Michael Pierce
"Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits all around the world"
oil pastels, graphite, and wax on gessoed plastic
estimated retail value: $500
"I was a 1708 artist member for 5 years in the late 80s (from 1986 - 1991) and on the executive committee for a couple of years. We were still in the Bottom and there was always a struggle with funding to stay open along with the mammoth efforts that went into keeping the gallery running day-to-day, including such things as cleaning out the gallery from the floods we used to have. It was also during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and in 1989 Lauri Crow and I organized the community's first "Day without Art" event to recognize the many artists we were losing from AIDS (we took all of the art out of the gallery and instead showed a few panels from the AIDS quilt and - and just let people come by and write about their losses.) It was a sad time watching many of our young artist peers dwindle and die. But we showed some great art during that time - sometimes we were responding to the various political and social crises around us and sometimes we just wanted to show people things they'd never seen before just to enlighten and/or amuse them. "
"Let's pretend we're bunny rabbits all around the world"
oil pastels, graphite, and wax on gessoed plastic
estimated retail value: $500
"I was a 1708 artist member for 5 years in the late 80s (from 1986 - 1991) and on the executive committee for a couple of years. We were still in the Bottom and there was always a struggle with funding to stay open along with the mammoth efforts that went into keeping the gallery running day-to-day, including such things as cleaning out the gallery from the floods we used to have. It was also during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and in 1989 Lauri Crow and I organized the community's first "Day without Art" event to recognize the many artists we were losing from AIDS (we took all of the art out of the gallery and instead showed a few panels from the AIDS quilt and - and just let people come by and write about their losses.) It was a sad time watching many of our young artist peers dwindle and die. But we showed some great art during that time - sometimes we were responding to the various political and social crises around us and sometimes we just wanted to show people things they'd never seen before just to enlighten and/or amuse them. "
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