Steve Fleming

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Steve Fleming

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32 Days and Counting “Solo Show” Touchstone Gallery

On July 5th, I am having the first of three receptions for my two-gallery solo show at Touchstone Gallery, New York Ave, Washington D.C.  Two years in the making and featuring pretty much all new work, there will be representational oils in one gallery and abstract acrylics on paper and canvas in the other.  It will be great to see all of this work on the walls of a fine D.C. gallery and not squeezed in my studio. Please stop by and take some of it home with you — all pieces need a new home. Think of it as a “rescue a painting” event!

opening show

Well, I had a show opening this weekend for two nights and lots of people. It was great fun and not as cold as trying to sell the painting in the rain and cold at Bethesda several weeks back. Much easier to get comfortable with the client when it is warm. I only sold 2 paintings at the reception but that is probably a really good record with people holding on to their money these days. One of the things I am shooting for is to begin to sell paintings to persons who are not in my social circle buyers from outside who love the work and find what I am doing to be exciting and creative. I feel like this show is introducing me to a bigger less familiar audience. By the way, although I am not driven to accolades it does help the ego when people who I don’t know walk across a crowded room to tell me my work is spectacular and unbelievably good. Enough patting myself on the back because the next time they might be saying it is drivel so I have to keep painting what I believe in.