Our First Post! Maureen Booth’s “Open Studio Option”

Real-Life Adventures with Galleries

In the first 20 years or so of my painting and etching career I had gallery shows all over the world. It seemed important in those days to get my work out and about where people could see it and the press could comment on it. Also, the money was a factor. I had to sell my work in order to go on creating it.

My gallery experiences were hit and miss. Some of them were delightful opportunities to deal with gracious, professional gallery owners who knew how to sell art. Other experiences—the majority—left something to be desired.

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The Art Gallery Experience for the Artist

What’s It Like Dealing with a Gallery?

If you’re a visual artist, and you’ve paid your dues in the art world for a few years, there’s not much I can tell you about dealing with art galleries. But for those of you who are only minimally acquainted with the experience, please permit me to give you a quick rundown here.

Breaking the Gallery Dependency – Tell Us How You Achieved It

Over the years visual artists have been lulled into believing that the only way to sell their art was through art galleries. But it ain’t necessarily so.  In recent years creative artists (and the operative term here is “creative”) have elaborated new ways of selling their work, at the margin of the Gallery Experience (see above). This site was created in January of 2008 with the objective of gathering information from artists who have experience marketing their work in creative alternate ways, and sharing it with their colleagues.