PRICE MANAGEMENT TRAJECTORY IS HOW WE CALL IT AT THE ALVAREZ GALLERY
The goal of this email is to introduce you to the career of an artist whose work prices have plummeted to 10% on the dollar from less than a decade ago as seen in a recent auction I attended which included the artist’s work.
THE GALLERIST’S TRADE
“Gallerists who show contemporary art, who represent a group of artists they believe in (or whose work inspires faith in them), engage in the considerable professional and financial risks involved in welcoming new works, particularly those of a controversial nature.”
CARLOS BAUTISTA BIERNNAY AND HIS QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
The Queen of Night, an assemblage made in the year 2023, presents a conjunction of signifying elements in my body of work that come from tasks traditionally defined as feminine, performed within the context of private life and expressed through laboring with threads, embroidery, fabrics, lace and other materials capable of being transformed into narratives of women, their context and their matriarchal power as producers of meaning and micro-stories.
5 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT FRANK STELLA
We want to tribute the incredible artist Frank Stella, who passed away recently, by sharing 5 things you didn’t know about Frank Stella.
CHARLES O. PERRY A GEOMETRIC SCULPTOR
Charles O. Perry (1922-2011) was a prolific sculptor who sought to explore paradoxes and enigmas posed by science through art. In this serious journey, he expressed scientific ideas and created a body of work highly influenced by mathematics. In doing so, Perry became recognized internationally for over one hundred public art commissions throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia.
JEFF ROBINSON: LIBRIS | SPINE
“There are also letters on the spine of each book; these letters do not indicate or prefigure what the pages will say. I know that such a lack of relevance, at one time seemed mysterious…”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
JENA THOMAS AND THE CAPTURE OF ATMOSPHERE
In my paintings, the world is turned into a place that is slightly more mysterious and evocative than a naturalistic landscape, as it is intended to celebrate the oddity within it.
Jena Thomas
LANDSCAPE, OMNISCAPE, AND CONTEMPORARY ART
“Strangeness is the condition of the landscape.”
Lyotard, 1988
Landscape is everywhere. It defines our particular idea of nature, but it is not nature in its simple definition. We can think of a landscape as “a social product, the result of a collective transformation of nature, and the cultural projection of a society in a given space.”
VINCENT SERBIN, THE DECISION TO PAINT
“It was a non-objective approach that naturally led me into the field of abstract painting. In the year 2005 I became a painter—strictly committed to a non-objective approach.”
Vincent Serbin
TO PAINT OR NOT TO PAINT, THAT IS THE QUESTION
t is not surprising that, in contemporary times, in the face of the great diversity of expressive modes or ways of making art, the presence of painting seems diminished. The tools available to generate artistic creation are innumerable, but the visual discourses that emerge will always attend to the human concerns that are brewing around and within that creation.