My First Show
October 18, 2009
Dearest Readers,
It’s finally all over; the works taken down. (My first solo exposition that is.) It opened Friday the 9th of October to a crowd of just shy of 50 people. I would not say it was a raving success, but more people showed up than i thought would. It closed last friday to just me taking it all down.
I guess you could say that it was well recieved. Or atleast all the coments i got were positive or constructive. I arrived around 7:30 at the Centro Cultural Hector Oesterheld, made a few last touches to the photos (a pair had fallen down), put out my catalogs, opened few bottles of wine, made a quick call to my dad looking for a few words of encouragement, and waited for the first guests to arrive. Luckily my best friend down here Bruno, showed up punctually at 8:00. By 8:3o-8:45 there was about 30 people there all crammed into the small exposition room. Jose Luis MacLuaghlin introduced me as the artist of the work and spoke a bit about it. Then put me on the spot to say few words. My mind was blank as i uttered thanks to all the people who helped make the show possible. Then looking at everyone with nothing to say believe i said something to the effect of ” my, my , my work……” then i shrugged. Finally a few things popped into my mind and i stammered though 2 minutes about the series and what it meant to me, why i chose these specific images, etc. The rest of the night was spent mingleing with guests and answering the same questions about million times.
All in all it was extreamly gratifying to see everyone crowded around my work and likeing it. Or atleast that’s what they told me (hahahaha). I can think no greater feeling for an artist than to put all that put into this show and finally see it all come together.
I will try to post few photos of my work in the comeing week on my fotolog. www.fotolog.com/josh_inked
sincerely,
Josh
