#gallery owner

[afrotumble]

#chief nike davis-okundaye #gallery #gallery owner #lagos #nigeria #african gallery

[galleryyuhself]

Sexypink - A huge loss to Trinidad and Tobago. Thank you Geoffrey for your vision, kindness and love.

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Geoffrey's contribution to Art history. He was the definitive writer on Cazabon.

An image of one of Cazabon's paintings.

Finally, a beautiful tribute to Geoffrey MacLean from one of many friends.

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TRIBUTE TO GEOFFREY MACLEAN. In each island nation of the Eastern Caribbean, economies of scale make it so that there are only one or two (and if they are lucky, three or four) local experts in some field of study which has little to do with industry or clerical work but everything to do with the national character and its history. Because they are often without precedent, these experts often have had to travel abroad for their training or are otherwise self-trained in their chosen sector of the liberal arts/humanities/social sciences.

Trained architect and avocational art historian Geoffrey MacLean was one of these indispensable sages in the field of visual studies and the built environment. He was the world’s foremost specialist on nineteenth-century landscape and genre painter Michel Jean Cazabon. Cazabon was a partially unwitting member of a global late colonial/early post-colonial landscape painting tradition that encompassed artists such as Mexican José María Velasco, the Chartrand brothers of Cuba, Filipino painter Fernando Amorsolo, and the painters of the Hudson River School in the United States. What all of these artists had in common was their urgent need to capture and pay tribute for posterity to the natural beauty of their respective lands before that “Edenic” verdure was despoiled by then-already encroaching industrialization.

MacLean’s passion for Cazabon pressed him not only to hone further the scholastic abilities he had already developed at Presentation College in his native Trinidad and Bristol University in the U.K. but to travel back and forth between the Caribbean and Europe hunting down examples and collections of Cazabon’s work. He also assisted the government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in the acquisition of some Cazabon works for display in its National Museum and Art Gallery.

MacLean was generous with his knowledge, his time, and with his published materials. Every time I visited him, I came home with an armful of books and catalogues (one of my favorites is an unassuming little pamphlet of a catalogue called Chinese Artists of Trinidad & Tobago which probably played some part in my decision to write the book about Sybil Atteck on which I am currently working with Sybil’s nephew Keith). In graduate school, I relied heavily on MacLean’s Cazabon books for the research I was doing on colonial Latin American and Caribbean painting. MacLean’s enthusiasm for Cazabon’s genre painting, especially his rapt verbal and written descriptions of the late 19th century painting Negress in Gala Dress (pictured here) revealed to me that Cazabon’s paintings of local “types” (e.g., “Negress” instead of named individual) was sometimes a form of real portraiture and thus departed the tipo de país-to-costumbrismo continuum that we sometimes use in Latin American art history. Cazabon loved his people too much and included too much implied biography and other narratives in those paintings, to reduce their subjects to mere “types.” His titles were thus deceptively taxonomic.

Architect, scholar, art gallery director Geoffrey MacLean’s contribution to the study and preservation of T&T’s architecture was legendary even before his passing. He has searched out original plans for fretwork houses and saved some of these architectural jewels from the bulldozers of “developers.” He has done the same for members of the Magnificent Seven around the Queen’s Park Savannah and taught workshops on both the civic and residential architecture of Trinidad & Tobago. As MacLean himself now passes into legend, we are left with the perennial question in these small and mid-sized islands of the Eastern Caribbean each with their two or three experts on local art and architecture – who will pick up the torch?

~ Lawrence Waldron

#galleryyuhself/Geoffrey MacLean #galleryyuhself/publisher/gallery owner/architect #galleryyuhself/bereavement #galleryyuhself/medulla gallery #tumblr/aquarella gallery #tumblr/cazabon books #tumblr/architect #trinidad and tobago #Geoffrey MacLean #architect #visionary #gallery owner

[hydeordie]

#Stefan Simchowitz #art dealer #art gallery #gallery owner #los angeles #artist help #art podcast #podcast

[bebs-art-gallery]

All Dogs Go to Heaven. We Will Meet Again.

to all of us who’ve lost our best friends ♡

— artwork by Martin Wittfooth

#tw animal death #painting #art #artblr #grief/mourning #oil on canvas #oil painting #artist #dog #dogs #pet #pets #pet owners #fine art #animal #animals #artists #art blog #art gallery #art community

[otrtbs]

just momentarily blacked out and read all of winterlude oh my god I’ve never felt so much joy seep through a story before I can’t wait to see the rest of regulus’ journey mwah your brain omg🥺

(also I think I’m ALSO in love with james like holy shit)

HI HELLO HI!!!

yayayayay so glad you like winterlude ahhh <3333 thank you so much !!!

#asks #winterlude #also yeah like james? son of a gallery owner trust fund baby???? manifesting him 4 us all in 2024

[catastrxblues]

so glad i decided to go to my school library when i started feeling sick during class this morning because otherwise i would never have found a rare copy of a room of one’s own by virginia woolf and borrowed it and have it at home with me right now ready to be continued oh my god

#i love libraries #they also have like a gajillion copies of the percy jackson books so cool of that for them #(they also have a copy of lockwood and co and i want to read it but they only have the translated version #and i just always find them very odd to read :/ #translators are awesome and they make so many works of fiction from all over the world so accessible in so many different places #but i always prefer to read a book in its original language if i can understand it well enough to be honest) #AND they also have a copy of the picture of dorian gray #this is great #i’ve always wanted to read a room of one’s own #and i actually had once started a digital copy of it and abused the highlights/comment features at 2 am in the morning #but NOW i can actually read it from a physical copy and read the annotations the previous owner had written #AND take photos of my favorite quotes to have them rejoiced and remembered in my full storage phone gallery #anyways #this is a silver lining #a room of one's own #virginia woolf #booklr #library #nadirants

[synth-ai]

Dear friends, let's celebrate the unbreakable bond between humans and their beloved pets! Please share pictures of your furry companions showing off their unique personalities. Help us create a collection of joyful moments that reflect the love and connection shared by all animal lovers out there. 😍

#ai artist #ai art gallery #ai art generation #ai art generator #ai babe #ai illustration #ai muscle #ai sexy #ai woman #character ai #love #happiness #pets #animals #animal lover #best friends #pet owners

[ddagent]

Mira Furlan as Hely Krell in The Art of Murder

Bonus:

#mira furlan #the art of murder #dd: gifs #film: the art of murder #actor: mira furlan #aka gallery owner delenn #aka retired art and jewel thief delenn

[gtkoodles]

Hotel Stuff- x-x, private eye, dark fantasy

#the hotel podcast #the hotel pod #the owner #the manager #the lobby boy #dark fantasy au #some doodles from the private eye #mostly pose and values #x-x ep #and dark fantasy au #in later half #some of those doodles were in the back bit of my photo gallery #but just scribbles and maybe inspired by koroks? #100% inspired lmao #idk those little forest dudes silly #just random stuff yeah #doodles

[chemigram]

i like deluding myself bc when it comes true it only strengthens the delusion

#(in the mirror) film festivals want me film festivals want me film festivals want me film festivals want m #i do not want to suck up to gallery owners i want to be MY OWN PERSON AND I WILL BEEEEE (in the mirror) I WONT HAVE TO PARTICIPATE #if youre trying to be a gallery artist btw just know that . every successful gallery artist sold their soul and has the potential to be #the biggest kiss ass youve ever met in your life #(in the mirror) FILM FESTIVALS WANT MY TRANS MOVIE

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i did the job interview!!!!! i think it went really well?!?! but i also think maybe i'm just biased bc i know the girl doing the interview so maybe we like. had a good chat but it wasn't a good interview??? idk ahhh i'm freaking out

#i'm probably more nervous now than i was before the interview lmao #the interview was supposed to be with her and the owner of the gallery but he had some kind of emergency and couldn't come #and i overheard the end of the last interview and she told that girl she would hear back in a few days #but she told me i would hear back “probably later today” #and i can't tell if that's 1) a good sign 2) a bad sign or 3) doesn't mean anything at all #ughhhh it was a really nice gallery and she is so nice i want this job so bad!!!!!!! #🧃

[lesless]

*sings* I was extremely disappointed to find out that most if not all of the art kids I thought would understand me were simply insecure bullies without much talent & their unwillingness to engage in transparency or lift each other up was reflective of that~~~~

#me #sighs there’s something nostalgic about Art Scene #but they all just sucked ass #I was offered a gallery viewing bc the owner wanted to sleep with meeeeee #& I was like no thaaaaaanks #& then he told me when I was done playing with pretty boys I knew where to find a real man :))))

[simonstamenovic]

everyone loves me because of my curious nature

#bloodletting #who is here having a crush on me ! #rhetorical... unless you want to be bold #in all seriousness though i am so happy talking to more people #in real life as well i love you older store owners #the man at the music store thanked me for coming in even before i went back to buy the book (': #and one woman at the art gallery gave me information on a plant in a painting #while another gave me a list of local galleries #i am so in love with people it is making my heart hurt

[icarian-carrion]

plotted starter for @theasteria

“No, it’s nice, it’s just-” Tisha covers her mouth with her glass, cutting herself off with a sip of champagne. The gallery is more than nice, it’s beautiful, but as she was trying to explain to her friend before she thought better of it, it just… didn’t fit. She’d wanted to scope it out, that’s what brought her to the showing she was at, hair sleek and straight and makeup done at the Sephora counter because she couldn’t be assed to figure it out herself, in what she calls her sexy messy sari (because it’s translucent and gauzy and pale purple and shows off everything she wants it to).

But it just doesn’t feel right. It’s too clean, too commercial, too well organized. Tisha is used to lugging her sculptures in a fucked up old pickup to a mouse filled warehouse, or getting offers from people who have seen her online and like the aesthetic of a mouse filled warehouse and a sexy messy artist but won’t deign to be seen there. She scans the crowd of well heeled collectors, and for a moment her eyes fall on the owner, the entire reason she’s there, elegant and put together and so unbelievably pretty. “Damn. Damn. I’m thinking about it now. Fuck.”

Her friend elbows her, and Tisha realizes she’s been staring at the other woman, so she turns back to him with a sheepish smile. “What? I’m here to look, what’s the big deal?”

#astra:tisha #operation gallery owner meets anti establishment artist is a go

[chronomally]

ALSO I went to a museum of contemporary art yesterday and like I go to all kinds of art museums all the time, but something about the way the museum was curated so completely centered the artists' voices and experiences that shaped their work has me wanting to Play in the Space I've been imagining fun collage and painting and sculpture ideas since yesterday

#please feel free to ignore this #Shotgunning a stream of consciousness because I couldn't sleep last night but boy was I trying #so here are the results of me being awake from 11:30 - 3 #It felt like pretty much every piece had a biography of the artist as well as what influenced that piece #If an artist had multiple pieces then most if not all pieces had a placard with the inspiration/back story #It made me feel so connected to the art in such a unique and interesting way #especially since the people who owned the gallery often had such personal connections to the artists as well #A lot of the personal biographies/anecdotes also included stories about their experiences with the gallery owners which was SO interesting

[lorena-farace]

#art #arte #artista #artgallery #cuadros #artists on tumblr #compradearte #femaleartistoninstagram #marchands #best artists in the world #design #galeristas #obrasdearte #sale of artwork #sail of art #sale of art #south american art #woman artist #artworks #gallery owners #art Galeries