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I was just informed last evening that the Brighton Gates Gallery has
discontinued my art show a little early. Too bad and a little disappointing to
say the least. Next week I will extract
the work and move it back home.
It appears that there has been a double booking of some sort… or
internal politics of some sort… who knows???
Flash back...
Oh boy… what a flash back for me.
In fact the flash back is to the year 1992 and a Gallery in Yorkton,
Saskatchewan that saw “flames” of the same sort take place in their effort to
reach out to the community. Artists were
waiting with very good shows and one person blew it all up.
(I am not certain about Brighton and The Gates Gallery… nor what might
have happened.)
Why would one person get away with it?
How could it happen? In Yorkton’s case I am sure it was pure and simple
jealousy. In fact I was suspicious of
that when it happened and even more convinced when I witnessed the incidents
that followed.
Who would do such a thing? The
name in Yorkton’s case was dear “Margaret C”.
Margaret C fancied herself as an “artistic person know it all”. Nope she
couldn’t paint, draw or create anything at all. But she knew people who did…
and she knew people in the creative world that she schmoozed with. She knew actors, actresses and directors of
movies etc. She hobnobbed in the elite
circles of the Artistic World of Art Patrons that had money to splash
around. She knew people that were the
controllers of all things artistic in the larger community of the Prairie. They were People that came out for large cocktail
parties, acted phony as all get out, and stood in front of the art work for
photographs to be taken of them. They were called “Patrons”. People that knew
nothing about Art and couldn’t draw a Stick Man but thought they were the Cat’s
Meow – were more likely the Cat’s other end.
Margaret C was a piece of something else. Margaret C had British roots – everyone knew
that. And having that kind of heritage she flaunted it as well. Her artistic abilities – or at least what she
thought she had were away above what he local Riffraff possessed. The local Riffraff being Ukrainian, Rumanian and
Aboriginal people that painted silly things of their culture – or whatever they
did in “that other culture”. Yep Margaret C was a piece of work – and that “piece”
was not in the artistic sense!
Margaret C was a pain in the Cat’s other end… and a real problem in the
Gallery as well as to all local artist’s community.
How do I know all this? Well I was
a volunteer on the Gallery Board of Directors, the folk that were in the know
of what was happening in the art world.
More than that we had moved from the Toronto area – making us somewhat
valuable as a new outsider – inserted into the local Riffraff’s world. At least that is what Margaret C seemed to
imply when she took me aside to recruit me for the position.
Actually Margaret C was in need of an ally to move the vote her way when
she acted out in her nutsy way. And I
guess she assumed that I would follow her anywhere if she gave me the
opportunity to “serve” on the elite Gallery Board of Directors.
I cannot share the whole story of all Margaret C’s goings on. It would
simply sound ridiculous I am sure. But I can share that when I felt like
walking away from the stupid things Margaret C did and said on the Board of Directors…
the other Board of Director members begged me to stay on… and not be thrown by
Margaret C’s antics. I was caught in the
middle of it all and it made me sick!!
Valuable staff quit – or were fired because of Margaret C getting her
way. I mean if it wasn’t done Margaret C would walk away and then what would
the poor Gallery do without any connections with the big world outside the
little Gallery.
What a bunch of Bull Crap! On the
prairie they use other words for things like this!!! They call it “Government”… they call it “Ottawa”…
and they will have little to do with it.
And that was the way it was in the community. Everyone knew about
Margaret C and what she was like. And
every one of the Riffraff avoided that place called the Gallery.
Flash back! Hokey Mokey – double over.
A Margaret C flash back!
Now I don’t know about Brighton’s case but after a while you start
getting the same old vibes… and it smells funny all over again.
Back to Saskatchewan
again… and Margaret C…
I did quit and get away from the stupidity… and my reason that I gave
was that my plan was again to begin producing my art. I needed time to produce
my pieces of art with less and less time for the Board of Directors. Not true
but it worked.
I did enter the next Art Competition – a juried show and won hands down.
My work blew people away. It was then
automatically propelled from the local gallery and became the local community’s
entry in the Provincial Competition… and at that highest level it won again. It had so moved people that they often stood
wiping tears from their eyes – or walked away with a very sober look on their faces.
The Art Patrons that Margaret C associated with were blown away… and
asked if any of the show pieces were for sale. They asked what my next plans
were for what I had done. One of largest galleries in Western Canada had their
curator at the show. She asked me to contact her when the show was complete…
and they would consider showing my work.
That was the high moment in my life.
Margaret C beamed with pride as she introduced me as an artist from her
community. Bull Crap!
Fast Forward to The
Gates in Brighton…
The show that had won the accolades way back then… is now the one in The
Gates…in Brighton. And would you or
could you have thought that a ruckus would come from yet another showing. Nope I am not sure that I was the reason… or
that my art work was the reason… but I am sure that Margaret C is involved
somewhere – or maybe her ghost is.
Sheesh!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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