Sit on the couch, have a drink, and stay awhile.

The Pink Line Project has been hosting a series called Salon Contra, which is an opportunity to introduce art and culture lovers to each other and to great artists in a social, intimate, and informative setting. Recently Salon Contra featured Pink Twins, visual artists visiting from Helsinki, Finland, for a week's worth of programming in DC by Finus/88 as part of a cultural exchange. 

The Salon was the perfect setting to meet these fantastic artists and interact with them and the other guests in an unintimidating environment.  A recent story about home galleries in the New York Times tells us why this kind of setting works:

Like 17th-century salonistes, home gallerists use the intimacy of their homes — or other people’s — to incite discussion and forge a deeper connection to the art.

“You can get comfortable in someone’s home,” said Leslie Rosa-Stumpf, an independent curator who is half of Parlour, a nomadic gallery that will appear this Saturday in a town house in Bushwick, Brooklyn. “It’s not a white room with no furniture. People sit on the couch, have a drink, stay for hours and really take it all in.”

Salon Contra is not meant to be an art gallery, rather its purpose is to provide a setting that encourages fun and stimulating conversations about art with artists and with people who are interested in learning about and connecting through art. 

For more information about Salon Contra, email us: saloncontra@pinklineproject.com.

All images by Vincent Gallegos.