by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
After a recent conversation with an artist friend about the importance of artists receiving acclaim for their works, I wondered which reception had been the most important to me. Purchase Awards and ceremonies with speeches and ribbons flashed through my memory...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
I was sitting at my Director’s desk in the Community Art Gallery on the Cloister’s second floor. It had been a quiet morning until a gentleman walked in and pointed at me, yelling, “YOU!” I felt like I was the unwilling participant in that scenario where...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
What would Aunt Theresa think? Here I was curled up in a sleeping bag on the hard ground of a country hill just before dawn. I recalled how comforting Aunt Theresa’s feather bed was after my sister Jean and myself spent a day romping in the summer fields...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
I learned about critics early in my art career. We had a “Crit Club” in Louisville that met each month on U of L Campus. (afterward, we would all go to Masterson’s and trash the critic.) The critic that month was the owner of an art...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
Clara was four years old when she asked to sit up in my art van. I grimaced as I knew that was almost an impossibility. But she was an innocent child and did not know the hazards her request could bring about in a vehicle I found comfortable but others looked...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 18, 2023 | PAINTING YEARS, Uncategorized
I still have the free-standing setup I constructed for my first Kentucky Sampler Art Show held in the Infield of Churchill Downs. Part of it is my living room holding small paintings. Maybe someday I will haul the other half up the steps from my basement. At...
