Advice, tips and guidance on how to approach an art gallery for representation by professional artist Dena Tollefson.
Whether you are just graduating art school and need help getting your art career started, or you have been an artist for a while and need help breaking into the gallery scene or adding additional galleries to your portfolio, this helpful and encouraging video is for you.
This video is appropriate for visual artists, glass, ceramic, potters, sculptors, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, jewelry, and all artists who would like tips for how to get a gallery owner's attention and develop a relationship with the gallery leading to representation at a fine art gallery. Topics include pricing artwork, how do I know if I am ready for a gallery, how many artworks are needed for gallery representation, how to approach an art gallery, how to find an art gallery which is a fit, how to break into the local art scene, and more.
Tollefson is a full time artist and has been represented by art galleries since 2000. Her originals are available exclusively through the fine art galleries who represent her across the United States. Canvas and paper prints are available through her website www.denatollefson.com as well as www.iCanvas.com who licenses her work worldwide and through merchants such as Kirkland’s, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Nordstrom.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for more painting tips. Learn more at her website https://www.denatollefson.com
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
My work known as "Daubism" is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in fine art galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her "Daubism" body of work is a unique process she developed, where "daubs" of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting.
Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL Marion Arts Council Marion, IA Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA. United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her original paintings hang publicly and in private collections throughout the world. Prints and other licensed products are available worldwide