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go to galleries, every possible gallery anywhere remotely near you, go to them all the time and see if any of them have work that is anything like what you do -- conceptually, graphically, cultuerally. then target those galleries with the tactics above.
go to art opennngs all the time and try to make friends. make the postcards yourself and send them to every gallery on earth and to art directors at record companies and magazines and advertising companies. if you dont know what these post cards look like, then you havent been to enough galleries yet and you wont stand a chance at speaking their language until you find out about it.
offer to write listing coverage of gallery opennings for your local weekly paper, so that you can get to talking to the gallery owners.
get together with some other artists, rent out a space, buy some cheep wine, send out mass invites to everyone listed above and gallery owners, and throw your own openning.
don't be desperate or sycophantic when you deal with art directors / gallery owners. don't tell them that your work will revolutionize the universe. they will not care. basquiat was a fluke. unless you already are able to con people out of food/drinks/money/sex with regularity, you will not be able to suddenly start doing it with your art.
this is a full time completely social occupation. it will take a lot of time and you have no guarrantee it will ever come through, so keep on working on your thing while you "wait."
figure out exactly what you want to do and stick to it with endless passion and focus. You want to sell your art through galleries to collectors for a living? you want to illustrate books for a living? you want to tell sequential art stories for a living? you want to do adds? are other people currently able to do what you want to do? how do they manage? if not -- rethink your desire.
i know people who have become very successful as artists doing all this. there are millions of people who would really like to make a living making art, and there will never be a large enough market to support them all. remember that, and think about what it means when you continue to pursue it. Just because you have a show and send out invites doesnt mean anywill will show up, care, and even if they do both they may not buy your work.
if you are creating serveral connecting, full narrative comic book pages as gallery art, galleries will be much less interested than if you make art that is consistent to a single page and is not very narrative. Raymond Pettibone is extremely unusual, and he is a far cry form comic art. if you want to do comics for a living, you have to do a completely different set of things than any of the above.
i once went into a gallery that was showing a Vienese Actionist archive -- herman nizche and otto meul and horrifying stuff, and realized i had something similar. so i gave a movie i made to the gallery owner for the hell of it, and then he gave it to Nick Zed to potentially teach in a class on transgressive cinema... nothing ever wound up becoming of it. But endless opportunity is always available, as long as you keep on pushing.
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