Open an art gallery

Our grand opening party is november 4th.

Here’s the flyer:

BREATHE.

We have a connection to possibly have the official Devo after party at our gallery on October 28th after the show. This is such exciting news. It would take a lot of coordination, but seems very feasible right now. Hopefully we can get some crucial meetings and affairs taken care of this week in order to determine whether this can happen or not.

The best part is it would help fund our official grand opening, which will have a fully curated art exhibit a few days later on november 4th. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Oh my god! I’m so tired! But guess what?

My dreams came true this weekend.

I’ve never been able to say that before.

Say hello to The Gray Area Gallery, SF. Contemporary art, and club space.

I’M SOOOOOOOO TIRED.

We open September 23rd.

Oh, the set-backs. To make a long story short because I’ve told it so many times, we are all taking a day off today because of a nail, Adrian’s eye, and the surgery he had to have last night when the two were combined.

It was really bad.

We have so much work to do. I’m really stressed out.

But on the contrary, I did have a lovely day today just the same.

The past couple days have been intense.

Yesterday, 4-5 people came to help us nail up new drywall. Even though it was super hot in the loft everybody worked really hard and we got 100% of the drywall up and about 75% of said drywall mudded.

I was SO tired last night I couldn’t even update.

Today, it was just me Jette and Carrie again. A few hours into work, and right about when I got the last wall mudded up, Carrie fell off a ladder. It was so scary! I have an enormous fear of things you can fall backwards off of: ladders, step stools, even escalators that go up make me nervous. I have to either turn sideways to stand on one or have someone stand directly behind me.

There are fears, and then there are irrational fears. Like in the movie Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Merryl Streep plays a lady who is terrifyed of real estate agents. Irrational fear. This is my irrational fear. (One of them)

I’m not afraid of heights, I’m not afraid of falling, I’m afraid of falling backwards. I think I may have vertigo. Anyways, the irony is I’m opening an art gallery, where stuff has to be hung on ladders every day. And in this construction phase we have to be on ladders ALL THE TIME. Not me! I stay on the ground. I made it clear it had to be that way when we started construction.

Long story short, Carrie fell because she was being careless, not because of the ladder. She actually fell off the ladder and through a piece of drywall, which was very dramatic. But thank god the dry wall was there! When I moved it, there was a huge crowbar underneath with the pointed end facing up. Who knows where that could have ended up otherwise. :l

I’m taking tomorrow off to get my hair done (yay), then it’s back to the salt mine on Wednesday. More then.

So, after nearly 2 weeks of being sick, some paperwork stuff, and the land lords lagging on some stuff, we are back to work tomorrow.

It’s off to Home Depot in the morning to buy dry wall, then we’ll spend the majority of the afternoon recovering the wall surfaces. It will be a busy day, but apparently (and hopefully) we have 5 or so people coming by to help us. Even if only one person comes, it would be a huge help.

I am SO glad most of the really hard work is finished, and glad that each day we put in now will be more fun and creatively progressive. That is, if we finish that drywall tomorrow!

It’s really coming together.

We knocked down the last of the drywall today and pulled off all the rest of the old ceiling panelling and the gallery’s loft space looks SO much bigger and more spacious now.

I am learning so much about construction it’s funny. It’s one of the careers that I never thought I’d ever know anything about, and now it’s what I do on a daily basis.

But actually don’t mind. Every beam that falls is one beam closer to us opening. It’s incredible how fast this is all happening.

Tomorrow we are having and open call for help day because we have to painstakingly clean all of the ceiling beams with wood cleaner. Since we pulled the panells off and the ceiling is exposed, we now have to clear the soot and it’s not pretty. Or clean. At all. I went home today wishing my contact lenses had windshield wipers. You don’t even want to know what it was like blowing my nose.

The worst will soon be over though. The place will clean up great and tomorrow I’m going to continue taking pictures of all of our friends helping us build the gallery. It’s something fun I’ve been doing for a while now.

It’s really such an awesome experience. I’m really a lucky girl.

karate kicking through drywall is fun!

we got our keys a few days ago, now we are working on re-constructing the gallery’s inside. this pro*ect is chugging along slowly but surely, but I’m really happy about it.

I felt like the Kool-Aid man busting through the walls. OOOOOH YEAH.