"...an exhibit of artwork by architects and architectural work by artist, these works are linked by inspiration and process with a focus on form, light and texture."
so, i broke off a quick trip to arc-hop tonight. mainly, it's because my chum was showing 2 pieces. there were some nice paintings, but overall i felt the show was underwhelming, it didn't seem to stick to the idea that they wanted, and the large scrap sheet metal wall that was erected in the middle of the room distracted from the good art all around.
there was some art done by architects. and, there were a few structural/architectural work done by artists. but most of it was just artwork. some of it very nice artwork, but didn't fit well at all with the theme of the show. really, very little of the art done by the artists had any relation to architecture, in my opinion.
good idea, poor delivery.
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Thanks for the criticism. I would have been happy to discuss the exhibit in person.
I do agree with some of the comments. I'm kinda making this stuff up as I go along and don't have too many models to base archop off of. So I'll continue to learn by doing.
I think overall there was some good successes to celebrate. The turn out, the conversations, the colaboration, etc. And most of all archop survived a year and has same exciting stuff lined up for the future including a housing exhibit for the winter quarter and landscape architecture for spring.
Also we will be partnering with Fresno City College for a lecture in the gallery by visiting Dutch Architecture professor Edwine Wolff. It is tentatively scheduled for October 19th.
Stay tuned.
Thank you,
Kiel Famellos-Schmidt
archop curator
you should be celebrating making it a year. i realize that sounds snotty, but i really do mean it. it's very cool that the architecture community is trying to connect w/the arts community and get people exposed to the cool development in fresno. so definitely congrats.
i heard the turn out was very good, so congrats on that as well. too bad don munro & felicia matosz didn't feel that it was important enough to visit and write about. although i'm not all that surprised.
i hope you guys keep having archop and that it continues to improve and be a good event.
The media has been a struggle. I'm not sure what to do about that yet.
We did get some beehive love from Mike Oz. Number 4 on his "5 things to do this week": http://www.fresnobeehive.com/archives/2008/09/five_things_you_13.html#more
Felicia did write about it in Thursday's life section: http://www.fresnobee.com/221/story/908555.html But no wrap-up/critique.
Interestingly enough, part of the genesis of archop was/is our local media's disregard of its importance.
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