Fridge Gallery Curator Gifts

"Mom, will you help me take down my drawings? I'm selling my catalog."

"All of the art work is for sale."

"Of course, until they appoint a new N.E.A. chairman I'm in limbo."

"Mother, I think I'm good enough to exhibit on the living room walls now."

'My goal is to one day have my art hanging on a refrigerator in the Louvre.'

'I feel too much pressure to draw, mom.'

"Can we teach our child how to create art digitally."

Paul Klee

Children's artwork exhibition.

Mr. Empirical With "Antarctica""Small is hostile. Rage contributes to shift away from literality. I'm off to True Value Hardware for some more self-reference tools."

It's a call from Tate modern.

"When you've lost fifteen pounds...that's when the refrigerator gets returned!"

'Projectile painting.'

Well, you know these child prodigies - they can be very demanding about how their work is displayed.

Schools of Art - A Rough Guide.

Couple Sitting in Front of A Sunset.

"I was going to call it 'Empty Plinth', but then I settled on 'Winter's Smile'...I wanted to capture the 'nothingness' of an 'absence of anything'..."

'Number two. That's the art that offended me.'

''Food miles' is a big issue, so I'm reducing the distance my food travels by moving my fridge into the living room.'

'It's not easy painting hummingbirds.'

"This is one of her more important paintings from her early period."

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

"That must be the artist over there."

The perfectionist.

Morning and Afternoon Paintings

'You could say this is how my husband and I support local arts.'

'I don't know whether to put it in for the Turner Prize or go for the Poet Laureate.'

"He begged his wife and kids to join him in Tahiti, but he didn't mean a word of it, the bastard."

"He's left out the staples"

Happy Hog - Manet

Kapoor & Piss-poor (Anish Kapoor sculpture beside Marcel Deschamps urinal)

Francoise Gilot

'I'm going through my 'blue period' - all my other crayons have broken.'

'I preferred his earlier work.'

"Wow! - An original Bacon!!"