More Basel
Looking towards the Delano on Collins Ave, MiamiSee photos I took at all the shows.
Since there was so much said about the volume of paintings sold I am making an effort to contact some of the artists to see if their work sold. I know the gallery owners want to create the sense of urgency to a collector, but was it real or was it hype? I think it was real, but I want to verify. Who knows if anyone will respond to an email from someone they don't know.
My own sense of inadequacy remains intact. I sent off 12 paintings on paper to a dealer on the West coast yesterday and decided I would never do that again. If I am going to go to the effort of creating 12 paintings I want more money. In fact, I'm thinking of something I said I would never do: pursue galleries. Yep! If I can create a body of work that thrills me (difficult in itself) I will prepare marketing materials and start approaching galleries. I certainly have a huge resource now that I have the catalogs for Basel, Pulse, Scope, Flow and NADA from Miami. All exhibiting galleries are listed, and I have already spent endless hours researching websites.
Because if I am going to be represented by a gallery, I want one that will take my work to Miami and really promote me. Yea - I want the big bucks!
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Oh, if I was only ten years younger... I should have beaten that path much earlier. You go, girl! KJ
Good luck with galleries! I hope you document your process so we can see how you do it.
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if I am going to be represented by a gallery, I want one that will take my work to Miami and really promote me. Yea - I want the big bucks!
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You've got the energy, guts and skill to run with the big dogs - so run, baby run!
Blessings ~ Kaye
Hi Robin. I have been gobbling up your posts about Art Basel, and wish I could visit one of these huge art fairs. Did you go basically on a research basis? The only avant garde/contemporary high-end fair I know in Canada is in Toronto every fall. I was represented by a pedestrian gallery once who thought she could get in but her artists were all wrong for it (she would only sell my landscapes which I no longer do) and was rejected. Trying to unpeel the layers of the art market and see where one's niche is can be a really tricky business. I'm wondering now if Seattle or Portland has anything comparable that I could actually make it to. Where would I go to find out?
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