the artist’s “personal statement”

The artist’s split personality

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Applying for exhibitions can be tricky. It is never entirely clear how the gallery wants you to present yourself. There are two tracks you can follow–the impersonal and the personal. Either they expect me to describe my work as if some detached and independent observer were encountering it, and the comment is the subject of … Read more

Little things mean a lot

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This morning I wrote a “personal statement” in preparation for my solo exhibition at the Apothecary Gallery in May. I never find these tasks easy, because it requires some kind of prescience about the nature of one’s readership. Who are these people out there who might be seeing my publicity information? What do they need … Read more