I've been asked by several individuals if I'm working with any galleries around town to show my artwork. The answer is No, not at all.
It used to be that if your work was showing in an Art Gallery you were a "true Artist", but that's not the case anymore. Thank goodness for the Internet several working artists that I know now-a-days promote and sell their artwork online like I do. They have their own website and do their own marketing etc.
So many Artist's I know don't work with Galleries because they feel as though they're relying on the marketing strategy of the Gallery to promote your work and I who wants to depend on the marketing skills of your product to someone else.
Art Galleries do market themselves including the paintings they have for sale but what if you could do better at marketing your own paintings along with the Gallery where your paintings are however I've heard in some cases certain Galleries don't want you to do that. Why not? Not sure.
It makes no sense to me when it benefits both the artist and he gallery.
You would think that Art galleries only sell Original paintings however they don't, reproductions are a wonderful way to start collecting Art but not by purchasing through a Gallery. That reproduction you would purchase at an Art Gallery would be extremely expensive however if you purchased a print/reproduction directly from the Artist you would be paying a fraction of the cost.
When you buy a painting from an Art Gallery and not the Artist themselves you're missing out on the connection of who the Artist is as a person.
I want people to know why I created that particular painting?
What if anything was I thinking when I created the painting?
What emotions I was experiencing when I decided to create the painting?
It could have been in a happy or scary time in my life?
There are so many things you don't know about that painting and this just takes away from the reality of the painting in which case makes it so impersonal.
Lastly the number one reason why I personally don't work with Art Galleries... is I don't want to split the sale of my painting with the gallery, I work too hard to create my paintings to just hand over half of the dollar amount of what my painting sold for to the Gallery.
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