Selling Your Work in New York Galleries/An Insider’s Story

I just read this very interesting article about how to go about building your career as an artist.
Worth a read

Guest blogger Rhonda Schaller is an artist, gallerist, and the Assistant Director of Career Development at New York’s School of Visual Arts. She has an amazing wealth of knowledge, and offers in-depth steps to sell your artwork through galleries or as a self-produced artist. Bookmark it, print it out, study and learn how to advance your art career!

http://www.artsyshark.com/category/articles/

New Group Show concept at Gallerycentric

Gallerycentric is a New Zealand developed 3d online suite of galleries for hire on a monthly basis.  Exhibitions are created and managed by the user in a fast and intuative way.
Now curators, artists agents and gallery owners can hire out individual walls to artists and create group shows.
The manager of a group adds their fee for setting up and managing the show to the gallery hire costs and then splits the overall cost between the walls. The artists are then charged for the walls they use.
This makes it very affordable for the artists and they also benefit from being associated with the others in the group by bringing a larger viewing audience.
This is great for the curator or gallery wishing to expand and extend beyond their own gallery walls, or the artists agent without a gallery space. Artists can put their own group shows together too. It gives them an unlimited amount of exhibiting room, only paying for it when they need it. It's an elegant and very affordable way to hold exhibitions online. These exhibitions can also be show onsite and anywhere there is internet.
The process is really easy and fast. The manager puts the account in their name, then the email link inside the exhibition comes to them, this means any sales enquiries will come directly to them. Images of the artworks are uploaded my the manager and placed on each artists wall. Information about each work such as price, medium and inspiration is also entered by the manager at this stage. There is also the ability to add frames.
The commission charged is between the manager and the artists.
Once published the exhibition is shown on the managers website and emails can be sent out with links to it.
This is equally as effective for one person shows, and for the artist it is a fantastic way to show a gallery how an their work will look when exhibited.
Find out more @ www.gallerycentric.co.nz
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or email peter@gallerycentric.com

Is it good to have your art purchased by an Art Museum?

WELL IS IT?
At first look this might seem a fantastic moment. It was one that once upon a time came my way, many years ago now when I was young, new etc.
It didn't happen, and I still actually have that particular painting.. and I'm glad to have it.
WHY? Because I see people see it..
But I digress.. that's my personal story.

I've worked in a big Art Museum and have seen the enormous amount of great work they hold, on racks, in drawers, in basements... in the dark.. never being seen or seeing the light of day!!
What do think about this paradigm, where we the public pay huge amounts of money.. for art .. often good.. that we probably will never see again?

Yours thoughts and personal experiences.. if you have them please..

"Not Piccaso" by Noura Masri

Noura Masri, one of the established artists in the U.A.E. will exhibit her third solo show Dubai. Noura is well known for her artwork, which portrays figures that are seductive and mysterious in a Picasso-esque style in many of her artwork. Noura was inspired to learn the fundamentals of drawing and painting from a young age. Noura continues to refine her unique style through a variety of artistic techniques.   Click here to view "Not Piccaso"

New exhibition at John Leech galleries

You can preview the next exhibition at the John Leech galleries opening on Tuesday 10th November.

HISTORIES REPRISED from art and science
by Peter James Smith

In this exhibition, Smith overlays his painted landscapes with texts and mathematical equations to create a visual language that honours the classical scientific research process of building the future incrementally from the past. 

This process naturally extends to the three dimensional surface and the mix of painting, photography and sculpture in one unified exhibition provides a complete aesthetic experience that draws on history and culture.  

The study of science, like art, has always been regarded as embracing a deeper quest for meaning in the world and the two subjects come together harmoniously in HISTORIES REPRISED from art and science.

New look and expanded directions

Yes .. we have decided with the expansion of our directions, that a slightly less gothic look might be more appropriate. So now we are white!

A few other changes to the wording and pricing plans have been made to reflect our new market focus which is primarily galleries and art museums. This doesn't cut out the artist at all, but we are not and never have been aimed at the "Starving Artist".
Gallerycentric is a new paradigm and one that is finding it's niche and although our biggest market one day, may well be individual artists, it won't be for now. We are a small company and need to put our effort where we will get the most return.
In an exciting turn of events we are discussing the inclusion of Gallerycentric within AUT's curriculum next year in a number of disciplines and holding a presentation and discuss session there on the 11th November.

Spanish social art site Noenga sign up

Noenga is a Valencia based art social networking site. This is fairly new and already has a sizable membership. The director Misha Stoutenbeek spotted me chatting about GalleryCentric in an art discussion forum  on Linkedin. Now Noenga is using GC to showcase their Top Rated artists. This is only the beginning of a great relationship between us. They are in a beta phase until the new year.. then whammo, joint press releases all over Europe and the States.
Noenga is a pretty full site with lots going on. It is truly multi-language, with artists exhibiting from all over the globe.  ........certainly worth checking out.

There's some truly beautiful works in this exhibition and so eclectic, bringing artists from around the world into one space.
This has never been possible before GalleryCentric