Ballsy: It takes balls to sell art.

On this weeks episode, we chat with Cath Zhang from Easy Sunday Club.   We discuss turning her art into a successful products business.  

It's a great convo.

You can find her at 

https://www.instagram.com/easysundayclub/

and 

www.easysundayclub.com/pages/welcome

and 

https://www.youtube.com/c/easysundayclub

About your host: Kolodny

My journey from Hospitality guru to Artist was met with many unforeseen challenges.  What I realized, is being an artist is basically like running a small startup, where the artist is CEO, CMO, CFO, assistant, production lead… well you get the point.   Hopefully by listening to our mistakes and successes you can avoid some of the pitfalls that have lengthened our journey.   I interview successful artists, gallerists, collectors, and learn how these artists overcame “startup” challenges to become as successful as you want to be.  Hopefully listening to them will teach us a trick or two

On this weeks episode, we chat with financier turned pop artist Jared Schwalb.  This week is a special episode with The most Famous Artist (matty mo) as a Co-Host.  We talk about finding customers, sales, how to deal with galleries, plus a lot more

It's a great convo.  Have a listen 

You can find his work

https://www.instagram.com/vehement_art/

And

www.vehementart.com

About your host: Kolodny

My journey from Hospitality guru to Artist was met with many unforeseen challenges.  What I realized, is being an artist is basically like running a small startup, where the artist is CEO, CMO, CFO, assistant, production lead… well you get the point.   Hopefully by listening to our mistakes and successes you can avoid some of the pitfalls that have lengthened our journey.   I interview successful artists, gallerists, collectors, and learn how these artists overcame “startup” challenges to become as successful as you want to be.  Hopefully listening to them will teach us a trick or two

On this weeks episode, we chat with Javier Martin.  Famed Artist Javier Martin known for his mixed media neon works, and has made it in both the gallery and museum world.  He is getting ready to launch a new exhibition, and  In this podcast we talk about his career, how he built his following, global appeal and gallery connections

It's a great convo.

TimeStamps

1:00 A bit about his work

4:50 6:35  Creation of neon

8:15  How he started - Interior design

8:40  winning best young artist of spain

12:30 - Interior designer put work in a home, then into a mag then off to a gallery

16:00 Growing career first

17:30 Blindness series - What we are missing

19:35  Appropriation

22:30 Saw opportunity in smaller market (Korea) and moved there

25:45 Moving to wynwood (miami)

27:00  Galleries were the only way when he started. People werent selling art online

31:00   Building a strong community of collectors

31:45  Selling directly - Pro tip  Dont have global representation

35:15  what social he uses

36:30 On not having full time team

37:30  Sales channels

39:00  On doing his own work

41:00  Commissions

43:00  Pricing

43:45 Inventory

48:45 NFTs

51:45 Concept first then business

55:30  Press

About your host: Kolodny

My journey from Hospitality guru to Artist was met with many unforeseen challenges.  What I realized, is being an artist is basically like running a small startup, where the artist is CEO, CMO, CFO, assistant, production lead… well you get the point.   Hopefully by listening to our mistakes and successes you can avoid some of the pitfalls that have lengthened our journey.   I interview successful artists, gallerists, collectors, and learn how these artists overcame “startup” challenges to become as successful as you want to be.  Hopefully listening to them will teach us a trick or two

On this weeks episode, we chat with Eddie Gangland. An OG NFT artist and early adopter of the Metaverse. He is known for his Gangland Skulls series is  highly sought after.  He is on track to become an NFT superstar. In this podcast we talk about his career, how he built his influence in the NFT space, some interesting growth hacks, and of course the Metaverse.  

It's a great convo.  You can find Eddie's works on open sea

You can find Eddie's works on open sea https://opensea.io/collection/gangland-skulls  Ganglandskulls.com

TimeStamps 

4:00Entrance to NFTs

4:50 Gangland Skulls

7:00  Shout out to his wife 

11:35 Physical vs digital

13:50 Growth Hack - Timed Drops

15:00 Secondary market sales ‘

15:45  First collector.  Mondoir

16 :15 Pricing

20:30   clubhouse - 8-10 hour days           X

22:30 Meteverse

24:45  Growth Hack 

25:25  How to - the metaverse

42: Matty from TMFA  

46:30 Citizen T

48:30  Growing the team

54:00 Targeted Traffic in metaverse / Real world

About your host: Kolodny

My journey from Hospitality guru to Artist was met with many unforeseen challenges.  What I realized, is being an artist is basically like running a small startup, where the artist is CEO, CMO, CFO, assistant, production lead… well you get the point.   Hopefully by listening to our mistakes and successes you can avoid some of the pitfalls that have lengthened our journey.   I interview successful artists, gallerists, collectors, and learn how these artists overcame “startup” challenges to become as successful as you want to be.  Hopefully listening to them will teach us a trick or two

So welcome to Ballsy: It takes balls to sell art.  This is episode number 1 I am Kolodny, your host.  This week we have a very successful and prolific artist Jojo Anavim.

You can find Jojos work here  https://www.jojoanavim.com/

Blurring the line between mass consumerism and fine art, New York City based artist Jojo Anavim has established his body of work stemming from a background in graphic design and brand development. Previously a creative consultant for brands such as W Hotels, and Universal Music Group, Anavim crossed over full-time to fine art in 2013. His work continually employs bold color palettes, acrylic paint, oil stick, collage scraps, found items and advertisements Anavim has been collecting since his childhood. He is known for elevating the mundane by transforming everyday items into objects of transcendence. The paintings oscillate freely between playful and subversive. Triggered by his fascination with a child-like consciousness, Anavim challenges the viewer to not only see something beautiful but feel something as well.