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Creating an Artists Statement

I Am An Artist

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Types of Artists Statements

Exhibitions

Public Art Commissions

Applications for Graduate School

Projects, Series, Periods of ime Grant Applications

Self!initiated "pportunities #public space orformal space$

Catalogue

%asters hesis

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Why Write an Artists Statement?

re&uired

for 'ou

'our reader ( audience ( )ie*er

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%' art*or+ spea+s for itself

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ibefore e, except after c, or in

*ords li+e neighbor and*eigh

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Content of Artists Statement (Dos!) general introduction *hat dro)e 'ou to create the *or+

o)erall themes

ho* *or+ fits into an art historical(contemporar' context

sources of inspiration ho* it relates to other bodies of *or+

ho* 'our process is rele)ant to the content(meaning of'our *or+

media theoretical bac+ground

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Content of Artists Statement (Donts!)

discuss 'our childhood

*rite a great statement that is unrelated to 'our *or+

simpl' describe *hats alread' there

describe process clich-s

big claims

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Format of Artists Statement (Dos!) . paragraph / . page

simple

clear

concise

first person #0I1, not 0the artist1$

professional!loo+ing

Possible outline:

. 2egin *ith a 0hoo+1

3 2asic o)er)ie* of 'our *or+

3 Specific examples of ho* 'our *or+ relates to o)er)ie*

4 Short summar' of ideas

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Format of Artists Statement (Donts!)

use language that is5

poetic

technical

highfalutin

art'

o)erl' academic

fanc' formatting, font, or images

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Clihs to A"oi#

juxtapose passion

edg'

transformati)e

intuiti)e

personal journe'

0m' art is about m' experiences1

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6hats *rong *ith this picture7

06hen I pla'ed m' first note on a trumpet at age 4 #'es, 48$I *as hoo+ed for life1

09or me, painting is soul therap'1

0After 34 'ears as a high!le)el executi)e in the corporate*orld, I decided to &uit m' job and de)ote m' life todance1

0:the t*o energies )ibrate at different fre&uencies one in*hich the art )ibrates to stimulate the )ie*er to action

Either *a' it;s a *in(*in for the )ie*er the art li)es forthem1

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0%' *or+ elucidates the patriarchal configuration of the

social arrangement:1

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0%' *or+ is about male!dominated societies:1

0he paintings are richl' textured, created *ith

la'ers of color *hich are often scraped to re)ealthe color or la'ers beneath "r the paint ma' be

applied thinl' to allo* the )ie*er to see *hat

came before he paintings are flat, often

patterned and linear, the' are created *ith a)ertical orientation to eliminate an' reference to

landscape I use the sensual and often subtle

properties of color, juxtaposing them along *ith

texture to denote the passage of time1

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Sample Statements

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2ill 9inger, Observation Room

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Where to Start

al+ing

ead lots of statements

Galleries, museums

Art:21#P2S$

Artists *ebsites

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Where to %n#Editing

Se)eral *or+ing )ersions

E)er!e)ol)ing

Sa)e 'our statement in the same folder as 'our images

Sa)e as date#'ear!mo$Bseries!titlefile!t'pe

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