After the Storm

Hello Art Lovers!

I'm in Dallas. I'll spend the next few days visiting galleries. Talking to artists and gallery owners. Hopefully selling a little art. Yesterday I left Oklahoma City after a night of Hell. You can read about that experience in the blog post from yesterday.

I’ll be bringing you a printed magazine in 2014 by this name, 21st Century Art World. If you’re a gallery owner or an artist or an art lover, a critic, a dealer, an auction house staff, an art writer, or in some other category connected to the art world, I hope you’ll come along.

The art of the 21st Century will be different from what we have known. Much different. Of course all good art does something new. Takes turns. Blows people away. Comes like a cloud and settles for a while. Sets trends.

The 21st Century art will be interesting and glorious and wonderful. It will educate, fascinate, entertain. It will make us feel, make us laugh, make us cry. It will fill us with hope (sometimes). Shock us. Scare us. Make us gasp with wonder. “How does she do that?” We’ll ask when we look at some new sculpture or imaginative multi-media painting. We’ll marvel. We’ll celebrate. We’ll be thrilled to be alive and to look upon it. 

That is my theory.

I’ll write more, much more I hope, about Art in the 21st Century. This is where I’ve come to dwell. Lucky me. It is a little presumptuous actually, to describe the art of the Twenty First Century, being here just 13 years" in". 

We’ve just come from incredibly rich centuries of art. Now life, which art is likely to imitate, according to Oscar Wilde, is hundreds of times more complex. Because of technology, climate change, connectivity, changing values, and economic conditions that leave most people unable to afford original works of art of any distinction.

I've looked back at that last sentence and know that it needs to be qualified because in my heart I know how untrue it is. But it depends on a person's definition of "distinction." People like me, who will earn a living in the art world will be out here "manipulating" the art market. There it is. The truth.

But you know what--making a living is all about that. Creating the impression of value from your labor. If your labor has very little appearance of value, it will earn you that much of a living. If your labor "seems" to be worth more, by whomever is willing to pay you for what you do, then you'll make exactly as much as someone is willing to give you. That is a form of manipulation isn't it?

So back to that sentence. Friends--Lovers of art. If you don't have much money, find your art that you can afford. I'm convinced it is there. For sure you can go find it to look at for free. But there is also art you can afford, at any price. I'm absolutely certain of that. Then if you finally decide that, "Nope," you've looked and you can't find any art that you love...I mean original art of course....that you can afford, then contact me. I'll help you own art, at a price you can afford. I promise you.

Help me, join me, celebrate with me.

Later today, I want to introduce you to another amazing artist.His name is D. A. Frizell. At that time, the background of the Wicked Witch of the East will disappear. I'll leave her there through the rest of this morning so those late comers to the blog post of yesterday will still have the flavor of that story.

Enjoy.