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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…

Busy Busy Busy. I wrote a 2,000 word essay on the Art of Edward Colver for the book Blight at the End of the Funnel, the 200 page catalog for Edward Colver’s Retrospective Survey at the Grand Central Arts Exhibition Space in Santa Ana. The show opens next Saturday night there and it should be…

It has been a packed week so far and it is only Tuesday afternoon. Saturday waas the memorial for Steve Schauer. Touching. Intense. Life-affirming, ultimately, as he would have wanted it to be. Sunday was the opening rounds of Art World Poker. It was fun in every sense of the word. A good people crowd,…

In case you hadn’t heard, artist Steve Schauer passed away last week. There is a memorial planned for Satuday afternoon at the Patricia Correia Galelry at Bergamot Station. I would anticipate that IF this event reflects the life of the man himself, it will be quite a party.

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…

So we went on a quick trip to Napa, which since I don’t drink is officially the middle of nowhere. My fabulous girlfriend has an Eagle Scout nephew who was graduating from high school, so we crashed on hr sister’s couch, went to the ceremony, listened to the same speeches you listened to at your…