"CLICK HERE" to read about the latest art dealer, Bernie Salander's scam.
When I began working at Merrill Chase a gallery in Chicago. Nancy Voss the gallery director warned me that the gallery world was a really slimy place. And it is. My friend at the gallery Don in the 80's made tons of money in Hawaii selling Dali's, He was unaware of this scam, but he was part of it. He said one day the FBI came in closed down the gallery.
Check out this book on it
The Great Dali Art Fraud and Other Deceptions
'CLICK HERE" to read an article about the very successful artist Damien Hirst. The blatant commercialism of this artist brings ups some big questions in my mind and heart. Even is our economic down fall he is making crazy amounts of money. "CLICK HERE" to read about his record breaking art auction.
Check out Clive Crooks take on Hirst "CLICK HERE"
Lauren and I were wondering does Hirst give back to the community or the world.
For me it is a paradox. How does one marry art with money? How does one put value on art? I feel when money is involved there is always corruption. I do think art has great value though. When art collectors bought for example a Miro from me I was really excited that they would have this in their daily lives. When I sell my own paintings I feel that they are worth every dollar and more. Does anyone have any thoughts on how greed permeates the art world and can their be a new model. What would that look like.
I think at The Red Door Gallery ( that Lauren and I are part of) we are trying to create a new working model. Our latest exhibition Myth, Magic, and Mystery is all about that. The opening reception is on April 3rd please join the dialogue this Friday.
Here is my curatorial statement for the exhibition:
Previous to graduate school I worked in several galleries in Chicago and San Francisco selling fine art. I became sickened by the ugliness of greed and the perverse paradox that we were selling “beauty”. Visionary and spiritual aspects of the artist were never mentioned and denied for the sake of money. Artists become branded and lingered in “rock star” status. We were not selling art, but image and status. I was heartbroken. This stifled worldview of art was laced throughout my undergrad art education. I took countless art history courses, and noticed the word “spirituality” was always left out. The ‘S’, word was not accepted in the mainstream art world or the art academic world
Where had the essence of art gone?
My personal quest as an artist and as a curator for this show and The Red Door Gallery is to reunite art and the spirit.
In Myth, Magic, and Mystery we have gathered over thirty established and emerging artists, whose life and art is an exploration of the great liminal themes of spirituality, the mystery of transcendence, lucidity, and universal interconnectedness.
The overall aesthetics of the exhibtion are elemental in force, evoking notions of the Earth, blood, fire, and Sunyata. Sunyata is a Buddhist term, also known as “the void”, meaning the emptiness of creation where all form arises.
I believe this exhibition offers a glimpse into the slippery windowsill between stages of becoming and dissolving. Like nature, this exhibition speaks of the sensual and the luminous darkness that is revealed in the immutable mysteries of existence. As a viewer looking at the art in Myth, Magic, and Mystery I find myself in continuous journey of discovery into both the sacred and shadowy realms of being. Finally, as a curator and an artist I hope that this exhibition entices a discourse that resurrects meaning and authenticity in art. The paradigm is already shifting.
I HOPE. No it is- I think that is one of our main goals at Art is Moving is to create a new model for the art world.
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