TWO PROBLEMS WITH SELLING YOUR ART
First, your work is not that good…yet, the problem of being remarkable and second, nobody knows who you are, the problem of obscurity.
Here is a summary created to solve both of those problems for the new economy.
Learn How the Art Market Works
Sell through the Gallery System or through your own channels. Anyone who helps you make money also wants some.
Cultivate your Curiosity
Select a few topics and go deep and then try to use your artistic skills to turn them into art
Avoid Originality
Instead, look for depth and breadth in sources of inspiration and reverse engineer the results
Go Where the Money Is
Move between Experimental and Conceptual ways of making art. Try on new ideas through small bets.
Solve an Interesting Problem
Create a solution to a problem for a specific group of people with your work.
Cultivate InterestS outside of your art
Cross-pollinate ideas and ways of thinking from a new field to make you own work.
Think in Metaphors
Try to explain a new field using what you already know.
Reinvent Yourself
Use your day job or a professional interest as the role you play as an artist
Collaborate with an expert
Find an expert and over a year, develop a project beneficial to you both. Extra points if they are not alive.
Use Your Biography
Make a work of art or mind map that represents your biography and major changes in your life
Use Fear
Define what those you seek to change are afraid of and embed it within your work
Use Aspiration
Build a vision of the world those you seek to change would like to see
Develop your own Point of View
Answers what your work is trying to do, and for whom and make work in a way that your audience happily shares.
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