Category Archives: DavisOrtonGallery

Sunday – 11/29/2015

After breakfast and the NYTimes, walked down to river then up alley to look at David Brown’s new house there. Talked with Joe about the birds living in his backyard and the hawk lurking about. Continued up the alley identifying as many of the buildings with regard to their Warren St. presence. On the way back down Warren ran into Joe again. He spoke of living in his condo at the end of the alley on Front St. Noisy neighbors. Plans to move to Eureka CA.

Hung up Karen’s posters in barn.

A scene of street art from Melbourne.

Later….

Not more than 8 people in gallery. Made butternut squash and chickpeas stew. Leftover chicken and brussel sprouts in mustard sauce.

Friday – 11/27/2015

Drove back from Berkeley Heights in just under two hours – 131 miles door to door. Obviously no real traffic.

Pretty much a lost day….. except for a little work on the iPad holder for the front hall.

Leftovers for dinner – turkey

Karen added the broccoli

Saturday – 11/21/2015

Nancy Hart and Liz Buckley came for a visit. Paul Steward arrived too. they stayed after we finally got all of the visitors out the door. Had spaghetti. Good time.

Opening Reception for Photobook ’15

A complete mob scene. 6 or 7 of the 20 photographers showed. Brought their posses with them.

Saturday – 11/14/2015

Another slow day at gallery.

Drove to Bard for concert. Went early to stop at Tivoli Artists Gallery. I was totally disoirented by the name of the show. Kept on looking for a connection stated by the tagline for the show but not in fact present.

The concert was much shorter than the first in this series. Not super interesting really.

Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8

Saturday – 10/10/2015

More work on office in barn, then pick up food at Letterbox Farm.

HAL information table at Farmers’ Market 11 to 1pm. Talked with quite a few people. More are aware and even enthused about the new library.

View out from table at Farmers’ Market

DOG Opening

Good turnout. Chinese food after the reception with David Drake, Liz Allen, Ellen Slotnick.

Tuesday – 10/6/2015

Up early, at desk working on marketing for DOG and UTM stuff. Started to work on taxes, got to finish these before 10/15.

Lowes delivered the building materials for the office in the barn. neat little forklift with wheels that rotated on all four.

See Office in Barn for the rest of the notes about this project.

Saturday – 4/11/2015

Breakfast at Bob’s followed by shopping.

DOG Opening

Good turn out and sold two more pieces. Avoided dinner out afterwards.

Saturday – 4/4/2015

Sun over Walmart

Gym….. Breakfast at Bob’s. Then to Walmart.

Gallery opens for season.

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Tuesday – 3/31/2015

First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

First DOG show of 2015 ready to hang

Kay Kenny’s house

Serious garden defenses at Kenny house

Snow almost gone.

Lots of UTM work. Meetings with Jan and Seth and Eliel. Talked about the long overdue website. Seems that Seth and Eliel are flailing around and each other.

Cleaned up HAL Armory site and worked on new calendar plugin for HAL website.

Hung up the first DOG show. Went to Kay Kenny’s house in Saugerties to pick up her pictures. Had to break in thru screen door.

4/5/2014 – launch of DavisOrtonEditions.com

Friday

This online business, now defunct, was set up to sell 8.5 x 11 inch prints from a wide range of photographers at a standard $100 price. Karen corralled over 50 photographers into participating. DavisOrtonEditions.com was set up as the e-commerce platform.

We held a pop-up show to kick it off. Some of the work was matted and framed so that people could see how such a relatively small print size would look hanging on the wall.