Guess who's going to New York? And why?
Guess who's going to New York? And why?
MANIFESTATIONS II: FORM & FUNCTION:
I will try to write a "Brief"? explanation of the show and then encourage you to go see the pictures. Someone asked me when I got home if the gallery show was what I had expected or was I disappointed? My answer was a definite "It was exactly what I thought a New York Gallery in the SoHo District of New York would be!"
(See Pictures of the Show HERE!)
We found ourselves walking several blocks from the subway through old brownstones and neighborhoods and the closer we got to where the gallery address was, the more it began to look like commercial loading docks... and of course that is what the building that housed the Denise Bilbro Gallery was...a converted warehouse including a loading dock out front. The elevator was the large wide kind they needed to haul freight although it was jazzed up pretty nifty with a silver metallic interior. The walls dividing the gallery chambers were large gray cinderblocks and the door were HUGE burnished metal doors that swung outward when the gallery was open. We were lucky to arrive on a Thursday right as they opened so it was quiet and we were able to take our time and sneak pictures and visit with the gallery curator for quite some time.
The show itself was eclectic, funky and colorful...everything I imagined it to be. I felt right at home there! I crossed my fingers and Yes, there it was! My piece was hanging in a small case set on an easel in front of a beautiful fabric wall hanging. (I crossed my fingers because the only thing I had asked the cosmos was that my work would not look dumb in there...Whew! It didn't!) We still did not get a good picture of it...seems it remains an illusive photographer's nightmare?
I had many favorites in the show and of course I spent much time looking at the jewelry pieces...but there were some oddities that must be mentioned as some of the highlights... a "breathing" canopy bed, plastic wrap baby clothes and some rubber/latex looking body suits that gave Jim the willies and reminded us of "Silence of the Lambs"! Also the yummy looking marshmellow coat (as I named it) and a evening dress made all of white zippers displayed with white army helmet wedding veils!!! Absolutely Fabulous and worth every minute of the trip!!!
New York New York
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spreading the news
I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it, New York, New York
These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
And make a brand new start of it
New York, New York
I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps
To find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap
These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York, New York.
I want to wake up in the city that never sleeps
To find I'm king of the hill, top of the heap
These little town blues
Are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York, New York.