My painting partner and I have been splitting gallery representation and booth fees for three years, but now they're getting way more collector interest and I can feel us both pretending the partnership is still equal. We're planning our next art fair together and every conversation about which pieces to show feels loaded with what we're not saying about how the market sees us differently.
More people experience this than they realize.
The market's differential reception creates an imbalance that threatens the collaborative foundation you built when success felt equally distributed.
“Where Are You with Visual art markets?”
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