CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM AND GALLERY ACQUISITIONS
Cojo is currently accepting proposals from Contemporary Art Museum or Contemporary Art Gallery Directors and Curators regarding the acquisition of sketches from Sketch 365 (either in lot or single piece) for display on loan, or for permanent collections.
Sketch 365 is still in it's infant stages. When the entire experiment is finished (9-25-06) the artist will begin work on the painting series "TEN (S)UBJECTS" derived directly from the Sketch 365.com Sketch-A-Day Contemporary Art Experiment.
Since Sketch 365.com's conception sketches have been selling steadily in one to three lot private online purchases. I would love to have small groups of sketches lotted together for display on loan in Contemporary Art Museum or Galleries, or for their permanent collections. It is a shame for this entire 365-piece experiment to be broken-up and shipped around the world without any display opportunities other than in patron's private residences.
Throughout history emerging artists who've experimented with new ideas have been consistently overlooked by Museums and Galleries. I don't want my sketch experiment to become one of these unfortunate statistics. If you are associated with a Contemporary Art Museum or Gallery and would like to have the opportunity to display or acquire to your permanent collection:
PLEASE CONTACT THE ARTIST HERE
If just a few of you express interest, many others will follow.
In 1911 Alfred Stieglitz gave Pablo Picasso his first one-man show in America at Gallery 291. In Stieglitz's own words:
"The Picasso's were on sale from between $20 and $40. I sold one single one. A drawing made when he was 12 years old. Another I bought myself.
I was ashamed for America to return them all. The whole collection could have been had for $2,000.00. What a pity that these pictures of Picasso's evolution were not kept together in this country. I suggested to the Director of the Metropolitan Museum that they should be. He saw nothing in Picasso and was sure that such mad pictures would never mean anything in America."
History need not be repeated.
-Cojo
Alfred Stieglitz quote: Alfred Stieglitz - The Eloquent Eye (American Masters)
posted by -Cojo "Art Juggernaut"
