i recently got two digital paintings featured in a real art exhibition in a real art gallery! Before this, I've only been in one of those things where a bunch of people will put together an amateur show for the pathetically depressing lobby of the local public libraries, but I never been in a real curated exhibition in a real gallery until now. This one now has got work from something like 11 different artists from overseas or from America but with some kind of overseas connection
I consider myself to be thoroughly mediocre at digital art, but I guess boomers are unaware of the glut of high quality digital concept art that populates the internet, so the curator of the exhibition must have thought my stuff was good enough to make the cut.
It wasn't a full-on juried exhibition, as it is apparently the "off-season" for artsy-fartsy things IRL, but the curator of the show is an unashamedly elitist snob so it was still a big surprise to me that they asked for my stuff out of the blue. I think a big part of it was that they needed to round out the amount of 2D work in the show at the last minute, and it just happened that I was local, my stuff kind of checked off the "international" requirement, and the curator had chanced to see my stuff before. The curator was actually pretty nice, he prepared my stuff on archival-quality paper with that high-grade photo ink and he even framed it too.



I kind of regret only being able to catch the very end of the opening reception. Would have been interesting to find out what people thought about how my amateur stuff stacks up against those other pieces in the exhibition made by people with the pricey MFAs and professional art training.