#artist/dayjob# is a project by Tara Fracalossi and Thomas Lail for the exhibition #rank organized by William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton for SEVEN to be held in conjunction with Art Basel, Miami.
Welcome to #artist/dayjob#
In the expressly commerce-based bubble of the Miami art fairs, artists’ ranks might be established/defined in relation to gallery representation and/or the need to maintain a dayjob to support themselves and their families.
For artists who must work outside the studio to bring home the tofu, the type of job and how long they’ve maintained it becomes a sort of sub-classification/ranking, defining a position within the larger social and economic strata. Are the more desirable/impressive jobs art-related, in-field or academic? Does this ranking system draw and quarter us based on the perceptions and realities of our day to day duties and responsibilities?
#artist/dayjob# seeks to explore this ranking system through the simple sociological tool of the self-survey. Four questions:
How many years have you been an artist? What kind of artist are you? What’s your dayjob? How many years have you done it? #artist/dayjob#
These questions seem so simple. They are the foundations of common cocktail chat, yet, to the sensitive and informed inquisitor, they reveal the speaker’s standing-- earned or not-- in the larger milieu of the commercial art world and the culture.
So, dear artist:
Please let us know your ‘situation’ in the following format:
#number of years as an artist what kind of artist you are/ what is your day job # of years in that dayjob
example:
15writer/ad copy writer10 or
20visual artist/professor-gallerist18
13dancer/officemanager10
ReplyDelete26photographer/arthandler10
ReplyDelete22sculptor/machinist5
ReplyDelete20artist/fasttypist18
ReplyDelete5artist/marketer8
ReplyDelete10artist/2marketing,previously7teacher
ReplyDelete30musician/sysadmin20
ReplyDelete30visualartist/newsmediagraphics5/litigationgraphics5/screenprinter.5/soleproprietor4/artdirector3/screenprintartist3/hotelmanager1/deskclerk2/waiter.5/busboy.5/bellman.5/houseman1/galleryasst1/frycook2/roofer.5/screenprinter1/pizzacook.5/dishwasher.25/soldplasma1/freelance3(someoverlap)
ReplyDelete30:photographer:7museum or gallery staffer:5 coffeehouse manager:15 freelance teleprompter owner operator
ReplyDelete30artist/artist20
ReplyDelete10painter/3arthandler/1 flower salesmen /1 museum membership cronie/ 1printshop slave/1artist assistant.
ReplyDelete30collageartist/26art teacher/14mother
ReplyDelete3painter/2personal assistant (office bitch) to ridiculously wealthy collector
ReplyDelete3jeweler/5nanny/3jeweler's assistant/3florist/2health-food store clerk/2gallery owner/2artist/5hotel events manager/6mommy/3fiber artist,sort of.
ReplyDelete36, sculptor/33 professor
ReplyDelete35 Visual Communicator/13 Art Teacher
ReplyDelete25 Artist/Museum Administration 3
ReplyDelete39Viz artist/professor39
ReplyDeleteSandy Wimer
ReplyDelete30 artist/professor20
42Thingmaker/graphicdesigner30
ReplyDelete9Painter/RestaurantBarLimbo5
ReplyDelete3 film writer-director/peddy cab, camera op, PA, editor, music videos, actor, producer, NYU student staff, internet sales, taxes, transcriber, teacher < 2 years each
ReplyDelete43artist/dealer-publisher30
ReplyDelete39 sculptor / architect 25
ReplyDelete17visualartist/contentmanager9
ReplyDelete41writer/teacher5
ReplyDelete13figurative-painter/standardized-science&math-exam-writer13
ReplyDelete20media artist/11animator/5professor of art
ReplyDelete14writer/professor3
ReplyDelete30visualartist/artprofessor5
ReplyDelete19visualartist/15antiquepaperrestorer/12husband/6fatheroftwokids
ReplyDelete30painter/art director6
ReplyDelete5director-performer/preparator5
ReplyDeleteArt Handler
ReplyDeleteFull time job + being an artist = oxymoron
ReplyDeleteSo, making art, being paid honorariums for the non-for-profit shows, teaching here and there, selling here and there, hardly making my living but happy that I can produce what is in my mind.
#10visualartist-photographer/graphicdesigner#18
ReplyDelete30 artist/ 25 teacher
ReplyDelete30drawingsculpturevideoinstallation/studioartistatwaxmuseumanddecorativepainterandpersonalassistant5
ReplyDelete7artist/studioassistantgalleryassistantpersonalassistant5/barista2
ReplyDelete8drawingspaintingphotographycrochethinker/baristaveterinaryassistant4
ReplyDelete35 visual artist/6 executive director nonprofit gallery
ReplyDelete15/photographer/Post=Production/7
ReplyDelete8PainterSculpture/Catering5
ReplyDelete15/painter/sculptor 2nanny
ReplyDelete10conceptualartist/barista8
ReplyDelete25visualartist/art professor5
ReplyDelete37visualartist/36!artprofessor/+oddjobsinbetween
ReplyDelete23artist/artprofessor9
ReplyDelete30painter/20schoolteacher
ReplyDelete17 visual artist/13 teacher
ReplyDelete30work with found photographs/11graphic designer/25exhibit installer.curator.framer
ReplyDelete15 installation and sculpture / building bars and restaurants 5, blacksmith apprentice 2, potter 2, gardener 1, window display 1, construction 1, art preparator 4
ReplyDelete15sculptor/librarian15
ReplyDelete25visual artist/publications manager9/graphic designer14/art professor4
ReplyDelete13 Visual Artist /
ReplyDeleteArt Shipping Company Associate 1
Cocktail Waitress 1
Music Promoter 3
Artists' Assitant 2
Marketing Officer 3
Artists' Model 3
Retail Associate 4
36 visual artist/ busboy 2, highschool teacher 1, cemetery monuments 2, professor 30
ReplyDeleteLifetime artist from childhood to 80's (years),self taught, teacher half that time, museum and gallery shows
ReplyDelete3/Visual/Full Time Artist (for past 3 years)
ReplyDelete20visual artist/art prof15/art dept chair4
ReplyDelete5artist/miserable fuckup who can't hold a day job32
ReplyDelete20/visual artist/managingeditor20
ReplyDelete6 artist/cake decorator 1(dry cleaner clerk 2)
ReplyDelete15 Artist/Accountant 15
ReplyDelete25someoddyearsscewingaroundasawannabe artist /30years schooldistrctadminitratorwhorecentlycalledittoseriouslypersueart
ReplyDeleteJoanneVanGenderen