Virtual Identities, Real Space: Opening Success

ArtBistro and the Sego Art Center joined together to make a gallery show for ArtBistro users a reality. The opening last night and was a major success.  In short, the work selected for this international juried show was meaningful, probing and professional.  Over 600 visitors flocked to the gallery throughout the night. It was the the place to be and many commented to me how impressed they were with the show.

Several artists from the international competition came to the opening. One artist would have had to travel from China.

Artist, Pooneh Maghazehe flew in from New York City to be a the opening. In fact, she and her friend “Elizabeth Hamby”:http://space-and-place.blogspot.com/ created an guerilla art piece on the exterior wall of the Sego Art Center earlier in the week.

About traveling to Utah Pooneh said, “We’ve been really busy. I spoke at Brigham Young University to the art students there and tomorrow we are going to the Spiral Jetty. It has been great. Everyone is to nice and it is beautiful here.”

A video projection animation and two computer based works were in the backroom of the gallery.

I enjoyed seeing ArtBistro Artists’ work live for the first time and will tell you more about that next week. But I wanted you to know what a success the show is.  After the opening the artists, friends and Jason Metcalf, the show curator, took the after party to a local restaurant.  What a fun evening. I wish you were there!

Tour the show here

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