Artexpo New York 2011 exhibitor Sylvain Goudreau in front of "Pastis Time"

We received this inspiring success story from Artexpo New York 2011 exhibitor Sylvain Goudreau last month, but things have been so busy I’m just getting around to posting it now! Lots to do these days, gearing up for Miami SOLO this Nov./Dec.

Congrats on your great success, Sylvain, and feel free to share any updates via comments below this post. We always love hearing about our artists’ exciting new endeavors!

For the rest of our readers, please enjoy Sylvain’s story:

“As a first time exhibitor at New York’s 2011 Artexpo, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had always dreamed of one day exhibiting in New York City, but making the necessary contacts from my Canadian hometown was rather impossible. Reading about the Solo exhibition on the Artexpo website really got me excited about the show. I registered and, right from the start, the Artexpo team was there to help make my experience a good one.

I learned a great deal from the show; the seminars were very interesting and targeted a lot of the questions I had. I also met great artists with whom I discussed and received feedback on my work and the art market. Concretely, I made professional ties with designers, some of whom bought two of my paintings. I also met a curator who invited me to exhibit in a well established New York City gallery. I had brought 11 paintings to the show and four of them remained in New York. Upon my return, I was contacted by a personal art consultant who now represents my work in the United States and abroad, and by two other galleries who are interested in my work. Closer to home, I have gained in recognition having full page newspaper articles written on my work, and my networking has blossomed exponentially.

Less than two months after Artexpo and I have never been so busy! I am looking forward to the coming year to see the outcome of this grand adventure.”
—Sylvain Goudreau

To see more of Sylvain’s paintings and learn about the artist, visit www.sylvaingoudreau.com. You can also connect with him on Facebook: www.facebook.com/artbygoudreau

"Primary, Black and White" by Tim Roseborough, documentary website screenshot

Hooray, more fan mail from yet another satisfied Artexpo New York 2011 exhibitor: Tim Roseborough!  Here’s what Tim had to say about exhibiting at Artexpo this spring:

I’m writing to thank you and the organizers of Art Expo New York, this year. I received great opportunities from the show. As a result of being in Artexpo, I will have my first solo exhibition at the New Art Center in New York, May 1 – 19th, 2012.

In addition, I was invited by Art In America Magazine to create a spread that will be hitting newsstands in the June/July 2011 issue. Both of these opportunities came about from presenting my work at Artexpo New York. Thank you!

Please spread the word of this to your colleagues. If there is any way that I can serve as a “success” example, I am more than happy to do it! I am also looking forward to Miami SOLO, as well.

—Tim Roseborough
www.timroseborough.com

Wow, fantastic news all around. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for that Art in America spread, Tim, and mayhap you’ll send us invites to your spring show in NYC next year? Very exciting!

We’re looking forward to hosting Tim and a wide range of other talented artists and photographers at Miami SOLO in Florida from Nov. 30 – Dec. 4 this year. Join us as we launch our first Miami art fair during the wildly popular Art Week Miami, alongside the powerhouse shows of Art Miami / Scope / Art Asia and Red Dot! It’s going to be big…

We just love fan mail from satisfied exhibitors! We recently received this wonderful letter from Malteste Expressionist Photography, and I thought I’d share it with you.

I just want to take a minute to thank you and your team for everything that was done for our 2011 Artexpo New York. Dealing with your team was efficient, courteous, and above all easy. I would like to give a special thank to Sara Vesely. I must say that I really appreciated meeting you, and your great sense of humor was particularly appreciated.

This was our very first show and it was quite a success for us. We gave out more than 2,000 business cards, and at one moment we could barely walk in the booth! We also participated in a video interview where my artistic vision is described in full length; it will soon be available over the Internet. Customers were pleased with our selection and could just not choose their favorite artwork during the show! We are currently completing orders from people we met at your show and we are now working on preparing a production of four large-format PLEXI-ARTS artwork for an upscale NY interior designer; an important NY corporate firm recently acquired these artworks.

On top of that, we are now quite busy answering many requests we had at the show from the media, interior designers, and art galleries from the US and oversea. It is now very clear that I will need to spend more time in the future in the US. New York will become for sure one of our most important market. The vibe I got in New York is hard to explain, this was my first visit in NY since 25 years and I fell in love with your city!

—Malteste Expressionist Photography

To learn more about Malteste Expressionist Photography, visit www.Malteste.com

" She Dances in Beauty 1," Anna Razumovskaya, ANNA ART Publishing

Artexpo New York 2011 exhibitor ANNA ART Publishing can’t say enough positive things about participating in Artexpo New York. According to Eugene Korchinski, Managing Director:

“We always have a great experience exhibiting with Artexpo! Since we started 7 years ago to make our way up from the SOLO section (at the very far corner) to the Main Floor, Artexpo proved itself to be our major marketing venue. It is working! You can actually see your business growing with the years.”

ANNA ART Publishing had a strong presence at this year’s spring show in NYC—one of our best shows to date! Show traffic was fantastic, with a 60% increase in attendees and many, many sales.

“This year our originals were sold out one day before the show started—galleries were placing orders when we were still setting up our booth. So all 3 days of the show we were selling giclées – lots of them! Artexpo always been very easy to work with and very helpful. The management team is clearly able to promote the show well and bring in the right clientele!”

We’re so pleased to hear Artexpo is doing great things for your business, Eugene and Anna! We look forward to hosting you again in the near future, whether at Miami SOLO, coming up this fall in Florida during Art Week Miami, or at Artexpo New York 2012.

This year, Smart Publishing—one of the leading art publishers in the industry—is celebrating 20 years of exhibiting at Artexpo New York. Congratulations to one of our most established exhibitors!

It was back in 1991 that Rami Rotkopf, owner and founder of Smart Publishing, first took two booths in Artexpo New York. At the time, Smart Publishing was exhibiting a then-unknown artist named David Schluss. Over the next 20 years, Smart Publishing went on to develop David Schluss and many other Israeli artists into some of the most recognized contemporary artists in the industry.

Artist David Schluss autographing at Artexpo New York

Today, Smart Publishing supplies art to hundreds of galleries in the USA, Europe and the Far East. Says owner Rami Rotkopf:

“Through the years we kept coming back to New York Artexpo because it was a major destination to grow our wholesale business and gain exposure. Each year we grew bigger, increasing our booth size and we found that our client base was increasing every year as well. The great thing about this show is that in 4 days it puts all the players from the art industry in one place. The galleries can meet with publishers and the artists can meet with clients, and everybody gets the buzz of what is new in the world of art.”

Isaac Maimon with buyers from Australia.

Rami feels that by showing his artists’ latest works each year at Artexpo, Smart Publishing gives clients the opportunity to see firsthand each artist’s progression and development. As for exhibiting in the current economy, Rami Rotkopf says:

“The last 2 years were very difficult for us but we hung on and in the last 6 months we are starting to see improvement. Galleries are starting to reorder and people are getting back to buying art again. It’s human nature to want to get back to living life again. That’s why we feel that the 2011 Artexpo will be a good one!”

Center Court at Artexpo New York.

At the March 2011 Artexpo, Smart Publishing will launch new lines from all of their artists, and David Schluss will make an appearance at the show. For this occasion, he will create a special triptych painting commemorating his 20 years at Artexpo.

Smart Publishing Booth at Artexpo.

Smart Publishing will be exhibiting in the center lounge area at Artexpo New York 2011 (March 25-27, Pier 94). Look for them at booths 513, 515, 519.

"Dreamer (John Lennon)," Robert Johns Iconic

At Artexpo, we love fan mail. Not just because we love praise (who doesn’t?), but because it lets us know we’re accomplishing our goals: helping artists and gallery owners gain exposure and grow their businesses.

We recently heard from Robert Johns Iconic, an Artexpo New York 2010 exhibitor who gained some solid contacts at our spring show. Here’s what John Atanasio had to say:

“Our 2010 NYC Art Expo was a great experience and it is where we launched our first editions. We have since been picked up by ArtBrokerage.com and were featured as “Artist of the Month” a few months ago.

“Making our art accessible is somewhat of a throwback to one of our neighborhood inspirations… Keith Haring. Quite frankly, we are just happy that some people like it as much as we enjoy creating. “

To those who are exhibiting or considering exhibiting at an upcoming Artexpo, here’s what John has to say:

“Good luck to those exhibiting! After our exhibit at Art Expo NYC 2010, Robert Johns’ career was launched. You just never know.”

Robert Johns Iconic embraces an in-your-face, provocative and rebellious pop style which continues where Andy Warhol left off. The artist says his inspiration is “often plucked from the saturated mass media that influences every one of us including the Internet, television, movies, advertising, graffiti and photojournalism.”

Thanks for your email, John! Hope to see you at an upcoming Artexpo.

"This Endless Source" by Kate McCavitt

Today’s Artwork of the Day is “This Endless Source” (mixed media, 60″ x 48″) by Artexpo New York 2011 exhibitor Kate McCavitt. Trained as a Sumi-e (Asian brush) artist and self-taught in other genres, Kate McCavitt lavishes all of her colorful, textured abstract paintings with the subtleties of the Asian art tradition.

Colors, ratios, philosophies, polarities and sequences all dance together within Kate’s unique abstract style. She says her inspiration comes from nature, from “the fact of mystery in the Universe” and in “trusting the random as a synchronicity.” Kate employs rich layers of fluid acrylics, gloss mediums and metallic gesso, paired with both the random events of experimental techniques and ancient icons like Zen circles and circling human yin/yang figures.

Here’s what Kate has to say about her work in general and “This Endless Source” in particular:

“I return regularly to my love of Asian-influenced painting. The Zen Circle,or Enso, represents so much, including life from beginning to end, continuity and movement and change. A good Enso is painted when the heart and mind have become one.”

A native of New York, Kate McCavitt lives in her home-studio next to a wildlife conservation corridor in Oceanside, California with the love of her life, eight grandchildren nearby, a resident hummingbird family and bunnies, egrets, coyotes, bats, crows and hawks.

Kate has self published a series of Limited Editions of her finest works and chooses Artexpo as her main venue for exposure. She is currently represented by galleries in Coronado, Ca., Solana Beach, Ca., Culver City, CA., Waikoloa, HI., Frenchtown, NJ., Greeneville, SC., West Palm Beach, Florida, and Spring Lake, MI. In 2008, she moved to the international art world and is one of the few independent artists being represented in the GCC region (the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain and Quatar) by a Dubai gallery established in 1996 and which has just opened a new retail gallery in the Dubai Mall (the largest high-end shopping experience in the world).

We’re thrilled to have Kate returning to exhibit at Artexpo New York 2011 next March. You can see more of her work at www.bodyofwork.us.

Artexpo 2010 exhibitor John Woolley is now a featured artist on Art.com

Many artists ask me what kind of exposure and networking opportunities Artexpo New York can offer. Simply put, a single show can have an extraordinary impact upon your career. Take 11-year-old artist John Woolley, for instance.

At the show, John sold 35 pieces of art (actor Jane Seymour and Peter Rosenthal of NYC’s First Creative Capital were among the buyers). John was also interviewed for Art Business News Magazine, Urban Sketchers, Moonlight Chronicles and The Press-Enterprise, and was featured in the Artexpo New York 2010 Show Guide. He forged connections with many different industry professionals and recently landed a contract with Art.com. Congrats to John Woolley, a young man with considerable talent!

John was 9 years old when he first started drawing and painting on a regular basis. Inspired by everyday scenes from his neighborhood, he began his “Backyard Journals” series, which included imaginative drawings and musings.

Rob Carey, of Urban Sketchers, has this to say about John’s work:

“A quick perusal of John’s sketches reveals his pure love of drawing…. After showing some of my students samples of John’s sketches, they were amazed a boy their own age had such talent. His sense of proportion and perspective, and his use of cross-hatching and composition are exceptional.”

Congrats again to John Woolley—I’m thrilled to hear about this latest success. Hope we see you again at Artexpo New York 2011! For more info on John, you can visit his website: www.backyardjournals.com Also, here’s his product page on art.com

Mehron Zadeh, General Manager, Deljou Art Group

A few weeks back, we heard from Mehron Zadeh, General Manager of Atlanta-based Deljou Art Group—the world’s leading publisher of fine art, renowned throughout the industry and internationally. Deljou had a strong presence at Artexpo New York last March, as they have had in many past Artexpos. Here’s what Mehron had to say about his New York show:

“NY Art Expo 2010 was a sensible step in the right direction at the right time. It provided resurgence in the art community and helped in bringing back confidence to clients and exhibitors alike.”

We were delighted to host Deljou at Artexpo New York 2010. As always, they brought a stunning array of fine artwork by exceptional artists. We hope to see you again in the near future, Mehron!

To learn more about Deljou, visit their website at www.DeljouArtGroup.com

Antoine de Villiers

Pooler, Georgia-based artist Antoine de Villiers had a terrific show at Artexpo New York 2010:

“I recently returned from my fourth Artexpo New York—the best one ever!”

Antoine’s lush, sensual drawings and paintings were extremely well-received at Artexpo. The artist also established new connections that will keep her busy over the next few months:

“Exhibiting a variety of original oil and acrylic paintings as well as drawings, I sold a total of fifteen pieces during the course of the event (and more thereafter). Also with nine galleries around the US—as well as in Brazil, Canada & South Korea—wanting to represent my work and a number of consignments on the table, I surely have my work cut out for me in the months to follow!”

"Lateral Self II" by Antoine de Villiers

Between the on-site sales and after-show commissions and consignments, Antoine says Artexpo has definitely helped her grow her business over the years.

“I have no doubt that with every Artexpo I am further in my career than I would have been on my own.”

Congratulations to Antoine! We hope to see you at an upcoming Artexpo…

To learn more about Antoine de Villiers, visit her website at www.AntoineArt.com For information on exhibiting in [SOLO] at Artexpo Chicago (Oct. 1-3) or Artexpo New York 2011 (March 24-27), email Debbie Kuhn, Artexpo Sales Manager [SOLO] at debbie@artmarketools.com