Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art and Writing

A recipe for chaos.

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A fellow art friend from college, Ali LaRock, currently has an exhibit in Bismarck. She is sharing the show with Gretchen Bederman.

Since I'm here in Bismarck, I'm thinking of taking it in next week. I wasn't able to make the opening reception or gallery talk, but I'd like to see her stuff up on the walls and in a different context than I've seen it previously. The show is called "A Recipe for Chaos" and is through the Bismarck Art and Galleries Association. I'd link you to some relevant page on their site, but all the links go to some wacky format which seriously needs to be changed to make their web site more user -riendly.

I haven't had a gallery show for years.

I sort of grew tired of the whole gallery thing.

Generally, it was marked by bad cheese, thick eyeglass frames, pinky-up swilling wine, and disinterest beyond the same handful of people.

It costs a lot to put up a show. Framing is costly, not to mention other incidentals which quickly add up and make it economically ludicrous (unless you sell a lot of work, which, since I'm unwilling to put deer in my art, I don't here in North Dakota). I understand it's more about exposure, in some sense, but I guess if I was so interested in that I could just stand on the side of the I94 and lift my shirt.

I think I can safely say that everyone potentially involved in such a scenario is happy I'm not doing that.