Anyone with an inkling of proper art experience knowwwwwws that a "trunk show" involves the trunk of your car (ha ha ha).
The junkier and more pathetic the car, the better the appeal to the public that you are a "true artist". Preferably drive up in an old hippie-painted van with one of the doors about to fall off. If you are male, then show up unshaved in paint-stained camoflodge pants and a loose-fitting T-shirt with a very faded logo of some long-past European art extravaganza, making people think you spent your last real cent getting to Europe to do your last "trunk show". As for presenting your pieces, the less pretentious the better. No computer-printed signs, but instead a sloppily-hand-painted sign that simply says "pieces of my life for sale". Since everybody else will be using the best sign paper, the neatest type, the best tables, etc., YOU certainly will stand out as the most authentic by avoiding the best look, in favor of the most-honest look. Park your beat-up van outside the perimeter of the main show, but still in the direction where people have to enter, making yourself the most obvious eye-sore outsider artist at the event.
Now if you are female, . . . I'm not sure of the proper look. Somebody help me out here. What does a proper art chic look like, and what sort of beat-up, run-down vehicle does she drive to a "trunk show"? I would imagagine that the hotter-looing you are, the better. Figure out someway to *@#* it out a bit to attract maximum patronage, while still being sufficiently angst-ridden, edgy and maybe a little dark and kinky. Again, somebody help me out here.
In all insincerity,
someguy
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