Gallery

I’ve not been in shows in recent years, and
I am hesitant to share digital images because my ideas could be copied.
I am a mature artist.

Buy the book, 2011 Artist’s And Graphic Designer’s Market by Mary Burzlaff Bostic at Amazon website or check out this book’s official website called ArtistsMarketOnline. This book has been in print since 1975 and is considered a complete resource for artists. This book is updated every year to include the current contact and submission information for tons of places, such as greeting card companies, publishers, art fairs, art galleries, and more. It will tell you how and where to sell your artwork.

Buy the book, Legal Guide For The Visual Artist by Tad Crawford at Amazon website (fifth edition, published 2010). This book gives in-depth information on legal issues facing artists such as copyright, artist-gallery relationships, legal forms, contracts, leases, licensing, sales, taxes, how to find professional advisers/attorneys, how to negotiate, and much more!

Throw away your fears of sharing your artwork online. Going online is the BEST thing you can do to get greater exposure! The moment you share your artwork with others/the public, whether it is online or in a gallery, you will always have the risk of people copying your artwork. All you can do is some protection measures:

You should ALWAYS register your artwork and literary works with the copyright office. Registered works provide substantial proof of ownership and more protection and benefits in the court of law, especially if someone uses your work without permission. It is not required to register your work with the Copyright Office because the creator of the work is the official copyright owner, BUT, if you want to sue for damages when someone violates the copyright laws, your work must be registered. Check out the copyright office official website for more information and to register your work online or by mail! Google search the words "U.S. Copyright Office" to find the website.

If you find your artwork posted on another website, you can contact the person or the website administrator and demand that your artwork be removed from the website (this is one of the copyright laws).

How To Protect Your Images On The Internet:

1. Watermark your images with the copyright notice and your name (or website address). Even if you don’t register your work with the copyright office, this notice can still be used and it prevents people from using the "innocent infringement" defense in court because the work wasn’t properly marked. The copyright notice lets people know that the image is copyrighted and not in the public domain to freely use. If you live in the USA, your watermark can look like one of the following examples. Also, the year is the year of first publication of the work.

© 2010 John Doe
Copr. 2010 John Doe
Copyright 2010 John Doe

2. Never post a high resolution of your image (large image) on the internet! People can use these images for money making! Always post a low resolution image (small image) on the internet! It is hard to print a good quality picture when the image is small because when you try to enlarge it, the image will generally become blurry.

3. Your website should clearly state that all of your images are protected by copyright and should not be posted on other websites. If you do allow people to post your art on their website, make sure your website tells people to credit you as the artist, by including your name and website address next to your image.

4. You can disable right click of the mouse which prevents people from using copy and save feature.

5. You can enable right click of the mouse but when a person tries to copy or save the image only a blank image will be saved, it’s called spaceball.gif and clear.gif

6. You can use a Flash program/software which prevents people from using copy and save feature.

Please note that you can do the following things mentioned above to protect your images, but people who are computer savvy still know how to get around these roadblocks. There are tons of questions and answers on the internet asking how to remove watermarks and how to copy/save images (generally, people want to use the image to post on their website). But despite that, you should ALWAYS use the methods mentioned above to protect your images, especially using the copyright notice and posting low resolution images!

We are going to a gallery reception, and don’t know what to give to the artist who invited us.

You aren’t obligated (or expected) to bring a gift to an artist’s exhibition opening. If, however, the artist is a particularly good friend, you might bring some small personal token like a bottle of their favorite wine, for example.

In the content of the gallery being a contemporary one, such as The Saatchi or White Cube.
How dose the gallery perceive the artist?;
– Are they merely a business product to be promoted and sold for financial gain.
– Or are they considered as modern society’s upcoming artist that need to be brought to society’s attention?

Possibly they are considered as both (or there may be another avenue I have missed), but there must be a drive that pushes gallery’s to bring artist to the attention of the public.

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As a commodity.

Besides the obvious relationship between contemporary gallery’s with artist, like:
-they sell and promote work for the artist.
-they use the artist as a commodity
-the artist is means to enhance the prestige of the gallery

The main relationship is a one conceived in contract law. Hopefully it is also one of mutual support and friendship. Sometimes this works and the relationship continues for years often it does not. It is a matter of how each of conceive the relationship. A lot depends on luck. The gallery designs the contract and if the artist is not fully aware of their rights they can be caught up in something that is very hard to deal with.

The right question should be ‘supposed child abuser’ because the claims have not been proven in court. Despite what the locals in the area claim, the mother fled with the child and disappeared before all conclusive evidence, pro or con, could be investigated completely. So, the term ‘child abuser’ and ‘supposed child abuser’ have two different meanings in the eyes of the law.

And supposedly, in this country a person is innocent until proven guilty.

Yes, this is the same person the still unproven claims have been made against.