The phrase
"local collectors" refers to people or individuals who gather or collect items within their own area or community.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The debut of the photography center at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) last year called attention to the remarkable concentration
of local collectors in the field.
Visitors to the Block will also see a collage previously not included in the show — Wangechi's spectacular Fallen Heads (2010), on loan
from local collectors Paul and Linda Gotskind.
Meanwhile, other examples of woodblock prints can be seen at Lady Lever Art Gallery in the autumn, where works owned
by local collector Frank Milner reveal the celebrities, sports champions, fashion icons and villains of 19th century Japanese culture.
Thursday night's VIP Vernissage was well - stocked
with local collectors like Linda and Paul Gotskind, Sandra and Jack Guthman, Evelyn and Larry Aronson, and Susan and Lewis Manilow amongst many others.
Local collectors don't seem to be familiar with Horn's cylindrical works topped with glass so clear it could be mistaken for water, or air — and many attendees had to be told to not touch the work.
Seeing their work hanging alongside other world - class artists in an international context bolstered the confidence of
local collectors in the strength of the artists» work, and the gallery's program more broadly.
Exhibitions with titles appended «in Britain» or «and Britain» tend to be the kiss of death: indicating concentration on a brief and insignificant visit, on the subject's impact on British art or — even worse — the influence of
local collectors on his or her reputation.
Earlier this year, photos from Eye Body were among the works in a gift of some 300 works from
local collectors Dennis and Debra Scholl.
This exhibition will
demonstrate local collectors» interest in the diverse media, styles, genres, influences and subject matter that inspired them to collect art created by African Americans.
Beyond the art on view, Navy Pier's Festival Hall itself was something to admire.Howard and Donna Stone,
noted local collectors, commented, «The fair looked absolutely beautiful.
While the most important fair in the U.S. used to be Art Basel Miami Beach, galleries have become more interested in discovering smaller fairs with a
strong local collector base.
On view June 23 — September 16, 2012, this exhibition explores decorative book covers through the eyes of contemporary artist Nina Katchadourian and long -
time local collector Mary G. Sawyer.
«We are excited to work with these
generous local collectors and honored to share selections from their private collections.»
In 2015, a dynamic group of
local collectors generously gifted NOMA a work by Lonnie Holley that celebrated NOMA's partnership with the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, bringing an important new work by Holley into the collection alongside an exciting new group of paintings by the Chicago artist Claude Lawrence.
Three major collectors, the aforementioned Rachofskys, Deedie Rose, and Marguerite Hoffman, have all pledged their collections to the DMA, and
other local collectors sit on boards of other major arts institutions, such as the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Contemporary, a non-collecting institution in the city's growing Design District.
The Foundation previously gifted a piece by Dial commemorating Hurricane Katrina to the museum, and in 2015 a group of
local collectors purchased a Lonnie Holley from the foundation for NOMA's collection.
That makes sense for a fair that drew the likes of Martin (Marty) Nesbitt, one of former President Barack Obama's closest friends and the chair of Obama's foundation, who is also a
prominent local collector.
The John Berggruen Gallery has repeatedly offered most of the selection of works by Iran do Espirito Santo that appears here, but the work's failure to sell sooner says more
about local collectors» timidity than about the artist's severe, clever revision of minimalist principles.
The bonanza from
local collectors Marguerite and Robert Hoffman, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, and Deedie and Rusty Rose represents more than a windfall.
Future Gallery's Sira Piza spoke of an
enthused local collector who came in during the last 10 minutes on Thursday evening, wanting to buy out the entire set of tondo digital abstractions by young Finnish artist Jaakko Pallasvuo.
Clearing owner Olivier Babin moved into the massive compound in 2017 — the gallery operated for five years out of a small townhouse, but the support for his program from
local collectors prompted him to bet on more ambitious digs in Brussels, and he purchased a 5,400 - square - foot former shutter factory and turned it into a stunning space with high ceilings that run together like the roof of a church, buttressed by separate exhibition spaces, a bar, a café, and office space.
That's the mantra of
local collectors such as Alain Servais, who was giving tours of his exhibition space, The Loft, all week.
Joining 300 works of contemporary art previously given to the museum by
local collectors Kent and Vicki Logan are 19 works by young British artists currently on view at the Haines Gallery, 49 Geary St. Included are works by Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread.
Then he and 16 collaborators measured trunk diameters — a proxy for tree age — and assessed the history and intensity of harvesting through public records and interviews
with local collectors.
â $ œMoMA is not going to buy here, â $ she explains, â $ œBut this can be a strong regional place.â $ Itâ $ ™ s not just the out - of - towners making themselves known, but also the more
reclusive local collectors.
The exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, «Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out», features highlights from the museum's collection of contemporary art as well as loans
from local collectors.
«More Mergers & Acquisitions» at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center samples art from the 1970s to the present, finds treasures hidden in the homes
of local collectors, mixes works of Atlanta artists with historical figures and...
It came highly recommended by Trish and Ken Pfeifer,
local collectors of «outsider art» among other genres who make an annual sojourn to the museum, and we weren't disappointed.
Diskin said his office has already received calls from residents asking about the 2018 bills, but he must direct all calls to
local collectors.
Essex County Treasurer Mike Diskin said how fast property owners receive the notices is up to
the local collectors.
The idea of opening a comic store wasn't brewed up overnight, she added, but it was sped along when Rabb purchased two storage units» worth of comics and other collectibles from
a local collector.
The husbands in each case paid the tax and sued
the local Collector of Internal Revenue in federal district court, claiming a refund in the amount of the additionally assessed tax.
When we were senior art history majors at Williams, the class was taken to
a local collector's house.
The Event is fast becoming one of the most essential fairs in the calendar for european and
local collectors.
Celebrity artists of the 20th century, represented by pieces on loan from
local collectors, are mixed in with local and mostly New York artists.
In the Middle East as well — the UAE, Qatar and Iran —
the local collectors were buying [art from] their own local artists.
As a result, the British collections at the Met, along with those at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, were determined by the enthusiasms of
local collectors, creating a vision of Britain very different to those offered by contemporary museums in the UK.
This installation will feature the Denver Art Museum's collection of contemporary art and signature loans from
local collectors.
Sponsored by PetSmart, locally headquartered in the Valley, and organized by Phoenix Art Museum, the exhibition is a collaboration of the Museum's curatorial staff working closely with 35
local collectors, all of whom live in the Valley.
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Hosting such exhibitions is an important feature of Qatar Museums» commitment to nurturing emerging talent and inspiring an exciting, creative future amongst artists,
local collectors, and the viewing public.
The organization improved over the years and many components were added (collaborations with
local collectors, art institutions, artist studios, foreign consulates, etc.).
When the Minnesota art dealer Gordon A. Locksley mounted Andy Warhol's first exhibition in Minneapolis, he introduced Warhol to two
local collectors, Miles and Shirley Fiterman, whom he went on to photograph for his celebrated Polaroids.
Organized jointly by
the local collector Sarah Miller Meigs and the Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder, «Confessions» is also an attempt to bridge public and private elements of the city's nascent art scene.
(It may be a coincidence, but «Collected», featuring works from nine
local collectors, is the current show at San Francisco's Pier 24 Photography — a 28,000 - square - foot «gallery,» not museum — that, itself, claims to be the largest photography - only venue in the world.)