how you sell work

[Jorge]

Hmmm...I think you are missing the point. If you are showing at a gallery and they are taking commision to sell your work, it is their job to sell the prints, not yours. At the opening you should just have a good time, enjoy your 15 min of fame and let the gallery people do their job.

 

[NikoSperi]

Graeme, I don't know you from Adam. Why on earth would I attack you personally? Everything I said using the word "you", I can and do say using the word "I". Am I the best person to sell my own work? C'est tout. It was a simple thought and you've all gone and gotten your knickers into a twist. So, the spell it out in B&W: I never called you a hypocrit a fake a charlatan or any other term you may have deemed offensive. Maybe the OP to this entire thread was right, and you need a little more self-assurance in your own work and the way you talk about it? But as far as I'm concerned, my addition to the thread only revolved around how many consumeristic marketing principles can be applied to the Fine Art product. You were the counterpoint example of the artist/salesman in one. I believe they should be apart. Witness the Yann Arthus Bertrand machine, the Philippe Plisson machine, pretty much the entire approach brought on by french publisher La Martinière.

 

[omalley]

Hmmm...I think you are missing the point. If you are showing at a gallery and they are taking commision to sell your work, it is their job to sell the prints, not yours. At the opening you should just have a good time, enjoy your 15 min of fame and let the gallery people do their job.

You know, that's got the ring of truth to it. Maybe I should just hang back to answer any questions concerning the actual making of the work. Yeah. They are getting (up to 50%) commission to sell my work for me, so that I don't have to stand around a booth in Union Square and do it myself.