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Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

35: What artists are reluctant to talk about - Gabe Fernandez

Savvy Painter Podcast with Antrese Wood

Antrese Wood

Education, Arts, Visual Arts, Self-improvement

4.8941 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Gabe Fernandez and Antrese Wood talk about how to craft a compelling artist bio, the importance of social skills, and why community among artists is so important for your development - and sanity. There are certain topics it seems that artists are reluctant to talk about. That silence leads to baseless assumptions about how an artists life *should* be, Portland artist Gabe Fernandez talks candidly about his work, money, and the importance of social skills in a crafting a successful career as ...

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You're listening to the savvy painter podcast episode number 35.

0:05.0

Welcome to the savvy painter podcast.

0:08.0

The podcast for artists who mean business.

0:11.0

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

0:14.0

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter

0:18.0

podcast. Gabe Fernandez is with me today.

0:21.0

Gabe is an artist from Portland, Oregon who paints environments.

0:25.2

He captures the essence of places, empty rooms with chairs, suburban landscapes, and the

0:30.5

occasional still life.

0:32.1

There's a piece and quiet about his work,

0:34.0

and I get the sense in many of them

0:36.0

that something has just happened or is about to happen.

0:40.0

Recently, I had a long conversation with Gabe.

0:43.0

I've been reaching out to some of my listeners

0:45.0

to get a better feel for where people are at

0:47.0

and why they listen to this podcast.

0:50.0

So, Gabe had taken my feedback survey

0:52.0

and I followed up with him to get some more details.

0:55.0

So if you hear me say something like,

0:57.0

Yeah, we talked earlier about such and such, it's because I wanted to share with you some of the topics that we discussed in our earlier conversation.

1:05.0

So Gabe and I talked a lot about the genesis of his work, gallery relationships, and the concept of abundance versus scarcity in an artist's life.

1:16.4

And I'd encourage you to go to his website at Gabe Fernandez.com, not only to look at his work, but

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