Good morning sunshines! I have spent June and July looking at a lot of art in group shows and below are some of my favorite artists and pieces. If you can’t make it into the galleries with me to see the works in person, always reply to this newsletter with interest and I can share additional detail images or short videos of the works.
Sculpture may be more challenging to incorporate into a collection given the space limitations of our city’s real estate. However, sculpture sits very high on the totem pole of the Medium Hierarchy, so I urge everyone to take a closer look and give a longer thought to the works you might otherwise quickly scroll past.
Next month, I will share a special edition newsletter with an announcement about an exciting new involvement. Stay tuned!
Nina Hartmann
How to Become Untraceable (for PH), 2023
Resin, acrylic, pigment, paper, toner
17 x 16 x 1 inches
43.18 x 40.64 x 2.54 centimeters
$6,500
Please note the microchip on the butterfly wing…
Nina Hartmann (b.1990) is a multimedia artist who received her MFA from Yale’s Painting/Printmaking program in Spring 2023 and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. “I am tempted to describe Hartmann's project as a kind of hermeneutics of surveillance technology. Questions about whether information obtained by psychic means would be accurate or useful for the intel community stand at the border between science and spirituality, technology and biology. On this border Hartmann also stands, arranging and rearranging fragments of a large and unwieldy study as artist, truth seeker, and amateur spy.” - Brooklyn Rail website
Anne Libby
These Days, 89.9, 2022
Polished cast aluminum
13 x 22 x 3 inches
33 x 55.9 x 7.6 centimeters
$12,000
I love how Anne’s sculptural pieces synchronously engage the viewer into a contemplatively state while also reflecting images of the other artworks in a room.
“Inspired by the visual seduction of the industrial sublime, Anne Libby’s work creates unexpected new forms by repositioning the signs and symbols of contemporary corporate production. Libby’s process begins as a dissection - skyscrapers, glass curtain walls, circuit boards, domestic ready-mades - layers peeled away and reformed, casts ossified into permanent suspension. The effect is an ethereal reformation of defaults in favor of beauty, craft and aesthetic inflection. Anne Libby received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI in 2009 and her MFA at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2017.” - Magenta Plains website
Katherine Bernhardt
Fruit Salad, 2015
Edition of 100
Canvas bean bag chair
Accompanied by certificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artist
28 x 28 x 26 inches
71.12 x 71.12 x 66.04 centimeters
$4,000
“Fruit Salad was an exclusive collaboration with Katherine Bernhardt and the first edition of its kind. This soft and durable bean bag chair allows you to lounge amongst Bernhardt’s explosively colorful patterns, embodying the playfulness of her artistic sensibility. Bernhardt's trademark depiction of hot pink watermelons, forest-green avocados, and ripe bananas recalls her tropics-inspired solo show and mural at Venus Over Manhattan in fall 2015.” - Exhibition A
Sacha Ingber
Amazonas 2000, 2014-2021
Steel, glazed earthenware, sand, cane webbing, painted and woven vinyl, foam, acrylic paint
26 x 28 x 12 inches
66 x 71.1 x 30.5 centimeters
$7,000
Sacha is quickly becoming one of my favorite new artists to discover.
“Sacha Ingber grew up navigating two different cultures with separate histories, social systems, and visual languages. Pulling inspiration from sources including Portuguese colonial architecture reminiscent of a family farmhouse in Brazil, and mass-produced industrial products ubiquitous to the American experience, Ingber presents sculptures which challenge the inherent binaries of established social conventions related to domesticity, identity, and education. Sacha Ingber (born 1987, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013.” - Rachel Uffner Website
Elizabeth Jaeger
Outside a breeze, the sound of birds 1 and Outside a breeze, the sound of birds 2, 2023
Risograph print on archival paper
16 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches (paper)
21 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches (framed)
$2,800 each
I realize I’m including risograph prints in my “sculptural selections” newsletter, but Elizabeth is one of my favorite sculptors and these works embody her practice.
“Elizabeth Jaeger’s Risograph prints show an image of a window looking from the inside out, the view hidden behind a thinly veiled curtain and diffuse light shimmering through. Framed by dark surrounding walls, the gaze shifts back to the room, a place that allows interior and exterior to blur into a space nestled deep inside the mind.” - Silke Lindner press release
And back by popular demand from a previous spring newsletter, some paintings by Laurence Pilon:
Detail image:
Laurence Pilon
Your disk is almost full, 2023
Oil on canvas over panel
60 x 48 inches
152.4 x 121.92 centimeters
$8,500
Detail image:
Laurence Pilon
What counts for passing, 2023
Oil on canvas over panel
40 x 30 inches
101.6 x 76.2 centimeters
$5,500
These are the type of works that demand to be viewed in person!
“Pilon’s works are produced through an extended process of building up many layers of oil paint to create eroded, topographical compositions. The resulting abstractions dissolve any legible boundary between figure and ground, as amorphous forms blurr into one another. What appear to be subtle variations in surface color and texture resolve into psychedelic swirls when viewed from a distance. The cool grey-blues and green-browns of the ocean are present, but so are bolder shades of burnt umber, lime green, and pink. Pilon’s canvases might evoke the way sunlight refracts on the water’s surface, a branching coral, the skin of an iridescent fish, a vast underwater landscape – or simply an improvisational sensory impression.” - Sargent’s Daughter website