UP early and writing, editing digital video, and wrapping brain around ART, again, in Los Angeles. Skip Snow’s, “Intervention I: Exchange,” demands attention. What is value? Does the market for art determine its value? Can there be value outside the art market for art endeavors? Snow’s “Intervention I: Exchange,” in which Frau Kolb and, fine art photographer, Todd Gray participated on the 28th of September 2012, on the sidewalk out side blue chip gallery Blum and Poe, currently showing Friedrich Kunath "Lacan's Haircut," a whimsical tour-de-force of imaginative punch and visual-linguistic pyrotechinics (a must-see for Culver City) explores these and other art world issues of entrance and recognition. In this street performance, Mr. Snow, invites strangers and friends to exchange their, “identity,” for an original high quality painting by Snow, an immediately recognizable artist. The idea is to involve passers by in a dialogue on art that is anything but casual. One of many questions which artists grapple with on a daily basis is voiced by Snow in the most public of places, the street.
Is financial return the only indicator of an artist’s success?
Clearly, we don’t think so... yet, we ALL welcome attention and the trappings of power. Right?