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Holiday Art Show
This post is about my latest art exhibit during the holiday season and about investing in art. Seeing how art can be a valuable investment.
For this holiday season be smart, buy the gift of art! Think art, buy original art!
This holiday season be a little daring, be a little different, be a little unique and think outside of the box - include art to be part of your holiday shopping list. As an art educator, I don’t only teach my students on how to make effective compositions by utilizing techniques and brush strokes... I go beyond the technical matters, and I educate them about ART - the multifaceted world of art from art history to art investment. To be a smart investor, you have to consider purchasing art. In the past couple of years during the down turn of the economy everything seemed to suffer, form real estate to employment to almost everything except for art. While prices and values of things were dwindling down, the prices of artwork were going higher and higher. The great auction houses of Sotheby’s and Christie’s were doing great! Forbes magazine tells us in Nov. 2014 that Sotheby’s and Christie’s sold more than $1.78 Billion worth of art in one week. To illustrate my point, British figurative artist Franics Bacon who died in 1992, his painting “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” painted in 1969 created a bidding war amongst seven bidders at Christie’s in New York. The painting eventually was sold for $142.4 million making it the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. You get my point – there is money in art. So, think investment, think smart, buy original art! You’ve all have seen PBS’s “Antique Roadshow” where someone brings artwork that has been handed down to them from a family member, and gets shocked to know that this painting that has been sitting in their attic for years collecting dust is now worth a fortune. The painting is their ticket to a good life, to getting them out of debt, to paying for their kids college or simply to a wonderful retirement. As you can see art is valuable. So, buy art – and preferably look around you and buy local art. Don’t, I repeat don’t go to Ikea and buy a print, save that money and go to a local gallery and buy an original artwork. In no time that little investment you made by buying local artwork will be rewarding in big ways. The local artist you know today selling affordable art at local galleries, might become the Francis Bacon, the Picasso, the Dali, the Vincent Van Gogh of the future. So, think big not narrow, and be creative with your investment choices. Rather than buying a designer bag or a sweater this holiday season, buy a painting for the same price or even less.
*Currently, I have 15 of my artwork from Acrylic paintings to Watercolor to Charcoal and Colored pencils drawings on exhibit and available for purchase at “Local Colour Old Town, LLC” Gallery in historic old town Alexandria, VA. The exhibit is till January 31, 2015.
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Reception is on Saturday December 20 from 5 – 7 PM. Free and open to the public.
The Gallery is located at:
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218 N Lee Street-Suite 107
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
(571) 317-7317
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 12 noon until 8 PM. Closed Sundays.
“Local Colour” Art Gallery is located inside the “Crilley Warehouse” building, one block from the Torpedo Factory and Alexandria’s Waterfront & Marina.
See link for further info. About the exhibit:
The gallery specializes in exhibiting and showcasing the local talent of the DMV area. It is a wonderful gallery with many unique, carefully selected beautiful art. So, visit the gallery, and add some joy to your life this holiday season by bringing an artwork to your home!
Vian Shamounki Borchert is a professional artist and art instructor at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn and at the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo Park, MD.
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