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SALE at Ridge Art
20%
off METAL SCULPTURE
One
weekend only!
Friday, August 21, 6-9 pm
(A Third Friday event of the Oak
Park Arts District)
Saturday, August 22,
12-5pm
Sunday, August 23,
1-5 pm
Serge Jolimeau, Gabriel
Bien-Aimé, Julio Balan, John Sylvestre, Jacques Eugene, and more . . .
The 20% discount applies to all Haitian metal sculpture both in our cyber
galleries and our physical gallery EXCEPT
for the pieces shown in the on-line El-Saieh Gallery and commissioned
work. The discount does not apply to shipping.
If you are an on-line client, please call us toll-free at
1-888-269-0693 during our sale hours to order a piece in our cyber galleries.
You will not receive the discount if you order on-line using PayPal from our
site. We apologize for this inconvenience.
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CULTURAL ADORNMENT GALLERY ADDED TO SITE
We have just added a new cultural adornment gallery to
our growing website. We are offering some truly outstanding pieces of ethnic
jewelry that have been collected over several decades by curator Patricia
House. Although Ms. House's specialty is African art, her collection of
cultural adornment pieces is global. The gallery features outstanding pieces
from the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Most are truly antique, that is, a century or more
old. The few that are not antique contain some very old parts refashioned with
new components into unique pieces with a contemporary but still traditional
sensibility.
Cultural Adornment Gallery
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Another use for WD40:
HOW TO CARE FOR STEEL DRUM SCULPTURE
Haitian
steel drum sculpture (fer découpé) is fabulous both indoors and out. However, the question always arises about how
to care for it when it is exposed to the elements. I have had pieces outside in
my garden for 12 years and they continue to look great. Most contemporary steel
pieces have been coated with a varnish, generally a  glossy varnish. If you
install a piece outdoors in an exposed area, it will not remain glossy. It will
take on an interesting flat patina over time. However, it will eventually
develop rust. Rust is not ugly, but it will corrode the piece. To prevent that
all you have to do is thoroughly spray it with WD40. Don't wipe it off. Just leave it and reinstall the piece. You
will have to re-spray from time to time, but normally not more than once a
year. WD40 works on all steel drum sculpture, regardless of age.
If you
have an indoor steel drum piece that becomes scratched from handling or
whatever, all you have to do is lightly spray it with a clear varnish made for
metal, either a glossy or a matte varnish, depending on the look you want. The
scratches disappear immediately. However, do not varnish over rust. If you want
to remove rust, sand it off with a fine piece of sandpaper, brush the residue
off the metal, and then apply the varnish.
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Haitian Art Society to meet in Haiti in 2010
On June 12 and 13 the
Haitian Art Society held its annual meeting in Washington, DC. It was a very
well attended two-day event with wonderful tours of great collections of
Haitian Art. The highlights were the Mami Wata exhibit at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of African Art and the Hector Hyppolite retrospective at the OAS's
Museum of the Americas.
Next year's Haitian Art Society meeting will take place in Haiti
in November. We will keep our readers informed as details emerge.
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Special reduction on
painting by Louisiane Saint Fleurant
From time to time we have
clients who have consigned very fine pieces to us that they would like to sell.
This is especially true in these trying economic times. We would like to call
your attention to a Saint Fleurant painting
that is, indeed, quite special
http://ridgeart.com/StFleurant4104c.html. The original asking price was $7500. We are notifying our
subscribers that we are interested in all reasonable offers.
Please call us at 1-888-269-0693 or email us
at ridgeart@comcast.net.
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