The opening of the Art World Poker group show at the i-5 Gallery was a big success, a good-sized crowd, but without the mob of freeloaders that is starting to infiltrate the Saturday Night Brewery Art Complex openings – it is a weird mix of college kids walking around with 12-packs as they look for girls and heavy drinkers looking lustfully at the beers walking by seeing as the girls are outnumbered 20-1. And nary an art collector in sight.
But the Sunday opening was great, everyone had a drink or two but there was no rowdy pardeeee atmosphere, the crowd was generally friends of the artists and the vibe was pleasant and sociable.
It is a good show, come by and see it. The games themselves should be fun to view, maybe some human drama of people adding art to the walls in the spots where the artists they beat in cards had hung…