As I was hanging some of the works in my upcoming exhibition, the very nice lady in charge of the public space it was in (the local school board building) wanted to know why I put so high a price on my works–$100 and up. Other artists in the program were only asking $30 or so. I sputtered a bit, because I didn’t want to come off arrogant by telling the truth, which is that my works are brilliant and like none other in the world. I forgot to say, “Why not, I’ve actually sold a couple for $600 apiece”–which is true. I did say that I wanted to establish a reasonably high bottom price for the kind of work I did, and whined that some of my pieces had taken years, so deserved more than $30 for them. I didn’t say I refused to come across as a hobbyist. My actual best response, which I didn’t remember till later, is that why shouldn’t I get what a person in a relatively low-paying job gets for a day’s work for one of my pieces?
Nonetheless, I’ve decided to post a notice indicating that 11-inch by 8.5-inch copies on cover stock, unframed, are available for $20.
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