Getting Started
Welcome to Your Artist Workspace
Getting Started with Mercayle Gallery
Welcome to the Gallery! This workspace is designed to serve as your central operational control hub throughout your roster tenure. Here, you can easily coordinate active exhibition files, review legal and tax compliance records, clear logistical studio hurdles, and tap into dynamic gallery assets.
To navigate your onboarding smoothly, please keep the following core pillars in mind:
The Dual-System Layout: Your dynamic inventory records, active curation metrics, and digital portfolio profiles live on our dedicated external secure backend engine. Please note that your secure login credentials for that database workspace are separate from this main informational portal.
Personal Curation & Onboarding Support: The moment you create your workspace, you are assigned a dedicated personal curator. Your curator will work with you individually to optimize your studio pricing strategy, assist with custom valuation models, and cleanly prepare your work before it goes to the curation board. This hands-on preparation ensures your artwork is perfectly positioned to get maximum exposure in front of our collector networks.
Community Alignment: As a reminder, Mercayle Gallery operates on a transparent 55/35/10 structural split. Every sale directly fuels your studio while contributing a 10% allocation into our shared Artist Aid Fund—a mutual-aid pool that currently holds over $5,000 dedicated to supporting independent creator grants and emergency relief.
Professional Studio Guidelines
To ensure your artistic career scales seamlessly alongside the gallery's growth, our team has compiled a few essential best practices for managing your private studio ecosystem:
Maintain a Rigorous Digital Archive: Always photograph your artwork before it is varnished or framed to avoid problematic glare. Shoot your pieces under balanced, neutral daylight or color-corrected studio lighting to ensure true-to-life colors for our curation engine and web displays.
Protect Your Surfaces with Intent: Never allow standard plastic bubble wrap or high-tack tape to come into direct contact with the face of an original canvas or print. Always utilize archival glassine paper or acid-free protective wraps as your primary surface layer before applying structural padding.
Establish Price Consistency: Build deep trust with collectors and curators by maintaining absolute market consistency. Your retail pricing should remain identical whether an artwork is acquired through your personal portfolio site, directly from your physical studio, or via our digital gallery exhibitions.
Keep Registry Records Fresh: If a piece currently listed on your roster dashboard is sold locally or entered into a separate physical exhibition, please open an immediate update ticket with our team. Keeping availability accurate prevents the logistical headache of a collector purchasing a work that is no longer available.