Friday, May 2nd: The New Children's Museum opening

Ok, I'm actually a week behind with this entry. Anyway, this is the gala dinner for the inaugural opening of San Diego's. New Children's Museum. I must confess, it was way beyond my expectations. It's really fabulous! Many of the usual suspects in attendance...

Here's the front entrance as seen from the second floor balcony; the dashing Brian Dick and his lovely Kristen posing in front of Ernie Silva's Rain House; Roman de Salvo and friends; a bunch of uber-wild UCSD women "romping in
the tires"--i.e., Brian's installation (thank you, Allan Kaprow!) and the always serenely beautiful Amy Adler ...

Thursday May 1: Lights! Camera! ...

Ok, so two days after leaving Seattle and being on the road, Claude Zervas finally arrives in San Diego to begin installing his show. The left front wheel of his little red wagon (that he got for free from a friend) almost came off. (He thought the noise he'd been hearing for the last 300 miles was the radio!) It's a miracle he is still standing... Yep, free is just another word for $600 in repairs. His older brother, Christopher, who lives nearby in beautiful City Heights, dropped by to lend a hand with the installation. It turns out this guy doesn't know top from bottom... which makes sense, since he's been building his own house from scratch for the past year and a half. (You can almost see it from the freeway--it's the one covered entirely in blue tarps...) But I guess it doesn't really matter 'cause he's a great guy.

Getting off the ground....

Finally writing the first entry to our new blog, Seminal Live, a sidebar to our website, seminalprojects.com. I hope this will become an exciting platform for spreading the word on all the great things--big and small--that are happening with the gallery, our artists, friends and collectors. Miyoshi Barosh's show, which closes this weekend, has been a big hit. I mean, everyone loves the work. It's definitely been one of my favorites. (People have compared her to Eva Hesse and Frank Stella, and I can see why--the work shows a lot of rigor and muscle, both physically and conceptually.) But I'm still waiting for the local museum people to come by--Stephanie Hanor, in particular. Miyoshi's "Love" would be a nice addition to the MCASD...

Othewise, Brian Dick dropped by earlier today. He's been missing the last couple months, busy fabricating his installation for the New Children's Museum that opens next Friday, May 2. No doubt his piece will be a showstopper...how did he describe it?...a recreation and melding of two of Allan Kaprow's seminal works. Hey, Brian, feel free to correct me and indulge us.

...that curious looking bench with the doily capped monster nipples-worts-sagging breasts-- that's Miyoshi Barosh's Our Lady of The Wellington (brilliant!)...somebody actually referred to it as an "upside-down pig" -- love it! But, definitely, my favorite comment came from a little girl who turned to her mom and said, "Mommy, I have an urge to sit on that!". ...and below is a slice of 'iron-lady' Heather Martin's show of paintings (Transpositional) in Gallery Two...