ACQUISITIONS

2022 - 2023 BLACK & WHITE ART FUND ACQUISITIONS: SUSANNA BAUER AND JESSICA STOCKHOLDER

BLACK & WHITE ART FUND is delighted to announce its new acquisitions - “Untitled” by Jessica Stockholder and “Flourish” by Susanna Bauer.

2021 BLACK & WHITE ART FUND ACQUISITION: ROBERLEY BELL

BLACK & WHITE ART FUND is delighted to announce its new acquisition — BLOB, the outdoor sculpture by Roberley Bell.

www.roberleybell.com

BLOB sculpture premiered at Black & White Gallery / Project Space in 2012 in the group show The World According To

”As an artist, my work predominately centers on the production of sculpture and site-specific public projects. My work is inspired by nature and rooted in the art historical tradition of organic abstraction. My practice draws on the world around me, in particular the observation of nature and the built environment. My work both abstracts and borrows from the natural world to reveal hybridized forms. My sculptures are assembled of a diverse range of materials, some fabricated into distinct forms others utilized in their found state. The still life and the some thing series are small works- meditations-initially thought of as mental preparation for larger scale work. These small works have evolved into a practice in and of itself opening new avenues for the investigation of the boundary between color, material and form, because of the scale combined with the artistic process, there is a palpable spontaneity inherent in these works-a quirkily liveliness, they are delicate amalgams of many media, thoughtfully constructed and balanced. My sculptures are embedded in the formal language of spatial composition. Color, contrasting material textures and distinctive form are the dominate features in the work. The some things and still life sculptures straddle the space between representation and abstraction.”

2014 BLACK & WHITE ART FUND ACQUISITION: CRISTINA DEL CAMPO

BLACK & WHITE ART FUND is delighted to announce its new acquisition — UNDER THE ROOF / FRAGMENTS,  a series of twenty paintings by Cristina del Campo.   

www.cristinadelcampo.com

In her 2011 series Under The Roof, young Spanish artist Cristina del Campo responds to the space between where, through innovative spatial solutions a change in focus from the individual to the group occurs. 

"My current artwork generally focuses on painting as a discipline, and depiction of various banal items related to everyday life as a theme. Following the completion of my doctoral research project at Complutense University of Madrid, titled "Absence and Presence in the Contemporary Still Life", the use of objects from contemporary life has become more prevalent. My interest in contemporary objects has been recently broadened by architectural structures adding a spatial aspect and a dimensional game to my art practice. The objects and structures I select are fragments of our environment that often go unnoticed. They interest me for various visual and conceptual reasons. Isee them as isolated, out of context, mixed together and overlapping characters in this fictional reality." 
Images ©Cristina del Campo

2013 BLACK & WHITE ART FUND ACQUISITION: PETER BROCK

BLACK & WHITE ART FUND is proud to announce its first acquisition — WATER PAINTINGS, a series of seven photographs by the Brooklyn based artist Peter Brock. 

www.petersbrock.com

Walking and observing are an important part of Peter Brock ’s practice. In sensual, exploratory and playful ways and with some part of himself inserted into his surroundings, Brock unites the industrial with the organic, the geometrical with the random - urban archeology of life full of forms and shapes, traces, patterns—nature’s own and random ones with interventions by Peter Brock. 

"My process is rooted in day-to-day looking. By this I mean paying close attention to the surfaces of my environment, which is New York most of the year. I come to these surfaces with a background in painting and an inclination to see pictorial depth. Recently I have been experimenting with making painterly marks on urban surfaces using a brush and water. I photograph the process and consider the types of  visual language and transformation that occur. I am excited by the spatial fluctuation that happens when water activates the speckled tones of the sidewalk. The grains of sand and gravel aggregate appear vibrant and flickering. These interventions evoke a basic metaphor of painterly space and yet maintain their identity as mundane material".
Images ©Peter Brock