How do I get my art in a gallery?

Its art to someone, else it wouldn't be in a gallery. It could be that "Old Wood Nailed Together" is the flavour of the month at that particular gallery. Its not that hard to get your Art in a Gallery, Put together a portfolio of your work. Find galleries that show your style and take your portfolio to them, they may be willing to show a piece or two. If not, work on your skills and try again.

Let me guess, all abstract art is nonsense to you as well right? Well once an "artist" was just an artisan. Then along came machinery and photography, and suddenly it was a lot easier to be an artisan than it was before. Much of what was thought art in the past, stopped looking so much like art when a machine lathe allows you to turn it out in bulk. So the focus went from "he paint purty" to what was the difference between real art and just a product. Is the fact fact you draw free hand any less impressive than if you trace off a computer image? Is a handmade image automatically superior to a machine assisted one? Has art merely become handicrafts? Is there a real difference between a t-shirt worn from use, and one just manufactured to look like a worn t-shirt? From an artist's view point, rather than a collector's, does a real patina of age differ from an artificial one? Is a real ruin, innately more or less artistic, than a folly? Consider photography, which replaced portrait painting. Fifty years ago, being a photographer required a great deal of skills. You needed to know how to take the photo, the exposure, and then how to get the best results in the dark room. Today, anyone can do this with a camera and some software. So what basis does photography as an art have today? Composition and a little monkeying with the mechanics to emphasize it. If art is just showing off skills, photography exhibits would be only commercially made art. Much of art today is attempts to convey ideas and emotions, without being representational. Without saying look, I hand made this. In contrast, a lot of art galleries are just slightly more expensive stores, where you buy one of a kind, instead of mass produced. I'll admit, abstract art requires more work of me. I have to stretch myself. It isn't like the impressionists, where I can just enjoy a dappled woodland scene. It tends to force me to think about what I'm looking at it. Engage my gut reactions, while using the forebrain to analyze it. Or to swipe a bit from the Diamond Sutra Like a falling star, like a bubble in a stream, Like a flame in the wind, like frost in the sun, Like a flash of lightning or a passing dream -- So should you understand the world of the ego.