I'm sure that a lot of the local yocals in Hot Springs probably think that I am Satan incarnate because I actually had the nerve to judge Artists, Agents, and Galleries as well as post Articles about all of The Art Scams in this town. See the problem with most of you people (and I use the term people very loosely here) in Hot Springs is that you've never really been anywhere else for any given length of time nor have you spoken to any Real Artists from outside the Hot Springs area so you don't know what the perception of your Art Community is to the outside world. That is why I am here to enlighten you. When Artist in other places all over the world hear the words "Hot Springs" the first things they think are Art Scam and Fading Scene that's been taken over by wannabe Artists that shouldn't be seen. World Class Artist from other places tell me this almost every time I mention Hot Springs. I remember a time back in the 90's(it seems almost a million years ago now) The Time of The Commercial Galleries when Hot Springs was an Art Mecca. Art Galleries were like Casinos with Wet Bars, Beautiful Women serving refreshments, and they were hustling the buyers by getting them drunk and excited. Then Richard Gipe came along with the Vanity Galleries and the scene went from Beautiful Women, Liquor, and Great Art to Little Old Ladies serving boxed wine in plastic cups, and the Art went to shit because they only promoted talentless hacks that are willing to pay to be seen. This started to happen around 2001. Then in recent years these so called Artists Collectives started popping up everywhere which are similar to Vanity Galleries in many ways. To me the the only difference between a Vanity Gallery and an Artists Collective is that Vanity Galleries cold call strangers from other places and Artists Collectives promote the work of their neerdowell cousins and sisters in laws. They both have the same result... bullshit Art that gets laughed at by Tourist. These Galleries have so badly infested this town that they make up like 3/4th's of the Art Industry here now. It is my mission to put a stop to this and return Hot Springs collectively(no pun intended) to the old ways of doing business and I will wreck every Gallery and every Person's reputation that stands in my way even if I haft to burn the entire Art Community down with my Reviews and Damning Articles. Like a Pheonix rising from the ashes a new and better scene will emerge. To put it quite simply I am trying to destroy the present Art Scene so I can resurrect the old one through it's sacrifice.
