Good art must have soul: an interview with art dealer Brian Clamp

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Good art must have soul: an interview with art dealer Brian Clamp
April 21, 9:52 PM Comment NY Photography Examiner Subscribe Lorenzo Dominguez Previous Next

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Although he is one of the younger gallery owners in the fine art photography world in New York City today, Brian Paul Clamp is also one of the more scholarly art dealers among them, with over thirty publications on art. He is also one of the more marketing savvy of the bunch and has worked hard with his artists to get them good, if not great, press.

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In 1988, during my senior year in high school I took an art class and the teacher went through several slides of great photographers like Nan Goldin and Diane Arbus. Their work turned me on to photography and the fire was lit. Prior to this moment I really hadnt had any exposure to fine art. My mother was craftsy, but that was the extent of it. However, it wasnt until my junior year at the University of Colorado, where I was studying for a degree in mathematics, that I realized that art was the passion I wanted to pursue. I was in an abstract math class and suddenly I found myself asking, Are these the kind of people I want to hang around with the rest of my life? Thats when I switched to being an art history major, with a minor in advertising because I still felt it was important to study something practical, something that was going to land me a job after graduating.
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