Art lovers: this is the last week of our Bargain Sale! We have sold many artworks since we launched. We appreciate everyone who has walked in or visited our online store and purchased pieces to take to their homes or businesses. It’s been fun negotiating prices without jeopardizing the artists’ commission. Notifying our artist friends that they have a check in the mail is very rewarding and collectors are what make that happiness happen.
In an era of instant gratification, collecting artwork and owning something physical is becoming a lost tradition. As curators our mission is to sell, sell, sell, upholding the values and responsibility we’re assigned when given the opportunity to hang and sell someone's work.
Since 2022, Empire Seven Studios has had the opportunity to assess how the local art market is functioning. We’re honored to be a place where collectors understand our vision and the importance of purchasing someone's dedication to their medium of choice: painting, sculpture, knitting, mixed media, or what have you. While we make these transactions, we’re also connecting and learning from you all and we appreciate the feedback.
Curating artworks that are not available at every other venue is the same as bringing Beyonce, or Taylor Swift to an arena where people pay a generous amount for tickets for a few hours of lifetime memories. No one questions where they come from or what's their area code. You buy that ticket because it’s an artist unlike any other talent sticking out; out of millions of others. Whether mainstream or underground, the interest in their art is solidified because of the product's quality. We are stimulated by art as deep as our wallets allow us to be.
Empire Seven Studios will not sacrifice quality over quantity or biases knowing there’s an artist struggling to put out the best they can or know how to. We’re here to support the most technical and emerging artists from San Jose or beyond. If we had it our way (and we aim to do so) there would be no borders, and in terms of art, that's what it’s all about for us. The ultimate freedom to be ourselves. Like Stephen Powers (aka Espo) has said: “unapologetic, uncut, giving it to you raw.”
Over the last year, we have had the pleasure of hearing positive feedback about our gallery and our work; it is these compliments that inspire us to be ourselves, which is what got us here in the first place. What is working for us is realizing we have you, our visitors, fans, and collectors, that believe in our mission and support an art movement that allows us to be FREE. We will continue to do just that, knowing so many of you miss the authentic vision our Gallery works tirelessly to deliver.
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