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First Friday fun!
Had the chance to get out last night and do some downtown Dayton art-gallery First Friday stuff, and had fun seeing new art, visiting the spots and seeing old friends.
We started out at DVAC, where the members show — a pretty darn good one, btw — runs through Aug. 20, which means you still have time to go see it. This is one of the best, if not the very best, way to see what’s being made in studios around the Miami Valley in a single, lively stop. Good stuff to be seen … and purchased, if you’re of a mind!
After that it was over to the Cannery, where there is a lot of new stuff on the walls, and where some cool after-hours jazz was brewing. We dropped by K12 and then over to Fifth Street, where the sidewalks were hoppin’.
Loretta Puncer, one of my favorite local artists, is up something brand new for her at the 510 Gallery she owns on Fifth… She’s moved away for a while from her realist work and photography and has started taking glued, gessoed rags, strings and strips of fabric and working them onto a canvas, and then using those as the basis for the designs she paints… She is working with subtle new color palettes, a lot of warm colors in particular, and is really accomplishing some neat stuff. I like that Loretta is always trying something different, and never gets locked into one thing.
Anyway, after all that fun we were hungry, and too close to the Oregon Express not to get a pizza up on the balcony … watching Dayton as the trails rolled by and Freakshow bashed out its hardcore rock, very loudly, downstairs.
A perfect nite? Pretty dang close, I’d say.
See you next First Friday…
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