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100 days 100 galleries; Day 13: The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art, St. John’s NL
Me (CF): I see that you have a good group of artists under your umbrella. How do you started? How were your firsts steps as an art gallery? Leyton Gallery (LG): Bonnie Leyton, the owner, saw a lot of young talented people who were not being given a chance at other commercial galleries. She took…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 11: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig & Berlin Germany
Me (Carlos Fentanes): Hello,Can I ask you about your beginning? How did you started? Did you rent a local or use your own place? Who where your first artists? Are they still with you? How did you recruit your first artists? How do you do it now? What is what you see in an artist?…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 9: Erika Gofton, Director of the Art Room Footscray, Melbourne
Why it’s so difficult to show my work in a gallery? Why the system is so closed that it’s almost impossible to break inside their barriers? I’m in a quest to figure out how the system works and I have a plan: I’m going to ask them directly during 100 days. Are they going to…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 8: Modern Eden, San Francisco, CA
Me: I need your advice, if it’s possible to ask you a question.I’ve been trying to approach to galleries to show my work sending mails and messages with no response at all.How do you choose your artists? How you find them? Is it from Instagram or another social network? Is it on show or with…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 6: LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
Me: Hello, I have some visual conflicts with this Jason Middlebrook pieces.I like the way he left the shape of the wood and the drawings on them but the way they are shown still doesn’t convince me, I have seen some pieces from other artists like Gabriel Orozco with the same kind of display concept…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 5: The Gallery / Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Me: Those pieces are beautiful by themselves and no need of anything else but I feel as if they were hanged too low? Is it just me? Gallery: *… A gallery in my hometown, this time I decided to comment something about its current exhibition, about its museography. Yes, I feel that they hanged the…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 4: Gallery BOM, Boston MA
Me: The art that you show in your posts looks great, very good curated. Congratulations! I wish you the best. Gallery: Nothing. Hey, now I’m not telling you anything about exhibit, about I’m a starving artist, about showing my work… Did I deserve an answer this time? I wanted some answer, maybe just a: “Thanks!”,…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 3: Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Me: Your posts are awesome! I wonder what’s the process you follow to chose an artist? Is there any artist call or submission form? Gallery: not a single word Something is not working in this approach, I think I should change something but what? How can I start a conversation with a gallery? what should…
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