Days of Delays
Posted by michelle on 22 Sep 2007 at 06:30 pm | Tagged as: announcements, upcoming events
Just a reminder that the Sala Diaz Fundraiser at Hermann Sons Bowling Rec Center has been postponed until November 10th. The fundraiser was originally set for Sept. 29th but the bowling place has an In just a few months Sala Diaz will be twelve years old. In that time the gallery has seen 105 artists in 85 exhibitions, has hosted 8 guest curators, was the first San Antonio gallery invited to ARCO in Madrid in 2002 (and 2003) and has served as a catalyst for countless others in central Texas, which has the richest crop of artist-run spaces in the state. In addition to the 42 San Antonio artists we’ve supported over the years, artists have come from Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Mexico City, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Houston, Lubbock and Montana.
Our first fundraising event as an official 501(C)3 non-profit is set for NOVEMBER 10th!!!! Our plans include a 7 – 10 PM dinner with bowling at Hermann Sons, 525 South St. Mary’s, featuring a silent auction of bowling pins altered by artists. Music will be provided by JJ Lopez.
The artist bowling pins will be employed as centerpieces for each table at the dinner, which will be creatively catered by Liberty Bar. Many of the artists will be in attendance: Jesse Amado, Bale Creek Allen, Nate Cassie, Rae Culbert, Alejandro Diaz, Sharon Engelstein, Karen Mahaffy, Yunhee Min, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Chuck Ramirez, Riley Robinson, Chris Sauter, Jason Stout, Terri Thornton and Randy Wallace.
At 9:30 PM the silent auction will conclude. Bowling pins will be distributed to their purchasers and a very special Sala Diaz bowling ball made of a new compound, Spiral Hercura Mesergown Milk, will be awarded to the bowler deemed most worthy by our super incognito Bowling Assessment Officer.
Our late night plans will take us back to Sala Diaz for the kind of fun we are known for with Music By James. Dinner guests will have access to the party, which will be open to the public with $25 tickets. Refreshments will be provided, including Sotol, a new agave drink. The gallery will be open for an exhibition including internationally known Buzz Spector and San Antonio artists Michele Monseau, Kimberley Aubuchon and Chuck Ramirez. These artists have generously agreed to donate their work to our fundraising effort and Sala has responded in kind –– we shall split with the artists whatever is made when these works are sold.
The major fundraising component is the tables for the dinner, which we are selling for $1000. These tables seat 8 – 10, so donors who support us by buying tables will be able to invite 7 – 9 guests to sit with them. As an additional perk for those who purchase tables, Art Lies gas agreed to give each donor a year subscription to the magazine.
We look forward to seeing you at Hermann Sons for an evening of ball rolling and conversation and hope you will want to be an active part of our future.
Sounds like a cool event and Sala Diaz deserves a success.
$1000 a table is pretty ambitious for a first fundraiser. I hope they’re able to sell some tables. Too rich for our blood so we probably won’t make the after party.
Full Disclosure:
Strangely, I was not asked to participate in this event. Evidently, well-executed watercolor paintings of battle scenes, irreverent rare coins, and whimsical stamp collections aren’t “in” right now. I feel like I just got demoted to buck private. This art business is about as hairy as the beach of Normandy.
Nonetheless, best of luck in my absence.
soldiering on,
The Colonel
“In this first film Donald Duck wears his signature sailor’s suit, which remains unchanged right through the years. But he wears no pants, which caused censorship problems in Sweden!”-The Hindu
I hope to see myself there. in a sailor suit.
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Without a bag of weed and a book of quotations, my posts continue to fall flat…
In my own private valley forge,
Colonel D. Williams (Ret.)
(the “C.A. Stubbs of the San Antonio art scene”, Stars and Bars 6/2007)
“Donald… is a victim of so many circumstances… But there isn’t a person … who couldn’t identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. He is sometimes a villain, and he is often a real good guy, and at all times he is just a blundering person like the average human being, and I think that is one of the reasons people like Donald!”-Carl Barks
“I hope to see myself there”-Justin
Endgame
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Your Guide to Quotations.
“I hope to see myself there [1] without a bag of weed and a book of quotations.[2]
Strangely, I was not asked to participate in this event.[3]
I feel like I just have [4] [5] to focus on shape patterns that show…
interest in … illusions, beaver [6] theory, and formal and conceptual issues capturing out-of-town [7] coffins.” [8]
Along with the ornament, however, certain other things of the most banal perceptual world [Merkwelt ] appear, whose inherent sense and significance only crock can transmit. Among other things, curtains and lace belong to this category. Curtains are interpreters for the language of the wind. They give its every breath the form and sensuousness of feminine forms. And to the smoker who becomes immersed in their play they allow all the joys to be savored which a consummate dancer can vouchsafe. On the other hand, if the curtain is filigreed it can become the instrument of an even more curious play. For to the smoker, these laces prove themselves to be patterns which he drapes over the landscape in order to transform it in the most peculiar way. -Protocols to the Experiments on Hashish, Opium and Mescaline 1927-1934:Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Ernst Joël, Egon Wissing, Fritz Fränkel
if anyone would like a polite, quiet guest for their $1000 table, i’d like to volunteer my services. i’m a passable bowler as well, having taken a correspondence course in the game in order to complete the half p.e. credit i needed to get my high school diploma.
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action / reaction!
Destruction, Negation, Subtraction-Badiou
And, if anything, in our late capitalist societies, this perverse logic of mercy is brought to extreme, as the ultimate expression of the weird unity of the opposites that permeates our attitudes. Today’s hedonism combines pleasure with constraint – it is no longer the old notion of the right measure between pleasure and constraint, but a kind of pseudo-Hegelian immediate coincidence of the opposites: action and reaction should coincide, the very thing which causes damage should already be the medicine. The ultimate example of it is arguably a chocolate laxative, available in the US, with the paradoxical injunction “Do you have constipation? Eat more of this chocolate!”-Zizek
This post is descending into nihilism. Appeasement is not the answer. How quickly we’ve forgotten the lessons of Munich. In other words, the more I read the less I want to commit my life to watercolors and whimsical stamp collections. I am done with this post in specific, and perhaps, the art scene in general. I withdraw before I have to endure any more mumbo-jumbo.
in exile,
The Colonel
Postscript: At least in battle I know who my enemies are.
“You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” – Mr Welch
With stellar observation, you are “live,” working with the stars and the movement of the planet. With logs, compasses, clocks, but no sky, you are working “dead.”-Oxford English Dictionary
“Cela leur a pris seulement un instant pour lui couper la tête, mais la France pourrait ne pas en produire un autre pareil en un siècle.” – Joseph Louis Lagrange
‘Killing a man to defend an idea isn’t defending an idea. It’s killing a man.’-Juan Goytisolo
I say that anyone who trembles at this moment is guilty; for innocence never fears public scrutiny.-Robespierre
“In place of death there was light” – Tolstoy
“Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.” – Plutarch
“Modesty is the conscience of the body.”- Honore de Balzac