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Clientele?
Debra,
I love this piece, such juicy paint and a really lively expression.
Oh, I don't agree with you on the your eye rule for deciding whether it is a portrait or figurative. Some examples are Manet's "Olympia", "The Bar at The Follies Bergere" or his "Dejeuner s'ur L'Herbe" and Goya's "Naked and Clothed Majas". I think these are both, but are really more figurative. There are more examples I could mention as well.
Try another gallery. They should do the networking, that is why they chomp off 40 to 60%. They should HAVE the clientele, that is their business! You should not have to drum up clients for them. Most of my work has been purchased by complete strangers, I would have had to wear out a lot of Ferragamos and drink a lot of wine at too many boring parties and I still would have not met any of them. If I had to depend on friends or acquaintences in my pea-picken little state of RI, I would have thrown in the towel a long time ago. Use the internet to ferret out galleries that are sympathetic to your style of work. Look into an artists representative, you only have to pay them a percentage of sales.
As to a wardrobe, I belong to the Copley Society of Art in Boston, people show up in dungarees and ratty hair at the openings. Somebody once said "if you can't afford to be chic, be outrageous!"
Sincerely,
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