by The Tears Of Things
In an earlier posting we described trying to review this show, and how it wasn't up yet. Now it's up, but whoever set it up needs some lessons in basic communication.
You walk into the giant City Hall building and look around in vain for any sign or poster about the exhibition. Nothing. When you finally find it, in a wide hallway on the east side, what you see is some grey accordion dividers, familiar to millions of cubicle dwellers. Artworks hang from the dividers, but nowhere can you find an explanation of what you're looking at. Did some employees assemble this thing to display their amateur stuff? One of the dividers is completely devoid of artwork, making the whole thing seem unfinished. Nowhere do you see the word "Artlink."
The wall labels for the artworks show a little thumbnail photo of the piece, the title, and the artist. That's it. No other description, especially of the media used in some of these pieces. This is elementary. Shari Bombeck and Michael Hudson and Steve Gompf and all those clowns should know better.
And where's the poster? Where's the proud colorful announcement? Where's the schedule of events? Who won prizes? How would we know?
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. . . And now a day has passed since we wrote the above words. We've decided they will be close to the last we will say about Artlink and the downtown clowns. They are simply not worth the effort.
The last words are addressed to Artlink's sponsors --these organizations and people: New Times, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, The Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix, Copper Square Downtown Phoenix, the Friends of the Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix College, Arizona Arts Supply, Bentley Gallery and Stephen Rodgers.
Take a good look at the photos below, and reconsider your sponsorship. We predict these photos and two postings will be the only record of this exhibition and will shoot to the top of their Google page, since Artlink's directors continue their legendary incompetence. Really, it's as if they share a single brain among them, and a stupid one at that.
Here are 17 photos by Catherine King of 17 of the twenty-four pieces in the exhibition, presented without further commentary.
1. L'il Chief, by Alexander Scott Hughes
2. Sanctuary, by Heather Green
3. Midnight Walk, by Alyse Tartell
4. SEWN/Typewriter Keys, by Kaori Takamura
5. Blue, by Allison Templeton
6. Spencer, by Allison Templeton
7. Red As Night, by Catherine Hammond
8. Box of Sins, by Kate Timmerman
9. Filaments in Flight, by Candace Greenberg
10.My Orange Tree, by Trilby Van Deusen
11.Family Tree, by Daniel Friedman
12.Starburst, by Charles Taube
13.Blood Sacrifice II, by Judy Wurtz
14.Glory Box, by Hewlaine Von Bretzel
15.The Tumbler, by Cynthia Feig
16.Florence Lovers, by Renee Palmer Jones
17.100 Years of Humiliation, by Joan Yen