AcadieLibre
04-16-2010, 03:04 PM
Well this is a huge break for me. I was at my new gallery yesterday and they wanted to talk to me about putting on a solo show at the gallery. I was stunned, to put it mildly. Now I have to raid my other gallery to get enough work to put on a solo show. I am so glad I have been doing some shooting lately or I would be screwed on having enough work to fill a gallery. Not sure of the date yet but they are thinking of getting me to do it during the month of the photo festival Contact. It will be heavily advertised through out North America.
I also found out some interesting things on why I was chosen. The Curator was at dinner and he mentioned my name to his date and much to his surprise and mine now lol, his date knew who I was and what my work was and she described what my work looked like and what I was partial to shoot. He then told me he had a dream that he was going to sign me that night. Seems these odd things always happen to me for some reason. Once I brought in samples of my photography he was sold and the Owner who rarely these days gets involved at this point in his life was shown my photos and he said to sign me as soon as they could.
They are also going to pay for two of my photos to be blown up to 36" wide by whatever height it ends up and both photos will tour other galleries. It is nice that how I shoot is unique enough that people whom I have never met know my work and that I am actually known. It is an ego boost, I was egotistical before this is not going to help lmaooo. They gave me a tour of what they have for sale and they sell work from over a million dollars to lowly me. I was also informed I am asking too little, so I need to up my prices and this is going to be hard since I am stunned I get what I am currently.
I was happy when I was picked up by my first gallery but the new one is on whole different level in the Art World. They have started the careers of many well known Canadian and International artists, hope I end up being one of them. If not I do not really care to be signed by a gallery of this calibre exceeds all my expectations I ever had, considering I had none lmaooo.
I also found out some interesting things on why I was chosen. The Curator was at dinner and he mentioned my name to his date and much to his surprise and mine now lol, his date knew who I was and what my work was and she described what my work looked like and what I was partial to shoot. He then told me he had a dream that he was going to sign me that night. Seems these odd things always happen to me for some reason. Once I brought in samples of my photography he was sold and the Owner who rarely these days gets involved at this point in his life was shown my photos and he said to sign me as soon as they could.
They are also going to pay for two of my photos to be blown up to 36" wide by whatever height it ends up and both photos will tour other galleries. It is nice that how I shoot is unique enough that people whom I have never met know my work and that I am actually known. It is an ego boost, I was egotistical before this is not going to help lmaooo. They gave me a tour of what they have for sale and they sell work from over a million dollars to lowly me. I was also informed I am asking too little, so I need to up my prices and this is going to be hard since I am stunned I get what I am currently.
I was happy when I was picked up by my first gallery but the new one is on whole different level in the Art World. They have started the careers of many well known Canadian and International artists, hope I end up being one of them. If not I do not really care to be signed by a gallery of this calibre exceeds all my expectations I ever had, considering I had none lmaooo.