REAL BIG DEALS
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Taylor Chapin
Q & A artist
What are your biggest challenges to creating art and how do you deal with them? How do you navigate the art world?
I often find myself pulled in so many directions as a young, emerging artist. It’s easy for me to feel overwhelmed by the amount of feedback and opinions I receive on what I should be doing and how I should be doing it. I am at a point in my career where I have to wear a lot of different hats to make ends meet. I struggle with balancing commissions, feedback from others, and making my own work. Creating my own work is a priority, and this requires a consistent awareness of allocating time. I often feel pressure to please others and to “paint what sells”, and I have to make an active effort to avoid falling into this trap and make sure my own practice is truly and honestly expressing my own interests and desires.
I feel like I’m just starting to learn how to navigate the art world. I am on the front end of my career, so I feel like first and foremost, I am trying to get exposure for my work. This being the case, right now I say yes to every opportunity that comes my way because each opportunity is a chance to learn and share my work with others. I find that through each experience into the various offerings of the art world, I learn a little bit more about how I want to navigate the art world going forward.
