I don't even know what I would be considered. I've been making and showing art for 20+ years but still work FT, have kids, haven't "made it" - into major institutions or lots of sales.
I consider myself re-emerging. Finished my degree, showed and sold some then ended up taking care of my mother in hospice then allowing the need for insurance convince me I needed a “steady job”. After 11 years in healthcare, I’m back at it but feel left behind. Lagging in too many ways to count but add in a move to another state and it feels like I’m eternally behind.
Yes. In my 20s I was an illustrator and painter. Worked for major magazines in SF was offered a show at a big gallery, on the basis of a painting playing with psychological realism that took 6 months to paint. They insisted i use opaque projectors and quickly paint in images on larger scale. I said no. In my 30s, 40s i continued to paint, and worked in publishing to earn money and was raising a child. A painting was selected for a nyc wide program of gallery shows to celebrate art. Mine was selected by Pauline Iedra (now a curator, for a gallery in red hook. I also received a prize in lbi nj shows at the Foundation for the arts. A painting was chosen for a cover of an arts journal. At the timecof hurricane Sandy, i had a show of nyc pier drawibgs in a cafe. I do a lot of landscapes and now finally have a room for a studio. But i am still having to earn money at 73. I post on instagram people like the work. But I can’t do the business. The work is not large or abstract, it is not for modernistic young collectors. In fact, i share an office down a hall from a gallery. The owner can’t focus on me, though i have visited. I just hope all the work doesn’t end up in the trash.
I do not feel reemerging. I have always been seeing and painting. Somehow I feel that I am on a permanent wave. It helps to be surrounded by young painters and to have a supportive husband.
It also helps to float above the market frenzy. My goal, right now, is to keep going and to have artwork in museums that value my work. This will include donating a few pieces. I do want some of my art to survive or to have a home. It also helps to look back on my life and my family. I have painted a long time. Over 40 years. At times I have painted too fast and at times I have painted too slow. I never stopped seeing and that counts for a lot. I have a "good eye". Actually, the whole Schoonover family has a good eye. I am lucky to come from a family of artists and lucky to include
Mary Cassatt in the distant family. I would do it again.
I don't even know what I would be considered. I've been making and showing art for 20+ years but still work FT, have kids, haven't "made it" - into major institutions or lots of sales.
I consider myself re-emerging. Finished my degree, showed and sold some then ended up taking care of my mother in hospice then allowing the need for insurance convince me I needed a “steady job”. After 11 years in healthcare, I’m back at it but feel left behind. Lagging in too many ways to count but add in a move to another state and it feels like I’m eternally behind.
I feel like a re-emerging writer!
Yes. In my 20s I was an illustrator and painter. Worked for major magazines in SF was offered a show at a big gallery, on the basis of a painting playing with psychological realism that took 6 months to paint. They insisted i use opaque projectors and quickly paint in images on larger scale. I said no. In my 30s, 40s i continued to paint, and worked in publishing to earn money and was raising a child. A painting was selected for a nyc wide program of gallery shows to celebrate art. Mine was selected by Pauline Iedra (now a curator, for a gallery in red hook. I also received a prize in lbi nj shows at the Foundation for the arts. A painting was chosen for a cover of an arts journal. At the timecof hurricane Sandy, i had a show of nyc pier drawibgs in a cafe. I do a lot of landscapes and now finally have a room for a studio. But i am still having to earn money at 73. I post on instagram people like the work. But I can’t do the business. The work is not large or abstract, it is not for modernistic young collectors. In fact, i share an office down a hall from a gallery. The owner can’t focus on me, though i have visited. I just hope all the work doesn’t end up in the trash.
I do not feel reemerging. I have always been seeing and painting. Somehow I feel that I am on a permanent wave. It helps to be surrounded by young painters and to have a supportive husband.
It also helps to float above the market frenzy. My goal, right now, is to keep going and to have artwork in museums that value my work. This will include donating a few pieces. I do want some of my art to survive or to have a home. It also helps to look back on my life and my family. I have painted a long time. Over 40 years. At times I have painted too fast and at times I have painted too slow. I never stopped seeing and that counts for a lot. I have a "good eye". Actually, the whole Schoonover family has a good eye. I am lucky to come from a family of artists and lucky to include
Mary Cassatt in the distant family. I would do it again.