Gallery 100 Street Installation Sept. 2005

The summer after I graduated college, I lived in Saratoga Springs, NY. Knowing that I was staying in town for a while, I had been chosen by one of my contemporaries to fill her part-time position as an assistant for Gallery 100, a fine art gallery and dealership in Saratoga. That summer I worked a couple afternoons a week installing shows, updating the website, charming potential art-buyers, the usual gallery stuff. When the fall rolled around, they were having a big opening and we brainstormed a few ideas to draw people into the gallery. I ended up doing an installation painting on the street. I mixed a special paint out of tempera, finger-paint, charcoal powder, and water. It was very watery to get into the texture of the sidewalk, but also had a lot of pigment so I wouldn’t have to do multiple layers. Here are the pictures, the installation took about 10 hours of me crawling on the sidewalk.

more after the jump

I got a little crap from some of the city workers, but assured them that it would wash off. They mumbled about power-washers but ended up leaving it alone all fall. Magically, when the winter snow melted, it was gone. My lines were definitely in a transitional phase at this point, very clean and circular with some arrows. It took a couple years, until about 6-8 months ago, that I was happy with my drawings and jumped into using colors.