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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Blair Clarke
DESCRIPTION:Blair Clarke, University of Georgia alumna and founder of Manhattan’s Voltz Clarke Gallery, will discuss how she leveraged her Advertising+Art History dual degree to become a gallery owner, art curator, and one of the most influential collaborators in the industry. Blair will share the nuts and bolts of showing work in a gallery, strategies for young artists to approach a gallerist, what to consider when pricing artwork, and best social media practices for showing and selling work. \nBlair founded Voltz Clarke in 2002 and saw immediate success with the pop up formula as executed with her first exhibition, Kaleidoscope at Ingrao, an elegant townhouse in uptown Manhattan. Blair placed contemporary works by then unknown British painter Natasha Law and four additional emerging artists which began her signature curatorial gesture of presenting emerging talent to sophisticated audiences, in unexpected venues.\nIt was a natural progression for a flagship gallery to be opened after over a dozen years of private art advisory. Voltz Clarke Gallery held its first exhibition in the fall of 2015 and has continued with rigorous programming ever since.\nIn Blair's own words, the 47 year-old Columbus, Georgia native has “worn many hats” in the art world, holding positions as Director of Galerie Timothy Tew in Atlanta, Georgia and Exhibition Manager at Sanford Smith & Associates in Manhattan. “Perhaps it is her unique combination of southern charm and NYC savvy that has led to Blair’s success,” comments collector Beth DeWoody. “She excels at connecting artistic ideas and people that wouldn’t have otherwise come together. It’s terrific she now has a permanent space in Manhattan to call home.”\nBlair is a member of Art Table, Save Venice, Young Collectors of the Guggenheim and The Young Friends of the Louvre. She volunteers her free time with various non-profit arts organizations in addition to gallery hopping with her daughters Poppy and Georgina alongside her husband, Alistair Clarke.\nJoin us here!  https://zoom.us/j/94660267821
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