San Diego Art - Viable? Fact or Fiction
San Diego Business Journal reports
(Cover San Diego Business Journal - detail Volume 28, Number 37 Sept. 10 - 16, 2007)
A special report was published in the San Diego Business Journal today entitled "Artists Flourish in a Lesser-Known Market," written by special report editor Pat Broderick, who presents her findings just as she collected them - straight-up. Covering several points of view from local art dealers and players such as Mark Quint and Joseph Bellows, Hugh Davies (David C. Copley director of the MCASD), Carlsbad artists Dennis Batt and Nanette Newbry, Patricia Frischer and Joan Seifried from Art Girls, Inc. and co-organizer of the San Diego Art Prize and yours truly - Kevin Freitas amongst others, Broderick's article will hopefully stir up a potential (and much needed) discussion about San Diego's sustainability as an art market and art community. In fact to further assist you in this debate, there are three other articles to be gleaned about San Diego's art scene which can be found in print at your local newstand or online here, here, and here.
San Diego Art, Fact or Fiction - you decide.
Comments
Perhaps the writers and curators should concentrate on the issues in the art work itself rather than the market. The New York Times over the past few years has made it very clear that the market has become an unregulated (as in legal insider trading) playground for the super rich. That is the primary reason those arts schools attract so much attention... they can buy up YOUNG artists with good pedigree and you can get all the work cheap!
Dealers and collectors have been in control for a long time. It would be great to see artists take more control and the writers to be paying attention to good work which is not necessarily market driven.
Posted by: aris georgiades | septembre 10, 2007 03:15 PM
When the piper's the San Diego Business Journal the dancers dance accordingly, feeling up one leg of the elephant Art.
Posted by: RG | septembre 11, 2007 01:02 PM