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What if getting your art discovered has less to do with chasing galleries and more to do with putting your work where people can find it?
In this episode of The Professional Artist Podcast, landscape painter Thomas Sarrantonio is featured by the Professional Artist Association (https://professionalartist.com/join), the world's fastest-growing global community for committed fine artists.
Based in New York, Thomas has been exhibiting since the 1980s and has spent decades building his career around painting, teaching, and his local artistic community.
His work has earned a Pollock-Krasner grant and gallery representation, but many of those opportunities came to him rather than through actively pursuing galleries.
In this episode, Thomas shares how showing his work in libraries, bakeries, and other community spaces helped create unexpected opportunities, how relationships with other artists contributed to his career, and what he has learned from working with multiple commercial galleries.
“Galleries have found me. I never really was good at selling myself, and I didn't feel comfortable doing that, so I usually just gave up on that.”
— Thomas Sarrantonio
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Field Painting : Plein Air at First Light
04:43 Showing Up Without Selling Yourself - Libraries, Bakeries, and Community
08:26 Practical Tips for Showing Outside Commercial Galleries
10:55 Sunset With Storm Offshore: A Labor of Love
15:49 Never Give Up Creative Freedom to a Gallery
18:21 Visibility
20:33 Final Advice
Connect with Thomas
Website: https://www.thomassarrantonio.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thomassarrantonio/
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