Maureen Sharkey 's comment on Do You Prefer to Sell Through A Gallery?



Maureen Sharkey 's comment on Do You Prefer to Sell Through A Gallery?

Maureen Sharkey
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One gallery director I am trying to work with, doesn't know diddly about art. The gallery is located in a very rich, fairly rural area, with little chance of competition. She immediatly tore into my paintings, saying they are not done, and 'why would I paint white flowers?! Don't I know that everybody wants red flowers.' And one painting I had of a statue of two gossipping maidens, I painted from a photo I took in the French Riviera, two doors down from the Picasso Museum, in Cap Antibes, she said, "That'll never sell". I have been a very successful commercial artist, working in ad agencies, mostly at Leo Burnett, art directing, creating tv commercials for fortune 100 companies. Many pros in the business have said I'm agreat artist. Then this bumbling idiot, whose work she has chosen for her gallery, I would call for the most part, 'low art'. She needs me, and doesn't know it. And the people who live in the area would buy my work if they could see it. This gallery director won't reveal who the gallery owner is. I guess I will just print up a little brochure of my paintings in this series, and hand deliver it to all those mansions in her neighborhood.


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