Selling Art Without Galleries
By: Daniel Grant
I am a bit torn with this book.
I found a lot of great info in the pages, but not much had to do with selling w/o a gallery. The author mentions obvious venues such as art fairs and a few not so obvious ones, however, most of the examples from artists seem to be dealing with galleries. Or, even more frustrating, Grant will give an example of what worked, but in a tone that is more, “This may work for you, but probably not.” Although, I could just be reading into that.
If you saw all the tabs coming from the book you would assume it’s amazing. I have marked quite a few things from it. It was really dry reading though and it took me quite awhile to get through it. I had a couple of false starts.
This book does have a few amazing lists though. It lists different societies, different insurance groups, etc.
While it is not a very exciting read I think it is one for the book shelf if only for the very valuable archive of extensive lists. The chapter titled ” Help That Is Tailored To Artist’s Needs” is worth the price of the whole book, especially for a “new” artist.
