At the beginning of November I asked to be in an art show called the 12x12. The show is a fundraiser for the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. It is not your typical art fundraiser; the show is carefully curated, participants are limited, and people flock to the exhibition in a rush to guess who did what and get their hands on a prized piece of artwork. All purchases are made anonymously, so people buy from the heart; the artist's name is revealed only after a piece has sold, and only to the buyer (and those of you reading this.) Each piece is priced at $144, a dollar per square inch. After picking up the 12x12 piece of plywood artists are given complete creative freedom, the only restriction being the size. I completed my piece in about 2 days; it is an abstract representation of rock formations I had photographed earlier this summer. I plan to do a larger version of it in the near future. "Harwood has been creating the kind of event in which artists want to be asked to participate." The house band was Le Chat Lunatique, a local group who plays variations of gypsy jazz. The show opened December 3rd and runs through the 22nd.
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