{"id":3944,"date":"2011-06-23T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2011-06-23T22:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T03:31:33","slug":"blue-sky-gallery-733-saluda-avenue-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3944","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sky Gallery, 733 Saluda Avenue: July 2011 (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220247.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220247_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220248.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220248_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220243.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220243_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220244.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220244_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220245.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/06\/p1220245_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, <i>Blue Sky Gallery<\/i> isn't actually closed yet, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/06\/21\/1867333\/sun-setting-on-blue-sky-gallery.html#storylink=omni_popular\">it's already in the news<\/a> and I took the pictures when I went looking for <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3933\">Mary<\/a>...<\/p>\n<p>Unless you have a special interest in art, or have a friend who's an artist, <i>Blue Sky<\/i> is probably the only Columbia artist you can think of and his work has been prominently displayed around town for ages.  The first <i>Blue Sky<\/i> piece I can remember is still my favorite (and probably the favorite of many Columbians): the Road-Runner-ish Trompe-l'\u0153il <i>Tunnel Vision<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The same parking lot off of Taylor Street has his other best known work, which people either love or hate: the giant fire hydrant.  Personally, I like it.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>State<\/i> article says (or implies) that he and his wife are closing the gallery to concentrate on international sales, though at 72 I wouldn't be surprised if he just wants to retire.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Mike D)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Blue Sky Gallery isn't actually closed yet, but it's already in the news and I took the pictures when I went looking for Mary... Unless you have a special interest in art, or have a friend who's an artist, Blue Sky is probably the only Columbia artist you can think of and his work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[340,123,619,4],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-five-points","tag-saluda-avenue","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}