Beyond Marketability Imbalanced Survival

More on the recent topics and blogging.

Word on the street yesterday:

The galleries that are showing the least marketable work/unique work will "survive" and the ones that focus on plowing out trendy shows will "fail/close".

Survive what exactly?
Go down in history as really innovative, get the best gossip about
how mind-blowing and edgy the show is? Sure...that is the purpose we have as galleries, to present work with vision, impact - moving work, exciting, passionate,
weird, different, you name it.
Spread the word, we have the best show right now!

I think people are forgetting some of the basic necessities and traditional-to-the-art-world back grounds/business plans that come
along with being a gallery that can "afford" to show work that will not sell.

Here lies another imbalance, inherent in the strangest "business plan" on the face of the earth: the art gallery.

In reference to the "weird saturation" mentioned earlier, inherent in this
gallery explosion is the lack of individuality.
An oxymoron in this "world" we call art is the ways in which we need to be
individuals, yet somehow try to fit in.

Last time I checked most people get into the arts because they did not "fit" in
...on a related aside I was chatting with Christopher Russell last night about artists that were on sports teams in high school.

LL: "Something is weird with that - it doesn't feel right to me. On the other hand,
maybe they are the successful ones."

CR: [paraphrasing] "Yes, I failed gym in school. I simply did not understand football, and why men were running around and knocking each other down, hurting each other so aggressively."

LL: "I got d's and f's in gym too. Totally messed up my GPA. On the one hand it sounds as if that would make someone a more "well-rounded person" to be getting A's in Everything - math, gym, sciences, english AND art.
HHHMMMM....That would also make them Followers, good at doing what they are told, I suppose. I don't really like following and doing what I am told, that is why I own my own business."

continuing with David E Stone
DES: "Or that makes them really competitive 'gogogo'!!"
LL: "That's it, I want my kid to be successful...I'm going to make them be in a sports team! If I have a kid."
DES: "Kids are a lot of work..."
LL: "I already have a job."

(on a personal aside, not like I am physically unfit and a wimp, later on I was able to take dance for gym credit and I was good at that.)

So yes, survival...
of the traditional, the moneyed, of the fittest, of the followers?

Yes, survival, and I propose
as defined by new, the frugal and wise, the consistent and the independents.