If it’s not out there, it definitely won’t come, but if it is out there, it has a chance to come.

You never know when or where that big break, big commission, or big story about your work is going to come from. My top three lessons from this experience: Seeing an article about my work written in Portuguese was the highlight–it was so far removed from my little studio in Virginia. I started googling to see where the work was being shared–it got picked up by news aggregator sites which stretched the reach to global news outlets. He liked them so much, he went home and blogged about them and then submitted his images and blog to Boing Boing for their consideration–and sent me an email.ĭays later, Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing picked up the story and shared it on the blog–and from there it got picked up by all sorts of media. I painted five pieces and created a museum quality installation, complete with dark frames and a red wall.Ī couple of weeks into the show, a science fiction writer named Scott Edelman saw my works when he was visiting ARTOMATIC. As an artist, I started thinking what that meant for art making, portraits–what is the face of a corporation, what would a corporate patron commission as a portrait, and that thinking manifested into portraits that replaced famous master works of art with corporate logos. Thanks to that infamous Supreme Court ruling, corporations were now considered to be entities in the same way that people are. It’s a scene and thousands of people go.Ĭorporate Masters was timely–the election was bringing a lot about Citizens United into focus. There are bars, performances, bands, and more that create excitement and engagement around the event and it draws thousands of visitors. The fair gets a lot of attention in DC as it is a month long and free to the general public. ARTOMATIC takes over unused office space and, for about a $100 fee, offers spaces for artists to exhibit their work.

I painted the first paintings for Corporate Masters in preparation for an exhibit at ARTOMATIC–a month-long art fair in the metro Washington DC area. How I got posted there is one of those classic “you never know what will happen when you put your work out there.” How did it happen?īoing Boing is a blog with enormous reach–if your art is shared there, it’s going to be picked up by media outlets world-wide. In 2012, images of my Corporate Masters series went globally viral–there were stories about my work written in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Instal the new Gone Viral