Got accepted into a really big show
 

There is a group called NSS, National Sculpture Society based on the East Coast, they are having a sculpture show in San Diego for 2017 and I entered it. First big thing I have tried, mostly small stuff around here. I got my acceptance letter the other day. It will start with a reception January 7 in The Sparks Gallery located on Sixth St in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. I haven't been there but it looks like a big spot. The biggest thing to happen to me in my sculpture life. It will run for about two months. This is the Polar Bear I entered, about 80 lbs of Italian Marble.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1472831627.jpg

congrat's and well done..
love the bear...
I remember when you started this journey..
and in time ..
the next show ..
will be yours..

Rika

Great news!!! Good luck with this.

Congratulations, Dean. Best of luck and enjoy the experience.

Well done! :)

Your acceptance is well deserved Dean. You have leapt to a high levels in your sculpting and folks will enjoy your piece.

Hope you don't mind a hijack. Last week we did a show of my moms work, at the care home where she is staying now.

She got started in sculpting in her mid sixties and immediately started producing good pieces right away. Kind of blew our minds at the time to see her work.

The show at the care home was a resounding success. The residents were so interested and antimated by the seeing the pieces.

I only have some snaps I took at the show and while preparing.


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Very cool, Dean. I have admired the work you have posted here. You have a very nice sensibility.

Tevake: Also very cool!

Congratulations.

Congratulations, Dean! That polar bear has "spoken" to me since you first showed us the piece in process.

Great Work

That's fantastic, and I feel your excitement about it. Congratulations!!

Congratulations, I feel safe saying we will all be routing for you to win big.

WOW! We have some real artists among our ranks, and their family members. I'm very impressed!

Congrats Dean! I don't always comment on your artistic threads, but I've always been impressed with your talent...well done.

Tevake and Bey, that is flat out cool.

+1

tevake, those are cool, I have a really tough time with faces. I know people that have classes in clay and would teach me but I must be too lazy to go.

Thank you everyone for your kind comments.

I've said it here before, that's really good work. Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Although I must say, transporting that would be a bear! Hehe

Your others are good but I REALLY like that bear

Your early work was very, very good but you are really improving!
That bear is beautiful!

Very Cool. Congrats.

Again, thank you all for your comments and you can see it "live" in San Diego, The Sparks Gallery, 560 sixth st, The Gaslamp Quarter. A ways away, the Reception open to the public is the evening of 7 January from 6 to 9 and the show runs for two months. I already got a hotel a couple blocks away so I can have a wine or two and not drive home.

nice. congrats.
i recall your interest in native art. when we crossed paths. in La La Land aka Vancouver.

That's what started this, I couldn't even spell art before that trip, and that motorcycle museum was great.

Well done Mr Dean. Just don't talk politics when you're there ;)

Very cool. Congrats.

LOL..but if you do, make sure you've had a few glasses of wine first :)

Good for you! You really deserve that spot. Your work is excellent and that bear would be perfect by my garden pond in winter.

What? A Polar Bear walking on ICE!?

Well now that's not very politically correct at all. :D

Didn't you get the memo that says that the ice caps all melted in 2012 and Polar Bears have been swimming about ever since? ;)

Seriously, tho, nice work; obviously.

When I saw this thread I thought immediately of this!
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Glad you didn't have to die to get "In the Gallery". Congrats!

Your sculpture work is fantastic, as always Dean. You truly deserve a spot at the show, and the accolades from everyone that has seen your works. Very nice stuff.

All the best. :cool:

Nice work and congrats. Way cool!