So, having thought this through, as a former gallery owner, here are our recommendations for getting your work noticed by galleries, 5 Steps To Get Your Artwork Noticed by Galleries:

1. Identify your target galleries.  Do NOT just send your portfolio to every gallery you see advertised. Look in magazines, look online and identify several galleries that might be possibilities. Each gallery you decide to target should meet the following criteria.

2. Honestly assess the level and quality of your artwork and the artwork carried by your target galleries. Is you goal realistic? Are you targeting a gallery who represents master painters and you've been painting for a total of six months? This is a difficult step, but you definitely need to target galleries who are at the same "level" as you. We're not saying not to be ambitious, but at our Gallery Oil Paintings we represented very fine and respected artists and regularly turned away artists who hadn't yet mastered drawing, perspective, color mixing, etc.

3.Go through each gallery's roster of artists looking for artists whom you personally know. If you really are at the same "level" as the artists in your target galleries, chances are you will have at least met some of them.

4. Ask your artist friend if the gallery would like your work. Just ask. This is someone who knows you and the gallery....they'll give you an honest answer. It will be easier to accept hear the truth from your friend than it will be to get a rejection letter from the gallery.

5. If possible, have your friend send the portfolio. Simply give the portfolio to your friend, ask him to write on a post-it note "this is the artist I told you about" and send it.

Every career is a lot of work and being an artist is no different. If your career is worth it, then the work is worth it.

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