I really enjoyed this chapter because it gave me a good idea of how life is going to be like when we first start out in our careers (if we haven’t already). It also strongly pointed out that we can’t be too sure of our methods or others methods. Sometimes things will work for you and sometimes just the opposite. One example Lang used was showing your work in a café or a gallery. The obvious choice would be gallery but for all you know one of the world’s richest collectors or well respected curators could enjoy that café and see your work. One line from the text that I found really interesting was on page 71. It said “Since there is no way to do something exactly right, it follows that there is also no way to do it exactly wrong.” This is even shown in the advice the text gives us. Talking about how great being a home town artist can be but how it can also be the death of your career. Later it says that moving to New York would be bad for a million different reasons, but then adding that it’s an amazing opportunity. This just goes to show that the industry isn’t always nice and can sometimes kick you in the butt no matter how promising it seems at first glance. We have talked about this in class but I also found it very helpful to be reminded that you should ALWAYS research the gallery before sending in your work. Why waste your time sending in a packet of prints when they want them in DVD form? It could save everyone’s time and help you gain their respect.
I found this video and thought it was a very cool way of showing a different form of displaying your art.
I knew a grad student at UNM who finished her degree and was working at a boring job. She was drawing on the weekends and got so tired of having no one see her work that she set up a bunch of easels with drawings on them in her front yard. A guy drove by and stopped to look and talk to her and it turned out that he owned the highest-end gallery in town, and took her on as an artist in the gallery.
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