My best friend and I have been making art together since college and we always said we'd never let money change our friendship, but now we're both trying to make a living and I can see us getting competitive in ways that feel ugly. We applied to the same residency and we're both showing at galleries in the same neighborhood and every conversation about our work feels like we're measuring ourselves against each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
The market transforms creative companionship into unconscious rivalry, corrupting the pure exchange that originally sustained the relationship.
“Where Are You with Visual art markets?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.