learning from experience

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Eugene Ofori Agyei navigates international boundaries with the energy and easy grace of an accomplished athlete or dancer. But through works such as Complex Journey, he shows us that his migration from Ghana to the United States has not been devoid of psychological and emotional trials. Back home in Ghana he is known by his ethnic group, Akan. On the
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.
“To designate this new figure of the artist, I have coined the term semionaut: creator of paths within a landscape of signs. Inhabitants of a fragmented world, where objects and shapes abandon the cradle of their original culture to spread across the global space, wandering in search of connections to establish.” Nicolas Bourriaud Traditionally, we have defined an artist as
“A good gallerist is one who takes a risk for an artist because it shows that he trusts the artist’s work.” Art gallery management The encounter between artist and gallerist usually occurs in formal and informal settings. A mutual attraction emerges between them, based on the gallerist's profile and the type of artistic production they promote and market. It should
"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."
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

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS: WHO ARE THEY?

“To designate this new figure of the artist, I have coined the term semionaut: creator of paths within a landscape of signs. Inhabitants of a fragmented world, where objects and shapes abandon the cradle of their original culture to spread across the global space, wandering in search of connections to

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THE ENCOUNTER: THE ARTIST AND THE GALLERIST

“A good gallerist is one who takes a risk for an artist because it shows that he trusts the artist’s work.”

Art gallery management

The encounter between artist and gallerist usually occurs in formal and informal settings. A mutual attraction emerges between them, based on the gallerist’s profile and

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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.”

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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

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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

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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

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