Kayo Gallery is my favorite gallery in Salt Lake City, next to Signed & Numbered‘s new gallery of course! Kayo is completely running off of donations and their annual fundraiser, Box Paper Scissors, called for nearly 40 artists to decorate a cigar box, inside and out, to be bid on. The entire night people get to see the outsides of the box to judge their bidding on. At 9:30 the bidding ends and the winner gets to open it. The cigar box piece is 100% donated in effort to help the gallery reach their $5,000 goal. I’ve never made a 3D piece and I felt really stumped when coming up with an idea. Then when I had an idea I wasn’t sure if it would translate well. I went with my gut and did it anyways and got a really good response to it last night.

If you can’t tell there are a salt and pepper shaker in placement of a couple of bullets. I titled it, “For an Honest Man,” whatever that means. And I got to use Sculpy and Gorilla Glue for the first time! The antlers, gun, bullets and shakers are all woodcut prints pasted onto 3/4″ birch plywood and cut out with a scroll saw. This piece was quite the experiment with a lot of fingers crossed that it would come out the way that it did. And a Miss Sara bid $100 on it! I never got to meet her, but I hope she likes it!

I’m kind of sad to see it go. I couldn’t imagine being a sculptor or painter who makes one of a kind pieces and never see them again. I miss my box already.

Kayo Gallery is always accepting donations and always has amazing shows.

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