Curators who are loath to credit art dealers

It's happened before..note Richard Misrach last year when our pals at G. Gibson weren't mentioned either.

At 911 Seattle media Arts Center we always recognize any Gallery who represents the artists we show. Tivon Rice = Lawrimore Project, Margot Quan Knight = James Harris Gallery

This is an interesting angle, and something I am glad you brought up.

My experience as a "dealer" is that there is a canyon that divides the for-profit art business from the nonprofit art world. Both sides have equal stake in the development, promotion, and continuing sucess of art in a community, yet one side reaches out, the other pulls inward. One side extends a hand asking for money & support. The other side gives it. There is very little reciprocity.

Time to bridge the gap.

Attending Oregon's Art Commission Summit last year, I was amazed that there were perhaps 2 dealer-types in attendance. This is an indicator of the divide.

It can be argued that dealers do more for the art community than non profits. Why? Because we sell work. We put money directly in the pockets of artists. Artists can't survive without income. Nonprofits, seem to generate funds to first pay for staff and overhead. With the visual arts, there is rarely any money left over to benefit the actual working artists.