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RE: Dealing With the "Business End" of Being an Artist
You make an interesting and often very true point @in2itiveart... we have seen quite a few who don't show up in our store till just after they've taken a job waiting tables at some local restaurant.
@reddragonfly - I just can speak for myself - I had a giant ego and an inferiority complex - plus I am impatient - so it was impossible to take on the business - the strenuous effort to figure out a pricing structure that worked, overcoming the terror of going to the galleries and seeing what they were showing. Trying to figure out whether what I was creating seemed anything like what was hanging in the gallery... the fear of rejection - the pain was so great that just walking into a gallery and trying to talk to the proprietor was just an exersize to see if I could do it without passing out - I lived in NYC as an artist in the 80s - it was not until the 2000's that I got the confidence to start showing my work... I remember Bernice Steinbaum (http://bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/) - came to the School of Visual Arts (my school) - with a panel of female gallery owners and talked about being a female artist in NYC - Gracie Mansion, Mary Boone (http://maryboonegallery.com/) were with her. They were all super supportive and nice in the panel... I did a portrait series of that panel. I went to Bernice Steinbaum to see if she wanted to buy it. She kept me waiting in her office for about 6 hours. I just sat there because I was such a scared mouse at that time...and then she offered me $100 for the drawing series, but she wanted me to make her look more attractive. I said "No." which was amazing but I was so mad that she had kept me waiting for so long...I still have that series - I just looked at your website - I would think my work would go well in there - but I have never been a good acessor of that sort of thing - I basically gave up on trying to get in to galleries long ago - although I am doing my psychic drawings with readings in a gallery now - a gallery like yours sounds like it would be a good fit for me - but Denver is not that cool yet. Cheers!