{"id":16546,"date":"2009-07-14T09:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16546"},"modified":"2009-07-14T09:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:56:10","slug":"surfing-art-cardiff-art-gallery-intended-to-be-surfers-oasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16546","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Art &#8211; Cardiff art gallery intended to be surfer&#8217;s oasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe it&#8217;s the hardwood floors. Or the wood-framed photographs of surf images from around the world, blown up large, stretched and framed in driftwood, hung neatly for display.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Maybe it&#8217;s the low-tempo surf videos that sometimes play in the corner, or maybe it&#8217;s Rob Gilley himself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c intelligent, calm Rob Gilley in his button-down shirt and bare feet, the kind of guy who reminds you what&#8217;s good about surfing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whatever it is, the Pacific Surf Gallery in Cardiff is seriously peaceful, exuding a kind of refined beach ease that makes a surfer want to stay a bit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ostensibly, the gallery is a small rectangular retail space, wedged between a Starbucks and a gym, a place that Gilley started in 2002 with his wife, then sold in 2005, then bought back, redesigned and reopened last month, selling fine, arresting surf photographs and paintings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More than that, though, the gallery&#8217;s iteration will see&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jul\/13\/1s13surfcol20514-cardiff-art-gallery-intended-be-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s the hardwood floors. Or the wood-framed photographs of surf images from around the world, blown up large, stretched and framed in driftwood, hung neatly for display. Maybe it&#8217;s the low-tempo surf videos that sometimes play in the corner, or maybe it&#8217;s Rob Gilley himself \u00e2\u20ac\u201c intelligent, calm Rob Gilley in his button-down shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-related","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16547,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546\/revisions\/16547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}