Douglas Witmer
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Monday, June 06, 2005
social life with links
This weekend I made it out of the house and was able to meet several artists whose work I've been following and admiring for a long time.
Linn Meyers is based in DC and currently has a show here in Philadelphia at Gallery Joe . Her reception was on Friday. I saw her work for the first time in NY nearly 5 years ago, and wrote her a piece of fan mail. We've been corresponding casually since then. I'm interviewing her and the interview will appear soon on Fallon & Rosof's Artblog .
Linn introduced me to Anne Seidman , whose work I've been following here. She's also a web designer and has done some great sites for other Philadelphia artists. You can get to those links through her site.
Finally, Vince & Lisa Romaniello had a party on Saturday, where I was finally able to meet Tim McFarlane . It turns out Tim and I have been checking each other out from afar for quite a while now. We joked about how there should be a website for artists that's set up like a dating service. Instead of finding love interests, you get hooked up with people who match your artistic/aesthetic profile. (He and I would probably be in "art love" by now!) Tim has a show of new work coming up this fall here at Bridgette Mayer.
Vincent Romaniello will have a show of his work at Gallery Siano this coming October. In conjunction with that, there will be a "sideshow" of work by the artists he has documented on his video blog, including work by Tim and myself. Stay tuned for details.
6.6.05 
3 Comments:
Douglas...thanks for (re)introducing these great artists to us...Tim McFarlane's piece makes me think that this might be what Sean Scully's filing cabinet looks like. I like the idea for the artist's "dating service"...although we might get paired with "realists"...don't opposites attract?
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GIERSCHICK, at
6/06/2005
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6/12/2005
What Anonymous said, that I inadvertently deleted was:
Thats a telling comment 'gierschick'. Why do you say "realists" are opposite. Aren't we all just doing the same thing...making art that is?
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Posted by Anonymous to dgls at 6/12/2005 08:17:54 AM
By Douglas Witmer, at
6/17/2005