Collins also anticipates that home galleries and other atypical art spaces will become a new trend, making the arts more accessible to everyone – those selling, creating and buying it.
“White wall galleries are way too expensive,” she said. “It’s a noose around your neck for a lot of gallery owners. When you’re doing pop-ups, when you’re using your own home, you don’t have that overhead. So, for one, you don’t have to take the same huge percentage. Rather than taking 40 percent from artists, you can do 25 percent. That’s amazing and much more in favor with them.”
Plus, there’s an intimate appeal to these spaces, Collins added. “It’s a lot of fun, fun, fun, and beautiful things happen as you transform these spaces, and build these true connections with artists and collectors.”
She continued, “And then they meet each other and it becomes a support network. That’s the coolest part about all of it. It’s a support between artists and collectors, and I’m starting to learn how to create collectors, which is wonderful. There is nothing more satisfying. I had six pieces by Tia Barket, these really colorful cool fishes, and to call her and say, ‘Listen, I brought these to a collector friend, and he bought the entire series,’ that’s golden. And that’s why I’m doing this.”
Collins hopes her gallery weekends, artist partnerships and pop-up exhibitions will continue to grow as she transitions out of her medical career.