February and March were busy months with art fairs in Mexico City and Los Angeles, guided gallery walks in the Lower East Side, and mini art dinner parties.
In April, I will host another salon and a Saturday gallery walk downtown; and in May, I will host a tour of artist studios in Brooklyn. There are also several art fairs in early May in New York. Please reply directly to this email if you are interested in attending any of the events and would like more details! A separate email will be sent for the salon tickets as those evenings tend to sell out quickly.
A kind reminder that my commission rate is 10% of the artwork's retail, which is included in the prices below but invoiced separately to ensure transparency. Additional costs to consider when acquiring a work are whether the piece requires framing, shipping, or installation: all of which I am happy to help coordinate.
And now, here are a few works I am thrilled to share with you:
Emma Kohlmann
Brassy Bird, 2021
Acrylic on linen, artist’s frame
48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4)
$14,000
If you have had a conversation about art with me in the past five years, there is a high chance I discussed my love of Kohlmann’s work. Not only have I watched her market grow exponentially over the years, her works are a joy to live with according to all my clients who have acquired her work. Kohlmann is foremost a painter, with prolific works on paper of hard edge, brightly colored, and often mystical and anthropomorphic figures. Her paintings on canvas evolve her practice further by bringing depth and resolving backgrounds to her figures, which is why I love Brassy Bird so much. I especially appreciate the artist’s frame and attention to detail making this such a unique piece. Kohlmann has been featured in Vogue several times, ARTnews, recently on Platform, and she often collaborates and produces her own books, zines, clothing collaborations, and album covers. There is not a lot of current inventory, so I am constantly offering works as soon as they are available. If you are interested in this artist, I can also share available works on paper.
Daniela Comani
The Picture of Doris Gray, 2021
Of Mice and Women, 2021
The Talented Mrs. Ripley, 2021
Each:
New Publications edited by Daniela Comani 2007-ongoing
Archival pigment print on Photo Rag Paper 308g
11 x 8 1/10 inches (28 x 20.7 cm)
Edition of 5
$1,800, including frame
Daniela Comani is a thoughtful, lovely Italian artist whose subversive practice calls attention to the male-dominated pedagogy in art history and more broadly in social culture. Comani’s work immediately recalls the feminist artist Birgit Jürgenssen. These three works are from her New Publication series, where Comani takes the cover image of a classic novel and reverses the gender to offer the viewer a chance to reconsider a female lead or a female writer. By rewriting her own narrative of history, Comani asks the viewer to consider a different path of our culture’s history, and also a different, less complacent future when we start to reconsider these narratives. These works are three examples from the series, which are sold separately but I think work nicely shown together. Comani had an installation at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and shows regularly in Europe and North America.
Ravi Jackson
Untitled, 2022
Acrylic, paper, hinges, Formica on panel
32 1/2 x 24 inches (82.6 x 61 cm)
$5,000
Ravi Jackson is an artist I have been especially excited to discover recently. His multimedia works combine images from pop culture with physical assemblages of wood, links, and other mixed materials. As the viewer spends more time with Jackson’s pieces, the palimpsestic layering starts to illuminate images that historically have associated with hyper-masculinity or anachronistic ideas of race. Individual components of the assemblage offer meaningful connotations, furthering the depth of Jackson’s exploration of this historical discourse. His peers and collectors alike are excited about his work, and I continue to see more press and shows in the pipeline. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received a BA from Oberlin College in 2007 and a BFA from Hunter College in 2012, before receiving his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013 studying under Rodney McMillian.
Peter Schlesinger
Eric Boman, London 1971
Archival C-Print
28 x 21 inches (71.1 x 53.3 cm)
Edition of 5
$5,000
It’s not that florals for spring are groundbreaking, it’s that I am completely enamored by the photographic work by Peter Schlesinger and could not wait to share his work. Known famously as David Hockney’s muse (Schlesinger was the standing figure in Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)), Schlesinger developed a ceramic and photographic practice in the 1960s and 70s that cascades waves of nostalgia and social life. This special photograph is of Eric Boman, his partner of over 50 years, and the couple’s love story was covered in an article in Town & Country last month. Schlesinger studied painting at the University of California, Los Angeles and London’s Slade School of Art. He currently resides in New York, NY and Bellport, NY.
Marcia Hafif
Untitled, July 1966
Acetate on paper
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (70 x 50 cm)
Framed: 29 x 28 3/4 inches (73.7 x 73 cm)
$17,500, including frame
One of the best shows last autumn was Marcia Hafif at Fergus McCaffrey. Hafif was easily one of my favorite artists when I worked at the gallery, and I am so thrilled to include one of her historically significant acetate on paper works in my newsletter. In 1961, Hafif left her marriage and Southern California to settle in Rome for the following eight years to study and paint, during which she made the above work. She returned to California to receive her MFA from UC Irvine before moving to New York City. Often known for her meticulous, monochromatic paintings, Hafif actually rejected the notion of being considered a Minimalist as it was too patriarchal in its ideology. She was such a fascinating artist who produced so much important work, I could write an entire newsletter just on Marcia Hafif! Her work is found in most major national and international institutions such as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Art Institute of Chicago; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Mamco, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Tomás Esson
Endless Love, 2018
Oil on linen
24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm)
$10,000
Tomás Esson is considered one of the most significant Cuban artists of his generation His first exhibition in Havana in 1988 was censored and closed by Cuban authorities due to the political commentary in his artworks. There is an extremely compelling liveliness to his work, which is also infused with mythological and sexual reference imagery. I see a strong balance in his work between the immediate, magnetic energy of the formal qualities and the slower, contemplative revealing of the abstracted imagery. He had a recent solo show at the ICA Miami, which the institution also acquired one of his works. Esson has exhibited and is collected widely in Europe and Latin America, and recently the MGM Resorts International deaccessioned 10 Picasso paintings in order to fund a group of acquisitions centered around their diversity and inclusion initiative. Included in this acquisition of new work were two Miami Flow paintings by Tomás Esson.