We love touring art fairs with our clients, expanding their art experience and facilitating a chance for them to fully immerse themselves in the depth of the art world's offerings. As always, we had a delightful time walking through the fairs; so many intriguing, powerful, challenging, and exquisite works of art represented by galleries from around the globe! There is something quite beautiful about being surrounded by the art community and witnessing what unites and sustains us all, and then bringing a piece of that to our clients’ homes to enjoy.
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Frieze Acquisitions
This year’s edition of Frieze was truly exciting! Not only did we get to explore the expansive and diverse program, but we also had the privilege to guide and support some stunning acquisitions for our clients' homes. We are particularly thrilled about the procurements we guided in collaboration with Deirdre Doherty Interiors, Gagosian, Lehman Maupin, Galerie Frank Elbaz, and Pace Prints.
Urs Fischer
Gagosian
Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials—from clay, steel, and paint to bread, dirt, and produce—to create works that disorient and bewilder. Through scale distortions, illusion, and the juxtaposition of common objects, his sculptures, paintings, photographs, and large-scale installations explore themes of perception and representation while maintaining a witty irreverence and mordant humor. Fischer began his artistic career studying photography at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich. He later lived in London and Los Angeles, and shared a studio with Rudolf Stingel in both Berlin and New York.
In 2009 Fischer presented Marguerite de Ponty at the New Museum in New York—his first large-scale solo exhibition in an American museum. At the Venice Biennale in 2011, his wax copy of Giambologna’s late-sixteenth-century sculpture Rape of the Sabine Women slowly melted, looming over additional candles depicting an office chair and a man wearing glasses and a sports coat. 
We love the playfulness and mystique of Urs Fischer's exciting piece "Ghostrider" in our client's space.
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Todd Gray
Lehman Maupin
Todd Gray is a photo-based artist whose work aims to destabilize assumptions about the veracity of photography and provoke reconsiderations of long-accepted norms and beliefs surrounding the medium, including the role of the viewer in constructing meaning. His lush photo assemblages are composed of images ranging from imperial European gardens, West African landscapes, and architecture, to rock icons and portraits of the artist himself, all carefully arranged to create critical juxtapositions that examine ideas of African diaspora, colonialism, societal power structures, and dominant cultural beliefs. Gray holds a M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and Akwidaa, Ghana.
Todd Gray, Other Tellings (James Fort: Cretto di Burri), UV pigment prints on dibond in artist's frames 44.15 x 60.15" (Lehman Maupin)
Gray’s work is held in numerous public and private collections. He is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Rome Prize Fellowship, Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts; Bellagio Creative Arts Fellowship, The Rockefeller Foundation; and the Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, Englewood. In 2007, Gray was commissioned to create a public artwork for the Los Angeles International Airport.
Todd Gray's captivating piece, Other Tellings, installed at our client’s residence
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Mungo Thomson
Galerie Frank Elbaz
Thanks to Galerie Frank Elbaz whose program always inspires, and who facilitated this wonderful sale, we were fortunate to procure this compelling lenticular work for our client’s home!
Mungo Thomson approaches mass culture and everyday perceptual experience through expansive temporal and historical lenses, implicating the spaces of production and exhibition in ever-widening extrapolations.
He has convened an orchestral ensemble to perform a score transcribed from the chirping of crickets, persuaded museums to let their unopened mail pile up in the galleries for the run of an exhibition, made a stop-motion film animation of his art dealer’s Rolodex, and transformed the Whitney Museum’s coat check into an enormous musical instrument by replacing the coat hangers with custom-made versions modeled on orchestral triangles. Through video, sculpture, installation, and numerous other media, Thomson interrogates time, mediation, and technology, making the familiar strange and then refamiliarizing it anew.Thomson’s work is held in the public collections of By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China; FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo Jumex, México City; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. He lives in Los Angeles.
Booth view of Galerie Frank Elbaz curation at Frieze, showing Mungo Thomson’s The Thinker #2
We are excited about how this intriguing Frieze art fair acquisition of artist Mungo Thomson's "The Thinker #2" will activate the entrance to our client's home!
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Kennedy Yanko
Pace Prints
Another fabulous Frieze acquisition we had the pleasure of guiding in collaboration with Pace Prints gallery!
Kennedy Yanko’s Implicit Rastor I & II, is a unique piece from her series “Without Gravity”. To create this new body of work, Yanko engaged in multiple sessions at the Pace Paper studio between July 2024 and June 2025, experimenting with the papermaking process for the first time. Over the course of a year, she developed a personal vocabulary of innovative techniques that mirror the large, gestural movements and material rigor of her expressive sculptures. By pouring, staining, and manipulating highly pigmented paper pulp, the artist engaged the medium with a deep sense of immediacy and physical intimacy.
Kennedy Yanko, Implicit Rastor I&II, (diptych in 2 frames) 60" x 80" $37,500 Pigmented, multilayered handmade paper
Renowned for her sculptures, this exhibition reintroduces Yanko as a painter. In her words, “[it] marks a return to two-dimensional making, but through a medium that feels entirely new. It reawakened something in my practice - a different kind of play, a different kind of rigor — and opened a new chapter in how I relate to material, gesture, and form.”
Kennedy Yanko, Implicit Rastor I&II, (diptych in 2 frames) 60" x 80" $37,500 Pigmented, multilayered handmade paper
The works included in Without Gravity suggest ambiguous geographies, like imagined islands or bodies of water, resembling aerial maps drawn by the artist’s own body. At once evoking the natural world and the cosmos, they nod to Impressionist landscape traditions, while simultaneously referencing the infinite expanse of celestial bodies. These works exist in the liminal space between painting and object, suspended in a visual weightlessness.
Additional works form Kennedy Yanko’s series “Without Gravity”
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Felix Acquisitions
During this year's edition of Felix art fair, we had the chance to guide the acquisition of some exciting, beautifully painted works that make for a great addition to our client's growing collection. They are perfectly suited to some of the areas that were still calling for art in Adam Hunter Inc.'s carefully designed home.
Artist Oliver Cleggs’s work, Only fools rush in, displayed at Entrance Gallery’s booth at Felix art fair
Oliver Clegg
Entrance
United Kingdom-born artist Oliver Clegg received an MFA from the City and Guilds of London Art School in London, United Kingdom. The now New York-based artist has, in many ways, emerged as a fitting heir to this eclectic tradition of interdisciplinary practice.
But beyond the impressive range of mediums and methods that the artist employs, his practice reveals a dense web of ideas and critical concerns - a complex, and heartfelt exploration of ontological and existential notions of objecthood and matter, images and signs, language and communication, thought and action, creation and being.
We had the pleasure to procure this intriguing and witty piece for our client’s family room:
Oliver Clegg, Only fools rush in, 2026, Oil on linen, 80 x 60 in, installed in our client’s home
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Alejandro Asensio
Sobering
Spanish artist Alejandro Asensio is known for his introspective approach to everyday life. Asensio primarily utilizes colored pencils on paper to translate transient experiences into lasting visual narratives. His background as a film photographer also informs his artistic practice, lending a cinematic quality to his compositions and an observant eye to his subjects. His journey into the art world has been marked by a deliberate exploration of the ordinary, transforming it into a subject worthy of contemplation. His methodology often involves isolating specific moments, thereby inviting viewers to find depth and narrative within common occurrences and the overlooked beauty of daily life. Alejandro currently resides and works in Paris, where he had his debut gallery show in late 2025.
Acquired pencil drawings by Alejandro Asensio
The meticulously painted works we procured through Sobering gallery will make for a whimsical and fitting addition to our client’s breakfast room!
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