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VIRGINIA DAWN INTERVIEW                   5-5-5

V.D.:  No, actually there were, that was an education show to some extent. However, I think that there is a rumor going round that a lot of our works are not for sale, a lot of the works are environments when they are not in actuality. 

E.V.: This wasn't a rumor. This was something which I just thought myself, and I thought how great it is that a gallery can do this this, realizing that you were selling other works at that time, probably. And I thought what a generous and idealistic thing to do when I looked around, one or perhaps two objects could have been purchased.

V.D. The Dennis Oppenheim could have purchased, the Robert Morris could have been reconstructed in earth mound, and Michael Heizer blown up transparency was a work in itself. Aside from that we had photographs which were for sale as photographs of the works in much the same way that a drawing for a painting can be sold, and we also had plans and diagrams and drawings which were for sale.  But as you say, I'm making myself sound much less idealistic than perhaps I am.  Actually, the show was not a very financially oriented show.

E.V.: You show generosity both to your artists and to the public I think.

V.D.: Well, I'm really not that interested in generosity. But I'm interested in the ideas, and I personally take a great deal of pleasure in seeing the ideas brought out to other people. That's one of my major  concerns in having the gallery.  I suppose the term "generosity" could be used for that, but because I take such a personal pleasure in it, I'd find it rather self-oriented.

E.V.; I remember your director mentioning that in the gallery you have a perhaps, perhaps I'm not using the right names of artists, that I think of Klein, and I think of Pollack or someone else, but you also sell the artists of the other works of art. And this in a way is perhaps what is keeping them going.

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