"Review" of Blinky 40th Anniversary: CSUN

There was so much art at Jeffrey Vallance's art show that it was overwhelming.  For a male, it was an extremely strong show, amazing even.  It was a lot of chicken art.  Just go see it.   The walk through with the artist is today. It's at CSUN. "CSUN" means California State University Northridge.  You can get there if you try.

CSUN Art Gallery

18111 Nordhoff st
Northridge, California 91330-8299

This is a drawing of Blinky's exhumation bone in a reliquary.

This is a drawing of a very early chicken work by artist, Jeffrey Vallance.

This is a drawing of a  Jeffrey Vallance Blinky collage.

Again, just go see it unless you don't like animals and don't think you share anything with them as you wake up each day and live your life.

In the same building, there was an exhibit of guest artists' work entitled, Free Range.  It was a show within a show.  It had all kinds of artists' work in it, a lot of artists' work about Blinky and anything related to her.  There was work by Laurie Hassold, Jeffrey Gillette, John Kilduff, Dave Shulman, Victoria Reynolds, Doug Harvey, Dan Green, Marjan Hormozi, Rude Calderon, Auralynn Nguyen, Carlos Rodriguez and many others, a lot of other people.

And there was a show of student work in the shed gallery nearby.  The students each got a poster of Colonel Sanders looking down at KFC from the clouds, and they were charged to make it their own, to use it as a springboard for their imaginations.  There were many nice pieces of student work.

The show was spiritual, about spirit, the energy, the contagious energy of life that penetrates our beings through our senses and maybe even outside of our senses.  Blinky had a spirit, a life, a pluckiness, a pulse, a libido, an eroticism, a motivation and an electricity that made her move around and make sounds.  And then her life ended suddenly, tragically.  Wham! She was dead, gone, processed without appreciation until Mr. Vallance celebrated her life 40 years ago.

Jeffrey Vallance has a long history making art, and Blinky is not his only work.  He celebrated Blinky's life, but that's not the only thing he's done.  He's done a lot of other things, but we won't get into those right now.

Go see the show.  It's up through March 16, 2019.