![]() I think that's an admirable quality about the arts that makes them worth supporting.Ĭayce Goldberg A mystery patron offers you unlimited funds for life. Galleries are a public service in many ways, giving artists' work some well-deserved dignity while providing a free outlet for culture to the public. It's rewarding to contribute to your city's cultural landscape. Not only are you arranging and hanging exhibits every month - taking one down, hanging one up and facilitating the next shows - but you're also dealing with the logistics of coordinating artists in current and upcoming shows, conceptualizing and planning exhibits twelve, eighteen months out, running advertising and marketing campaigns, hosting events, maintaining your space, shipping and receiving art, reviewing portfolios, answering e-mails, developing new programs, building relationships with artists and collectors, pushing paperwork, trying to stay up on local shows and new talent, playing the social-media game…and reminding yourself to breathe, enjoy it and go one day at a time. Underneath the veneer, it's a complicated machine. You hang pictures and people come look at them, big deal. Being a gallerist is interesting because it looks simple if you're doing your job right. I'm the curator at Helikon Gallery & Studios. Art is the heritage of humanity it’s crucially important that we give it back to the people through openness, affordability and an encouragement to enjoy art on an individual level instead of worrying about what they “ought” to like. It ultimately keeps them away from the arts and inadvertently contributes to the difficulty of art as a sustainable career. It contributes to the alienation of the average person, convincing them that art is an insular charade they need a degree to enjoy. The result is a background feeling of dismissive contempt across the arts. There's too much negativity among different circles of artists, art venues and audiences. I want to see an end to the century-long trend of the art world building walls between genres. And at least that's interesting.Ĭayce Goldberg What's one art trend you want to see die this year? It's "kids these days" and "the country going straight to hell." Well, I don't think things are the worst they've ever been, but they're definitely weird. I think every generation has the mistaken perspective that things are worse than ever. This is an era of contradiction, uncertainty, misinformation and absurdity. We've got thousands of photos of the surface of Mars - and people who think the Earth is flat. We're more connected than ever and more fearful and mistrusting of others. We have troves of knowledge freely available, but we're awash in fake news and conspiracy theories. We're totally saturated in imagery, in news, in entertainment, in fear, in ideology, in opinion. Unlike any time before, we are under a constant barrage of information. ![]() In my eyes, the Internet has transformed us in profound ways. We've become simultaneously apathetic and extreme, interested and distracted. Our collective identity has become so much harder to define for ourselves and for the rest of the world. Who in the world is interesting to you right now, and why?Īmericans as a whole. Taking modern digital technologies back to the past would be a fascinating way to test this: How might master painters like Leonardo, Rembrandt and Van Gogh react to digital painting? What could the ancient Egyptians or Mayans achieve with 3-D modeling and 3-D printing? How would our understanding of history change if Herodotus had had a camera? What would a Neanderthal's website look like? These are the real questions, man! Everything from style, taste and subject matter can develop out of your tools. The limitations of technology impact the way cultures and artists develop. Westword: If you could collaborate with anyone in history, who would it be, and why?Ĭayce Goldberg: I daydream about history way too much, so I'd use this as an opportunity to perform a kind of experiment. How does life look from those Olympian heights? Pretty good, according to his answers to the 100CC questionnaire. Now a gallerist and the heart and soul of Helikon (its name was inspired by the sacred mountain of Greek mythology), Goldberg advocates for the illustrative arts while overseeing its gallery spaces, studios, coffee bar and retail shop. A digital painter and Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design graduate, Cayce Goldberg switched gears to transform an old building owned by his family into Helikon, a RiNo district gallery/artist community.
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