Make the Most of Your Trade-Show Experience Is there a fine art to illustration? PART 2 30 UNDER 30 GROUNDBREAKING YOUNG ARTISTS MARKET YOUR BuSINESS + Tom Everhart’s homage to 10 Charlie Brown SOCIAL MEDIA Kinkade works MANAGEMENT come to TOOLS Artexpo NY An art exhibit ... under water? Private Label. It is oil on Canvas, 40 x 47 in. Year: 2013. www.coquivera.com [email protected] @Coqui_Vera MarieVera_FALL13.indd 1 9/5/13 8:16 AM Barbara Tyler Ahlfield www.fashionillustrationandmore.com 410-491-7630 2 FALL 2013 ARTBUSINESSNEWS.COM 3 4 FALL 2013 ANYA DROUG PEOPLE PLACES STORIES ANYA PAINTS IN OIL, with a vibrant palette and lively She also depicts architecture in a lively, vibrant man- brushstrokes. Yet, she also uses watercolor techniques, ner, from unusual angles, and in some works will il- and will apply layers of watery paint, even allowing paint luminate a sculpture or a single detail from a building. or gesso to drip in a painting. The spontaneous nature To Anya, buildings and monuments are very much like of painting becomes a visible component in her work. people; almost one subject. Buildings have stories, have Large fi elds of color create both openness and a bright a history, a personality, and are dynamic. They have en- luminous quality. This colorful haze surrounding beauti- ergy and life. There is a core connection between these fully detailed faces, fi gures, and architecture helps the architectural entities and the people who made them. viewer to make the story their own. Anya’s work is about life and humanity and her great- She uses painting to tell a story and the narrative ele- est desire is to make people refl ect on things in daily life ment of her work is what is essential to Anya. Her paint- and to enjoy life’s moments. To enjoy what is happening ings are intended to draw the viewer in and connect to right now. It is not going to happen again. The energetic the image in some way. There is a story being glimpsed brushstrokes and brilliant colors allow isolated moments and suggested, but the viewer is invited to fi nd in it some- or objects to become heightened, elevated, and rich. thing that is his or her own. She captures people doing A new identity is bestowed on them, reminding us that common everyday things and she captures emotions. these moments are to be enjoyed and celebrated. ARTBUSINESSNEWS.COM 5 Writing by Carolyn Morris PERSPECTIVES THE UPSIDE OF Fall 2013 Phone: 800-768-6020 SUMMER’S END. Email: [email protected] Web: www.artbusinessnews.com love the summer. But I hate the summer. I love summer for the same reasons CEO/Publisher you do: terrific weather, vacations, barbecues and outdoor time, but I hate the Eric Smith summer for what it does to business. Editor I hate the end of summer because it’s time for my kids to go back to school. Kathryn Peck IMy daughter Hannah is a freshman at Arizona State University, and her sister, Hay- ley, is beginning her junior year at Ohio University. Hayley is studying commercial Editorial Assistant photography at the Scripps College of Communication and has a passion for action Hillary Casavant shots, especially dancers. (Both girls have danced since the age of 3.) Copyeditor It’s no wonder that Hayley recently introduced me to a spectacular New York Fran Granville City photographer she’s been following: Jordan Matter. Matter recently finished a Contributors book, “Dancers Among Us” (dancersamongus.com). He has appeared on the Today Joseph Armstrong, Toni Fitzgerald, Julie Show, and his last exhibition just closed at the Savina Museum of Contemporary Jacobs, Elizabeth Juran, Megan Kaplon, Art in Seoul, South Korea. How cool is that? Christine Schrum When Hayley showed Editorial inquiries: me his work, I was capti- [email protected] vated by his spectacular shots. His work is full of Art Director Mike O’Leary life, color, joy and a little risk. Think Andreas Gur- Advertising sky, the German artist Rick Barnett, President Business Develop- ment Group/Solo Artists known for his large-format Email: [email protected] photographs. Phone: 831-747-0112 But the end of summer also means the beginning National Sales Manager Bethany Murray of fall, and that means the Email: [email protected] beginning of a long stretch of amazing trade shows, which I love. Phone: 617-706-9081 Matter and some of his dancers will be exhibiting at SPECTRUM New York, Operations and Finance which takes place Oct. 3 through 6 at the Javits Center North. This show, the first of Finance Director many for the fall season, will welcome exhibitors including the Deljou Art Group, Geoff Fox Perry Fine Art, Masterpiece Publishing, Stygian Publishing (Yuroz) and others. Email: [email protected] ERIC SMITH If you plan to exhibit, check out our tips on page 22 for making the most of Sales Administration your trade-show experience. With the fall season ahead, there’s no better time to Laura Finamore re-examine your marketing plans. Social-media sites are perfect places to start, and Email: [email protected] we’ve outlined some useful tools on page 24 to help you manage those sites. Subscriptions With summer coming to a close, prepare yourself for fall. Register for SPEC- Subscriptions to Art Business News are TRUM New York; attend the seminars; learn something new; and fill your gallery available to U.S. subscribers for $20 for one with new paintings, sculptures, and who knows—maybe even a new photograph. year (4 issues). Call 855-881-5861 or visit us online at www.artbusinessnews.com. Hope to see you there, Art Business News is published four times per year by Madavor Media. The name “Art Business News” is a registered trademark of Redwood Media Group. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced in any form what- Eric Smith soever without express written consent of publisher. 6 Copyright © 2013 FALL 2013 BOSTON is proud to represent Samir Sammoun October 3-6, 2013 • Javits Center North, NYC Spectrum Booth 331 For more information, contact Galerie d’Orsay 617.266.8001 [email protected] or visit Samir Sammoun’s Wikipedia page CONTENTS 36 MARKETING MADE EASY COLUMNS & DEPTS. 24 10 simple tools that will help manage your social media websites. 6 PERSPECTIVES BY JOSEPH ARMSTRONG The upside of summer’s end. BY ERIC SMITH ARTIST GUILDS 10 contributors 26 How these organizations help artists develop and sell their work. 18 INSIDE THE FRAME BY JULIE Jacobs Thomas Kinkade works, an underwater exhibit, upcoming From FUNNY PaGES to FINE ART shows and more. 36 Artist Tom Everhart infuses Peanuts with new flavor. 22 ART BEAT BY CHRISTINE SCHRUM Tips for making the most of your trade-show experience. IS THERE A FINE ART to Illustration? BY KATHRYN PECK 40 Find out what sets illustrators apart from fine artists and what brings them together. 56 15 MINUTES BY TonI FITZGERALD Gallery owner Robert Bluver uses his big business background to find 30 UNDER 30 success in the art world. 44 Part two of a two-part series featuring young BY MEGAN KAPLON artists remolding tomorrow’s art world. BY HILLARY CASAVANT 60 MEET THE ARTISTS 63 ADVERTISING INDEX On the Cover: "Raking," Jon Krause Turn to p. 40 for the full story, or 64 PARTING SHOT for more, visit jonkrause.com "Oukaly" by Oriol Angrill Jordà This page: "Ancient Chinese Secret – May (Taha’a)", Tom Everhart ARTBUSINESSNEWS.COM 9 CONTRIButors Joseph Armstrong, a recent gradu- Toni Fitzgerald is a freelance writer ate from Millersville University with who has written about everything multiple degrees in history, philoso- from TV ratings to TB shots. She is also phy and film studies, is perpetually copy editor and contributor to Glu- intrigued by the Constantine tapes- ten-Free Living magazine. She and tries, which are housed at the Phila- her late grandmother share the same delphia Museum of Art. favorite artist, Mary Cassatt. Hillary Casavant is a writer Award-winning writer and editor Julie Jacobs admits that in the Boston area and edito- one of her favorite paintings, for many sentimental reasons, rial assistant for Art Business is Renoir’s “Two Girls in the Meadow.” Jacobs’s work News, The Writer and other has appeared in numer- publications. Her favorite ous national, regional and museum is the Tate Britain in local publications, includ- London, which pairs modern ing American Way, Life- aesthetics with classic work styles, MovieMaker, Inside by the British masters. Stand- Jersey and Suburban ing before Waterhouse’s life- Essex. 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