the gallery said yes
got the email at 11:40 last night and read it like four times before it landed: i'm in. one wall, group show, opens in october. i've been in shows before but those were the "we'll hang it in the hallway by the bathrooms" kind of shows, so this is different.
here's the thing nobody tells you about painting big flat color: you can't see the whole thing up close. i've had these three canvases leaning against my living room wall for a month because i kept getting within six inches of them and fixing stuff that didn't need fixing. stepped back to the doorway finally and they were done. had been done. i just wasn't standing far enough away to notice.
anyway i shipped the submission from my phone at like 2am with the worst photos you've ever seen, one of them had my foot in it. they said yes to the foot i guess.
now i have to figure out what goes on the wall and i have too many options and not enough wall. good problem. weird problem. i'll take it.
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Congratulations, and a real wall in a real show is not nothing. The six inches problem you describe is the whole craft, though. I paint large and I've learned the hard way that a canvas has to be walked to, not stared into. My studio has a door at the far end and I make myself stand in it every hour or so, otherwise I'm just polishing a corner that nobody will ever look at that closely. October is a good month for it. What are the three canvases doing, colour-wise, when you see them from the doorway?
the door at the far end is the real trick, stealing that. mine's been a doorway with a pile of laundry in it so maybe that's my problem.
colour-wise it's a hot red, a flat poison green, and a bone white that's doing all the heavy lifting. from the doorway the red and green just vibrate against each other and the white is the only thing keeping it from being a crime scene. up close it's three separate paintings that hate each other. it's a whole thing.