Dog Days of Summer

Whippersnapper Gallery has a great reputation for supporting emerging artists, so I jumped at the chance to show there when the oportunity arose.

My friends were a bit late showing up to this event, so for the first hour, I was rather uncomfortable. To distract myself, I devised a system for gaging how successful my work is compared to everyone else: I would count how many seconds people spent looking at my work, and add 9 points per second (because there were 10 artists in the show, value is number of artists -1) Then I would count how many seconds they looked at someone elses art, subtracting 1 point per second. At the end, if their score was postitive, I had earned more of their attention than the other artists, and was therefore “winning”. (…Yea, the first hour of a show opening crawls by very slowly.)


Untitled, 38″ x 52″, Acrylic on canvas, 2009.


Untitled, 37″ x 52″, Acrylic on canvas, 2009.


Untitled, 26″ X 40″, Acrylic on canvas, 2009.


Untitled, 20″ X 26″, Acrylic on canvas, 2009.


Untitled, 24″ X 24″, Acrylic on canvas, 2009.


Dog Days of Summer show opening, September 11th, 2009.


WhipperSnapper Gallery is huge.


Dog Days of Summer show opening.


Brad is admiring my work.


Dog Days of Summer show opening, September 11th, 2009.


There were a total of 10 artists involved in this show.


Leaving so soon?