Category Archives: First 10 Years

Olde Stuff – A Retrospective September 28 – December 21, 1990 Me and Jean’s Gallery – by Terry Durst If I liked sports I would use the “if you build it, they will come” analogy, but I hate sports – … Continue reading →

Alternative Spaces – Craig Robertson: art of a trickster by Amy Sparks – Cleveland Edition – Feb 21-27 1991 There are several ironies in playing the art game in Cleveland.  It requires playing by rules that no one has bothered … Continue reading →

The Crow a Symbol in Art The black crow as an archetype communicates with the creative and the collective conscience stirring ancient memories of myth and depth of spiritual unease,  Such is the case of this certain black feathered muse. … Continue reading →

The idea of a black velvet show started, as I remember it, in a drunken conversation at Sindy’s bar.  It turned out that a surprising number of people actually owned a piece of black velvet art. In a later conversation with … Continue reading →

I live in an old, brick house, two story. Wood and steel lean against the outside buildings and weather.   Some of the materials make their way into the shop.  The shop is where the tools are.  The kitchen, where … Continue reading →

MAMA Art Movement Presented by White Wall of Sound Organized by Jim Clinefelter November 8 – December 22, 1991 with the Politically Incorrect Poetry Reading Man, this will be a tough one. I have no idea of who read at … Continue reading →

ISOLATIONIST ART GALLERY REVIEW 1992 Promotes work by artists unaffected by influence outside of themselves.  Now accepting proposals for the 1992 season.  Seeking artists working on the cutting edge of avant-garde isolationism. Must be able to provide verification of such. Being isolationists, … Continue reading →

. . . Because I Want To Be Terry Durst. I am a white heterosexual male Leonard said it best A feathered, egg-laying animal on a high voltage wire A paranoid white heterosexual male I have sexual encounters all night … Continue reading →

1st Prize winner Nora Hartlaub on Minor Art Exhibit I copied the picture very slowly, and oh-so-carefully.  Line for line, form for form, the magazine picture guided my eyes and hand in a pencil and water-color replica of the published photograph.  My selected … Continue reading →

I got stationed at Travis AFB right after Tech. School.  It’s this large base in northern California, north of San Francisco.   From day one I was unhappy.  When I was in the Base Exchange one weekend, I bought this really … Continue reading →