Val Gal

Studio work is planned for Saturdays.  Thats when I create collages, or videos, or digitally worked images.  Framing stuff is for this day too. Of course, I work on Val Gal on Saturdays.  If a photograph is not strong enough in the exhibit it will be Saturday when I sort it out of the machine. But to do this stuff sometimes take preparation.  Whether or not I do preparatory work during the week depends how busy it is.  Or how impatient I am to get things done. Lets take an example.  I have been mounting the new exhibition since the beginning of September. Since the first day of the season is usually around the twentieth of the month , this gives me three weeks to hang.  I do everything solo so I have to  make choices.  I figure if the public Corridor gallery is hung up and ready I am on schedule.  The Rose Studio Gallery is open only to serious buyers and to those who I take on a Gallery Tour.  All this to say there were ten work...

Saturday I spent my studio time filming the exhibition pieces for the new Autumn Leaves: New City 15 exhibition.  It was actually supposed to take place opening day but the camera broke so I postponed it for this week.  Saturday I just filmed the pieces because I thought I would leave the publicity stills for the Sunday.  that would give me the time to check out all the adjustments that I would need to make when I posed for the camera. As luck would have it, however, we were having some really good filming weather.  And the last day that would be clear would be Sunday.  So I figured I would take advantage and film outside.  I wanted some poses of myself in the newly redone Lahaie park right next to our residence. I would postpone the pictures of myself with the art work for the following week. I waited for the best light of the day which I understood was two hours after sunrise or, more appropriately for my habits, two hours before sunset.  around ...

Saturday is Studio work day.  Since I had not done any photographing the opening last week, I started with the idea to film the work that is presently on display in Val Gal.  I had a brand new Optex PRT50 Summit Tripod to try out first.  The tripod was bought last Monday but I wanted to read the instructions and assemble it without breaking anything. So it stood carefully placed in its box in a corner of Rose Room.  Saturday morning was the first time I could bring myself to even attempt it.  I opened the box carefully and found no instructions.  A search on line to register the tripod bore no fruit.  the best I could was find it listed in the store products and sign up for the eletters on the store.  It said on the box, in big letters, five year guarantee, so I suppose I have to keep the store receipt.  There is no other proof of purchase. That done I figured that I would just have to go by instinct and what I had learned to do with the ot...

Finances There has been two major shifts in the way Val Gal has been handling her affairs. Online Kathy Fabian has been slowly going through the blogs she has written and modifying the prices.  At the beginning of the Online and real world galleries the art work had a ticket price of $100,000.00.  This was to attract a wealthy clientele and also to establish Art Fabian Co. as a top notch creator of art and art collections:  or at least stimulate conversation about the prices offered for Val Gal work. The summer quarter has ushered in a new philosophy for Val Gal. Gone are elite prices and instead we have a very affordable range of prices that go from $120 to $500.00 for an art work depending on whether they are in or out of the Exhibition Collections. Art work that is currently part of the actual Val Gal four season exhibits have the price of $500.00.  Prints on line are $120.00 each. Until sales improve, Art Fabian Co. executives have decided, to work on ref...

Taken from Facebook: What a day! Well Happy Autumn to all. And to celebrate I have a brand new Collection of Art at Val Gal . The name in English did not translate to French well so I had to change it. It is now Autumn Leaves: New City. In Autumn Mother earth prepares us for the colder days by displaying on a whole different color. The world is full of rust and orange and scarlet red leaves.And right near us the city is preparing for the winter by doing construction work on the roads. And th ats the subject of the exposition: Autumn leaves and New projects for the city. The ladies of our residence had many compliments for the new exhibition. There was much talk of my going to display in a gallery outside the house. But I have been told the first thing to get is a good solid lawyer. Otherwise, the credit for my work can be taken away quite easily. For the opening I wore my brand new outfit from Addition Elle including the seasonal coupe de grace: a burgundy faux leather jacket...

Yesterday was the first day of autumn and the opening of the Art Fabian Co. Autumn exhibit in Val Gal. It is called Autumn Leaves: New City 2015. Why the title? In autumn nature changes here mantle of green to one or red and rust and gold.  At the same time the city starts really cleaning up the roads and working on repairing buildings.  It is much less expensive to build when the weather is good then when the bitter winter months set in. So it a new season of brilliant colors and a newly repaired city.  Hence the name Autumn Leaves: New City 2015.

I found it hard to find a name for the Gallery.  The first name was the Inside Gallery because the Gallery is open only to those who have access to the site already.  My idea was to encourage people to try to bridge the gap.  To try to gain access into the second floor of this severe residence.  I thought this could be done by working with the order that runs the place and supporting their work and their mission.  In this way, I could have the support of the establishment and relative freedom to create Val Gal. But as time went on I had not much interest shown in the Inside Gallery. I thought, perhaps no one really wants to go inside. I mean why bother? I had several shows with the name Precious to underline the idea that art is important and valuable to everyday life. If we do not have art, we have reality only.  And we cannot step out of the  shackles of the grim or the poor.  With art we have a glimpse into the beautiful. Hence Precious. Al...

September 9, 2015 In the romantic novels the artist goes way up to his tiny attic on the very top of his house to create and be free.  Sometimes it has a great view of Paris.  Or sometimes the person is a writer who creates great novels and ideas. They both seal themselves from the rest of the world to do great things.  Well why not imitate?   I live in a woman's residence in a very small room. When I first arrived I imagined it as a womb.  A creative womb in which I would heal and rest and create great art.  I would sit on the bed cross yoga position with hands on my legs and look out the window and the blue sky. I would imagine I meditated.   I would imagine I was one with the blue sky. Well years have gone by and I no longer think of the room as a womb.  It became a small and impoverished cell for a while and then my imagination took over again.  I thought of it much like that attic. So now it is my studio in which I develop and fr...