It isn't often I have the privilege of selling houses to someone I consider highly artistic. After all, I am a business major and a business owner and find my clients to be, well, like me -- business-like. Or a mom, stuck in her own little world, devoid of any culture beyond Yo Gabba Gabba.
In my sphere of influence and clientele, I can literally count on one hand the people I consider to be highly artistic. That being said, I absolutely love it when I do have the opportunity to serve an artsy person when it comes to real estate, because they don't sell or shop the norm. But even when they do shop the norm, I get to hear their little wheels turning as far as how they will "artensify" here and how they will "artify" there. I know I'll get to step into a whole new world. Tonight I thought about that as I visited an art reception co-hosted by two galleries -- Main and Vine and YAT in my hometown of Keller, Texas - a suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas.
Staring, admiring while simultaneously thinking, "Where could I put that?" a few real estate related thoughts crossed my mind. And the reason it crossed my mind? Out of all the houses I showed the last few days, not one thing in these galleries would go, really, in any of them. It almost made me eager to buy a burnout or otherwise destroyed house, buy a piece of art, and then flip the house to match the art vs. always trying to do the other way around. Very strong and really tempting sudden urges came over me. Art is that inspiring. It makes you want to buy the house for the piece vs. the piece for the house. Then my thoughts were interrupted. Up popped one artist whose work would suit at least one room in just about every house I've ever sold. Ben Purvis wins that award.
There are a ton of really fun and interesting pieces, naturally, given the age of the artists and the "things on their mind" at their age. Some of them have mad talent with an apparent future as an artist. I will be sending my clients there who apparently appreciate all things not mass produced and hope they enjoy it as much as I did.
The YAT gallery is so named to feature Young Artists of Texas. YAT is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and promote young artists in the Lone Star State. They have 4 gallery night open houses each year, promote scholarship opportunities and internship opportunities and host 4 guest speaker nights each year for artists to learn more about the art world. It's super and I'm thrilled Keller has developed from Podunky to super spunky over the years. Smooth movin'.
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