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100 days 100 galleries; Day 22: Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco & New York
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw some photos of your newest exhibition: Natural Curiosities. The artists seem so different between them but the exhibition is so harmonic. What’s the common point? Franklin Bowles (FB): nothing Sadly not answering is the most common reaction from galleries, here’s another example. Today I walked my dog in the morning,…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 21: Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I really like the style of your gallery, is it fantasy or how do you call it? Beinart Gallery (BG): Thank youWe generally call it surreal figurativeBut that is not an official title for a movementJust descriptive CF: Sorry about called it “fantasy”, I didn’t know how to name it maybe Visual…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 20: Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid Spain
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello, I have a blog about galleries and their relationship with artists and I want to feature yous gallery, as an introduction how do you describe your gallery? Galería Fernando Pradilla (GFP): nothing That was a translation, I wrote it in Spanish in part because the gallery is in Spain and in…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 19: Eckert Fine Art, Kent, CT
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello,I have a blog about art galleries and their relationship with their artists. I want to feature your gallery in my blog.How do you describe your gallery as an introduction? Eckert Fine Art (EFA): nothing Should I start with something more friendly, less scary? Did I said something wrong? It seems that…
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100 days 100 galleries; day 15: Galleri Skandinavia, Stockholm Sweden
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw in your catalog works than go from realism to pop passing through figurative painting. How did you come to this mix of works? Gallery: silent This time it didn’t work, maybe they don’t understand English, maybe they don’t want to answer, maybe they don’t see their messages. I have seen…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 14: Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA & Charleston SC
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Why you choose to show realism? Principle Gallery (PG): The gallery has been open for 25 years and that has been traditionally what we show. Over the years we have branched out to artists who are less of classical realism and verge in abstraction. This seems to be a sweet spot for…
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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 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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