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Monday, November 17, 2008 at 08:47AM 
The Cinemascapist at the Collette Blanchard Gallery ~ NYC • click to embiggenAaron's opening was very well attended. It drew a very interesting crowd and he sold some prints that night (as well as some pre-opening sales made by the gallery). This opening took place almost exactly one year after his first NYC show and I must say that both his work and his presentation of it have evolved considerably. I guess that's why he's had a few repeat collectors buying his work.
In any event, the gallery owner/director believes that she can sell at least 1/2 of the prints available in the show - that would be 30 sales (10 prints, editions of 6). Now that would be quite something.
gravitas et nugalis
Featured Comment: Matt asked: "How do you catch a collector's interest enough to keep them coming back for more?"
my response: On one hand, that's simple enough to do - just make interesting pictures and have really good gallery representation.
On the other hand, the really complicated and difficult part is to just make interesting pictures and have really good gallery representation.
I'm not attempting to be amusing because it's true - it does seem "easy" once you've made interesting pictures and have really good gallery representation but either and/or both of those prerequisites are not so easily accomplished.
That said, I'll be making an entry this week about the inside look I've had over the last year into the NYC Art/gallery world.
Featured Comment: Martin Doonan asked: "What is the print nearest left?"
It's this one - incident at the flume
Reader Comments (4)
Congratulations - that would be great to sell that many prints. So here's a question: how does one get repeat buyers? How do you catch a collector's interest enough to keep them coming back for more?
What is the print nearest left? It seems to have something of a skull/face thing going on from this angle like Holbein's "The Ambassadors".
Well how about that - my favourite one.
Well, then how does one do that? I mean in terms of finding others who find your work interesting, along with the gallery representation?
Also: I also really like that photo.