There were a few delays, but now Polderland Gallery is ready to open
it's door. Come and visit us for our Holiday Show on December 12 and
13. Participating artists: Erika Mock, Frans Beelen, Marina Broere.
The gallery will be open from 10:30 am-4:30 pm both days. Our new
address: 2151 S. Robinson Ave., west of Kinnickinnic.
Polderland Gallery was founded in 2005 by Dutch artist Marina Broere.
I moved to the US in the year 2000 and decided to open the gallery after moving into a studio in the Arts Building. I found that the space was large enough to combine both painting (my main objective) as well as showing art. The goal was to do two shows a year and a different kind of event during the December month coinciding with the Art Crawl that has been held twice a year at the building.
Besides my work as an artist, I had been a curator for art shows in the town where I lived, and greatly enjoyed the process of hanging shows and working together with other artists.
Art works by itself can be very exciting, but placed in the context of a show a different kind of energy emerges and makes it even more exciting as a whole.
I prefer to show a body of work by one artist to showing a few pieces by a number of artists because I think you get what an artist is about better by seeing more of his work.
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