ART INSIGHTS Creating Wealth as a Successful Artist - John Dahlsen

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Interview between John Dahlsenand Cassandra Parkinson, the ArtistCareer Project Manager of the NationalAssociation of the Visual Arts (NAVA).NAVA Magazine.June 2008NAVA: You’ve gone through several distinctphases in your career, creating a diversebody of work. What led you to change yourapproach?JD: A fire destroyed my studio in 1983,taking seven years work with it. It shookmy foundations as a person and broughtme face to face with my mortality. Itinfluenced my transition through a fairlydiverse range of art practice and madethe later transition to found objects easier,because I became less rigid as a person.After many years of painting, I becamemore open to exploring new materialsand technology, and to stretching myselfbeyond the realm of paintbrush and canvas.Being open to the benefit of ‘accidents’ in143
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Table of ContentsPart I (page 7)Alc
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Part IAlchemy: My Career in Environ
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This new medium, it occurred to me,
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My InfluencesAs a young artist, I w
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form of both patronage and exhibiti
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Shedding of IdentityMy entrée into
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Sandra Murray, the then director of
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In 2006, the United Nations Environ
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"Thong Totems"Found objects and Sta
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I toe the line betweenfulfi llment
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“Blue River”Recycled Plastic Ba
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esidence at Jefferson City, Missour
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Driftwood artMy work with driftwood
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Digital Prints and PaintingsAnother
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As well as embracing the digital an
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“Light Blue Purge Dialogue”Acry
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geometrical imagery and constructiv
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The Pass #52007Acrylic on Belgian L
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‘Contemporary Landscapes’ -his
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of Wendell Berry’s paradox that
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Central ConcernsIt amazes me to thi
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It is of utmost importanceto have a
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Let’s be clear about one fact: th
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The manager of the plant was highly
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Remember that it isyou who is placi
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62how much you’re willing to sacr
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3. FOCUS.Successful artists have th
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ends meet. This usually does not wo
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Managing your timealso means placin
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your next show, selling art and tal
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To create somethingof beauty at any
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and start again. My integrity force
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Marketing is also anattitude. Your
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her updated website that she set up
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that you feel confident about the w
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Approaching GalleriesOne of the fir
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it’s good to acknowledge it. Ther
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opportunities, such as writing a bo
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