I subsequently served as a press attaché and writer to a private foundation active in social, political, and economic issues in Asia. I worked in every region of the Asia Pacific, including turbulent places, advising and scripting for progressive specialists, thinkers, and Asian reformers and activists on complex, high stakes issues and alongside photographers, cinematographers, and editors.

In the 2000s, I began providing strategy and communications advice and guidance to estates, trusts and foundations of post-war California artists, such as sculptor Viola Frey, recognized for monumentally scaled work; the singular, distinguished American painter, draftsman, and printmaker Richard Diebenkorn, which I have advised for nearly a decade; and the wildly experimental and lyrical Jay DeFeo. I also subsequently began offering a specialized suite of crisis communications services to a private client list of curators, foundation leaders, museum executives.

In the 2010s, in addition to guidance to artist estates and foundations, I began advising Van Doren Waxter, which cultivates a sweeping program of 20th and 21st century artists with a focus on American Abstraction, such as Brian Rochefort, Jackie Saccocio, Hedda Sterne, and Jack Tworkov; I have contributed to efforts to properly position their bodies of work and contributions to contemporary practice or art history.

And recently I have helped the Mary Ann Unger Estate to place the pioneering sculptor and unabashed feminist, who also made space for other women artists and artists of color in her lifetime, in art history and current contexts.

I am delighted to advise individuals and organizations shaping visual art and culture such as: Eyebeam, as it builds on a young, adventurous legacy to invest in artists who work with technology; LAND, as it realizes ambitious, radical artist visions; museum leader, curator, and writer Laura Raicovich who transformed Queens Museum into a public commons and gathering space for art, activism, and civic engagement and was instrumental in preserving Dia’s iconic site-specific artworks in the American West

Together with MacFadden & Thorpe, who I have partnered with for almost a decade—and a roster of specialists—our offices together provide a very unique offering of reputation and brand services to studios, estates, foundations, and institutions.

Warmly,
Brent