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Virtual Identities, Real Space: Opening Success
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Valerie Atkisson
Prior to starting ArtBistro, Valerie lived and worked as an artist in New York City for ten years. Her work has been shown at New York galleries and museums and been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times. Valerie taught art for eight years part-time at Grace Church School and most recently at Brigham Young University. She has collaborated on a number of commercial enterprises with composers, designers, writers, photographers, and dancers. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts with her Master of Fine Arts in 1998. ArtBistro Portfolio
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Valerie Atkisson / ArtBistro
October 12, 2009
ArtBistro and the Sego Art Center joined together to make a gallery show for ArtBistro users a reality. The opening last night and was a major success. In short, the work selected for this international juried show was meaningful, probing and professional. Over 600 visitors flocked to the gallery throughout the night. It was the the place to be and many commented to me how impressed they were with the show.
Several artists from the international competition came to the opening. One artist would have had to travel from China.
Artist, Pooneh Maghazehe flew in from New York City to be a the opening. In fact, she and her friend Elizabeth Hamby created an guerilla art piece on the exterior wall of the Sego Art Center earlier in the week.
About traveling to Utah Pooneh said, “We’ve been really busy. I spoke at Brigham Young University to the art students there and tomorrow we are going to the Spiral Jetty. It has been great. Everyone is to nice and it is beautiful here.”
A video projection animation and two computer based works were in the backroom of the gallery.
I enjoyed seeing ArtBistro Artists’ work live for the first time and will tell you more about that next week. But I wanted you to know what a success the show is. After the opening the artists, friends and Jason Metcalf, the show curator, took the after party to a local restaurant. What a fun evening. I wish you were there!
woodart
about 1 month ago
420 comments
Looked like it was happen'n the mostest.
zaky2007
11 months ago
816 comments
wonderfull i wish be with you to share you your work and i hope to be amember in your team
magzay2002
about 1 year ago
4 comments
valerie! thank you so much for the article - we are having a wonderful time here and plan to make it back to Utah for more later... thanks again
Daisy6279
about 1 year ago
294 comments
Very cool.
valerie
about 1 year ago
1878 comments
Coming on Tuesday!
Account Removed
about 1 year ago
soooo....how do we see the show from here?
plucero
about 1 year ago
1228 comments
Nice venue for a Art Bistro show. When is the next show and how often will you hold it?
Patrick
ArtBistroModerator
about 1 year ago
10 comments
I hope you are gearing up for next time!