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Business Cards in Galleries?
A local gallery which offers opportunities for exposure has just adopted a new policy wherein the artist is expected to offer the usual percentage to the gallery if a client buys a piece of art from them because of having seen it in that gallery within sixty days of the close of the exhibit. Furthermore business cards and/or contact information are not allowed to be on display during the show. I can understand this policy when it comes to completed art works being offered for sale, but portraits seem to be in a different category. The client often doesn't decide to act on his decision to commission the painting until months after he first sees the artist's work, and if he has no business card he's not going to be able to contact him or her. Is this a common prohibition in galleries, and if so, doesn't it create problems for the portrait artist?
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