- Yo, what's going on everybody.
Today we are gonna talk
about artist statement.
I know a lot of you have been asked
to write an artist statement
and you don't know what to put in there,
it's something that you
haven't really even thought of,
you're not a writer, you're an artist
that's the same thing I said,
but artist statements
are really important.
So, your artist statement
pretty much helps
potential buyers or
galleries, or artist's reps
understand the most important
aspects of your art.
What are you trying to communicate?
What topics are you trying to tackle?
Your background, things like that,
so, that's why an artist
statement is important.
And you are always want
to consistently update
your artist statement
because as you evolve your
artist statement should evolve
as well to reflect where you are currently
in your art career or art practice.
So, the statement is about,
I'd say, three to four paragraphs
and you wanna keep it short,
you wanna keep it as concise as possible.
You don't wanna add a
word you don't need to.
I know a lot of artists do that,
but you wanna make sure your
artist statement reflects you.
To help you out with writing
the artist statement,
you don't know where
to start where to end,
what to put in there,
what you wanna do is answer
some of this questions
and you answers should be
in the artist statement.
You wanna make sure these
answers kinda flow within
that artist statement all
through out those paragraphs.
And those question are;
why do like to make art?
What subject matters do you
prefer to tackle and why?
What is your process
or some of the technics you
go about creating your work?
How is you work different from others?
What do you see in your art work
and what do others see in your art work?
What are your goals and
aspirations as an artist?
Who inspires you?
What other artist do you
look up to in the past
that kinda help shape the
way you make art today?
In the end your artist
statement should reflect you
and your exploration in the art world.
What are you trying to get out?
What is your purpose in creating art?
So, that's what your
artist statement is about.
To end the description,
I will have a lot of those questions
then some more questions
you may wanna ask yourself,
so, when you answer those questions
you can actually add them
to the artist statement to help
build up a better statement
about you and your art.
Also end of description,
I'll have a link to a couple of websites
that has a couple of
examples and some templates
so that you can better understand exactly
how others are writing
their artist statements.
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so I can keep doing this.
Peace.
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