Fellow Artist I Know Blatantly Lied About Who They Are Working With?

Just sneeze, clear your nostrils and move on gracefully!

I think it will probably fall under b. Unfortunately, artist by nature are very competitive which is absolute foolishness....Like Craig said, move on gracefully!

Or he could have acted untoward and made her uncomfortable.

Choosing between your 3 theories I'll go with "B"
I'll be interested in learning the answer after you ask her the question.

Jon, define "working with." I bet your definition and her definition are different. I've had articles written about me and I definitely wasn't working with the authors, although we had "spoken a few times."


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

I'm not sure i"m understanding. Did you ask her how the review by him came about?

My first hunch is that someone isn't understand the question or reply, more than basis of who's hiding something and why?

--mary ellen anderson

" I saw an article that he had written about the artist and how great she was."

Need more facts.

I write articles about how great artist are all the time and never met them or worked with them directly.

http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/-martin-grelle-and-his-artwork.html

http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/rodney-white-americas-hottest-artist-move-over-andy-warhol.html

Dan----There was a nice article written about her and it was used to promote her. This was from a popular website that charges the artists for "promotion" or an article..And get an enormous amount of hits...My impression was that she did not want to admit to "working " with him..I was really taken aback by the fact the she acted like they were not working together. I doubt that she did not know about the article.

Mary Ellen-- I did not even mention the review because I did not want to embarrass her and let her know I caught her in a lie.

I would err on the side of caution, and give the situation the benefit of the doubt. Neither one may be misleading you, it just may be how they each see their relationship to one another.

Some people meet a person once and consider that person a friend, others may know people for years and consider them just acquaintances. You may be reading too much into this, and then again, you may be right.

"I did not want to embarrass her and let her know I caught her in a lie."

I think you did the right thing there. Sometimes things are not what they seem. This looks to need more research.


Dan Turner
Dan Turner's Seven Keys to Selling Art Online

If she was anything like me she would be a private person and keeps her business and personal life separate.

or it is a conspiracy

Yo Pedro - agreed! We have spoken quite a few times and she seemed genuinely friendly before. I have been very complimentary prior about her work and the technique. I would of considered us colleagues and we are "Facebook " friends.

Melissa- the issue with being private like that is she is now not one I would trust. The few times we have spoken I mentioned a few art competitions and any info I know or what I heard, I may not be much, but now it will really be a casual wave and a cordial "hi there, great stuff"

Jon - in spite of your out going 'likeable" personality - it may be that she just isn't comfortable with (a polite way of saying she doesn't really like ) you. And she might just consider it none of your business, her relationship with her business. And she may much more appreciate your new 'relationship' with her that is just "a casual wave and a cordial "hi there, great stuff". "

It seems that you two are just acquaintances? Do you think that you may be over reacting a little? Why don't you just talk to her maybe there's some mis-communication somewhere. Just a thought.

BTW I would make this discussion private. Up to you but easy enough to stumble upon by an artist friend. Then she may have questions for you.

As FAA is technically my place of work, I consider each and all of you on this site to be my friends and colleagues and will name drop at every opportunity. I will happily use and abuse all of your successes to further my own career should the opportunity arise.... :o)

I'd go with option B..... It's a highly competitive environment we operate in!

I suppose we could argue about the use of the term "blatant" here, not to mention the word "lie." A blatant lie here would be, "I do not know Mr. X." Back in my freelance writing days, I did a number of interviews with the CEO of a railroad. We were friendly with one another. I still trade e-mails with his son who now works for the railroad. But if you asked either of them how they liked working with me, I'd bet the first thing they'd say was, "I've never worked with him." Because they haven't.