lost and found

This weekend I ventured into the place where I have always imagined I might live, but don't. It's called Southside on Lamar in Dallas, and I was instantly enamored of it. Whoever thought to take the old Sears and Roebuck catalogue facility and rennovate it into condos and shops...wow. It's been done well, antique merged with modern in just the right proportion. And the gallery space is everything a gallery space should be: antique wood floors; cement pillars; rough old brick walls; whitewashed sheetrocked walls, rectangular plywood pedestals and moveable walls; and a maintenance man who kindly replaces burnt-out halogen bulbs in the numerous adjustable light fixtures.

I was fortunate to meet Lisa Qualls at the Hunting Art Prize reception and more fortunate yet to have her think of me when she needed some extra pieces for her group's current show called Lost and Found. Melianie and I hauled up some of the work and helped hang the show on Tuesday. Valerie Yaklin-Brown had gone up to help hang the show, too. She, Mel and I made short work of hanging the 2-D work. It was great to see Valerie again (we showed together at Eastman) and I still covet her work.