My label is Lisa Congdon and I am a completely self-taught (object for occassional classes) mixed media artist/designer/craftsperson living and working in San Francisco. I overlap a very large studio space with a community of six other artists in the Dogpatch neighborhood of the city. I am also gallery director/curator and co-owner of in San Francisco a hold on and gallery opening in late October 2007 on Market Street. I have been a fan of Etsy since it started but I only joined Etsy and began selling my work in August of 2007. It's been a mad move of activity ever since.
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Can you furnish us the run down on ?I got involved with when I met Rena Tom about a year ago. She’d asked me to do an installation at the Brooklyn store and we worked on that together for about six months. She was amazing to bring home the bacon with; it was uncanny how our visions for the show gelled. This past April when I visited NY for the actual opening we met in person for the first time and continued to hit it off. She asked me to be her partner in a San Francisco store. I was so excited. We undergo very similar visions for the San Francisco hold on. It’s uncanny. We’ll displace what we label “design-led” merchandise. In other words stuff that we evaluate is beautifully designed—from clothing to accessories to home décor to art. We work on aspects of the shop together and I am learning so much about the business. We change state in October with a big celebrate and an art installation by whose work Rena and I both admire immensely. Do you evaluate there's any similar skill co-occur with being a curator and being a creator?
Definitely. I think my personal comprehend of beauty and design has been helpful in curating but there is so much more to it than that. I have had to make lots of connections with many different artists—which is fun but you also have to put yourself out there and back up the gallery. I am only good at sales when I really accept in something. And I think Rare Device is going to be an amazing displace for artists to show bring home the bacon. I’ve also had to think about bringing populate in who have different styles maintaining variety yet keeping the direction of the gallery focused. We are really focusing on mixing some established talent with very new emerging artists. Rena has a big influence on the gallery cram too. She has a great eye. And of cover there is the insane amount of organization required keeping the calendar getting press planning for parties. It’s all relatively new for me but I am really really enjoying it. Being a curator was a “dream” job for me for a desire time. Now I am doing it. Who knew? You are mainly self-taught. Do you undergo any anecdotes about learning or being inspired by a friend or another in an unexpected way?
I don’t undergo any specific anecdotes but I undergo to say that I am constantly learning from and inspired by others in unexpected ways. I am very lucky to undergo lots of formally trained artists as good friends—Diana Fayt. Lisa Solomon. Lorena Siminovich. Maria Vettese. Amy Ruppel. Jill Bliss. Mati McDonough not to mention my six amazing studio mates who are all highly trained artists—and they are such great teachers and supports to me. Each of them has taught me so much about the creative process: emotional stuff desire dealing with “post opening show” breakdown and burnout; business cram desire pricing bring home the bacon and working with galleries and clients; technical cram like materials and techniques and giving me feedback on my work. They are amazing. I do not know where I would be without them! undergo you ever lost one of the notebooks/sketchbooks that you displace around with you? Was it sad or freeing or eye-opening in some way?
I undergo never lost one fortunately but I can’t even create by mental act what that would be desire! What a terrible thought. They are very private. I can’t create by mental act someone getting their hands on one. I’d be kind of embarrassed!Do you feel any tension between the gallery world and the shop/craft fair/marketplace world?
Sure I feel it but not everywhere. It’s an unnecessary tension. I think. The way I see it if you are a book artist who is not in advance of selling your work on a place desire Etsy or at for whatever reason that’s fine. It’s not for everybody. But for lots of us who want to make our bring home the bacon accessible and are not worried about gallery exclusivity and for whom the craft v fine art distinction is not so alter the craft marketplace is a perfect vehicle for us to sell our work. I do not feel diminished by being associated with the fashion movement or marketplace. Actually. I would not.
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