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Tough on Art

Jen Tough

33 episodes

6 months ago

Today I chat with abstract expressionist painter Natalie Dadamio, who has a very special view on art, art making, and the business of art. We discuss a lot about how art and spirituality intermingle, can heal, and the power of vulnerability and authenticity. Natalie embraced the Artist Alliance's 100 Rejections Challenge, and discusses how it empowered her and opened her up to new possibilities and opportunities.Follow Natalie on Instagram: @Natalie.Dadamio.artAre you interested in joining Je...

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Today I chat with abstract expressionist painter Natalie Dadamio, who has a very special view on art, art making, and the business of art. We discuss a lot about how art and spirituality intermingle, can heal, and the power of vulnerability and authenticity. Natalie embraced the Artist Alliance's 100 Rejections Challenge, and discusses how it empowered her and opened her up to new possibilities and opportunities.Follow Natalie on Instagram: @Natalie.Dadamio.artAre you interested in joining Je...

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Art Heals: Natalie Dadamio

Today I chat with abstract expressionist painter Natalie Dadamio, who has a very special view on art, art making, and the business of art. We discuss a lot about how art and spirituality intermingle, can heal, and the power of vulnerability and authenticity. Natalie embraced the Artist Alliance's 100 Rejections Challenge, and discusses how it empowered her and opened her up to new possibilities and opportunities.Follow Natalie on Instagram: @Natalie.Dadamio.artAre you interested in joining Je...

3 years ago

1 hour 13 minutes

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Laura Klopfenstein: Science Meets Art

Jen talks with Austin based artist Laura Klopfenstein, discussing what it's like to work full time in the science world, be a mom, and create her strange and beautiful pieces (often that contain teeth!). Laura creates collages and paintings that are intricate and curious, often reflecting her science-based life. Her work can be subtly political and often humorous, with subjects about climate change, American over consumption and cultural commentary. Check out Laura's work on her website, or a...

3 years ago

49 minutes

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Top Ten Mistakes Artists Make

Today Jen Tough dives into the most common mistakes artists make and gives a variety of simple solutions and helpful advice on how to avoid them. The top mistakes are:1. Out of date website2. Confusing online name identification3. Not networking enough4. Not entering enough juried shows5. Not having a spreadsheet to keep track of gallery approaches6. Not having a simple annual marketing plan7. Not tracking time spent in the studio and time spent on marketing8. Not interacting enough with gall...

3 years ago

37 minutes

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The Magical Musical World of Gina Tuzzi

Today my guest is Gina Tuzzi, one of my favorite artists (and humans). Gina lives in Blue Lake, California and teaches art at Humboldt State University. Gina was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, has an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, and a BA from Humboldt State University. Gina's paintings are both magical and energetic: her bright saturated palette with complex detailed and dream-like imagery explore a world rich with symbolism with a touch of the psychedelic. Lush with a mixtu...

3 years ago

38 minutes

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Q&A: How to Get an Art Gallery

In this episode, Jen Tough answers questions from artists about how to get art galleries. Unscripted and off the cuff!Sign up for Jen's April 24th live workshop (via Zoom), "The Tough Method for Getting Galleries". You'll have a chance to ask questions relevant to you and your situation, get email scripts, a spreadsheet template, a printable workbook, and more! Go to JenTough.com to sign up today! Interested in being part of the Artist Alliance's Instagram Challenge? Go to JenTough.com to sig...

3 years ago

42 minutes

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Over the Rainbow: Marie Cameron

On today’s show, I’ll be speaking to Marie Cameron. Marie Iis a realist painter and mixed media assemblage artist living and working in Los Gatos, California. Her work ranges from large scale realist paintings with images from the natural world, some creating a repetitive kaleidoscopic image, others that involve quiet contemplation such as birds perched on dainty teacups. During the pandemic, Marie created and launched her “Rainbow Project”, where she embroidered rainbows on found vintage pho...

3 years ago

36 minutes

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An Aerial Perspective: Color Field Artist Laurie Blessen

Laurie Blessen lives in San Francisco and focuses on minimalist, color-field monotypes. Her works are bright and bold, with rectangular or square fields bumping against each other while intermingling with more delicate textures and pattern. Reminiscent of aerial views of landscapes and fields, Laurie says she creates with intuition leading the way. She says the “magic happens” when a 1500 pound steel roller presses her designs onto dense paper, and no matter how many prints she pulls, th...

3 years ago

39 minutes

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Gallerist Q&A 9

Unscripted and "off the cuff Tough" for episode 9 of Gallerist Q&A!Questions include:Making prints, and does it devalue workPricing on websitesHow to get a galleryBest online places to sellAre online shows worth it?And more!Submit your own question here and it may be answered on the podcast!https://airtable.com/shrCGnbW4gHtctcKaBecome a member of one of Jen's artist communities:Artist Alliance: https://www.jentough.com/communities Kindling Art Marketing: https://www.jentough.com/communiti...

3 years ago

28 minutes

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Little Fires from OH to EU to HI: Ellen Dieter

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Ellen Dieter’s interest in art began at an early age. After graduating high school, she began traveling in between studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cooper School of Art. llen settled in Paris, France for over a decade and studied part time at L’Ecole des Art Appliqué.Over the years, Ellen has worked as a seamstress/designer in a leather shop, a fashion model in the US and abroad, she has taught art for ages k-9, portfolio class for seniors ...

3 years ago

41 minutes

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Shooting, Planting and Wrapping: Liz Steketee

Today Jen does another artist interview with Bay Area artist Liz Steketee. We discuss moving to California from the midwest, how her photography has evolved over time, motherhood, exhaustion and how to keep going with your work, how mothers who are artists tend to get less attention in the art world simply because they are mothers, and why one of her favorite sayings is "plant the bulbs now". About Liz:Liz steketee is a mixed media artist focusing on photography and fiber. Originally from Mic...

3 years ago

58 minutes

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Coffee with a Therapist: Getting Over Selfie Dread

All artists know the importance of showing their artwork. But what about showing themselves? Ask most artists, and you'll get.... "ugh". Today Jen talks with therapist and artist Dr. Dee Tivenan, EdD, MFT about the anxiety of showing up online, showing ourselves, selfie culture, and how it can cause, well.... dread. Dee presents easy to follow tips and tricks to help alleviate this dread and anxiety, soften any blows that may come, and how to keep moving forward. Dee Tivenan is an artist and ...

3 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes

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Making Humorous/Horrific Art: Karl X Hauser

Bay Area artist Karl X Hauser joins Jen for a conversation about his long career in art. Karl creates narrative drawings and sculptures that are quirky, playful but also a little dark. His characters spring from his imagination, and seem to be up to childlike antics, but always with a slightly sinister edge. Working in materials such as cast metals, kiln formed glass, wire and nails, and keeping them in a raw unpolished state, Karl’s materials tamper any overly playful sense of innocence...

3 years ago

55 minutes

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Bay Area to Yale to Italy and Back Again: A Chat with Miriam Hitchcock

Miriam Hitchcock is a California based artist, mother and teacher, who has had a fascinating and prestigious career that has taken her from San Francisco, to Yale to Italy and back again. We dig into the "boys club" that was present in the east coast art scene when she was there, living in Italy, the east coast vs. west coast critiques, the "camp" of abstraction, motherhood, and more.Miriam primarily makes paintings often using eccentric shaped formats. She uses a hybrid visual language that ...

3 years ago

40 minutes

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Midwest Goodness: A Chat with Artist Tom Owen

Artist Tom Owen joins gallerist Jen Tough for a fun and casual conversation about his life and work. Tom is part of the roster of Jen Tough Gallery. Tom and Jen met five years ago when he responded to a call for entry for a show called Guilty Pleasures. Tom is an art collector and painter living in northern Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. We nerd-out on spreadsheets and their power to connect artists and galleries, making the huge transition from a 9-5 job to being a full-tim...

3 years ago

41 minutes

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The Importance of Community: Artists Diane Williams and Chuck Potter

Take away some great tips from two seasoned artists who are also married and run a thriving art business. It's a casual conversation (pre-pandemic) with artists Diane Williams and Chuck Potter, who are some of the hardest working artists we know. They both maintain prolific painting practices, work full time, are addicted to art collecting, and also run a thriving art workshop business.We discuss the power of community for artists, and how it can help with an art practice in ways you may not ...

3 years ago

1 hour 14 minutes

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Three Secrets to Achieving Gallery Representation

One of the most common questions artists have is about achieving gallery representation. In this episode, I present three ways to improve your chances of representation: research, connection and understanding the actual mechanics of selling art and how a gallery operates. I also cover the importance of maintaining a database to track your approaches, the best way to maintain a positive relationship with your gallery, and more. Gallery website: www.JenTough.galleryJoin the Artist Alliance: Art...

3 years ago

29 minutes

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Gallerist Q&A Part 8

Discussing the ideas behind emerging and re-emerging artists, older artists and marketing, painting the edges of your painting, concern about too many creative directions, online sales, and switching gears in your art making. Visit the gallery website: www.JenTough.galleryAsk a question for the podcast: www.ToughonArt.comJoin the Artist Alliance: ArtistAllianceMembership.com

3 years ago

36 minutes

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This May Not Work

How many times a day do artists think this to themselves? This thought happens on the micro (with each new change to a piece of work) as well as on the macro (a whole career). In this shorty episode, Jen talks unscripted about how to take more risks with art marketing (and maybe not hate it quite as much) if we throw the "this may not work" fear into the trashcan. Maybe there are some nuggets in here. And maybe not.Hey! If you'd like to be part of the Artist Alliance, and be part of our ...

3 years ago

14 minutes

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On Being Different

"Different is better than better". Author and all around deep thinking marketer and branding expert Sally Hogshead coined this term. She argues that "different is better than better" because better is transient. But what does “different is better than better” mean for artists? In this episode, art dealer Jen Tough discusses what being different means as far as your art and art marketing, how to push your practice in little ways to make art that is just a little bit different from the pac...

3 years ago

17 minutes

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Portraits in a Pandemic with Maya Stein

Today I talk with Writer and artist Maya Stein, who just published a new book The Poser: 38 Portraits Reimagined. In it she documents how she transcended the pandemic isolation by re-creating contemporary portraits as part of the “museum at home” movement. For more information and photos of this project, please go to our website, Tough on Art .comJEN TOUGH GALLERY 2.0Jen Tough Gallery is rebuilding! Follow us along as we move online, offering a larger roster, auctions and deeper artist profil...

4 years ago

44 minutes