Each year becomes it’s own signature personality that is evidenced in the artists who come to the forefront to provide a cultural mirror that resonates across the globe.
In the news, big gains in gavel prices for a particular piece at the larger auctions from Sotheby’s and Christies set the market ablaze with activity that impacts other pieces and the artists who made them. An investment in these artists before the market has these dynamic shifts is optimum. I keep my research, consistent studio visits, auction attendance and general market knowledge always targeting these opportunities to serve collectors both new and established. Here are some ones to watch this year!
RICHARD HAMBLETON
In 1982, Hambleton began his most widely known urban art project, the "Shadowman" series. Hambleton painted shadow figures into the landscape of New York City from 1982-1986. He continues to explore landscape in his current series, "The Beautiful Paintings." Feature articles on Hambleton can be found in Art in America, Life Magazine, People, and The New York Times, among others.
MCDERMOTT & MCGOUGH
McDermott & McGough consists of visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough. McDermott & McGough are contemporary artists known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture and film. They currently split their time between Dublin and New York City.
McDermott & McGough are best known for using alternative historical processes in their photography, including the techniques of cyanotype, gum bichromate, salt, tri color carbo, platinum and palladium. Among the subjects they approach are popular art and culture, religion, medicine, advertising, time, fashion and sexual behavior.
LEE QUINONES
Quiñones’ collaboration with Supreme dropped for the SS18 collection. A huge cosign, bound to bring his work into the forefront for 2019. Quiñones is a graffiti icon, one of the OGs of street art, his boundary-pushing defined both the aesthetics and medium of modern graffiti and it continues to impact content and media as well as creating new stages and settings for the works themselves.
KAWS
The New Jersey native kicked off 2016 with his first UK museum exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park that featured a 10-meter-tall sculpture dubbed SMALL LIE. A couple of months later, the artist had his first solo show in South Korea’s Galerie Perrotin that spotlighted a life-size sculpture of the Companion and a series of abstract paintings inspired by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly, and 2019 holds many co-signs, exhibitions and installations that are sure to shake the market and intrigue collectors and fans alike.