From Salvador Dalí to Yayoi Kusama, artists throughout history have bartered their work for medical procedures.
For the uninitiated, Avo Samuelian is a Manhattan dentist known for trading dental work for art. Itby Matt Connors, Nicolás Guagnini, Karin Schneider, and Terence Koh in his office.
In Pennsylvania, the watercolor artist Carolyn Utigard Thomas has exchanged two full-sized paintings for braces for her two kids. “I’ve bartered for services for decades,” sheThese are at once stories of generosity and greed. It is inspiring that there are individuals willing to provide Beyond that, I’ve also encountered a dermatologist who provides Botox injections to a popular artist I’m friends with in exchange for work.
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