A hybrid public relations/content office that partners with studios, estates, and foundations to position artists in historical and current contexts.

Profile

Created out of an interest in post-war abstraction and new tendencies in art, especially work made in California, we have contributed to the legacies of singular 20th century artists such as Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, Hedda Sterne, Wayne Thiebaud, and Mary Ann Unger; and adventurous, boundary pushing 21st century artists and organizations, such as Mariah Robertson, Jackie Saccoccio, and Eyebeam.

Capabilities

Advice & Guidance

Content

Digital

Films

Media Relations

Media Training

Positioning

Public Programs / Symposia

Scholarship

Social

Writing & Editing


WITH OUR PARTNERS:

Brand Identity & Guidelines

Creative Direction

Photography

Publication Design

Video & Motion Graphics

Website Design & Development

Select Clients

Eve Biddle

Breland-Harper

Creative Growth

The Estate of Elizabeth Murray

Eyebeam

Hung Liu Estate

The Estate of Jack Tworkov

The Jay DeFeo Foundation

The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego

LAND

Laura Raicovich

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Los Angeles Visual Arts Coalition

The Mary Ann Unger Estate

Nancy Rubins

The Oxbow School

Queens Museum

Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

Van Doren Waxter

The Vera List Center for Art & Politics

A total communications offering for artists, estates, and foundations

In collaboration with MacFadden & Thorpe

“We share both a passionate interest in the artists and buildings of the West and a desire for clarity, functionality, and beauty of thinking and expression. We are deeply invested in our practices and have all taught in the graduate programs of California College of the Arts, an institution that emphasizes art, architecture, design, and writing as social and civic acts.”
Brent Foster Jones, Brett MacFadden & Scott Thorpe

Download PDF of press release here.

The office of Brent Foster Jones and MacFadden & Thorpe began working together on behalf of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation nearly a decade ago. Today, we provide a fully integrated reputation and brand offering to position and distinguish the legacies of artists. 

Each program is dynamic and integrated. An artist endowed foundation, for instance, might engage with us to design a visual and verbal identity system to be woven across all communications; build a visually forward indexical, searchable platform with an editorial/content channel; script, direct, and edit an original film; create highly compelling digital and social; plan and execute public programs/events with invitations and visual assets; and serve as a press office that arranges news, features and profiles, reviews, and scholarly excerpts.

Case studies: Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, The Oxbow School