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The Ideal Arrangement
Not sure how to arrange your art collection to take drab to fab? Contact Art Consultant Gent. Their skills combined with your collection produce an ideal arrangement.
By Fred W Wright Jr
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Due to the pandemic, people are spending countless hours at home more than ever before. If the walls are bare, then staring at the blank emptiness months at end could become dull, depressing or even maddening. Surely, an alluring artwork would brighten the space up, and lift your spirits. Wouldn’t it?
Fear not. You don’t need to go back to school to be smart with art. You need to turn to the Art Consultant Gent. Owned by Marc Levine, he and his versatile team of artists, interior designers and art experts are ready to step in and put more color and class into your world.
If you already have paintings, watercolors and framed photographs sitting unappreciated in a closet or basement, Levine and company will expertly catalog, appraise and hang your choices with an interior designer’s eye.
“Art Consultant Gent offers a variety of services to our clients, whether they are seasoned collectors or fi rst-time buyers,” said Levine. “We help our clients build a curated collection based on their tastes and budgets.”
Even within the limitations of the pandemic, Levine and company will pair client and artist virtually.
“We take them to art galleries and show them art through a virtual art gallery tour,” said Levine. “We’ll bring an art gallery to their home. If there is an artist they like, we can arrange a personal, private tour of an artist’s space.”
The Art Consultant Gent has an extensive catalog of numerous up-and-coming artists.
“On our website: www.artconsultantgent. com, we will give artists a new platform to show their art,” said Levine. “For new upcoming artists who don’t have agent or gallery representation, this presents a new way for us to give them a voice in the art world.”
Art Consultant Gent can service any client anywhere. All the client needs are a phone and zoom.com or FaceTime.
There are many advantages to having Levine’s team come in and assess the home’s art needs. For one, they bring fresh eyes. They haven’t been looking at those empty walls like you have. They see opportunity. Also, the team’s professional hangars know how to install heavy pieces of art.
“It’s not just sticking a nail into the wall,” noted Levine.
Additionally, many people with art don’t always know exactly what they have. Being located across the street from New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Art Consultant Gent have access to artist of all levels and types and have helped many young artists get exposure for their work.
“We have a client who has over 500 pieces of art scattered throughout their three residences who asked us to come in, photograph it all and then catalog it for him so that he would know what he has and where it is all located, as well as providing them with a valuation of each piece of their art,” said Levine. “It’s kind of like bringing ‘The Antique Roadshow’ into their home for a lot of people who don’t know the value of what they have.”
Levine also has clients who want art commissioned to their tastes, be it political or familial.
“Commissioning pieces is becoming a very big part of what we’re asked to do. Many people want art of their families or pets. We have had clients request images to be painted on clothing or on canvas,” said Levine adding, “there is no limit to what the artists we work with can create or the materials they are willing and able to work with.
Contrary to fi rst impressions, art isn’t static. It requires interaction with the viewer. Art Consultant Gent meets that need by arranging virtual experiences for clients with museums and art galleries. As New York City’s art venues begin to reopen to the public, real tours as well as virtual tours are more and more in demand.
This art experience might include a museum curator to conduct a private, virtually guided tour of a museum – ideal for people who planned a trip to New York City but now have to wait because of the pandemic.
Levine has channeled his extensive years of experience as an art collector, which began in 1984, into the business.
“I started collecting by buying art at charities. I built up a collection of over 350 pieces,” Levine recalled. Friends and family members started asking for advice on where to buy art, who are the hot new up and coming artists, where should they hang that art, and helping them to arrange art and gallery tours out of the United States. Soon, Levine was working with interior designers and helping them with their clients in art purchases.
Among other services that he offers his other options, Levine has been consulting with various charities across the United States on art benefi ts and how to do them virtually and will soon post art works on his website to be sold at charity auctions.
