Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said that he could not define pornography, “but I know it when I see it.” The same could be said of that most hated of art-show topics: buy/sell.
Sunshine Artist talked to several well-known promoters in an attempt to not only define buy/sell but find out whether they allowed it at their shows and, if they didn’t, how they guaranteed that all items in their events were original and handmade by the artists selling them.
Buy/sell by definition
When SA surveyed art-show patrons this spring and asked them whether the presence of buy/sell hindered their enjoyment of a fine art show, 73 percent said yes. And from all the comments, letters and Web site messages we receive, it’s evident that close to 100 percent of exhibitors at fine art and/or craft shows would agree with those show-goers. “It’s become an epidemic that is infesting almost every art show,” said one Web poster. Although that may be a slight exaggeration, exhibitors are clearly exasperated: “I have stopped complaining about the buy/sell because it only makes me upset,” said another.
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