One Year Old Feels Older Than It Should

Happy Birthday to the gallery. What a special day for it. We remember when it was but a mere consideration in the backend mind of three little heads.

What does it mean. I think it means onward and upward. We've had a great first year with as top notch artist as I could ever hope for. Brett Colley, Liz Wolf, Matthew Hoffman, David Johnson, B. Ingrid Olson and Jonathan Stewart. A swath of art from different areas of the country and different areas of the genre. We owe a giant debt to these artists for supporting us by agreeing to have their work shown in a small, out-of-the-way place. A place that, while we love, was VERY lucky to get the likes of them.

We want to take the briefest moment and profess the sincerest THANK YOU that we can muster. As you all well know there isn't much of anything that means a whole lot of anything without the interest and support and girders of you, the people. You're the ones with the interest, you're the one with the desire to show up every other month or to drop us a note or just to LIKE us on Facebook and I promise you each and every one of those things means as much as a fistful of gold.

So what's next...

What is next.

How about some N. Adam Beadel.

Adam recently returned to Davenport after an absence of almost a decade. We take great pride and pleasure in being able to show the work of our first local artist (of which we hope there will be many more) Here is the postcard for Adam's show "A Great New Start"

and how about a little insight about the man himself:


Team Nerd is the hand-carved linoleum, woodblock, and letterpress printing of N. Adam Beadel.  Excessively bullied as a teenager in Iowa, Beadel set out for Seattle Washington in 2001 to find his feet.  He found a home in the world of self-publishing and graffiti, which morphed into a love for letterpress and relief printmaking. At 27 years old, Beadel set out for Knoxville Tennessee, to intern at the world famous Yee-Haw Industries, the best education of his letterpressing life.  Today, he’s scheming towards the future, carving woodblocks, and acquiring equipment to start his own press in the Midwestern United States.

Check out more of his stuff at www.flickr.com/teamnerd.

We are a year old. I hope we get older. Your continued support helps us do that. We're providing these exhibitions with only a 10% commission that goes to the owner of the East Side Bakery - Nikki. We're not here to make money, only to provide the Quad Cities with a space that presents the best Printmaking, Book Arts, Textual Arts and Paper Works that we can. This is a passion project. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell your frenemies, but please tell.

Here's the technical info:

What: "A Great New Start" opening
Where: The Bakery Gallery at 1330 East 12th Street, Davenport Ia 52803
When: Opening is Friday December 3rd from 6-8 and the exhibition runs until February 4th. 
Why: I think you know why.
How: Shear sweat baby. 

Of note: We'll have a DJ on board for the Opening. Hear some great tunes.

Thanks again. Let us know what you think.

The Bakery Gallery.

The True Tale of a Tardy, Tawdry Trip

Hello.

This has been a long time coming. We did Mr. Stewart a wrong by not getting this up quicker, so for that we heartily apologize. That being said the Opening was great. We sold more pieces than we ever have in the past (with 90 percent of those proceeds going back to the artist and 10 percent going to the lovely East Side Bakery for allowing us to host in their establishment)

The day was comfortably warm, the response was charismatically swell and the food was quickly consumed. We did learn that the fancier the cheese the less likely it is to be eaten.

the throne: sat in by the invisible representation of Jonathan Stewart. I insisted all questions 

be directed to that chair throughout the night. 

WE LOVE BEANS!!!

Signing and looking. Dirty jobs for clean causes. 

Throughout the months we had several of the same questions pop up. The first one tended to be "Are there actual toys inside" and the second was "Did he print these on a computer" So here are the answers.

There are no toys inside. A few of them have magnets, but that is unrelated to anything that concerns anything really.

Jonathan did not print these on a computer. He screenprinted them on a flat surface and then cut them and scored them to allow the box forms to be made.

 the voyeur's view. Quit staring and come on in. 

Many artist's wept upon seeing these little boxes containing the dreaded form letter. "My work is to good for you anyway Connecticut College of Craft and Kreativity!!!" whoooaaa...

shaky bits and a baby

The east wall.

So there you have it. Our sixth show in the bag. You know what that means? We've made it one year!

Hoozah. I'd write more, but really I'm going to post something else in like a half an hour. (Months of nothing and then SHABAM... I know. ) 

Keep coming and we'll keep showing. 

It's a Behind!!!

Yes I'm late... I know. I want to show you the opening for Jonathan Stewart's show. It was awesome with sales and everything.

But I cannot find my camera. This is not the excuse for a failure to post for the last month, but it is an excuse for failing to post at this very moment. I looked everywhere. I promise.

Anyway, prepare for a deluge of updates this week. We're up to our year anniversary, we're having a show with Team Nerd, We have some updates of previous exhibitors.

OH BOY It's going to be a week of awesomeness... assuming I can stick with it.

Thanks for following and supporting this endeavor. Please come to the Big Year Opening.

More news soon.

In the meantime.