Artists Artists is an online and itinerant pop-up gallery attempting to build a new model for the production and sale of art by returning the gallery to its origins in the print shops and curiosity dealers of the nineteenth century that fostered the burgeoning avant-garde—a meeting point for fellow lovers and obsessives of art. For too long now, galleries have functioned less as incubators for developing the next generation of artists than as exclusive salons for the wealthy and ‘cultured’. The actual audience for art is now largely barred from patronage (for the sake of the market, they say), and art has suffered in turn, increasingly lost in ever more cavernous jewel boxes. Shall this be the legacy of Contemporary Art?
The taboo on talking about art as a commodity has allowed the status quo to pass as a fait accompli, but there are many ways to do business. Artists Artists wants to address itself to the artists and workers that produce the art and exhibitions for which museums and galleries exist; to the crowd of viewers and visitors for whom art is made to be seen; and to the fiends, devotees, and spiritual addicts of aesthetic experience for whom a life without art is a fate worse than death. To ye, we offer our wares:
New Artworks
Paintings, drawings, prints, editions, etc. from practicing artists who channel the spirit of art’s history through their work, squeezing out a little more blood from the turnip—i.e., artists’ artists. Priced accessibly (under $3k) and without the gatekeeping and hoop-jumping of traditional galleries.
Reproductions
High-quality, archival prints of art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Our selection follows the transformation of art as it becomes aware of itself as its own unique field of experience, tracing this trajectory obliquely through minor and lesser-known masterpieces. Curated collections by contemporary artists and writers show how the works of the past continue to influence and act on art today in “pocket shows” comprised of a short curatorial text (printed as a z-fold pamphlet) and a group of postcard-sized prints.
Found Objects
A variety of second-hand artworks, antiques, oddities, and aesthetically interesting objects inspired by the Surrealists’ personal collections, the wunderkammer, and the history of ‘outsider,’ ‘self-taught,’ and ‘folk’ art. Interested in selling from your collection? Inquire about consignments.
Artists Artists is an online and itinerant pop-up gallery attempting to build a new model for the production and sale of art by returning the gallery to its origins in the print shops and curiosity dealers of the nineteenth century that fostered the burgeoning avant-garde—a meeting point for fellow lovers and obsessives of art. For too long now, galleries have functioned less as incubators for developing the next generation of artists than as exclusive salons for the wealthy and ‘cultured’. The actual audience for art is now largely barred from patronage (for the sake of the market, they say), and art has suffered in turn, increasingly lost in ever more cavernous jewel boxes. Shall this be the legacy of Contemporary Art?
The taboo on talking about art as a commodity has allowed the status quo to pass as a fait accompli, but there are many ways to do business. Artists Artists wants to address itself to the artists and workers that produce the art and exhibitions for which museums and galleries exist; to the crowd of viewers and visitors for whom art is made to be seen; and to the fiends, devotees, and spiritual addicts of aesthetic experience for whom a life without art is a fate worse than death. To ye, we offer our wares:
New Artworks
Paintings, drawings, prints, editions, etc. from practicing artists who channel the spirit of art’s history through their work, squeezing out a little more blood from the turnip—i.e., artists’ artists. Priced accessibly (under $3k) and without the gatekeeping and hoop-jumping of traditional galleries.
Reproductions
High-quality, archival prints of art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Our selection follows the transformation of art as it becomes aware of itself as its own unique field of experience, tracing this trajectory obliquely through minor and lesser-known masterpieces. Curated collections by contemporary artists and writers show how the works of the past continue to influence and act on art today in “pocket shows” comprised of a short curatorial text (printed as a z-fold pamphlet) and a group of postcard-sized prints.
Found Objects
A variety of second-hand artworks, antiques, oddities, and aesthetically interesting objects inspired by the Surrealists’ personal collections, the wunderkammer, and the history of ‘outsider,’ ‘self-taught,’ and ‘folk’ art. Interested in selling from your collection? Inquire about consignments.