1st-art-gallery www.1st-art-gallery.com ‘Burn-in’ Bonfire of 1st-art-gallery’s Garbage Art Syracuse Internet

We ordered twelve framed landscapes paintings from 1^st-art-gallery to decorate the new restaurant that we are opening. The paintings arrived two months behind schedule and every time I contacted 1^st-art-gallery to push them to finish David, the owner, scolded me ‘not to pressure the artists’! The framed paintings eventually arrived in a wooden crate but were not individually packed so some of the frames had rubbed together and were scratched – they were just cheap plastic frames anyway rather than wooden ones that we presumed we had ordered. We got them out of the crate and all of us were shocked at how badly they had been painted, bearing only a passing resemblance to the originals, they actually looked like cartoon versions. I contacted David to send them back but he told me that they only refunded unframed paintings not framed ones. I told him how badly they were painted and the arrogant David told me that I didn’t understand ‘museum-quality art’. Along with the rest of my management team, we decided that 1^st-art-gallery’s paintings were to cheap looking and ugly to hang in our new plush restaurant even though they had cost us 8000bucks – they would detract from our upmarket image and even make our diners want to throw up! Someone then suggested that we give them away to charity as a publicity stunt. However, the consensus of opinion was that nobody would want such ugly paintings even for free!  So we decided to run with the publicity stunt idea but organize a grand restaurant opening bonfire ‘Burn-in’ of the 1^st-art-gallery garbage art in the restaurant’s parking lot. We ran event ads on WBBM-FM local radio station and over 50 people turned up, 8 of them bringing their own 1^st-art-gallery horrendous paintings to be burnt on our bonfire (see photo). We served up BBQ and drinks and everyone had a great time, cheering every time a 1^st-art-gallery cartoon painting went up in flames.