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A+ Art Blog Art Collectors Clubs Part II, April 2008 Read Part One of Art Collecting Clubs in the SmART Collector April Game of the The San Diego Fine Art Society invited me to participate in the Kick Off for Art Collectors Clubs on April 17 at the University Club Jori Finkel of Art+Auction magazine and the New York Times discussed the value and importance of collecting art including empowering strategies for creating and evaluating your own collection. Here are my notes from her talk. I hope they encourage you to start a collectors club in your neighborhood. April will be glad to hook you up with other Art Collecting Clubs once this ball gets rolling. Ms. Finkel outlined five main categories for focusing a collection:
She went on to explain some of the advantages of focusing your buying:
Ms. Finkel ended by breaking a few art myths for us. For example, art auction prices are not as reliable as they appear. It is not necessarily better to be a young artist and finally, you don’t need loads and loads of money to be a collector. You can read more about the seven different types of collectors, ten tips to collecting art and collecting in general online in our SmART Collector feature. Out and about in the city last month: TheSan Diego Museum of Art exhibition Inside the Wave was named by its curator Betti-Sue Hertz for its insider view of a new wave of artists not shown at the museum before. I attended the lecture/panel discussion where they all made presentations including a live skype hook up with Adriene Jenik from Singapore. Brian Dick, Allison Wiese, Zlatan Vukosavljevic and Nina Wiese from Particle Group and Bulbo presenting Tijuaneado Anonimos were the other five presenters. Betti Sue Hertz explained that these local artists are working in an international context and range from the soft (social) to the hard (technological) sciences. I have no idea what that means, but I did find the presentation most interesting. Later when I saw the show, I was able to fill in the gaps. I think this panel represents a cross section of presentations made by artists. I was most impressed with Brian Dick who was amusing and articulate and spoke in a very personal way. You can’t help but be delighted by his Mascot Project. The mascot he invented for the Museum was present and just writing that makes you realize that all of us should have mascots to cheer us on and clear the way where ever we appear. Allison Wiese makes works that are grounded but her panel description tried hard to make it sound more important than it needed to be. She presented a whisky still made from parts easily available from Home Depot and Target and added that she always like to have some of the whiskey on hand to give out samples. None were forthcoming that day, but I think the work could stand on its own with a simple explanation of what she had made and was sorry not to see that more personal statement in the gallery itself. Zlatan’s presentation was almost like a mime performance and he was charming and you realized he did not need to speak at all. He played us some wonderful music on an old turntable and erected one of the sculptural modules. The gallery installation was a series of intimate marker drawings on corrugated metal together with a double column made from what looked like the ribs from umbrellas but more mysterious than that. Bulbo work seems like a very worth while project and I was intrigued that simply putting a reproduction of a meeting room did make this art. Tijuaneado Anonimos is a twelve step program to try to try to undermine the corporate assumption of authority and power by placing the responsibility of the TJ environmental mess back in the hands of the citizens. Of course, in the gallery, you were warned not to touch the cookies set out for the meeting by hovering museum guards. But the idea of people themselves cleaning up the streets of TJ was very appealing. I did love the wall plaque references to the AA. I am afraid to say that I did not understand one word the Nina or Adriene said, but watching them both was a treat. Nina because of her nervous energy which was again present in the installation of white boxes which seems to making a puffing sound when you got close and started a nanotechnology rant. When you walk through what looked like a security arch you can affect the sound, but I enjoyed most the acting of a technician on a tiny ipod screen which was sort of like Cheech and Chong gone high tech. It took the edge off the space odyssey feeling of the rest of the installation. Adriene's presentation was compelling because of the strange stop and start visual images that were being projected due to the skype technology. There was a small TV on in the background (I am sure a definite decision by Adriene) to let us have a peek of her present location in the Far East. Her installation was about books, past present and future with stack of books almost like little stools, a changing slide show of libraries and a dominating futuristic female image chanting in much the same way that Adriene actually spoke. Inside the Wave: Six San Diego/Tijuana Artists construct social art at SDMA until June 22. Brian Dick and Nina Weisman from Particle were both in our SD Art Prize New Contemporaries exhibition and Allison Weise showed with Marcos Ramirez ERRE as the emerging artist recipient. for SD Art Prize 2007/2008 I met the delightful and talented artist Julie Heffeman at the opening in my own neck of the woods, Cardiff by the Sea. You can read more about her on Art As Authority written by Maura Vazakas Julie Heffernan In Studio at the Lux Institute on exhibit April 4 - May. 31 Hours: Thurs & Fri 1-5 pm, Sat 11-5 pm 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas, CA 92024 A large and supportive crowd was in attendance for the dedication of three new sculptures at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. Urban Trees by Fritzie Urquhart and Amos Robinson (donated by Ralyn and Nate Wolfstein) and a wonderfully sophisticated work by Robin Bright (donated by Jeffery Laudenslager) will be on permanent display and paintings by Connie McCoy and Rod Lingren will be on view in the rotating show as part of the Arts for Healing program.
If you have comments to make about these articles or opinions of your own to share, please feel free to email us at info@SDVisualArts.net. If your words are utilized we will give you credit and a link to your website of choice. NEW Art Collecting Clubs Part II Archived A+ Art Blog2007 Past A+ Art Blogs including:Burnished by Fire: Stories of Firestorm, November 2007 The What and the How and the Wow, October, 2007 Careerist Artist, September, 2007 Non-Profit is not a Free Ride, July 2007 Crowd Control at Museums, June, 2007 May and It'sDarling Buds - May, 2007 Cruelty Free Art Zone - April, 2007 Critical Issues Facing the Arts, March, 2007 – The James Irvine Foundation, September 2006 summary Letter from London Dec 2006 - Feb 2007 State of the Arts Jan 2007 2006 Past A+ Art Blogs including: Art Collectors Clubs Part II, April 2008 Read Part One of Art Collecting Clubs in the SmART Collector April Game of the The San Diego Fine Art Society invited me to participate in the Kick Off for Art Collectors Clubs on April 17 at the University Club Jori Finkel of Art+Auction magazine and the New York Times discussed the value and importance of collecting art including empowering strategies for creating and evaluating your own collection. Here are my notes from her talk. I hope they encourage you to start a collectors club in your neighborhood. April will be glad to hook you up with other Art Collecting Clubs once this ball gets rolling. Ms. Finkel outlined five main categories for focusing a collection:
She went on to explain some of the advantages of focusing your buying:
Ms. Finkel ended by breaking a few art myths for us. For example, art auction prices are not as reliable as they appear. It is not necessarily better to be a young artist and finally, you don’t need loads and loads of money to be a collector. You can read more about the seven different types of collectors, ten tips to collecting art and collecting in general online in our SmART Collector feature. Out and about in the city last month: TheSan Diego Museum of Art exhibition Inside the Wave was named by its curator Betti-Sue Hertz for its insider view of a new wave of artists not shown at the museum before. I attended the lecture/panel discussion where they all made presentations including a live skype hook up with Adriene Jenik from Singapore. Brian Dick, Allison Wiese, Zlatan Vukosavljevic and Nina Wiese from Particle Group and Bulbo presenting Tijuaneado Anonimos were the other five presenters. Betti Sue Hertz explained that these local artists are working in an international context and range from the soft (social) to the hard (technological) sciences. I have no idea what that means, but I did find the presentation most interesting. Later when I saw the show, I was able to fill in the gaps. I think this panel represents a cross section of presentations made by artists. I was most impressed with Brian Dick who was amusing and articulate and spoke in a very personal way. You can’t help but be delighted by his Mascot Project. The mascot he invented for the Museum was present and just writing that makes you realize that all of us should have mascots to cheer us on and clear the way where ever we appear. Allison Wiese makes works that are grounded but her panel description tried hard to make it sound more important than it needed to be. She presented a whisky still made from parts easily available from Home Depot and Target and added that she always like to have some of the whiskey on hand to give out samples. None were forthcoming that day, but I think the work could stand on its own with a simple explanation of what she had made and was sorry not to see that more personal statement in the gallery itself. Zlatan’s presentation was almost like a mime performance and he was charming and you realized he did not need to speak at all. He played us some wonderful music on an old turntable and erected one of the sculptural modules. The gallery installation was a series of intimate marker drawings on corrugated metal together with a double column made from what looked like the ribs from umbrellas but more mysterious than that. Bulbo work seems like a very worth while project and I was intrigued that simply putting a reproduction of a meeting room did make this art. Tijuaneado Anonimos is a twelve step program to try to try to undermine the corporate assumption of authority and power by placing the responsibility of the TJ environmental mess back in the hands of the citizens. Of course, in the gallery, you were warned not to touch the cookies set out for the meeting by hovering museum guards. But the idea of people themselves cleaning up the streets of TJ was very appealing. I did love the wall plaque references to the AA. I am afraid to say that I did not understand one word the Nina or Adriene said, but watching them both was a treat. Nina because of her nervous energy which was again present in the installation of white boxes which seems to making a puffing sound when you got close and started a nanotechnology rant. When you walk through what looked like a security arch you can affect the sound, but I enjoyed most the acting of a technician on a tiny ipod screen which was sort of like Cheech and Chong gone high tech. It took the edge off the space odyssey feeling of the rest of the installation. Adriene's presentation was compelling because of the strange stop and start visual images that were being projected due to the skype technology. There was a small TV on in the background (I am sure a definite decision by Adriene) to let us have a peek of her present location in the Far East. Her installation was about books, past present and future with stack of books almost like little stools, a changing slide show of libraries and a dominating futuristic female image chanting in much the same way that Adriene actually spoke. Inside the Wave: Six San Diego/Tijuana Artists construct social art at SDMA until June 22. Brian Dick and Nina Weisman from Particle were both in our SD Art Prize New Contemporaries exhibition and Allison Weise showed with Marcos Ramirez ERRE as the emerging artist recipient. for SD Art Prize 2007/2008 I met the delightful and talented artist Julie Heffeman at the opening in my own neck of the woods, Cardiff by the Sea. You can read more about her on Art As Authority written by Maura Vazakas Julie Heffernan In Studio at the Lux Institute on exhibit April 4 - May. 31 Hours: Thurs & Fri 1-5 pm, Sat 11-5 pm 1550 S. El Camino Real, Encinitas, CA 92024 A large and supportive crowd was in attendance for the dedication of three new sculptures at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. Urban Trees by Fritzie Urquhart and Amos Robinson (donated by Ralyn and Nate Wolfstein) and a wonderfully sophisticated work by Robin Bright (donated by Jeffery Laudenslager) will be on permanent display and paintings by Connie McCoy and Rod Lingren will be on view in the rotating show as part of the Arts for Healing program.
If you have comments to make about these articles or opinions of your own to share, please feel free to email us at info@SDVisualArts.net. If your words are utilized we will give you credit and a link to your website of choice. A prized work of art is one of the most personal possessions of a home dweller. Working with something personal, usually a beautiful area rug or textile, is a typical starting point for an interior designer. But what if it was a work of art that was the central theme to the design? Too often art work is “suggested” to the client as an after service once the bones of the room have been chosen. A painting that fits is searched for from an assortment of artists that are on the books of the designer or consultant employed. If the art work itself was the inspiration for the room, the designer could instead work with the colors, style, size and texture of the art work. An existing work from the client's collection could be used but Sublime Design Interiors challenged themselves to create an interior space using a new painting as inspiration for a small bungalow on the coast of Del Mar. Eli Hans, one of the partners of the firm, enhanced a found painting by adding a few elements, more saturated colors, minimizing the Las Vegas “glitz” and finally, adding a fireplace screen upside down on top of the canvas. The designers had recently painted the screen intending to use it as part of the decor for the fireplace, when in a moment of creative genius, it occurred to Joseph Bennett, the firm’s co-owner, to incorporate it on the canvas for added interest and dimension. Joseph is also an assemblage artist who incorporates found objects in his compositions. Once the painting was completed, all other design elements were selected, creating a wonderfully unique new room. It is not often that the interior design team has artists on board so this lucky makeover recipient got a bonus. The message is clear……using art as the starting place, along with talented designers, one can create a showplace like this homeowner's who swears, ““I love my house! It will be the talk of the town!”
Patricia recommends: I will be present (I was delighted to be one of the nominators) when Nina Karavasiles ( SD Art Prize New Contemporary, 2007 ) is honored with the SDAI Palette Award 2008 by the San Diego Art Institute Museum of the Living Artist . Her work will be shown at the Southern California Regional Awards exhibition, which opens on March 29th from 5-7pm. The show continues until May 11. I hope to see you there. Join me on Thursday, April 17 th from 6:00 – 9:00pm at the University Club atop Symphony Towers, 750 B Street, 34th floor, San Diego, CA 92101 for an evening of expert-led discussion on what it takes to create and evaluate our own personal art collections. Guest speakers include Jori Finkel, frequent contributor on arts issues for the New York Times and Art + Auction Magazine, Patricia Frischer, coordinator of the San Diego Visual Arts Network and the San Diego Art Prize, and well known and loved regional artists Sinclair Stratton, Martin Sklar, and Jeff Yeomans. Please arrive a few minutes early to receive registration materials and pre-event refreshments. Wine, champagne, sushi and hors d'oeuvres included. Tickets are $50 and must be purchased by Monday, April 14th. Proceeds benefit the San Diego Fine Art Society , a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to helping art flourish in San Diego. For more information visit call April Game at (858) 205-4354
Poopielickles for All: attending Art Fairs in LA It was fun to take off from San Diego on a Friday at the end of January for a micro (just 8 hours) holiday in Los Angeles. We piled into the car, but without the usual load of luggage or travel check list and two hours later we were at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA to see the Murakami exhibition. If you could clone Walt Disney with Jeff Koons you might approach recreating this Japanese wonder. The child-like colors of a fantasy land cover walls and two enormous sculptures. There were morphing fairies and erotic symbols both subtle and in your face. Like it or hate it, you could not deny the craftsmanship and the balls. The video on the MoCA website lets you hear Murakami speak for himself. An incredibly naïve artist or just crazy like a fox entrepreneur? You take your choice. This show was a good set up for the 190 galleries we were about to cruise at Art LA at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and the LA Art Fair aka the Los Angles Art Show at the Barker Hanger also in Santa Monica. It seemed to me that there was something for everyone as you toured your way around the world. But then everyone was there.There were the artists looking for a new venue to display art work. I saw several portfolios clutched with a certain air of desperation and embarrassment. No, this is not the best place to show your work to galleries. They are working on sales and have spent a fortune for this exposure. Starving artists are their lowest priority. There were art consultants and artist’s agents scoping out the possibilities for their artist clients or looking for new work for their buyers. Even the galleriest look at artists at other booths at the fairs. They might be able to arrange a sale to one of their clients or collaborate with a gallery to exchange shows especially if the galleries concerned are in very different geographic areas. We saw museum staff and art writers looking for trends but I found it hard to call this one. The LA Art Fair especially, was a safe mixture of everything with nothing really too outrageous or conceptual. Art LA fared better with stunning work by Soo Kim at Sandroni Rey, which layered cut out shapes with their shadows. We did notice lots of newly coined words like “poopielickles” and “ooga booga” and lots of new artistic strokes put on top of tradition art work or vice versa. I especially liked the environments with the art created right on the walls allowing you to consider the entire booth space as an art work. Although not jam packed on Friday afternoon, there were enough people that a second walk though was definitely worth while. I noticed works that I had missed as the crowd ebbed and flowed. We did not go to the opening night of either fair, but there were red stickers and replacement works were being installed so we assume there were sales. I didn’t notice the feeding frenzy of Frieze in London or anything compared to the stories I have been told about Art Miami Basel this year. This was LA so a celebrity spotting was the order of the day. Warren Beatty, Matt Dillon, Michael Keaton and Marisa Tomei were all there even though we did not catch a glimpse. But this show was mainly for the collector/client/buyer/connoisseur. Some say the presence of the Rubells was all it took to put this fair on the map and since this family owns more than 6,000 works, they do have buying power. Maybe that type of thinking is a mistake. Maybe these fairs in LA should have been for the bohemians first and the fans would follow. Patricia recommends: Permanent Collection is a not to be missed by Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company until March 16 at the Tenth Avenue Theater. We were riveted by the performances, especially rising star Tanya Johnson who was luminescent and by the exception story scripted by Thomas Gibbons that was put together for this exception evening directed by Seema Sueko. This play has everything if you want an evening of challenging ideas about the role of the art museum, allowing you to deeply care about the characters who struggle with issues of race and relationships. I am rare in my praise but this one gets a huge thumbs up. The entire cast is to be congratulated. For special $7 discount use SDVAN as code when buying online for performances while supplies last. Join San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) Executive Director Derrick Cartwright, SDMA Deputy Director for Education and Interpretation Vas Prabhu, and Union Tribune Art Critic Robert Pincus for a discussion about race, inclusion and art following the 7:30 p.m. performance on March 1. More info: Seema Sueko 619.342.7395 San Diego Museum of Art Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882–1966) This is an amazing show of an artist who spans the most important transition time in Indian art. You will learn about the art that influences Bose as the Museum dips into its Edwin Binney collection, renown as the most important collection of Indian Art in the world. There are also fascinating examples of works by the students of Bose, contemporary art works from a scene that is exploding into today market place. Years in the making, with special collaborations not only between the National Gallery of Art, New Delhi but with the national government of India, this show will do much to increase the reputation of Derrick Cartwright and SDMA. Methods he has learned will help other museums deal with the process of collaboration with Indian institutions, which are known to be administratively very complex. I found the most compelling work in the show a small intense and rich work called “The Burning of the Lacquer House.” You see five sons carrying their mother from a smoking background and it has an aura of the past but with distinct art nouveau overtones in line and composition. But it is the royal serene faces of all five sons that harkens back to the portrait miniatures of the past. You can have the fun of experiencing henna designs, rice flour floor painting, and sari and yoga demonstrations in conjunction with this show when SDMA presents a Family Festival on Sunday, March 2. The spring edition of Culture & Cocktails on Thursday, March 13, will also highlight Rhythms of India, with Indian-inspired DJ’d music, live entertainment, and specialty cocktails. back to topReading the Zines for Good Ideas As we all rally our brains to think about the upcoming primary election, I found myself drawn away from my number one issue, World Peace, and pulled toward issues of ecology. With that in mind, I gathered a few revolutionary ideas for you to ponder. These all were presented to me by the new magazines that landed unannounced in my mailbox. This relatively new publication GOOD is indeed a good read. . Ever think about the litter of words and images that is cluttering up the World Wide Web. That coupled together with the trace-ability of your every enter on the internet makes people like Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger wonder about an internet that could learn to forget. He wants “data ecology.” Makes me want to delete archived files and clean up my act and my data banks. In that same vein, we noticed the work of Ilkka Halso who creates a vision of a future world. Halso takes what we now take for granted and creates a sort of Disney landscape or what he calls a Museum of Nature. Those crazy designer who commandeered car parking spaces first two years ago in San Francisco, have seen their idea mushroom. In Sept of 06, 35,000 square feet of parking in 47 cites was turned into temporary parkland. The design firm Rebar is now supporting Reuben Margolin and his mobile park, which is a small car-sized green space on wheels Coralie Vogelaar in her series Masters of Rietweld explores the idea that no idea is new, or at least does not begin with a new idea. Starting with the works of 36 student artists, she traced the references, barrowings, homages and compiled thousands of images in a family tree of relationships. A new type of graffiti was invented by Jason Eppink who uses transparent foam-board squares to cover parts of video billboards on the subway system of New York. Known at the” Pixelator”, this renegade artist creates what many think is a more pleasing visage that the commercial clutter that too often assaults us. Clearly tongue in cheek, Heavy Trash puts their anti-establishment message on 12 bus stop benches in Los Angeles promising “Forever Landville”, a refuse service for those who wanted to pay no heed to rubbish recycling and were willing to pay for the privilege of having their own landfill. Peter Diamandis embraces the idea of prize money to encourage visionaries and risk-takers. His Ansari X Prize will offer $300 million in the next five years in categories like education, global poverty, cancer and health care. A past X Prize gave us the non-NASA manned space flight and another $10 is funding the “100 human genomes in 10 days” challenge. The SD Art Prize is delighted by this direction and hopes to encourage excellence in arts with its modest prize as well. I am fortunate to receive two other free magazines. Art.ltd is exclusively focused on art and design on the West Coast. Luxe is also geared to style and design but in Southern California. They do a good job of featuring many artists in each issue. This is a growing trend in all the life style magazines and a welcome one to all of us in the visual arts community. So like Coralie Vogelaar, why not grab an idea and run with it…I challenge you to be creative in incorporating world issues into your art collection and your art work. Jump on a trend or buck it and make sure and let me know about it. Our thanks to Rosemary KimBal for her editing skills. Changing Power Base: State of the Arts 2008 We are truly seeing a shift in the power base of art marketing now that we near the end of the first decade of the new millennium. Previously, the control of prices was dominated by the art dealers, museum curators and top collectors. We are now seeing the resurgence of the importance of the critic and the continued escalation of the auction houses, which are influencing a new strain of collectors who sell as well as buy. Knowledge continues to mean power and the Internet is the largest source of knowledge in today’s art world. Auction Influences Most of the attention on the art market is because Contemporary Art has, for the first time, outsold Impressionist and Modern Art. That means that works of art by living artists are selling for enormous amounts of money. Damien Hirst’s “Lullaby Spring,” sold in June for $19.5 million but less than five month later Jeff Koons’ “Hanging Heartbroke that record with a whopping $23.6 million sale at Sotheby’s. The combined total of three contemporary fall sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Philips de Pury was $948 million in five short days (Nov 12 th through the 16 th). Auctions are also brokering sales before and after their auctions with top end auction houses looking more and more like galleries. Who has all this money to invest in art? The new hedge fund buyers, like Steven Cohen, is the answer. Cohen is said to own more than a billion dollars worth of art financed by his ability to make his investors 40% annual returns since 1992. Collectors used to be intellectuals. They are now the socially elite and business tycoons. The buyers in our current market might be tested as their financial security is challenged and we are all waiting to see what might happen next. There is no better art and no more art than ever before, but, currently, there is high demand. The get rich quick crowd could vaporize if the demand disappears, but luckily, there are still collectors who will hold on to the art they have bought for long periods. Critical Resources How does San Diego take advantage of the current changes? Stephen Hepworth, the new director of UCSD Art Gallery, has a direct tie in to the London art scene after his years as a curator there. Watch for his shows to see trends in the market. Watch for hip young writers like Kevin Freitas, who has European backgrounds and well trained eyes. Many artists find curatorial attention and critical acclaim a more important gauge to their success than sales. Galleries and art associations should go for themes and set titles for shows as well as choosing artists of merit. There role is to draw in new buyers and education is key in changing a one time buyer into a collector. We hope to see the rise of the critic/contemporary historian on the Web, and it is worth it to discover sites that will fill the void and help us all navigate the vastness which is the Internet. Web Presence London, not New York, has become the art capital of the world. The strong pound and weak dollar contribute to this, but also the rising number of Russian and Middle Eastern collectors who don’t want to struggle with getting a visa to come to America post 911. But it is becoming less necessary for artists and galleriest to be in the art cities if they can afford to go to the art fairs and have a Web site. The Web site is very important for research, and collectors are learning all they can before they make their decisions. The Web site can also set the style and tone of a gallery, as it is often the first entry point for a sale. The Internet must be fully used to spread the word and produce online catalogue documentation of all shows. San Diego Shines Overheads for running a gallery remain high and we see galleries fold as fast as they open. There are a few like Gagosian who can afford to put on shows that cost even more than those at major museums. We need more advisors and consultants and agents to help artists and collectors. Only then can we hope to support more galleries to show art. In the meantime, we want our industrialist to showcase art in their alternative spaces and encourage their employees to live with art at home as well as in the workplace. That is why support by Qualcomm (they underwrite free admittance for those under 25 to Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) and Leap Wireless (they are showing student art curated by San Diego Art Institute in their corporate offices) is so important in San Diego We shall have our first boutique Art Fair in 2008 called Beyond the Borderwhich will focus on the overlapping art activities between Mexico and California. The fairs are a way for a gallery to build its reputation. Galleries go to fairs to spread the word about their artists, to meet collectors and colleagues and to learn about the trends themselves. Because of the huge cost of fairs, we are seeing more collaborations between galleries. Hopefully this will promote less competitiveness and more cooperation, but that may only be true in the buoyant market that we are experiencing now. Collectors will individually decide why they buy. That is their challenge. Are they looking for a way to escape themselves or to know themselves; maybe both? Some artists are no longer simply producing art, they have become the art. But let us never forget that the artist is the center of this world. Artists can make art out of thin air (or millions of dollars worth of diamonds like Damien Hirst), and they create our footprint to the future. 2007 Past A+ Art Blogs including 2006 Past A+ Art Blogs PATRICIA FRISCHER, author of "The Artist and the Art of Marketing" has lectured extensively on marketing for artists. She is a trainer of artists’ agents, art dealers, consultant and collectors. Frischer has taken on the roles of gallerist, curator, writer, teacher, website coordinator and artist. Her many metamorphoses make her difficult to fit into any of the usual art world categories. She is a founding member and coordinator of the San Diego Visual Arts Network, (www.SDVAN.net ) which funds the SD Art Prize, directory and events calendar and SmART Collector features. Her own artwork (www.DrawsCrowd.com ) has been shown internationally and her most recent one person show was at Oxford University. |
