Writing The Artist Statement

[chajom1]

I really enjoyed the article and found it to be informative. I am inexperienced in this detail and need help. Thank you very much!

chajom1

[fatbrush]

Carly, thank you so much for that informative article.
Up until now, I have not needed an artist's statement as I have been asked to to work (mainly Calligraphic with or without illustration) by specific people or groups. Other than that, my work, like the work of many others I would think, has been inspirational; I don't paint for a while then get a huge drive inside me to paint what appears in my mind. Now, as I get older and find myself with a little more time, I am wishing to open my work humbly to a wider audience, I find it very difficult to talk either about myself or my work. Your article really made me think of it in a rather different light. I have an Artist's Statement to do this week and you clearly thought out article will be a great help in composing it. Thank you. Ady

[Tattau]

Here's a helpful tool for creating a "typical" artist statement:

Artist Statement Generator 2000
http://10gallon.com/statement2000/

[davefriend]

Originally Posted by Tattau

Here's a helpful tool for creating a "typical" artist statement:

Artist Statement Generator 2000
http://10gallon.com/statement2000/

Helpful? ...well, fun anyway!

[1onsite]

Thanks Carly; I will give this version a spin as it seems very logical. Good work!

[Julia Whitenight]

Thank you for writing this. I've been allergic to artist's statements ever since art school where I watched innocent, eager, doomed young artists being taught to write pretentious, esoteric cr*p for artist's statements. I needed reminding that there are honest and humble ways to do it, ways to do it right.

Is there a way to add items like that article to my Favorites? It seems to be a separate thing from the forum threads and has completely different choices at the top.

[veltetra]

Carly,
This was very helpful for me. I have written what I thought were artist statements, but based on your article, I now think that they were only partial statements that focused mostly on how I create my art. For exhibitions, I've been putting more of a bio than an artist statement because I really didn't understand what the statements were supposed to contain. Clearing up the question of first person or third person also helped me.
Thank you very much for your article.
Velvett

[Cariboo Bill]

Carly I know this is a long time after you wrote the article but thanks anyway, I was working on my artists statement convinced that I should do it in the first person rather than the stilted 3rd person stuff I have read on the backs of so many other art works and in a tussle with my wife because she is very conservative about such things. Thank you.
bill