Where do they all go?

At 5:00 on Friday afternoon (THIS Friday, the 25th of February), all of the Joes, the Juds and the Charmanges will come off the wall. Imaginatively, I picture the lights shutting off in the gallery, and all of the characters from within the frames and from the sculptures become unhinged, leap to the carpet, grab their bags and waddle on home, leaving a noiseless void behind. Obviously it won't happen quite that way - but sort of, if you imagine the FCP staff and another helper or two as characters, prancing around over-sized boxes and wooden crates, diligently packing up the two gallery spaces like worker bees on a buzz of a late-afternoon coffee run and six packs of packaging tape.

But where will all the pretty paintings go? Truth is, they represent a variety of zip codes. (And even accents!) Joe Sorren's works are on loan to us from collectors all over the place. Several paintings including Interruption and By Day I Dream Of Night, live in New York or California. Because of Toast lives in Kansas, and Bump lives in Seattle. The Mushroom Hunter lives in the U.K. The other paintings are going their separate ways to Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, and Massachusetts.

As for the sculptures, Charlie and Me (the largest sculpture featuring the sitting boy and the stacked paper bags) is going to Jonathan Levine gallery in New York City. Spooning has a home with someone outside of Arizona, but the rest of the sculptures are moving in with Joe in Flagstaff until they find forever homes.

Many of Charmagne's work sold too and have forever homes of their own in Flagstaff. Word has it, she is working on new works.

Many thanks to Joe, Jud and Charmange for a month of intrigue! Your work has proved, as always, to be thought provoking - I've enjoyed working at the front desk catching everyone's comments and questions as they've grazed in the gallery. Let's do it again sometime!