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The York Gallery; Wednesday [ 05/14 ] -- Exhibit Opening!

Charlotte always found a new exhibit opening to be exciting, and she was a little surprised that she actually wasn't feeling too nervous about this one, either! With the exception of a few of the artist's pastels and wall sculptures, the majority of the Bruce Naigles pieces were scattered aesthetically on the main gallery floor, and her personal favorite took the center position. The table of treats and hors devours was set out, as well as the amazing punch fountain, and everything was ready!

The York Gallery was open!

[[ ocd ~~on the way~~ is up!; be mindful that many of the links will take you to lots of artistic nudity; up early because I have a brief social life tonight, oooh ]]

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For the employees and other volunteers interested in helping before the opening!

For the mingling and viewing of the exhibit (http://www.absolutearts.com/jareach/), discussion of the artist (http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/j/jareach/artist_statement.html), and, hey! There's even kind of a theme based on locale here!

A rather nice spread of ~~completely moddable~~ snacks and drinks are spread out, but, of course, there's a Greek theme (so, so much baklava!).

After tonight, I can finally have people stop yelling "WHY HAVEN'T YOU SEEN IRONMAN YET?"

After his shift at the station, Dale arrived at the gallery and began to visit each piece of art, spending a good bit of time rflecting on them.

Charlotte had delicately timed when she would break away a bit to address Dale so that it couldn't be conceived as too early after his arrival to make her seem eager, but not so far after it that it might appear that she was too busy to have noticed him.

"Glad to see you made it!" she commented, although she really had no doubts that he would.

Dale looked up from the piece of art he was examining closely and gave Charlotte a grin. "Well, how could I resist? Your secrecy made the exhibit too enticing for me to miss," he said.

"Well," Charlotte shrugged a little with a light grin, "I do have a marketing scheme or two up my sleeve on occasion. Was it worth the suspense?"

"Absolutely," Dale said his attention being drawn to the next item. "These forms are amazing. Of course I probably would have come without the suspense but..."

Dale shrugged and grinned. "It did make me anticipate the exhibit that much more."

Murdock wandered through the gallery, studying the sculptures and paintings.

"See?" Charlotte beamed. "I'll have to make sure to keep things mostly under wraps, then, although a hint or two for future exhibits might not hurt. I am dealing with a detective, here, though, so I'll have to be careful with even that!"

"This one," she added, "wasn't exactly what I had in mind for a second exhibit, but, I figured, we're near Greece, we really need a nice classical approach, I think."

"Good to see you made it, Murdock," Charlotte greeted him with a little wave when she spotted him and she could break away from hostess duties. "I apologize," she added with a nod toward the sculptures, "for their lack of guns."

Although she was thinking a classical Greek sculpture with firearms would make quite the commentary!

"Hints?" Dale said looking amused. "Oh, you do know how to reel me in, don't you? And I think your choice for the exhibit is perfect considering the locale. Does the artist strictly work with the human form or has he done other styles?"

"As far as I can tell," Charlotte said with a nod, "almost entirely human forms. I remember encountering in my research on him that the subtlety of body language is what drives his creativity, for the most part."

He grinned at her. "Guns ain't necessary. Really, I wouldn't have expected them to show up. I don't find them very artistic anyway."

"Choppers on the other hand..." he waggled his eyebrows.

Dale had to smile at that. "He's probably a very astute observer. I've learned to read a person's body language over the years as an investigator. Watching a person for any hidden tells, some unexpressed emotion. That may be why I'm enjoying this particular exhibit so much."

"I think I'd be a little hardpressed," Charlotte commented with a grin, "to manage to fit a bronze chopper in here. I mean, well, of course, unless it was just a scaled model, but that wouldn't be as impressive, I don't think."

Because he couldn't help feeling like he needed to fill up every moment of his time with things he could do absolutely and utterly by himself, Cal decided to check out the art gallery thing that he read about on the diner bulletin board. Looking at statues and stuff. Cool. He could dig it...

Charlotte's smirk went a little wry. It wasn't exactly news to herself that she had a tendency to just wear her emotions right on her sleeve, and that Dale probably didn't even need all that experience to read her like a book, but it did amuse her to think about it. "I'm rather fond of the mediums, for the most part, in this exhibit," she disclosed. "All the bronze. It's a bit ironic: such a strong, hard sort of metal, but then the pieces have such a soft and flowing effect."

"Can you tell me about the process the artist uses?" Dale asked. "Does the make the molds by hand or does he take them from a model?"

"Yah," he glanced around the gallery, "a bit small to fit one in. Plus you're roof don't open. How the heck would you get it inside?"

"If it was a working scaled model," he mused. "I dunno. I think the bronze would add too much weight. Muck up the lift, not to mention it would throw the balance of the rotors. Assuming you could get it to take off, it'd probably crash pretty horribly. And that would stink."

"You know," Charlotte's head tilted after a moment, "I'm not entirely sure. I'm inclined to lean toward models for most, if you take into consideration that the forms tend to present a much more realistic concept of the human body, rather than a, quote, unquote, 'ideal.'"

"Well," Charlotte said, chuckling a little in amusement, "for the most part, art doesn't tend to be functional, though you do have a point. And a special exhibit eventually on functional art could just be fascinating."

Dale nodded in agreement. "Most of the forms do conform more to a natural body type than say... well a more exaggerated type. However looking at a good deal of these sculptures, I can't help but think I'd be seeing them at the Smithsonian gallery in DC. They are very much like the those classic sculptures."

"That would be cool! Art with a purpose," he nodded seriously.

"Though I suppose *all* art has a purpose on some levels. Otherwise why have it? The artist is always trying to convey some kind of message. Just a matter of what you interpret that message to be. So its purpose would be to make people think."

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