Ceiling Paintings up for Adoption
Tuesday December 22, 2009
I have a lot of paintings in my room. And I’ve decided to do something about it. I make objects both for myself and because, crazily enough, I have something I want to communicate. I want people to see my work and hopefully enjoy it in some way.
So please, buy something if you want to! But I’m not actually here to beg you for sales. In fact, I’ve just signed up with this awesome organization called the Fine Art Adoption Network.
Basically, you can sign up with them and adopt artwork by all kinds of artists. You just need to convince that artist that you should be the owner of their work. The only thing that you would have to arrange for and pay for is the transportation of their work to your place. And artists might have other stipulations. For example, if you want one of my pieces, you have to split the sale price with me if you ever sell my work to a third party.
I put “Glory Hole” up on the Fine Art Adoption Network a couple weeks ago, and am currently trying to decide who should be its loving parents. And I’m about to add a few more at the Fine Art Adoption Network’s web site.
The following is from the Fine Art Adoption Network’s web site about their goals:
“The goals of FAAN are to place artworks by committed artists into deserving homes and institutions, as well as to offer a channel for new audiences for contemporary art. It is the intention of FAAN to engage art enthusiasts who never thought of themselves as art collectors, and to introduce them to the experience and pleasures of owning and caring for contemporary art.
Much of the artwork in FAAN was created by artists who have widely exhibited in museums and galleries. Yet, these artists have chosen to present their artwork here because it has the potential to generate a unique relationship between them and new audiences. As much as artists want to sell their work, they also want to communicate with others and have an impact on the lives of their viewers.”