An excellent show at Bert Green Fine Art downtown by sculptress Laurie Hassold. Just when you think her symmetry might be inching toward the predictable, this artist surprises and rewards you with new layers of visual and poetically conceptual delight.
Bert Green’s windows have a lot of pink and colored bright ribbons in them by Megan Geckler – makes the space easy to find.
The 16 ounce Ribeye I had for dinner at Pete’s on Main did not hurt my enjoyment of this and other otherwise mediocre shows.
The openings were crowded on gallery row, but it was a record number of homeless drunks and crackheads aggressively panhandling. I used to never give money to the homeless (after living downtown for a bit, you hit a wall), but I gave everyone a quarter who asked me for money tonight and reminded them that the art people here all had money, lots of money. The irony of course was that the entire crowd was freeloaders looking for free wine, there was not a Mercedes within miles and the legendary red dot was nowhere to be seen on nary a gallery wall. Soon the homeless will outnumber the artists and wine-guzzling bathed. And then Gallery Row will get interesting again!