I am happy to announce the acquisition of a Roy Newell painting! A show of his work at Carolina Nitsch was on The Top Five last month along with an interview with show organizer and friend-of-Newell, Richard Dupont. Normally I feel weird about recommending a show by an artist that I own. I make a very serious effort not to let my collection influence my recommendations. I obviously like what I collect, but just because I believe in an artist doesn’t mean I love every show they do, nor do I believe that everyone needs to see it. Even still, I would rather avoid the “conflict of interest” question all together - that I am somehow trying to increase the value of what I own by influencing the popularity of the work - which is silly at this point on multiple levels, but I’m trying to sort these issues out early on in my collecting and criticism. In this case the show was on The Top Five and the interview was conducted weeks before I made the purchase. What can I say, sometimes you have to take your own recommendation.

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