Rumor mill: Corporate Canvas is shutting down
Inside sources reveal that downtown gallery Corporate Canvas is closing. Couldn’t pay their bills, apparently. Too bad—that was a really nice space, and kind of a bellwether for the south of Market area. We’ve been to a bunch for events, for Fourth Friday Gallery nights.
I know I’m highly opinionated, and please forgive me if it annoys you, but I have to say this is great news to anyone who appreciates actual art. While I agree that was a very nice space, it was veritably artfree, as those philistines were selling and renting excellent fake art, mostly reproductions (giclee, otherwise known as inkjet prints) of actual pieces that were probably way overpriced, too.
I have a good friend who has an excellent actual gallery (elsewhere) and when he visits Wilmington he couldn’t get within a block of that place without busting a blood vessel. I don’t know if Corporate Canvas’ failure is testimony to a total lack of interest in art by their target audience, or if their target audience realized they could get real art by real artists for the same or not much more than the fake stuff cost there, but at least they aren’t being rewarded for their craven crassness.
Annoys?! We were laughing out loud when we read this incisive review, Susan.
Love the damning “inkjet prints”, and agree that CC may have been a little too “corporate” for its britches. Or our britches. Or something.
Vive the opinionated -I.