Sentences with phrase «secure gallery representation»

The aforementioned painting, «Class of 2007,» helped her secure gallery representation and appeared in «30 Americans,» the traveling group exhibition featuring works by African American contemporary artists from the Rubell Family Collection.

Tompkins didn't secure gallery representation and her paintings spent three decades rolled up under her pool table until they were rediscovered by the dealer Mitchell Algus in the early 2000s.

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Yet in conjunction with the country's recent economic boom, the international art market has begun to sit up and pay attention: Brazilian galleries have multiplied, institutional attention has intensified and a whole generation of younger artists, along with overlooked figures from a previous generation, has come to wider attention and secured representation, critical coverage and collectors from abroad.

This is not to say that the gallery is consumed with the latest thing — in recent years, Boesky has pulled off major coups in securing the representation of two legendary living artists, the Arte Povera sculptor Pier Paolo Calzolari and the Minimalist icon Frank Stella, the latter of which recently made news when it was announced that his first major retrospective since 1970 will be the first show to fill a full floor of the Whitney's new Meatpacking District building when it opens next spring.

Strategy, self - promotion, marketing one's work, finding gallery representation, securing commissions, and pursuing previously unexplored opportunities are some of the valuable topics covered.

Many of the artists who show with us go on to be featured in Bay Area Now (an exhibition organized every three years by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) and the SECA Art Award exhibition (organized every two years by SFMOMA), or are able to secure commercial gallery representation.