On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:20 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a great photo, Bruce.
Thank you, Frank. > 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! I do hope you can make it out there, Frank. I think you'll enjoy it. BTW, you can take a Missi bus from Islington subway station to Square One. There's about a 10 minute walk from there to the gallery. Despite being dismissed as urban-sprawlsville, Mississauga's transit system is pretty civilized. Amazingly they keep to their schedule too. > 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 I talked about that with an artist friend this morning. The whole juried competition is a negative to many people, but her take is "nothing ventured, nothing gained." She entered this one and did not get selected, but she's not taking it badly. She entered a competition in nearby Burlington the week after and got in, so she's happy there. I had nothing riding on getting into this: no expectations, wasn't holding my breath. I simply submitted my best work and left it at that. I wanted to see that shot printed anyway, so I had little money at stake either. It matches our dining room decor, so I know where it's likely going when the exhibition ends. :-) > --- Original Message --- > > From: Bruce Walker <[email protected]> > Sent: January 17, 2013 1/17/13 > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
