Founded by four Bard College students this year, <a href="http://selfportrait.net">selfportrait.net</a> is an online social networking site for artists, and database for galleries, curators, collectors, and the art press. The site allows artists to sell artwork of any artistic medium directly from their profile pages. Galleries can also sell back catalogues. Represented selfportrait artists, culled from the site, are shown in the Marketplace, as well as in real world art shows. Vito Schnabel is head curator for these multimedia exhibitions at edgy and nontraditional spaces. The site hosts about 20,000 members, and caters to a young, hip, demographic of aspiring and established artists and art enthusiasts, rife with spending power. The site has the potential to supplant traditional galleries and the buyer/seller dynamic.
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