29 Palms Membership show

Last weekend I was at the 29 Palms Art Gallery pretty much all weekend.  On the Saturday we had an art fair during the day and in the evening was the reception for the Membership Show, which was a judged show.

Some of the Artwork in the Main Gallery

Sometimes I had to wait until the people moved around.

There just wasn’t a good angle on this one for the camera.

The Pickering Gallery had a nice selection.  As I was looking around the show early in the morning, I was approached by someone who wanted to buy one of the artworks in there.

There was quite a bit of 3-D art.  This one won a ribbon.

The West gallery contained something familiar.  Again, I was struggling with glare…

I’d seen David’s work before and it was good to finally meet him because he had a booth at the fair that day.

On Sunday my co-worker at the gallery was Miri, whose painting is on the left here.  She is also a singer and sang at the reception when I had my first show at the Glass Outhouse Gallery a couple years ago.  I have a CD of hers.

Earlier in the month I’d encourage Tim to create something to enter the show.  He won best of show!

Gallery sitting

Yesterday I was a gallery docent and gift store clerk at the 29 Palms Art Gallery in – guess where – 29 Palms!
I had a solo show there a couple years ago and this time I entered a painting into the annual membership show. One of the requirements is to gallery sit for a day so off I went.

Something looks familiar here

I’d not gallery sat here before so there was a bit of a learning curve, but there was good documentation for new and rusty docents to follow. When I arrived, a group of the board were doing some envelope stuffing for membership renewals, so I was able to help out there too. Many of the board members stayed through part of my day so I had help.
And I needed it. I had a couple who went into the gift store and chose something to purchase. I had been shown the ropes a little regarding the iPad with the Square on it, and read the manual, but was not prepared for the fact the iPad wouldn’t turn on. It turned out to be a faulty socket where it was plugged in!
There were inevitably a lot of questions I couldn’t answer, but a few that I could. By the end of the afternoon I was a lot more confident of the next time I’m going to be there.

Member’s artwork in the Membership show

The pics are of the membership show in the central gallery. There was also a historical show in the main gallery and a solo show in the west gallery – along with no information about the artists, Reuven Wallach, which didn’t help!
Sorry I didn’t get the pic of the third wall of the membership show, a gallery visitor walked in at that point, then we were busy until closing time.

The other half.

One of the silliest things I didn’t do on Wednesday when Christine Lamb was setting up her half of our show at the Glass Outhouse Gallery was to take some photos of her half of the gallery.  Yesterday at our reception I corrected that.

Christine’s Jewelry. Many of the items are made with upcycled denim.

We had a two-person bad perform for us Hunter and the Wick’d for the afternoon and had quite a few people drop by, or come in from the advertising.

I really like the painting on the right at the end wall.

I sold two small paintings and Christine sold some earrings and a clock.

Christine doing some inventory. The clock on the left didn’t last long!

I really fell for this little gallery and was quite jazzed to have been offered a last-minute show due to a cancellation.  The artist who was to have been at this show turned up.  She had cancelled because she had torn her rotator cuff on the side she uses a crutch – double whammy.  She was doing a lot better now and is looking forward to showing at another time.

Bookwork is so much part of our job!

I also got to meet Jaymie Arquilevich with whom it’s planned I’ll have a 2-artist show in 2018.

A show goes up.

Yesterday I set up my side of the 2-person show at the Glass Outhouse Gallery in 29 Palms.  I was glad to meet my fellow artist Christine Lamb and her husband Ray (who is also a painter), who turned up to hang her half of the show just as Frank (one of the gallery owners) and I had finished.  I’m kicking myself that I didn’t take a few shots of her work as it was going up (Ray and I got to talking about single-pigment oil paints), but I’ll do so after the reception on Saturday.  If you’re in the area – please, we’d love you to attend, it’s 1-5pm January 6th (and I’m going to be making olive and cream cheese penguins!).   If not – please reblog this if you have friends/followers who are.  The show will be up until January 28th.