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Zoe Strauss’ Under I-95 closes with a bang
May 3, 2010 · 4 Comments
It was a hot and sticky afternoon but that didn’t keep the crowds away for Zoe Strauss‘ final Under I-95 exhibition and sale. Here’s some pictures and a few facts:
Claiming his picture, a happy customer at about 3:30 pm. Everybody had to wait til 4 pm to grab the picture.
Somebody counted down the last few seconds before 4 pm and at 4 you could hear the swish of the pictures being ripped off the wall. And lots of people applauded and cheered for Zoe who has just completed an amazing 10-year public art project.
This young woman staked out one of Zoe's edgy, hard to look at portraits.
Top selling pictures, according to business manager extraordinaire (and sister of the artist) Savannah Roberts, and volunteer Christine Rybicki
the mattress flip
the mattresses with balloons
artblog web guru Kelani Edmundson claiming one of the popular word pictures.
anything with words
People staked out their pillars early this year to claim the picture they really wanted to rip off the wall and take home with them. People’s choices were interesting and Zoe has something for everyone.
Picture stalkers bringing home the goods at 4:01.
People we saw/talked to late in the afternoon when we arrived: Sid Sachs; Ditta Baron Hoeber and Frank Hoeber; Brent Burket; Paula Marincola; Ingrid Schaffner; Laurence Salzmann; Karen Lightner; Astrid Bowlby, who had been there since 10:30 volunteering; Sarah Roche; Katy Grauer and boyfriend Chris; Kelani Edmundson and Howie Ross; David Kessler; Damian Weinkrantz; Adam Wallacavage and others.
More photos at the Under I-95 flickr pool.
Tags: 10 years, under i-95 2010, zoe strauss
Readers Comments (4)
I missed it, for a good reason, but luckily scored big time last year. The Zoe-a-nater is amazing!
Its taken a while to put my thoughts about Zoe’s show into comment form. That’s a sign of good art-it makes one think too many thoughts to be summed up easily. Of course the photos are great to look at, but I also loved the theatre of the event, like people guarding their choice of photo. I’d walk up and from a distance see a person standing next to a photo on the pillar. Many matched their photo like an outfit. Others told me reasons why they’d picked the pic- as usual it was mostly arbitrary but a few would mention formal qualities or other artsy fartsy reasons… Eh, my words habitually misrepresent me so I’ll just say it is so, so, so great to see many different kinds of people enjoying art… And nice to smoke a cigarette in a gallery!
I love that! And yes, it was interesting how the people and pictures sometimes matched. Sad it’s over but whatever comes next will surely be great as well!