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Artist Statement for Gary Wynn
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I would like to say "I live to paint" but it's the other way around. I am not very good at marketing my artwork. I have a small art gallery in an out of the way small town located in southern Oregon, of which I am the only exhibitor. So I thought I would try something new by exposing my paintings to a new audience. I hope. Artists, I think, have to have a thick skin, like any salesman, in order to face rejection, criticism and all of the other perils of trying to make and sell art. I use to paint and draw pictures of asocial commentary nature but they didn't sell. I was told that they were disturbing and people wouldn't buy a painting of two bums huddled on a street trying to keep warm. Of course they were right, no one did. Then it was suggested that I should do art more like the art on greeting cards. Inspiring. A fellow artist explained to me that I needed a 'gimmick' to sell art. "If you were not so ordinary I am sure your art would sell". I didn't take him seriously. At that time I belonged to another gallery in my small town and the artists members thought it would be great if I would bring in some customary paintings of deer or ducks or mountains, "that's the stuff that sells!" so I brought in a painting of a 1950's toy robot, eyes cast down longingly gazing at a battery lying on the table besides him. A still life. The point is, I want to paint what I want to paint and to that end I do.
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