~Art Gallery Update~

The 24th of September it was brought to my attention by an interested gallery owner that I should supply him with more art. In truth it is a wonderful prospect, but at the moment he is really unaware of the kind of art I truly enjoy producing. He has been aware of my SFW (safe for work) products like

( https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/happy-birthday-set )

But to ask him to wrap his head around my NSFW (Not-safe-for-work) productions is too much and no matter how tasteful the product is, it will still cause much undue stress for the more puritan consumer. I would love for a piece like Princess Demi_D to do more than gather dust in my virtual online gallery and closet database but until the world is a little more accommodating for the mature artist or at-least until I happen to find a consumer that is a connoisseur of delicious curves and provocative angles, I am resigned to hold off. D

( https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/princess-demi-d )

This of course does not deter my efforts in finding a place for digital artists to present some of their finest pieces in a setting that would welcome them and I am even more encouraged at the prospect when talented people such as VicariousE https://vicariouse.newgrounds.com are willing to give such sound advice.

https://adventvoice.newgrounds.com/news/post/1069054

( This is a piece of art that has been displayed in the Pittsboro Youth Theater’s art gallery section for a few months. https://www.chathamartscouncil.org/artist/pittsboro-youth-theater-2/ I have enjoyed coffee there for at lest three years now.)

The past four years has been something special in regards to illustrative art. I’ve bounced around ideas, some good, some bad but along the way I’ve met some wonderful people who I don’t think consider their acquaintance with me to count for much. It does, for an insulated artist as myself, who does not consider the lime light achieved by others, to have favored the industry of art much, but is always desiring to add his two cents to it.

As art is my therapy, so do I desire to make it an instrumental occupation of all genres, being through this language, I have chosen to speak.

(Bob Wade http://bobwadestudios.com/whimsical-art/ passed and a Celebration of life was given to him and hosted by the local art gallery: http://chathamchatlist.com/highlights/2019/04/30/celebration-of-life-for-bob-wade-on-may-4-at-sweet-bee-theatre/ a lot of his works are what you see here. https://www.fergusonfsl.com/notices/Robert-Wade A memorial to a great artist and thought provoking person.)

I think of those that speak against our current digital age and pine away for the hard-copied publications and tire of e-commerce https://twitter.com/naughtymediauk/status/1174794374984687617?s=20 wanting to return to the demand of paid publication and magazine subscriptions and I wonder to myself,

“Why is it so hard to imagine an interconnected world in which the internet is merely a door that shows a person what they can own once they’ve paid a supplier and the innovative creator for his or her work?”

( This space will have to be cleared of old pieces that will be sold for bargain prices and make room for more material. This space could hold your work, if you act fast!! Remember the gallery will ask for 30% of the gross and you keep the rest. )

Why is the notion of an online database, displaying options of purchasable products, secured in a physical location, still hanging in the air of science fiction and the cooperative support of numerous artists vending through one gallery so far fetched?

How do creators as myself move forward in the world of dreams into a productive reality as large as the New York Post or Artists Network Magazine and everyone gets a paid salary?

While I am at it, with all of these questions, “How do I increase my own fan base to compete with that of such publications, How do I revers the idea of the Arts and such a culture filled occupation as not being lucrative or worth the effort?”

I am sure I don’t have to sacrifice my content and begin painting or illustrating food and if I do, what has happened to the creative world in the past eleven years?

( More pieces displayed along the walls of my local gallery: https://chathamcountyevents.com/venue/pittsboro-center-for-the-arts-and-sweet-bee-theater/ Presentations presented to illustrate the need for fresh ideas.)

I have fought hard to prove to the detractors of man’s achievement that the value of contemporary art can not be diminished by our societies refusal to acknowledge it. Nor can the sequestering of thought be used to silence the aptitude and relevance of our guild.

“Armageddon,” is an image that continues to haunt me in its accuracy https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/adventvoice/armageddon https://www.tumblr.com/blog/fadinginfluencerblaze to illustrate a world without the spoken, written, or drawn word.

An immense silence around the nihilistic resistance to the drum beat defeatism. The drunkenness of pitched quite and the roar for the need of ART!

I am sure many of you are in need of a space to express your hidden talent. That is what galleries are for. To have a supplier willing to distribute your hard hand made work is not something to shy away from and should be encouraged if you are able to find someone willing to invest in you.

Why not step into an atmosphere where the proprietor is willing to work with you, cares about your craft and will remember your name after third week of stocking his inventory.

This is perfect niche for the up and coming artist or the seasoned veteran of the business. Instead of dragging feet and devising content to fulfill the whims of a fickle audience, why not set up a showcase where people want you?!