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Worth reading article - letter from an anonymous art dealer who shares advice for art collectors, emphasizing the importance of being humble, building genuine relationships with galleries, respecting the gallery's time, being reasonable about pricing, and maintaining trust through timely payments. #artnet#artprice#artadvice#collectors

With a background in gallery management, this brief article really enlightens communities on the purpose and intention behind art galleries. Consider giving it a read if you are curious, and let me know if you want to talk more about it!

🌟 Bridging the Gap: Understanding the Challenges Faced by Art Professionals 🌟 As artists, our focus often remains on the creative process, pouring our hearts and souls into our work. However, behind every successful art exhibition, there are various professionals facing a unique set of challenges that many of us may not fully appreciate. While artists are driven by creativity and expression, gallery owners, art curators, cultural agents, and art promoters must navigate the complex world of business, curation, and promotion. This contrast in mindset can sometimes lead to misunderstandings and miscommunications between artists and these professionals. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e7YuDFcG

The tradition of artists exclusively selling their work with a single dealer has long since passed. More and more artists—even younger and less established artists—are testing out new ways to engage with the art market, suggesting a shift in power away from galleries and toward artists. The trend is perhaps best exemplified by the 2023 ArtReview Power 100 annual rankings, where the top ten positions are occupied exclusively by artists. Compare this with a decade ago, when mega-gallerists competed for the top spot, and it clarifies just how much the art market has shifted. Check out my most recent article for the Center for Art Law to learn more about what is motivating some of the recent shifts in the artist-dealer landscape and how new trends are taking hold as a result.

Running a private contemporary art gallery, artists are, of course, the life blood of our business. We are always on the look out, but space is naturally limited, and so sometimes all we can offer is advice - if it is requested. It is our experience, that emerging artists who are just dipping their toes, or are considering leaning on their art professionally, find it really difficult to move from one stage to another without any clear outline of how the industry ticks. As we, and many of our artist and gallery colleagues would attest to, the industry is rather a minefield of directions, and a sort of myriad of unwritten rules as such. We have put together our observations on this, to help reach out to artists, to help them achieve more autonomy over their own career paths and also help them to become 'gallery-ready', as such, if that is what they so wish. Coming from a family of artists, we really understand the need for this kind of information - as well as the need for a more connected industry - galleries who are connected with one another -and indeed connected with our artists. "A rising tide, lifts all boats" - 'Smashing it in the Art Industry' - the E-Book - is launching in the New Year!

How about a 3D 360 Tour of Art Gallery with links to sell paintings and information on his collections. This is an example of work A2Z could do in Las Vegas, NV Approval to use as example from Matterport

In my latest at #TheArtNewspaper I consider the expectations around public art agencies and issues of censorship with a case in the town of #Vail and artist #DaniellleSeeWalker Thanks Benjamin Sutton for supporting this article and wonderful editing. https://lnkd.in/dqtqXiwZ

4 Steps to Getting Your Art into a Gallery: There is no one size fits all when it comes to getting your work exhibited in an art gallery. But these four steps will increase your chances of having an exhibition in a gallery where you'd actually like to be shown. --- HAVE WORK READY FOR EXHIBITION --- If you're an artist you should be making art. This should be obvious, but if you don't have a finished series, new body of work, or back catalogue, then you're getting way ahead of yourself. Stop worrying about that big show you want to land and concentrate on producing something work exhibiting. --- RESEARCH GALLERIES MATCHING YOUR STYLE AND LEVEL --- Every gallery has a point of view about the work they present. Whether it's a conceptual approach, focused on a specific medium, or maybe geographical region, most galleries will have a signature they are known for. Knowing this will help you focus on galleries that are most relevant to the kind of work you produce. It will also help guide where you'll want to spend more time when you... --- ATTEND EVENTS --- Once you know where you'd like your art to be, start spending more time in those places. Attend exhibition openings and artist talks, check the programme of the galleries and see what else they are involved with. See if their audience and clientele are the kind of people you want to be around. If you feel out of place somewhere or don't like the atmosphere, maybe it isn't the gallery for you. You wont know until you go and see what its like in person. --- BUILD RELATIONSHIPS --- The more people you know, the more opportunities will come your way. Once you've found your niche and where you'd like to be a part of, get to know the other regulars. Speak to the artists, get to know the people working at the gallery. Building trust and forming genuine connections is the long term solution to getting your work shown in a gallery. Eventually it could lead to representation. #networking #artworld #artistsonlinkedin

Artists often complain about how high gallery commissions are. They say they do at least as much work as galleries do. But do they really? In a sense, making art is easier than selling it. If selling was so easy, artists would do it themselves. Galleries would not even be necessary. But they are. A gallery's primary job is to sell art. That means convincing their clients that it has value, significance, and is worth owning. There's nothing easy about that. Selling art is indeed an art in itself.