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Show embraces Durango's artistic underworld
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Photo by Courtesy of Kristen Smith
Kristen Smith hopes her oil “Barstool Mountain #1” will be among the items for sale at the “Ferocious Feelings” show Saturday night. The Durango artist will submit the painting today as dozens of other aspiring and established artists vie for space in the one-night-only event.
If you go
“Ferocious Feelings,” a guerrilla art show sponsored by Red Scarf Shots, Arts Perspective magazine and www.durangodowntown.com, from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday at 988 Main Ave. Music by DJ Mr. Anderson. Artist submissions will be accepted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the same address. Admission is $5 at the door with all proceeds donated to Leadership La Plata. For more information, e-mail carsonjones@hotmail.com.
McCarson Jones will go underground again in a very public way with Saturday’s “Ferocious Feelings” guerrilla art show. The inaugural event is an autumn counterpart to Jones’ successful “Deliciously Weird” show, which she will put on for the third consecutive year in February.
“I think people are eager and hungry and want to see things that are different, fresh and weird,” Jones said Wednesday.
Jones, once the executive director of the Durango Arts Center, began the local guerrilla art movement shortly after leaving the DAC in 2007 and held the first “Deliciously Weird” show in February 2008. She now works as a professional photographer through her own business, Red Scarf Shots, and holds the guerrilla shows for the pure joy of it.
She worked out a donation for the storefront formerly occupied by Popoli for Saturday’s show, which will feature the works of about 50 local artists. Artists keep 100 percent of their sales, and the entire take from the door will be donated to Leadership La Plata. There’s no overhead, but there’s also no profit to reward Jones’ work.
“The goal is to incorporate amateur and professional artists, including the gifted students at Fort Lewis (College) who wouldn’t even know how to get into a gallery. And galleries take big commissions,” Jones said.
Predicting what to expect at “Ferocious Feelings” is an exercise in futility. Jones sent out a mass call for artists, and she’s received more than 50 returned prospectuses from potential entrants. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, artists will be dropping their work off at the storefront on a first-come, first-serve basis. Each artist is limited to two submissions, and there are size restrictions, but once the space is full, Jones will cut off submissions.
She’ll spend tonight and Saturday hanging the show, which could include any and all forms of visual art. The “Ferocious Feelings” prospectus included the line, “Here comes the show for you! Pull your hearts out of your chests and open your mind to express what ever the hell you want to,” leaving things very much open to interpretation of the aspiring artists.
But early birds beware: Jones will newspaper the windows while she’s putting everything in place, so sneak previews are a no-no. She said she’s already aware of at least one video submission and expects a wide array of oils, watercolors, sculpture and 3-D art. And who knows what else.
“There are going to be artists of multiple ages and artistic skill, but it’s real art. It’s for the artist’s eye and those who look at it to judge what that means,” Jones said.
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