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Why Do You Make This Type of Art? Why are you drawn to this subject? ...

What Does Your Artwork Represent? Does your art represent something about you? ...

What Inspires You? What connection do you have to your art? ...

What Does Your Art Mean to You?

Who is your audience?

Who are your influences?

Explain your work to a child.

How do you make your work?

How do your materials inform your concept?

How is your work unique?

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Know the word length - between 100-150 words

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Know the word length - between 100-150 words

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The artist statement we will be writing is an introduction to your work and will be 100-150 words.

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What is an Artist Statement? An artist statement is piece of writing by you that helps the audience access or understand your artistic work. It is written in the first person, while artist bios are written in the third person. Both represent you as an artist when you are not physically present with the viewer.

An artist statement is the front line of communication between the artist and the public. It will be used when you submit your portfolio to competitions, galleries, and museums. It may sometimes be displayed when people are viewing your works in person or on your website. If it’s online, your artist statement will be read by people from all over the world.

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An artist statement MUST be in the first person, everything is “I” not “he/she/they.” Imagine your statement is having a conversation with a viewer, it is speaking for you, and you would always say “I did this.”

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How long should our artist statement be?

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How long should our artist statement be?

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You should have three basic statements as an artist: a 500+ word one-page statement, a 150-200 word one or two paragraph version, and a brief two sentence version.  Each one of these lengths serves a different purpose.

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The short, one to two-sentence description is the "elevator pitch" about your artwork. It focuses on the main idea behind your work, it can be easily inserted into your social media bios and cover letters. It can capture that attention of anyone who hears it. This is the phrase that you will rely on to quickly explain your work to new viewers so that they can better understand your work.

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You can use the 150-200 word two-paragraph statements (about a half page) to talk about a specific artwork or series and covers the most important information about your work.

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The 500+ word one-page statement should be used to talk about your larger body of work that will be used for exhibitions, in your portfolio or in an application. A longer statement should address the themes and concepts not immediately apparent in your work itself. This can then be used as a reference for journalists, curators, critics and gallerists to promote and talk about your work.

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Avoid using phrases like "I am trying to," and "I hope to." Cut out "aspire" and "attempt." Remember, you are already doing these things through your work. Replace these phrases with stronger action words like "reveals," "examines," or "questions."

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The ‘How’ refers to how you created your works. Many visitors are interested in knowing about your artistic process. Describe your works; what colors do you use, do you make large marks or small marks, or do you use blending so there are no visible marks at all? If you’re a photographer, what kind of tools are integral to your process?

The opening sentence should be distinct and captivating and draw the readers in. What do you want to say with your art?

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Are your paintings abstract? Portraits? Do you take photos of landscapes? What is your imagery? When people describe what you make, what do they say? Describe the content of your works in a general way to flow from how you work to what you make.

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Why do you make what you make? What does your life say about your work and your work say about your life? What symbols do you use and why? Explain the influences behind the meanings of your works.

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Every artist statement must follow the three C’s of style: they should be clear, concise, and consistent.

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Every artist statement must follow the three C’s of style: they should be clear, concise, and consistent.

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Use accessible vocabulary; keep in mind that your readers may not be scholars, artists, or art historians. Write like you’re speaking to a person on the street, somebody who goes to museums “every now and then,” as many of your viewers will fall into that category. Make sure the content in your artist statement is not too complex or technical. This will intimidate your audience.

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Don’t go on for pages and pages about your work. Even the most interested person will get lost in too much information. You want your statement to pull the viewer in, but you don’t want to bore them.

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Make sure that what you say in your artist’s statement matches the works that are going to be on display. If you also have a press release or biography available, make sure that your statement doesn’t contradict these texts at all. Keep updating your artist statement as you grow and evolve as an artist.

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https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/what-to-avoid-when-writing-your-artist-statement

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What to Avoid When Writing Your Artist Statement

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Don’t make these common mistakes when writing your artist statement.

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“Many people take great comfort in the bathroom towels being the same color as the soap, toilet paper, and tiles. It means there is a connection between them, and an environment of order. Home is a place not only of comfort, but of control. This sense of order, in whatever form it takes, acts as a shield against the unpredictability and lurking chaos of the outside world.

My work is an examination of the different forms this shield takes, and the thinking that lies behind it. I use domestic objects as the common denominators of our personal environment. Altering them is a way of questioning the attitudes, fears and unwritten rules which have formed that environment and our behavior within it.”

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“I like it when a place has been around long enough that there is a kind of tension between the way it was originally designed to look and the way it looks now, as well as a tension between the way it looks to whoever is caring for it and the way it looks to me. Trouble is, the kinds of places I find most appealing keep getting closed or torn down.

What do I want to say with my art?

Celebrate the human, the marks people make on the world. Treasure the local, the small-scale, the eccentric, the ordinary: whatever is made out of caring. Respect what people have built for themselves. Find the beauty in some battered old porch or cluttered, human-scale storefront, while it still stands.”

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“I’ve drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents. I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it. ‘The Spider’ is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.”