Pix: Opening night at Art-o-matic
Got down to Navy Yard on a beautiful post-storm Friday night and spent hours walking through the experience. The crowds were big but spread out comfortably over the nine floors of the unfinished building above the Metro, and area artists packed the space from wall to wall. Overwhelming? Yes. Excellent? Yes. Started with finding Gonzaga's own Ed Johnston, showing on the 4th floor, and then made it through about half the building with friend Kathleen, representing for the other Big Shiny tower and a friend of the Johnstons from back in the day.
I'll post the pictures of Ed's cool work tomorrow or Monday, but for starters, here's the rest of the show we saw. It was absolutely worth going. Finding the neighborhood alive and busy with the Nats stadium dark was fun — and only the start of the experience. To start with…
All kinds of city art around. This one at a distance looked like a river.
Sounds of birds, sounds of bees coming from inside the hives, buzzz…
Post Secret guy and his team had lots of postcards and a secret booth.
No wonder she didn't want to marry him. (Admission: Had to Wiki it.)
Pure bug beauty.
Duck duck goose, apple apple Mentos, etc, with prices in progress.
Just to the right of this display was one for queens.
From the card: "Little Cabin on the Hill (2009). Antique wood, old keys, violin strings. A bluegrass piece by Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe. Oh, someone has taken you from me, / And left me here all alone / Just listen to the rain beat on my window pane / In our little cabin home on the hill."
The line for the bar, opposite the hard-rocking accordion-led band.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:38 PM
[...] was a good friend at Gonzaga, and it was great to catch up at his Artomatic wall. We hadn't seen each other since graduation 11 years ago, so of course it was like [...]