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On Friday, Feb. 24, 2006, the art show, "Accepted/Declined", featured
new work by artist Fay Golson opened at The Arkansas Valley Art Center
(at the Colorado Mountain College in Buena Vista). Golson said "This show
is about persistence, about acceptance of rejection, about developing
a thick skin as an artist and a person. The whole process of having your
work accepted into a juried show or into a gallery can be laborious, trying,
and even painful. To persist at showing your work means moving forward
no matter the hurt, the self-doubt, the sheer will involved in overcoming
rejection. The appreciation of art is a matter of opinion and taste, not
fact. If you ask six people their reaction to your work, theyıre likely
to give six diverging responses. The slide imagery in this work alludes
to the format shows and galleries impose on submissions. The images in
oil are actual images from my work, past and present - as well as brand-new
images created especially for this show. In essence, this is a retrospective
of my struggles with confidence and persistence, reviewing where my work
as been and where it is going. This work confronts the issues of confidence,
acceptance, and persistence that are an essential part of living any honest
human life."
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