How to Own an Art Gallery

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Christina Varga from the Varga Gallery in Woodstock, New York and today on behalf of Expert Village we’re going to show you how to open and run your own art gallery. Well, you know you don’t have to be an artist to have your own gallery. As a matter of fact having a gallery takes so much work that if you are an artist you might lose some time to make your art. However I find it to be very stimulating and fruitful even though I don’t work on my work all the time, I work on it for a long time. Like this piece, it took me three years to make and this one right here, this one I’ve been working on since I’ve been in Woodstock, which is four years. So you might not work very fast, but it’s okay, you can do good work and take your time which is what I believe you should do and make something that’s beautiful and if you can’t do this, then try just having a gallery. You don’t have to feel competitive with the artist’s that you’re showing, you don’t have to do anything like that, there need be no ego involved in it, you just create in a space such as this one, for an artist, such as this one, Erica Harney, and you show beautiful work like this one, this is incredible, but I don’t have to feel like, oh, I have to make this. I feel great because I’m showing it, I feel very happy because I can share it with somebody without having made it, I have made the place where you can see it and this is my solo room so I can show one artist and focus on one artist in the month and I can show a lot of their work all together, that is very uh, very conducive to the full experience of the artist, and what they do, how they do it and it lets a person have a whole room, without my work in front of their artwork. Erica if you saw that, sorry, we were just doing a little something, something. But that’s okay, because Erica is an artist within an artist’s studio within a gallery. "