The Goldmark Cultural Center’s John H. Milde Gallery is proud to present “Postcards at an Exhibition”, a show featuring more than 200 postcard size artworks by the Goldmark artist community.
The exhibition is on display in the John H. Milde Gallery from October 1 to October 26, 2024.
This exhibitition came together through the collaborative work of many artists and friends of the Goldmark Cultural Center. The 200+ postcard size artworks are little art jewels, more suitable for framing than mailing perhaps. Look closely and decide what you like best and want to purchase. Come back on OCT. 26 from noon to 4pm for a big event, the Closing/Buy & Take event. The art will be sold at $30 each. If you cannot attend, send a proxy to make the purchase for you.
Enjoy “Postcards at an Exhibition”, and look closely! Artists have had fun playing with media and ideas in this unique small format.
About the Exhibition
How the show came to be:
Thinking about future exhibits at Goldmark, artist Florence McClure had an idea that a show of postcard size art might be interesting. Several months ago there was an unexpected change to the schedule of the John Milde Gallery; an exhibit for October had been cancelled. This became an opportunity to give the postcard idea a try. With a short timeframe and lots to figure out, the gallery committee moved forward to organize the exhibition. First step was to call on Goldmark artists to create 4” x 6” postcard size artworks in any media. A price of $30 was set for all works, and 1/3 of sales would help with funding for Goldmark’s gallery and other special projects. The show title became “Postcards at an Exhibition”
What inspired the title:
The inspiration for this title comes from the 1874 musical composition “Pictures at an Exhibition”, a famous piano suite in ten movements.
Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky based the composition on pictures by his friend: the artist, architect, and designer Viktor Hartmann. Hartmann’s sudden death from an aneurysm was a shock for Mussorgsky. The loss of the artist, age 39, plunged the composer into deep despair. Influential critic Vladimir Stasov helped organize a memorial exhibition of over 400 Hartmann works in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg February – March 1874. Months later Mussorgsky was inspired to compose “Pictures at an Exhibition”, completing the score in only three weeks in June 1874.
The composition has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists with varied arrangements produced by other composers. Maurice Ravel’s 1922 adaptation for orchestra is the most recorded and performed. The suite, particularly the final movement, “The Bogatyr Gates”, is widely considered one of Mussorgsky’s greatest works.
