Contacting galleries

[Anthony Emmolo]

Hello all,

I hope you may have some thoughts on this subject. My portraiture is more of a passion than a way of making a living. My still-lives in galleries are my bread and butter. I hope I can ask about that kind of business on this forum.

I'm living in Shanghai,China and was forced to give up one of my USA galleries last year. I would like to pick up one or two more galleries in the USA. I am having a we site created to use as a business card/brochure so that I can contact American galleries from here, and plan a trip to California to show my portfolio to galleries that I have scheduled appointments with.

My thoughts are to send an email with a cover letter and include my web site in the cover letter.

1- Does it sound naive, or is this a new way to contact galleries that are far from us?

2- Can you think of anything that I'd need to include in such a letter to increase chances of a popular response?

I've read the Entrepreneur article that Michelle Rushworth told us about. It was helpful, but I believe this situation is slightly different.

Any help people may have would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
Anthony