last night the hubs and i went out for one of our last outings with our friend stef. after the ending of a very long relationship and some bad luck, she’s decided to move back to her home town in idaho. why someone would want to go from portland to idaho is beyond me, but she’s really dead set on it so i wish her all the luck in the world!
after getting together we hummed and hawed about where we wanted to go and finally set on going to the goodfoot lounge since we could just walk there from where we were at. i haven’t been there since i had my art show there a couple months ago (which i feel bad about). they have a brand new show up featuring a couple local artists and i was probably being really rude because i was spending more time looking at the artwork than listening to our friend. whoops.
one of the two artists they were showing was matt schlosky’s work. i’ve seen this kids stuff around quite a bit and have always been iffy on my feelings about it. i was feeling the same way last night too… i mean there was some great stuff, but then there was some not so great stuff. he had a few large scale pieces of artwork that were cool except for the fact that they were drawn/painted on old ikea cardboard. seriously? i mean, yeah – they were cool designs, but… they were on… cardboard. i’m all for using recycled materials but i thought that was a little ridiculous. do i sound like an asshole for saying that? probably… but it doesn’t matter what i think. there were actually a couple of them marked sold, so more power to him!
anyway – his other stuff was really awesome. so awesome in fact that i purchased my very FIRST piece of art. holy crap! not that i don’t own art but for as long as i’ve been painting, showing, perusing, curating and promoting art i have never actually laid down money for a piece. weird, i know – but this was the first time i felt compelled to purchase something. actually, what i did was i harassed adam for an hour straight until he caved and said we could buy it. that makes him sound like a controlling, jerky husband (which he is not), but he just wasn’t sure since we’re trying to save our pennies for traveling at the end of this year and it seems like the more we try to save, the more we end up spending.
bird vs. worm
this is the piece i bought. this is a bad picture of it that i stole from goodfoot’s website, but i promise i’ll take a snap of it when i pick it up at the end of the month. i was actually eyeballing a tiny tiny painting (because i’m obsessed with all things tiny), but this one was 4 times the size and only a few bucks more. i’ll also mention that this piece was severely under-priced. most of his pieces were. sometimes i just don’t understand how other artists set their prices.. it just doesn’t make sense to me!
i’m fairly happy with my purchase and have decided now that buying art is like getting tattoos… or eating chips… or saying four letter words or something. you can’t stop at just one. i’ll have to put any more art purchasing off until we go/get back from our adventures at the end of this year, but i’ve definitely got the itch now.
