What does it mean to be "Emerging" as an artist/creator?

 

-Does it have to do with someone in their twenties?

 

-Someone younger maybe?

 

-Someone alive?

 

-Does it count if they are dead?

 

-If they are seventy?

 

-If they are have had at least three solo shows in multiple galleries?

 

-If they’ve just got out of their mfa?

 

-Or even their bfa?

 

-Does it have something to do with the art market?

 

-Are they a art market darling?

 

-Does it count if their work has been collected by a gallery and museum or maybe a private collector?

 

-Are they responsive to a hot new medium?

 

-Are they 'cutting some edges' in a new or old medium?

 

-Are they tapping into some rigorous conceptual work?

 

-Are they responding to the 'times'?

 

-Have they been circulated around in art fairs?

 

-Art Basel maybe?

 

-Does it count if they are represented by a gallery or two?

 

-If they’ve got a 'good amount' of mentions and talk in blogs and art magazines?

 

-Is it someone who have been showing on and off for about 10years?