Leslie Cohen
Leslie Cohen
time year
I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.
work
I wanted to work big, ... To work on eBay, always in a shippable size, just wasn't where I wanted to stay.
based call collect ebay galleries nobody people searching work
I'm based in galleries in part because if you call what I do postmodernism, nobody on eBay is searching for that, ... eBay does well for traditional work and people who collect it.
artist consistency gallery plenty similar wants
At a gallery, ... the artist is the product. The gallery wants plenty of pieces. And it wants similar pieces. The gallery wants consistency in its product, the artist.
good internet jeff market variety
And those thumbnails aren't good for my work, ... That's about impact. Jeff has the variety for the Internet market and that's just not my thing. I have something I want to say and a way to say it. That's good in galleries, not online.
angeles artist ebay friend last los marketing people seminar seriously taken
Still, a lot of people don't take eBay seriously ... We have an artist friend who was at a Los Angeles seminar on marketing art and he was told, 'If you want to be taken seriously, get off eBay.' He then told them that he'd made $150,000 in art on eBay last year. He was immediately told, 'Keep doing what you're doing.'
blue heaven hung work
When I first hung my work years ago at Heaven Blue Rose,