Grand Overview

By: gregoryalbright Mood: happy Date: 04/20/2008 21:26:15 Music: Spring Peepers

This Weekend I cataloged all my existing paintings exhibited in the last 5 years. My goal is to go through earlier work and either catalog it, or slate it for recycling.

After trying to get the computer database working, I realized that it would be so much simpler to write a 4x6 card up for each painting, and file it by year. The card tells where and when the work was exhibited, size medium, and title(s). The file is neat, small and can go with me to the studio, the sunny patio, or out to the garage-loft storage.

Work out on exhibition is in a separate section, and another section is for sold work. The sold-work cards each note who bought it, their address, and what else they have of my work.

Although it has been a real chunk of time, I expect that keeping it current will help me to plan exhibits.

I recently discovered that I loaned a painting to a corporate show for 6 months that I later realized was part of a trio of works I wanted to hang in an upcoming juried show. With the cards, I can lay out two shows on the table, and know there will be NO double bookings.

The real silver lining was seeing that stack of sold cards. Out of sight is really out of mind for me. Sales don't happen every day, and I tend to forget what I sold, and think that I am not selling, when in fact, sales have a way of stacking up. And that was pretty gratifying.

Greg