Last August, Capture Fine Art Gallery, with branches in Sausalito (a tourist mecca in the San Francisco Bay area) and Healdsburg (a tourist mecca in California's wine country) purchased several Marc Adamus photographs for permanent display. Adamus noted this on his website back at the beginning of last August, and said they would be on display at the Sausalito gallery.
Since then, Capture has decided to display Adamus's photos at their Healdsburg gallery instead. So, of course, the M.A.L.adies are claiming that Adamus is intentionally misleading the public into thinking that he has a display at a more prestigious location than he actually has. They mustn't be too familiar with California tourism, or they'd know Healdsburg is anything but a step down from Sausalito, especially during wine-harvesting season, which is when Adamus's photos were put on display there. Needless to say, the M.A.L.adies are building this up into the biggest scandal since Watergate and Monica Lewinsky combined. But wait, there's more...
The M.A.L.adies apparently tracked down the fact that none of Adamus's photos have sold at Capture, and are trumpeting it as "proof" of his artistic failure. Guys (and I use that word loosely), are you familiar with what the term "permanent display" means? You've got it...it means those images are not for sale.
Of course you wouldn't know that, because, although you want to make a mountain out of a molehill in this case, I'll bet you yourselves have never had any photos exhibited in a reputable gallery. Want to prove me wrong? Show us your photos, and tell us where they've been exhibited.
Talk about the sound of crickets chirping...
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I would like to thank the creator of this blog for at least attempting to defend the my innocence from this crazy, obsessed, diabolical and pathological liar responsible for the defamatory and disgusting site, MarcAdamusLIES. I can assure you that the individual behind the LIES site is going to find out the hard way really soon here that you can't do such a thing to someone.
ReplyDeleteI did feel the need to respond to both blogs that discussed my present and former gallery displays on the LIES site, as to not have any confusion on the topic. In my response to the bogus statements made by the lies site regarding this gallery show, I mentioned that any images on display at either gallery were first editions because the owner of both venues had requested limited edition prints, something I have resisted in the past, and thus editions were set at 1/100. However, 30x45 prints have since sold for over $2000 each since going LE, so I am reconsidering my approach and making certain prints exclusively LE in the future.
Although I was informed that the showing of work would be permanent, I personally doubted this due to news of severely slowing sales in this economy, and even more so due to extremely limited communication with the gallery itself and lack of representation of my work on the gallery's website. I actually had very little part in this gallery endeavor what-so-ever, except sending files to be printed on Lightjet (to differentiate my from the former open editions I printed myself on my Epson). Any confusion as to whether the showing was supposed to be permanent or not, was my fault.
I have since made every effort to be in contact with the gallery and pursue other options, all of which was AFTER I posted a response to the oringinal bogus statements made by the LIES site. In a new turn of events, the owner and a business partner are flying up to meet with me in the coming week to explore ways to put a much higher volume of my prints in either location, in larger sizes, some open edition and some LE, and become a front-runner on the gallery's website. In addition, we are seeking other digital media endeavors with my imagery such as LCD light displays, which give photographs a computer monitor type of luminesence, unseen in traditional printing.
Although gallery showing of my work has never been anything but the smallest segment of my business, I am moving forward with some new ideas in mind. There will at the least be a new showing of very large Marc Adamus prints on display at one of the galleries this year, in addition to the other projects.
Again, thanks for spending the time to try to defend all of us as photographers and as human beings. I hope this clarifys things at least to some extent.
Well I usually say we have too many lawyers in our society which is eliminating the idea of taking responsibility for your own actions. However, after reading the MAL site I am hoping you are letting loose a pack of lawyers to paper that site owner so deep he will be paying college tuition for all his attorney's kids and funding his ocean front retirement home. Although I got a good chuckle reading the MAL site it is pretty sick and he has taken it too far.
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