ART PEOPLE
Featured Artist: Maia Valenzuela
Do you earn money from your art and if not, what is your day job?
I wish I could just drop everything and concentrate solely on my art, but because I live in New York City, the cost of living is very expensive and I need a job to survive. In the daytime I’m a senior graphic designer at Hearst Magazines, but at night I curl up in my bed and draw until about 1 am. I had a show in Chelsea last year and sold a couple of pieces at the Moti Hasson Gallery, hopefully this year I can find time to shop my pieces around the galleries, but the Big Apple is really a rat race. I’d probably need an assistant to run around to all the galleries, fetch my slippers, make me coffee ( just kidding) . So yeah, I hope I win the lottery soon so I can buy a big loft and draw all day.



