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Last year we invited Tanja Pak, Slovenia’s Designer of the Year, to “fuse aesthetics to practicality” in a factory residency that would provide the content for her discussion with Bullseye’s lead fabricator Tom Jacobs on The Poetry of Production at this summer’s BECon conference.  Brian, Trevor, Ted, Tom, and Tanja: Day One |
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Watching paint dry.
Even worse. Watching someone painting a booth two aisles away via a photo posted on the gallery’s Facebook page. How distant can we make being this close? |
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Six days since leaving our shrink-wrapped pallets behind at SOFA Chicago Fourteen days before arriving at Art Miami
I’m still digesting the lessons learned on Navy Pier. When it’s gelled into something more coherent than I’m capable of today, I’ll put a post together. In the meantime, the latest news: our SOFA return shipment arrived at the gallery in Portland on Friday. By end-of-day Saturday the tireless gallery team had packed, wrapped, and strapped the Miami pallets that are now waiting for a Monday pick-up. |
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This is it with the silly games. I promise. But I can’t resist just one last round. It’s bound to stump even Sarah and Jenn.
For the final (until I change my mind) $25 Resource Center Gift Card, give us the answer to this two-part question: |
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It’s Art Fair season and our first stop this fall is SOFA CHICAGO.
Think about joining the crowds to see some of the best in glass worldwide. (and some other neat stuff too). |
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The difference between a blog and Facebook? On a blog, no one talks to you. Ask a question? Good luck. On Facebook everyone is so busy yabbering that your questions are drowned out by all the other chatter. But more often than not, people respond. Silly stuff sometimes. But at least you’re heard. It’s kind of like speaking on stage compared to blathering in the local pub. And with Facebook you don’t really need a prepared speech. Anything seems to fly.
Get AWAY from me with that stupid camera – go embarrass some of your human friends! |
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By the last day of COLLECT we’re running out of time. After years of working at Bullseye Gallery, Jamie announces she’s never seen glass blown (it is possible to take this gotta-be-Bullseye-gotta-be-kilnformed thing too far).
Adam Aronson takes pity and invites us for breakfast and a lesson at his hotshop in West Brompton. Charming neighborhood, good croissant, and Adam proves to be a brilliant teacher. |
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Friday inside the Saatchi Galleries, it’s all business. Sales are stronger than we’ve seen in years.
Without a doubt the most satisfying clients are the ones who return a year later to say they deeply regret the purchase they didn’t make the year before and would like to make up for it immediately! |
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It’s a portent. Gallery. Mess.
Walking into London’s Saatchi Gallery to set up for this year’s Crafts Council COLLECT fair, I notice the signage over the posh café that’s pimping itself at the entrance to Charles Saatchi’s refurbished military barracks, aka Duke of York Headquarters, aka chichi Chelsea’s chicest exhibition space. We’ve arrived. That’s me, Jamie, our gallery’s assistant director, and Jeff, formerly our gallery’s head preparator until he moved to England. How cool is this? It’s our fourth time doing COLLECT. We must think this makes sense. |
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It was a shoo-in: a work whose imagery and ideas sit somewhere between industrial and natural, hard-edged and ephemeral, Kate Baker’s diptych intriguingly pairs high-tech and handcraft. It perfectly summarized e-merge 2010 and the jurors were unanimous in their decision.
Kate Baker, Untitled (Melina) 2009 |