I was walking in Jonction with Monkey Boy the other day when we came by this new gallery (or new to me anyway).
This gallery aims (among a number of things) to promote local artists in the Lake Geneva region and make their works accessible to the larger public. And accessible they do indeed make them. Not only is it possible to buy works, but you can also rent them! This means you can test drive a piece before you commit or if you need variety in your life, you can regularly alternate what you display in your home.
This is truly excellent. Aspiring artists and aspiring art collectors rarely get a change to meet one another at the opening gate. And art can just seem so intimidating and beyond reach for us prolos. I love this two way democratization.
I am looking forward to checking out the works on offer and who knows, maybe something locally made and fabulous will come to grace my walls.
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the Seattle Art Museum does that as well and I've always thought it's a cool way to encourage appreciation of local artists. I rented from them a few times...easy way to feel like you can have some fancy art on the wall without paying an arm and a leg. Very cool!
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