Stuff I was suppose to post on Friday! Doh! Who: Jade and open to everyone that she invited (GA Fam aka second fam, Kyle, Todd, Dick) and whoever else, really! NPCs: Artsy fartsy people, NYU people, Jade's classmates, etc. When: Friday, April 20, 2012 - evening [backdated, a good day for green] Where:SoHoo Photo, NY What: Jen has a gallery opening and you're all invited (not Hal). Tag in liberally and mingle. Alan is around so, talk to him! Bug Jade. Meet new and exciting people. Subthread liberally! Do whatever you want! (Are we still on for Roy/Connor/Jade? And Todd/Jade? Hit me up!) Rating: Probably low-ish.
The building that contained SoHo Photo was wedged inside a New York city block, boasted two large photography studios, dark rooms, ample gallery space and a several classrooms and was the destination of this years student art show for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. It was donations at the door to get in, which helped SoHo Photo and what they were trying to do there, whose members were also sometimes affiliated with NYU. The art world in New York was ever shrinking, Jen was all too aware, but needless to say this was a very big deal for her as she put on display everything she had been working on for the last six months. Her blood sweat and tears for a two night gallery show, and obviously good grades as well.
The space was over run by staff, students and people coming to look at all of the artwork of various kinds. Jen made sure to snag herself a prime spot, not too close to entrance that she would be overlooked but somewhere in the back near the cash bar (if twelve dollar glasses of wine or eight dollar Heineken's were your thing) so people were always wandering in and out. Of course the green girl did nothing to captivate their attentions in the slightest...
Jen had about fifty pieces on display, mostly fashion photography, because that was A.) her thesis and B.) what she was interested in the most, but there were other things as well, projects she had to work on in class, explaining how developer worked and examples of different aperture speeds and shutter times and presentations on how to achieve different effects. That was the stuff she was being graded on, the rest was to be stuffed in her portfolio or sold.
She, herself, was nursing a glass of wine, mingling and talking with some of her professors her who she was friendly with about one of her black and white portraits she had taken of woman smoking a cigarette - the way the smooth smoke contrasted against the young woman's grainy looking skin - and Jen's eye for detail.
The night was still young and she hoped to see some of her friends there otherwise it was going to be along night.