“In your face” wrap up
I wanted to say a couple of words about this show now that it’s done with its run at the Canvas Gallery. It was a great pleasure to have my work hanging side by side with Dan’s and all the other friends’ and colleagues’, it really was a wonderful way to remember and celebrate him. On a personal level it was really interesting to see what among my work sells and what doesn’t in a more gallery-like environment. A wider and perhaps more compelling question is: what do people like to hang on the walls of their homes?
I love and appreciate a lot of art and a wide range of it – my bookshelves like many of us in this field are literally exploding with art books – but only a narrow sellection is worthy of being hung in my living room and become part of the background of my daily life. What makes that kind of a cut is certainly art one must love … of course monetary issues come into the equation. But I am curious to hear your thoughts on this.
As far as what I have noted from this artshow: all the prints of my watercolors from sketchcrawls sold well and quick (they’re also really cheap $80) while my larger charcoal figure drawings (which are more expensive $300) are harder to sell it seems. I was pleasantly surprised though when one sold on the last sunday of the show, it was one of my favorites ! X( In general though my impression is that figure drawings have less appeal to the buyer, could it be that in general we want something more expressive? Less a study and more a piece of the artist’s creative mind and heart ?
Certainly a multifaceted and thought-provoking matter … there’s no doubt though that ultimately as creators we can only do what we love, it’s not even “creating” anymore if one panders to its public … and now we’re onto the new experiment (with three specimen of “artistes” 
) the 3 trees make a forest show at Nucleus in November. Look forward to that.
October 3rd, 2005 at 11:06 pm
Hey Enrico, I see sometimes that with most people it may be the price, but sometime I notice that when I post up studies I don’t get as much feedback from most people. Other artist love the studies, but from what I usually see most people gravitate more towards illustrations. I guess they just appeal more to the masses. I don’t know, but I still draw to my hearts content and maybe some people will like some of what I do. But then again this is only from some of my observations.
October 4th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Thanks for your thoughts Ali, I agree with you, I think studies have more appeal to us artists as we love to take a peek into process. But the public out there might be less interested in that …
and indeed I totally agree with the drawing your to heart’s content … that is stil the most important thing … build it and they will come … X)
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