I spent most of the day filling out a form for the Arts & Cultural Council’s Member Showcase, a juried art show scheduled for August. Picking three pieces that I like is one thing but picking three pieces that I think the judges might like is another and then the one page biography/ artist statement is really tough. I don’t do artspeak so I usually try to skip that stage because my explanations sound so obvious and redundant but the artist statement was “mandatory” for this show.
Although I like this guy with the wild hair I decided not to enter him. I’ll enter him in a show where artists statements are not allowed.
Here’s Pete LaBonne’s track “Artist Statement” from his Earring Records cd entitled “Glob”.
I would just use Pete’s lyrics as your statement.
Here’s my artist statement: the art is the statement.