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Facebook performance tomorrow by Rachel Perry Welty…how you ask?

This just in from Rachel Perry Welty, whom we saw at Pulse.  BTW, her gallery, Yancey Richardson, sold out all her work at the fair!  Good going!  So now Rachel is celebrating with a Facebook performance–another big step for humankind in cyberspace.  Here’s what she wrote:

An Eyefull in Old City

Rachel Perry Welty Let there be Cuties (2008) fruit stickers and archival adhesive on paper, 11″ x 11″, courtesy Gallery JoeOld City is full of interesting work at the moment. Libby’s already covered the array of artists at Gallery Joe and I second her enthusiasm although she only gave brief mention to Rachel Perry Welty’s “drawings” made from fine lines cut out of fruit stickers (which I assume are those dreadful little labels that I always peel off before putting the fruit in the bowl). They are actually collages but have the simplicity and look of effortlessness of Zen ink ... More » »

Is that a video at Gallery Joe? Yes, and so much more

Rachel Perry Welty, Friends & Family, video on DVD, 8 minutes, edition of 25 Not meaning to slight the various other wonderful work at Gallery Joe, I had to lead with the video! This has to be a first in the history of this jewel of a gallery that usually limits its shows to intense drawings. The video, by Rachel Perry Welty, is excellent and hilarious–I stood for all 8 minutes, not wanting to miss a word. But you know how it is when you get a message on a phone machine, and some of the words come through a ... More » »