Tell Your Story or Someone Will Make One Up for You
Do you remember the last time you stood in front of an artwork and felt something — really felt something — and didn't know why? Maybe it was a scene in a gallery that ...
For Artists Building Their Careers: Waiting Isn’t a Strategy
Every year, thousands of freshly graduated artists leave art schools with a diploma in one hand and vague ideas about the future in the other. They know how to paint, sculpt, conceptualize, theorize. But ...
The Poetic Power of Nothing: What Star Trek Can Teach Us About Silence in Art
Last night, watching Star Trek with my husband, I stumbled onto something unexpected. In Season 7, Episode 3 ("Interface"), Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge walks into Data's quarters to find the android staring at ...
Gallery Approach Strategies That Generate Responses (And Why Most Artists Avoid Them)
Or: What happens when opportunity meets the terrifying reality of being seen Last week, an artist contacted me about what appeared to be a dream scenario: direct access to a foreign gallery, potential representation ...
The Perfect Moment Myth: Why June is Actually January for Creative Projects
While you're waiting for the "right moment," someone else just submitted their application. Here's an uncomfortable truth about creative careers: the perfect moment doesn't exist. It's a mirage that keeps talented people perpetually preparing ...
Art Curators as Art Critics: Responsibility and Standards
Or: No, I Won't Write a Forward Just Because Your Check Cleared Yesterday, I had one of those conversations with my husband that left me wanting to simultaneously laugh, cry, and deliver an impromptu ...
From Creativity to Visibility: Exhibit Your Art Online in the DLightful Gallery
It’s not easy being an artist today. Instead of spending most of your precious time creating art and focusing on what’s important to you, you have to be your own art manager, content creator, ...
Juggling Creativity and Commerce: Is There a Perfect Balance?
...To be an artist meant to choose a different life-style—to live minimally, with cheap rent and minimal needs and somehow survive. Today no one can afford that romance.1It’s 1977 and Jenny Holzer is writing her ...
Mia Popović – The Duality of Being
We live off of and through nature and the land, bound to it since the dawn of human existence. Yet, over time, this bond between nature and humans has grown tenuous, distancing us from our ...
Josip Mijić – Aranea²
Walking the quarries, searching for the almost invisible, Josip Mijić does not only explore the physical space; the earthly. This (almost) invisible thing he is looking for is not necessarily immaterial either, even though ...