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ART FOCUS - July/August

We were excited to procure another stunning work by Bobbie Burgers for clients of ours. This piece perfectly complements a stunning diptych by Rebecca Campbell, previously acquired through LA Louver, as well as the overall design of their family room; it really pulls together all elements!

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Bobbie Burgers

Enfleurage: between complexity and density


Installation view of Bobbie Burger's Lover’s First Look (fram the Enfleurage Series), 2024-2025, polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, plaster, metal leaf and pigment, 54 x 42"

Bobbie Burgers is a Vancouver-based painter whose sweeping gestural strokes have come to define her work. In recent years, Burgers has moved away from realistic depictions of florals, pushing her paintings and works on paper towards complete abstraction. Burgers experiments with different mediums, applying what she discovers to the different facets of her practice.



After working with collage, Burgers began applying thicker layers of paint onto her canvas works - building them up in places to create three-dimensional textural difference.

As she says “the continuous circle has led me to find connections in mediums that trick the viewer and throw even myself, as the artist, off balance.” She moves between oil sticks, spray paint, acrylic paint, and pastels, playing with their viscosities by watering them down or leaving them thick.



Renderings of work under consideration help visualize the artworks in situ, narrow down selections, and support the decision-making process.

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Rebecca Campbell

Portraits and Figures: Symbolic narratives and dream sequences

Rebecca Campbell was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1971. She received her BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon in 1994 and her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.



Diptych painting by Rebecca Campbell

For nearly two decades, Rebecca Campbell has created outsized paintings, often encompassing a viewer’s field of vision.




Featuring figures in dreamlike, allegorical settings in which gender politics, dogmas, and nuanced interpersonal, familial relationships are explored, her work fuses abstraction and figuration.

Campbell imbues her epic paintings with a vibrating luminosity which she then fills out with figures and settings composed of decisively applied broad strokes of washes and impasto.

Campbell has exhibited nationally and internationally with numerous solo exhibitions, and her work is regularly presented at art fairs including Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, ARCO Madrid, and ADAA: The Art Show. Her work has been featured in publications including ARTnews, the Los Angeles Times, ART PAPERS, X-TRA, ARTWORKS Magazine, art ltd., The Huffington Post, and Artnet.



Hollywood is a Sign by Rebecca Campbell

Campbell’s work has been acquired by a range of public and private collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; and Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, among others.

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Art Fair Recap

Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

June 19th - June 22nd

Art Basel, exhibiting art of the 20th and 21st centuries, is indisputably the world’s leading fair in the international art market. Over 200 selected galleries from around the world presented modern and contemporary works of high quality and transformed Messe Basel into a major, albeit temporary, museum.Basel is where the art world meets
Art Basel is a meeting place for artists, art collectors and many celebrities from the art scene. The high-calibre exhibitions showcased various art forms, with both works by modern masters and art by emerging talents. Every year, Art Basel brings the art world to life – which is why it is so successful.


Katharina Grosse, CHOIR, 2025, Messeplatz project, Art Basel, acrylic on asphalt and fabric

As one of the highlights of the fair, renowned German artist Katharina Grosse painted across the architecture and surfaces of the Messeplatz, transforming it into a vibrant, immersive environment. CHOIR (2025) is Katharina Grosse’s largest work to date in an urban center, covering more than 5000 square meters, while Grosse employs magenta because it’s the most visible color to a human eye in outdoor settings. Curated by Natalia Grabowska, this striking site-specific painting redefined the experience of public space through bold chromatic expression.

Art Basel attracted an overall attendance of 88.000 throughout its preview and public days, demonstrating the enduring strength, resilience, and international reach of the global art market. The energy in the halls and throughout the city was a powerful reminder of the role Art Basel plays as a cultural meeting point and catalyst for artistic exchange.



Prominent private collectors and art patrons from over  96 countries and territories across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa were in attendance, and representatives from over 250 world-class museums and foundations visited the show, underscoring Art Basel in Basel’s role in connecting the global art community.



Exhibitors reported strong sales across all market segments and show sectors, with standout placements including David Hockney’s Mid November Tunnel, Ruth Asawa’s hanging sculpture, Gerhard Richter, Keith Haring, and Mark Bradford. Works by leading female artists also saw major success, including Cecilia Vicuña, Loie Hollowell, and Alina Szapocznikow, with strong institutional acquisitions and momentum for first-time exhibitors.



Hanging sculpture by Ruth Asawa at David Zwirner Gallery’s Booth on the left and Cecilia Vicuña at Lehmann Maupin's booth on the right.

Unlimited, Art Basel’s unique platform for large-scale installations and performances, returned with a compelling selection of nearly 70 works. Highlights included Andrea Büttner’s monumental Shame Punishments series; Atelier Van Lieshout’s epic The Voyage – A March to Utopia; Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ evocative Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform); Marinella Senatore’s inspiring We Rise by Lifting Others; the haunting premiere of Sham3dan (Candelabra) by the Cairo-based dance collective nasa4nasa; and Thomas Schütte’s striking Engel. The sector was further celebrated during Unlimited Night on Thursday, June 19, featuring extended hours.



Marinella Senatore, We Rise by Lifting Others, 2023; presented by Mazzoleni

Curated for the second year by Stefanie Hessler, Director of the Swiss Institute in New York, Art Basel’s public sector Parcours returned to Basel’s Clarastrasse with the theme Second Nature. Featuring newly commissioned, site-specific works, the sector explored the tension between nature and artifice through immersive, multi-sensory experiences.




Highlights included Hylozoic/Desires’ monumental 80-meter textile installation at Münsterplatz and Selma Selman’s scent-and-sound-infused car hood memorial in St. Clara Church – each engaging deeply with urban space and the human condition.

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Here are some of our favorite booths at Art Basel, Basel 2025:


Installation view of Lisson Gallery's booth on the left and Tina Kim Gallery's booth on the right




James Cohan shared work by Kathy Butterly, Alexandre da Cunha, Spencer Finch, Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, Eamon Ore-Giron, Kennedy Yanko, Jesse Mockrin, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Josiah McElheny, Jordan Nassar, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Kaloki Nyamai, Katie Paterson, Naudline Pierre, Yinka Shonibare, Elias Sime and Fred Tomaselli.



White Cube’s booth at Art Basel, 2025


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