even spiritual elements of our works, which are what painting is all about.
Gail and I both work in styles that seem to be, at first, strongly associated with established genres - "abstract" and "landscape" - but I feel that our works, as with many other artists' perhaps, are more deeply appreciated when freed from such genres. Unfortunately such contextualization is not always possible, but our show was our take on such a challenge. Many of you seemed to agree with us, but I would love to hear all comments, positive and negative.
By the way, the images are of the installation process. I am learning to use this blog application as I write each entry, so there are going to be lots of going back and forth in the chronological order in addition to technical difficulties. I'll get it sometime - thanks for being patient with me.
    
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