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Blue Gallery, Israeli Owned over 20 years, Delray, Florida. We speak to Mark Giorgione, Art Consultant · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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  I'm still here at this gorgeous gallery. What's it called Blue Gallery? Blue
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  Gallery, and it really is beautifully blue and beautifully serene. And look who's
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  back there. You got John Lennon. And actually this is Randy Walks in
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  here and he's got a John Lennon shirt and out of nowhere, well out
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  of Toronto, but he's here. But this is a happy place, and
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  tell us about it very much. So. The gallery's been in Delray Beach
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  for almost twenty years. The owner grew up in the business in Tel Aviv,
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  so a lot of the artists are coming from that area. And then
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  over time, a lot of sort of like introductions from artists, from students
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  and referrals to artists that know each other has kind of kept the program going
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  with younger artists that we're apprentices to the artists that we've been working with.
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  So we have almost thirty artists working in all kinds of differ mediums. The
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  spaces vast of ten thousand square feet right on Atlantic Avenue. So it's an
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  amazing collection that the owner has developed over the years and cultivated by far.
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  It's and it's not just you know, paint a lot of sculpture, a
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  lot of works on paper, a lot of original paintings, all kinds of
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  different glow systhetic. I noticed girl. You recognize her? Yeah, Lauren,
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  or somebody looks like Dolly Parton. Okay. This is an artist originally
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  from Israel that specialized in bronze works and boundaries over there. He moved upon
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  Beach in the eighties and started welding scrap metals. His name is Nissa.
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  I did a show, it was called The Dolly. I did the Captain
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  Kangaroo Show. It was a famous payment show a long time. I was
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  with CBS for many years. And in any case, well, I've made
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  a lot of shop playing the shows with CBS and PBS. But when Dolly
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  Parton came to Captain Kangaroo Show, the entire CPS production company fifty seven three
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  stopped. Everybody went to the television's set to watch that. I watched that
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  show. I watched Captain Kangaroo every week, every day. I watched It's
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  Dolly her prime was, you know, and she's still turning ahead. Unbelievable.
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  That's beautiful. Do you have other rooms though? Can we take a
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  quick walk? All right? Thanks? Hang with us Okay, So it's
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  all started because of you and mister Lennon's and I'm a John lennonist. Actually
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  usually we're Yoko, gave me a button, imagine piece, go ahead.
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  I'm sorry saying it like I said. Thousand feet. So this is the
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  middle gallery where we'll showcase solo shows for artists here. It's so gorgeous.
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  Yeah, but I mean it's color like a prerequisite. I mean, there's
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  nothing dull. I'm a prerequisite. It just happens to be the sthetic that
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  came that's coming from televison the last twenty years or so in and in and
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  around Israel. A lot of primary, lot of bibrant colors, lot of
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  energy, a lot of joy, a lot of music, a lot of
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  dancing, captured ESTs of life. This is David Sluce, one of our
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  artists that we worked with closely for years, is coming from Jaffat, Israel,
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  who was born in Morocco. He's very tacked out with the campus,
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  using his fingers to paint. There's also these bronze sculptures. Suit. This
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  is georgeous. There's there's not a piece in this place that I would be
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  uh not loving to have in my home. I'd be frank with you.
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  Thank you for real. There's not a p there's nothing in here that I
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  don't like. Yeah, it's it's a pretty amazing colors in this one.
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  Here is so far. This is Calvin. He's actually bringing music to a
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  visual imagery right onto the sheet music. It is yeah, gold gold leaf
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  on metal, lacquered over and polish, something forylical bank. I mean,
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  it's it's just such a it's gorgeous. This is actually when I look in
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  here to be perfectly frank. This is like the only traditional thing which seems
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  to me like a traditional pie. Young artist named Alex Parker coming out of
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  Russia. He's in Berlin now. He does all of these scenes for us
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  with the crylic on canvas in Paladin pleasure, talking with you your journey.
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  All right, you go do some business. Thank you very much. All
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  right, you take care at