This is David Gibson

Every year when September rolls around I think I have a few chances to reinvent myself, and until this year, I don't think I ever truly realized what that meant. Now that I have love in my life, and a commited relationship between us that only grows stronger, I want what I do to matter, not just for the moment, or for a legacy, but for it to improve the way I live my life. I don't want to have any more regrets. What I have always enjoyed, and alternately found challenging about being a curator, is working with artists, working with ideas, and engaging with both in a way that expands the possibility for communication. The art community is both vast and amorphous, and its mixed social, economic, and ideology based groups do not easily commingle. I mean to address this fact and change it. I have two current projects and each will address the innate qualities of communication in a way that I have never done before. One is a series of studio based exhibitions that involve daily

I realize that I don't post on this blog very often. I always mean to. But there are so many parts of my life, and each of them seems to have been given its own column. The last one to be given voice is the most personal of all. Here I talk about who I really am, what I do when I'm not just being a curator or art writer; which other thoughts lead into and away from my professional roles. Sometimes I want to talk about my personal experiences, the ones which have nothing to do with ambition.

A lot has happened since my last post, much of it good. I've curated two large group exhibitions, Lost Horizon and Painting with Pictures 2 , and I'm about to curate a solo exhibition for Julia Cocuzza under the brand of Realform Independents , my first since Realform Project Space closed three years ago. On a more personal note I am happy to say that Michele and I are still a couple, and that our love is stronger than ever. We made two more trips together since Boston, one to Miami during the art fairs, and a second trip to the Amherst area in Central Massachusetts. Both were amazing experiences.