Does anyone know how to promote up and coming artists in Houston Texas?

Question

This artist is wonderful. She does portraits, murals, and much more. Her website is is Dreamscapesstudio.com

Answer 1

On thing, after going to the web site is while this artist is very talented, if she is going to have a vivable career ,she needs to paint what is currently in demand in the market. It is not enough to draw or paint well, you have to make images people want.
What I am talking about is artist branding. Most artist have relatively slopply careeres because their art is all over the map. They have a horse painting, and fish painting, a boat painting, or some vinyards. Branding is where you focus on a subject and do lots of images of that subject and people can start to identify the work. When you think of the artist Jackson Polleck, he painted a certain type of abstract that he innovated. In his career there were lots of artists that tried to copy him but it is his work that is worth fifty million dollars a painting today.
Your artist, has abitly but needs to focus. I would suggest that you get Art Business News every month. This is a publication that goes out to art galleries, and the top artists in the country advertise in it or their publishers do. The art in that magazine is what is current and being pushed by the big advertisers.
I did not see any images on the web site you refered me to that were 2007 up to date painting images.
The job of an art agent it to do the research for the artist and help them keep current with colors and trends.
Did you know that the bedding dept of Macys of Dillards is the best place to find out which are the new colors? "Also Home depot paint chips of newest wall colors are good too, but the bedding designs are changed every three years so you can get some breathing room if you paint in these colors.
She needs to paint larger. Her average canvass should be no smaller than 30x40. All images should be digitally scanned. In Houston I would take them to Que Imaging.
Talk to my friend Bob Abanatti, and say ginger sent you.
One of his customers has the biggerst mural business in town and he might be willing to hook the two of them up.
Get the book "the mystery of making it" by Jack White. he sells it on his website at www.jackwhiteartist.com. This is the best reference on how to make a living as an artist and will save her years of struggle.

Answer 2

When I lived in Houston, I represented artists. Be creative, if you are representing this person. It's not hard, just time consuming.