There were two tournaments held today at the gallery.
We’re down to 20 artists left in Art World Poker at the i-5 Gallery.
July 9 and 16 (Sundays at 1 p.m.) will each have 10 artists playing to eliminate 6 – leaving the gallery with 4 artists from each tournament.
It has been great fun on a lot of different levels – like take for instance the old argument about abstraction versus representation. On the poker table, noted abstract painter Michael Salerno saw his approach to painting triumph as he added wall space by knocking painter Robert Morgan out of the tournament. the whole back wall of the gallery was represented by Michael’s painting and it seemed abstraction had triumphed. But later in the tourney, Joe O’Neill knocked out Salerno and now his realistic paintings of social and political situations dominates the galley’s back wall.
Funny when you think about it.