Doing my own public exhibition (AMA)

good luck! can you let us know some of the artists you'll be exhibiting?

Can't say I'm surprised after some of the self titled "unpopular opinions" that you posted. If you're banned for that then fair play Silky

To save on typing, here is the show ad which will be in Hi-Fructose July edition

V10_UNCONTAINABLE_ThomasCenterGalleries PRESS-page-001 by Craig ONeil, on Flickr

Yeah, we jumped in with both feet, have done shows and mural projects in the pass, but exhibitions that are for the purpose of selling work just soured our hearts and mural projects (as anyone who has done one will attest) are a TON of work and logistics and management that arent paced well for my life. We still do mural stuff, but its single artist, and is residency type approach vs a mural festival.

As far as public exhibition like this

- securing work can be a challenge. we spent a year buying pieces and building relationships to help get the right pieces.
- the stuff Thinkspace pulls off with institutions deserves a fucking medal. Working with museums usually requires not only getting the thumbs up from the curator but also the board and boards are usually older folks who generally push whats in their collections. he is either paying for space or doing world class diplomacy. in our case we found an opportunity with a munisipality which has institutional quality exhibition space and it was much easier to get done.
- resources (PR, curators, staff, security, money, promotions, etc etc) we lucked out the city has been an awesome partner, they brought a lot to the table and it helped keep our costs focused on things like shipping, framing, etc.



I was joking about the UAA thing, but seriously, thanks for being here.


As far as politics, I love talking about it, but hate talking about it. Peoples feelings get hurt and I hate hurting peoples feelings. Im not much of a diplomat, but I really do respect people who have well researched information and passionate opinions.

Very impressive.

I'm in Sarasota, so it'll be easy to pop up to Gainesville this summer to have a look. Happy to see a fellow Floridian on here.

I have toyed with putting on a DIY exhibition of my own work, jut so I can watch others react to it and interact with them. But I don't want to go the traditional route. I want to rent out a closed retail space and sort of set up a pop-up thing for a weekend. Any advice on that?