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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2018
2 ND S ATURDAY G ALLERY T OUR
EXPLORES THE ARTS IN F LORENCE
COURTESY PHOTO
Oil and watercolor painter Pat Knipe will display her work at The Studios this month.
Enjoy
Florence’s
2nd
Saturday Gallery Tour on
Saturday, Jan. 13, from 3 to 5
p.m. This self-guided tour
inspires locals and visiting
tourists alike and reinforces
Florence as an ever-evolving
arts destination.
The tour begins at any of the
participating locations. For
more
information,
visit
2ndSaturdayGalleryTour.com.
B ACKSTREET G ALLERY
To celebrate the New Year,
Backstreet Gallery members
are showing an alternate to their
usual media on display. This
special photography exhibit is
in addition to the unique variety
of art already on display at the
gallery. Celebrate with these
artists and enjoy their photo-
graphs at a reception on Jan. 13
from 3 to 5 p.m., at the Second
Saturday Gallery Tour.
By taking up the camera,
these artists will show another
creative side to their talents
with innovative results.
Members
participating
include Pattie Brooks And-
erson, Kristin Anderson,
Kathryn Damon-Dawson, Car-
oline Estill, Judy Fleagle,
Claudia Ignatieff, John Lea-
sure, Shelly Medeiros, Karen
D. Nichols and Kathleen
Wenzel.
Come enjoy a wide variety of
interesting subject matter in
vibrant color as well as dramat-
ic black and white.
Backstreet Gallery, 1421 Bay
St. in Historic Old Town
Florence, is open from 10 a.m.
Board
to 5 p.m. daily. It reopened Jan.
10 all refreshed and ready for
the New Year after its annual
cleaning and maintenance.
F LORENCE E VENTS C ENTER
The Galleries at Florence
Events Center will have work
displayed from the upcoming
Fresh Impressions High School
Artist Exhibit while the Winter
Music Festival Artisan Fair is
going on. Florence Regional
Arts Alliance (FRAA) and
other area artists will have work
for sale on Saturday, Jan. 13.
The Fresh Impressions
Awards and Artist Reception
will be on Wednesday, Jan. 17,
from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Florence
Events Center.
T HE S TUDIOS
The Studios at Jayne Smoley
welcomes painter Pat Knipe in
January. The talented artist
joins resident artists Jayne
Smoley, Tamarah Phillips and
Gigi Lassan during the 2nd
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In its letter, the OCHS
board thanked members for
their “patience and continued
support in [the shelter’s] mis-
sion to rescue, care for and
find responsible, loving, per-
manent homes for homeless
and at-risk dogs and cats.”
“I feel the letter the OCHS
has drafted speaks for itself
and clarifies their position in
regard to these matters,”
Grant said. “I’d say we have
very high hopes for a positive
resolution to this situation.”
Saturday Gallery Tour. In addi-
tion, information will be avail-
able about a new partnership
between The Studios and
Pilates
instructor
Carol
Prendergast.
Already at the age of 15,
Knipe saw herself as a serious
artist. She pursued oil painting
in school before mastering
watercolors.
Today, people can view
Knipe’s work in both watercol-
or and oil, influenced by
impressionists and expression-
ists.
“Whatever the medium, I
consider myself a colorist. I feel
color deep within my soul and
enjoy the power it creates in my
work. My passion for what I
see helps me to bring subject
matter to life,” Knipe said.
She will teach a Paint and
Sip on Tuesday, Jan. 16, from 6
to 8 p.m. For information on
studying with Knipe or taking a
variety of classes, check out
jaynesmoleydesign.com.
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Business
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Those photographs are for
sale, but sometimes, galleries
don’t expect to sell anything.
They just want people to come
to their establishment.
“We just did a show in
Lisbon where they showed 60
prints,” Greene said. “You do
press, they talk about it, they
come see it. The owners of the
store paid us to have this draw
to bring people in.”
Unfortunately, high art pho-
tographs are becoming the
purview of the rich.
Greene said the economy
changed in 2009, essentially
taking disposable income from
the hands of the working mid-
dle class.
“That market completely
disappeared,” he said. “What’s
happened in the art market has
become only for the rich. The
people who are going to drop
$70,000 for a piece of art. I’m
in the bottom of that market,
charging $7,000 to $15,000,
which is a lot for photography.
Especially posthumous pho-
tography. So, we’re offering
them, very few, for you to have
something special. Something
that brings you pleasure and
you can brag to your friends.
And it all goes through gal-
leries now.”
But should fine art prints
belong solely to the rich?
“It’s not a good thing,”
Greene said. “I would like to
see more people have money
in their pocket. I’d like to see
middle class people have more
money to spend on them-
selves. That’s really the prob-
lem. Everybody’s working
harder but the paycheck is not
getting any bigger. You go
hobnob with the rich, it’s a
whole other world.”
“But if you start bringing
the price point, it brings down
the price of the entire market,”
Jones said. “If you raise the
price, people will see it as an
exclusive item. Every time I
dropped my prices to get more
of the market, it hasn’t benefit-
ed me. The times I raised it up,
I got clients I would never
have seen before because they
feel it’s more exclusive.”
But that exclusivity, along
with changing technological
interests, may be pushing
future generations out of the
market all together.
“I don’t own any limited-
edition prints,” James, the
youngest of The Archives
crew, said. “I’ve never owned
anything of that caliber for
financial reasons. I’ve never
had the art, eye sort of thing. I
grew up on video games and
TV. Art wasn’t always in my
life. I’m much more of a digi-
tal person.”
“We’re testing that market
right now,” Greene said. “We
just did the show in Oslo and
we sold three prints where I
wish we sold 20 prints. And
I’m evaluating the price
point.”
In addition, shows often
take a commission of 60 per-
cent of the sale price.
“I’m stuck in a middle of a
hard place. We’re doing all the
work, I’m taking all the costs
and the labor, and I’m giving
60 percent away. It’s a tough
business.”
That tough business has led
Greene and The Archives to
reevaluate what their true pur-
pose is.
“The dance is getting tired
for me,” Greene said. “I want
to consolidate Marilyn. I’m
trying to sell her off for
enough money that I won’t
have to worry.”
The Monroe collection has
been financially good to
Greene over the years, gener-
ating the bulk of The
Archives’ revenue. There are a
few stars that are periodically
in demand (Audrey Hepburn,
Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland)
but the iconic images of
Monroe have been the driving
force.
The collection only consti-
tutes a fraction of Milton’s
work, holding 4,000 photo-
graphs. Greene has an entire
room filled with the rest of
Milton’s work, packed to the
ceiling with hundreds of thou-
sands of photographs.
“There’s enough to do
here,” he said.
And this isn’t even touching
Greene’s own photography,
which takes up another room
at The Archives. While Greene
did not give an exact number
of how many photographs he’s
produced over his lifetime, he
did state that he’s only scanned
150 pictures of his own work
into the company’s system.
The goal is to package the
Monroe photographs, along
with other merchandising
rights Greene holds for her,
and sell them to one bidder,
like Getty Images.
“I would like to be comfort-
able financially so I could
have a modified version of the
company running for a period
of time,” Greene said.
He didn’t give an exact
price for the Monroe collec-
tion, but he hopes the funds
will allow The Archives crew
to begin restoring the rest of
Milton’s work.
Which begs the question,
what is the importance of The
Archive’s work? Is it fine art,
or is something more indeli-
ble?
“The most important thing
is preserving the history of
pictures,” James said. “I don’t
see it as selling limited edi-
tions. It’s more about preserv-
ing the past, to bring it back to
where it was.”
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