My Friday blogs will sometimes feature my own work but most of the time will feature themany hundreds of artists
Sonata by Sabzi
that I represent. On many Fridays I will augment the blogs with videos that will show up here as a link to my video channel at www.rosettastonefineartvideos.com. Next week I will have my first little video featuring a wonderful local artist, Dennis Aufiery. His work will be the featured work at the one show that I plan on having this year. It is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, April 20th, from 5:30 to 7:30 in the evening. [Be sure to check back in next Friday to discover this artist's great work]
At that show I will also be featuring three deserving female graduating senior High School students from The Dreyfoos School of the Arts, the Benjamin School and various public schools. These students will each be receiving a scholarship of One Thousand Dollars that will be funded by my 501c3 organization, the Living Art Foundation Fund and awarded through the outreach program of the Executive Women of the Palm Beaches. I hope you will tune in discover these rising stars from our own local of Palm Beach County to as far away as Australia and all points around our globe.
Blown Glass Vase by Bernard Katz
My expertise as a gallery and dealer is to find extremely talented artists who are still reasonable in their pricing. Hopefully, this will give you the opportunity to invest in these many talented artists while they are still affordable. Or, if you are not in the market for art yourself, you can recommend these artists to your friends who are looking for artwork. It is so very important to support the arts, not just by giving money to your local art institutions, but also by purchasing art from living artists. This ensures that great art will continue to be produced.
Great art takes time to create. If no one purchases living artists’ work, then these artists must look elsewhere to make a living and that means that their creative time will dwindle away significantly. It is not enough to give artists verbal encouragement in the form of compliments. Because no matter how sincere your compliments may be, they don’t pay an artist’s bills.
I always question why so many of my clients will spend an unlimited amount of money on a chair in their living room (where no one sits anyway). And yet, when it comes to a pivotal wall in that same living room (the wall everyone sees the minute that they enter the home) these same clients will go out and buy a mass-produced piece of ‘c_ _ p’ from China just to fill up that very important wall. Art should be the soul of your home, not a chair!!!