September 8 - October 20, 2011

6x6, a series of six, back to back, one week only art exhibitions in New York City starting Thursday September 8, 2011.

6x6 is an art version of a music festival highlighting a line-up of twelve international artists run by Baang and Burne Contemporary, an unconventional art gallery.

Read on to find out how she does it and why no art snobs are allowed...

First things first, let’s dispel a common misconception that a lot of artist have: Most galleries do NOT make their sales from walk-in-off- the-street sales.  Instead sales are made based on relationships they have spent time building and nurturing with people who have expressed interest in their artists work.  By the time someone decides they want to spend that amount of money, usually they have done their research, have been following the artist’s work, and have decided well in advance that they want to buy a piece.

Once you understand that you don’t need “foot traffic” to make sales, you can focus on what actually works.  Building your mailing list and staying in touch with people who like your work.  Most of the people who have bought my work recently are people who have met me through my blog.  I had been in contact with some of them for years before they became “collectors” of my work.

Actually, chasing down rich people would be a disastrous strategy and an enormous waste of time and energy!  You might even get arrested for stalking.  

Traditional galleries have the reputation of being intimidating and sometimes even clinical environments regardless of whether they are commercial or artist run galleries. There are already artists running pop-up galleries and going the D.I.Y. route but your events are billed as creating real excitement and having the spirit of an indie rock band. That's an entirely different concept, pushing the D.I.Y event to another level again. I'm curious why you chose to push so far past the comfortingly familiar art event?

Does anybody really, truly enjoy austere and highbrow?  Charlie Grosso and I based the creation of Baang and Burne and the line-up of artists and events for 6x6 on what we personally would love to attend.  Art can be serious and fun at the same time (Fi's emphasis).  6x6 is exactly the type of art event I’ve been waiting to be invited to my entire life.