Working with Dan Dry

Is Dan Dry an artist? Yes. Is Dan Dry a perfectionist? Yes. Is he a pain in the ass to work with? No. Working with Dan over the past few weeks to prepare for his show, Dan Dry Captured: Moments in Time, has been a blast from the start.  First, I love imagery.  Thank goodness for that because imagery is what puts gas in my car and provides a living for all the great people that I am fortunate to work with at ArtXP.com. ArtXP.com is primarily an internet website based art publishing company.  Our “corporate gallery” is a large space between my office and Nancy’s (my business partner of 20 years without whom ArtXP would exist). We only have so many walls here so choosing from hundreds of insightful, interesting, artistic, and provocative photographs was time-consuming but certainly not a pain. This is because the artist that created the photographs was so passionate about each and every one.  To Dan, the shots were not product, they were pieces of himself.  There was not that much discussion of whether or not a piece would sell. The discussion was over what the image says, what the viewer will get from looking at it, and how it would translate into the unusually large size that giclee printing can provide. Fun-loving and polite with great taste for lunches that he brought in most every day,  Dan Dry has made what could have been a stressful, ego-conflictive “job” into a light-hearted learning experience for me and everyone at ArtXP….thanks Dan.