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and in other news...(that with no one will read haha)
and in other news...(that with no one will read haha)
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Alright so..kinda big story, half of this is to actually vent before I break something.
I used to live in MTL. I took a year off to sort myself out and to be an artist. It was good, I painted a lot and ended up applying to a new and upcoming gallery. I dispite not really having any training got one of the spots. Seriously, probably one of my biggest accomplishments ever since art means the world to me.
The girl who owns the gallery, Amy - is really awesome. From the first time we met we were great friends, we're a lot alike and can talk for hours. I helped out a lot with the gallery before the opening and afterwards I ended up getting the Gallery Assistant position because we worked really well together. I love love LOVED that job. No benefits, not great pay, long hoursbut I fucking LOVED it. In the end it didn't work out because she wasn't getting enough business to have someone else there full time (which she promised me). So since I don't speak French and had an opportunity I moved to Toronto on a whim.
Since I moved, I got kicked out of the gallery even though my stuff was always featured in whatever media they were doing. Simply, because I didn't live in Montreal anymore and that's what she wanted "all local artists". To be completely honest with you I cried for awhile over it - then eventually pushed it aside because at that point I was following my heart towards something that I wanted to work (which is still want I'm doing here in so many ways). Sobrush it off, keep your head up "you did it once, you can do it again if you choose to chase it".
Since all that happened in December/January - there has been a lot of back and forth. At first she was keeping the paintings to keep the gallery full and still trying to sell them. Then she had potential buyers who only wanted to pay half price but that fell through. Then she wanted them out completely, I told her to chuck them and she came back with me with yet another little venture of hers that she wanted to try with them. NONE of this I was happy with AT ALL. I had even arranged to have someone pick them all put one weekend and she backed out of it.
Also the entire time I have been "kicked out" of the gallery my paintings have continues to be featured in all of her media yet she has never once mentioned my name. My name is NOT all the website however photographs of my work are.
Fast forward to this afternoon - she messages me saying that she has this great amazing thing to tell me about. She goes on for awhile about she put together her own clothing collection and how it will be apart of the WAWA show this year. "We Are Women Artists" please see: www.thewawashow.com for more information. And that she was going to auction off all of my paintings. Not asking me how I felt about it, just telling me that this is what was going to be done point blank. Then she asks me how much we I would want to start bidding atat which point I didn't give her any kind of answer because I wanted to cry. She went on to say that she would start the bidding at 50 and that the profits from them would be split 65/35.
Honestlyright now the paintings are not highly priced. Most of them are about 3' x 4' and $500. Which isn't a bad price at all considering most of the art in the gallery is $1000 for a smaller work all the way up to $7000. And I meanselling something that someone put their heart and soul into for a price that is less then it even cost to fucking make?
But what can I say? Like they're in her gallery, I have no way to go and move them. I'm not under contract anymore. Ugh I dunno what to do, hopefully I can pull some money together to go to MTL and move before the show. Pick them up and save them. (Maybe I shouldn't think of it as saving them).
And I was having such a good day.
Alright so..kinda big story, half of this is to actually vent before I break something.
I used to live in MTL. I took a year off to sort myself out and to be an artist. It was good, I painted a lot and ended up applying to a new and upcoming gallery. I dispite not really having any training got one of the spots. Seriously, probably one of my biggest accomplishments ever since art means the world to me.
The girl who owns the gallery, Amy - is really awesome. From the first time we met we were great friends, we're a lot alike and can talk for hours. I helped out a lot with the gallery before the opening and afterwards I ended up getting the Gallery Assistant position because we worked really well together. I love love LOVED that job. No benefits, not great pay, long hoursbut I fucking LOVED it. In the end it didn't work out because she wasn't getting enough business to have someone else there full time (which she promised me). So since I don't speak French and had an opportunity I moved to Toronto on a whim.
Since I moved, I got kicked out of the gallery even though my stuff was always featured in whatever media they were doing. Simply, because I didn't live in Montreal anymore and that's what she wanted "all local artists". To be completely honest with you I cried for awhile over it - then eventually pushed it aside because at that point I was following my heart towards something that I wanted to work (which is still want I'm doing here in so many ways). Sobrush it off, keep your head up "you did it once, you can do it again if you choose to chase it".
Since all that happened in December/January - there has been a lot of back and forth. At first she was keeping the paintings to keep the gallery full and still trying to sell them. Then she had potential buyers who only wanted to pay half price but that fell through. Then she wanted them out completely, I told her to chuck them and she came back with me with yet another little venture of hers that she wanted to try with them. NONE of this I was happy with AT ALL. I had even arranged to have someone pick them all put one weekend and she backed out of it.
Also the entire time I have been "kicked out" of the gallery my paintings have continues to be featured in all of her media yet she has never once mentioned my name. My name is NOT all the website however photographs of my work are.
Fast forward to this afternoon - she messages me saying that she has this great amazing thing to tell me about. She goes on for awhile about she put together her own clothing collection and how it will be apart of the WAWA show this year. "We Are Women Artists" please see: www.thewawashow.com for more information. And that she was going to auction off all of my paintings. Not asking me how I felt about it, just telling me that this is what was going to be done point blank. Then she asks me how much we I would want to start bidding atat which point I didn't give her any kind of answer because I wanted to cry. She went on to say that she would start the bidding at 50 and that the profits from them would be split 65/35.
Honestlyright now the paintings are not highly priced. Most of them are about 3' x 4' and $500. Which isn't a bad price at all considering most of the art in the gallery is $1000 for a smaller work all the way up to $7000. And I meanselling something that someone put their heart and soul into for a price that is less then it even cost to fucking make?
But what can I say? Like they're in her gallery, I have no way to go and move them. I'm not under contract anymore. Ugh I dunno what to do, hopefully I can pull some money together to go to MTL and move before the show. Pick them up and save them. (Maybe I shouldn't think of it as saving them).
And I was having such a good day.
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i love your art, and i hope that it all works out honeybun muah1