Gallery Opportunities

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Visit the galleries below or contact them regarding showing/selling your work.

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Lofted Lair Gallery               http://www.loftedlair.com/main.htm
290 S 1st St
St Helens, OR 97051
503-366-3600

Trail's End Art Association      http://www.trailsendart.org/
656 A St.  (PO Box 2351)
Gearhart, OR 97138  
503-717-9458

Sixth Street Gallery  http://www.sixthstreetgallery.com
105 Sixth Street
Vancouver, WA  98660
360-693-7340

Important considerations when consigning to galleries, A letter from Maeona:

This is a website with a posting regarding the artist's commissions legal rights.

Yes I know it is a bit boring but please read it through if you intend to put your artwork out to commission.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/article-30281.html

I thoroughly suggest you have your own contract with you when you consign something in case the shop owner does not have anything in writing.  This is for both your protection.  A gallery owner does not want to place themselves in the position of an unscrupulous person taking advantage of them by saying something was delivered and it was not or something was damaged by the gallery when it in fact came chipped, etc. This is also for the protection of the artists should you find yourself for instance unpaid and the work is gone or damaged.  There are many things that can go wrong on both sides of a commission.  They rarely do but when they do everyone is better off to have things in writing!

There are also now more than 20 states that have passed laws requiring galleries to furnish the purchasers' names and addresses to the artists. You may want to let the gallery owner know before you consign that you would like this information.  This is a fine line between gallery owners and artists.  Gallery owners fear that artists will deal directly in the future with the collector and cut them out.  An artist needs to assure the gallery that they will indeed pay a partial commission on future sales to those clients. Artists need gallery as much as galleries need artists. If a commission of sold work directly from the gallery is 60/40 (artist/gallery) then an indirect commission to the gallery may be less than 40 to the gallery if for instance the artists paints a piece the he/she feels may be a companion to a piece previously sold and contacts the collector to let them know.  It sells and the artists then pays a previously agreed commission percentage to the gallery for the exchange of purchasers list.  Is that clear as mud? I in fact have had many after gallery show purchases and paid the gallery commissions for them even when no agreement was made.  It makes for a good relationship between artist and owner and you both sell more work!

Maeona