 Post and painting by Ken/GxxnAR The day has finally come that I am showing art in public again. It's been years since I've shown my own physical work IRL. To say I needed this is an understatement. The Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville connected with Greenville County Schools art teachers and offered us space to hang our own work. I desperately NEEDED to share my work - which meant that I NEEDED to create new work to show. Sure, I could have used anything I had laying around in my portfolio, but that butted up against what I needed. Creating work puts me in a different kind of mental and emotional space - one I've missed for far too long. While also working on my BIG project - creating three environments for one of my favorite artists of all time, I wanted to get into his headspace to create MV experiences that feel like him. I guess it's cool if I name drop here: Ralph Steadman's work has inspired me since I was around 10 years old - before I could really understand where it came from and what it was saying. To create his spaces I needed to create like him - to watch the ink splash across paper, to drip, to accidentally hit surfaces other than my intended support. Physics matters when recreating IRL in the metaverse even if you do not need to adhere to those laws while jacked into a headset. So I painted - for weeks. It was actually four weeks of creating that lead to the painting above. I work fast, but I always see room for more. At the end of the four weeks, I just had to get it framed (thank you Rosemary's Art and Frame) so it could be dropped off and prepped for showing on First Friday! Creating this painting, inspired by Ralph Steadman and one of the first metaverse spaces I launched with The Diner Studio crew, means the world to me - the opportunity to show with so many amazingly talented teaching artists is equally meaningful to me. The original purchaser will receive one of 20 NFT prints of this painting. The remaining 19 will be for sale on OpenSea. If you are in or near Greenville and want to see the passion living inside the minds and hearts of area art teachers, drop by Artists Guild Gallery on Main Street in Greenville, SC this Friday through November 30, 2022. 1/12/2023 UPDATE: This artwork has migrated over to The Diner Official's account on OpenSea. You can see or collect it at The Diner Studio Fine Art Collection. You can also see it exhibited at Polygon Showcase #5 by @MyCreativeOwls from January 21-22, 2023. Get your free attendee ticket via Eventbrite.
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