Author page: Ashley Tedesco

Record-breaking sales suggest ‘new era’ in art market

This month, a contemporary art sale at Christie’s in New York brought in $495 million—the highest total in auction history. The sale included works by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat, establishing a total of 16 new world auction records, with nine works selling for more than $10 million and 23 for more than $5 million. The astounding success…

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Hilary Williams’s ‘Dreaming Palms and Short Fences’

Mixed media artist Hilary Williams layers photos, drawings, paintings and patterns to create screen print impressions of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Her work captures a marriage between the urban and the natural. “Through layering, collage and juxtaposition, I strive to make layered pieces that deal with the absurdity, poignancy and joy of our world,” she says. Williams has…

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Art Copyright Coalition fights infringement in China

The Art Copyright Coalition, the first nonprofit organization of publishers and artists to pursue copyright violators, spent three days at the April 2013 Canton Fair and Jinhan Fair in Guangzhou, China searching for copyright infringed artwork. During the visit, the coalition found more than 40 infringing exhibitors, an amount similar to their findings five months ago, though the total number…

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Andrzej Michael Karwacki’s ‘Still Water 604’

Buddhist philosophy with an “intention for equanimity” has inspired Andrzej Michael Karwacki’s most recent paintings. Karwacki believes that through abstract design, the artist “transcends the limitation of medium, thus creating work that can produce an emotional response. And when that happens, art completes life, bringing to focus what nature cannot bring to finish.” Born in Poland, Karwacki has received international…

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Artexpo New York 2013 highlights

The Art Business News staff hit New York City March 21-24 for Artexpo New York, the world’s largest fine art trade show. We saw thousands of pieces by the world’s most innovative artists and met some of the top dealers, collectors and industry leaders. Keep an eye out for inside looks at Artexpo in our summer issue and online. Get…

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Jeff Leedy’s The Helper

Sure, dog. You’re “helping.” Our Work of the Week this week is Jeff Leedy’s The Helper. Born and educated in the arts in New York and currently residing in Texas, Leedy has sold over 250,000 prints of his work, which tackle subjects including sports, food and wine and—as you can see—pet ownership. Information on purchasing a print of your own,…

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Art Business News to Partner with Madavor Media

Redwood Media has selected Madavor to publish this long-standing title This February, Madavor Media and Redwood Media Group joined forces to publish Art Business News, a leader in art industry publications since 1977. The magazine joins a family of special-interest and niche publications at Boston-based Madavor Media. Art Business News provides readers with comprehensive coverage of market news, events and…

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How to Work with Galleries

A roundtable discussion of artists’ most-asked questions by Terrence Lynch “How do I get my work into an art gallery? What can a gallery do for me? What would a gallery ask of me?” There comes a point in most artist’s careers when he or she confronts the question: “Can I make a living at this?” Perhaps he’s had success…

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Commission THIS!

The delicate dance of working for hire by Kevin Canfield About five years ago Jivan Lee (JivanLee.com) decided to create a painting of a home in Mamaroneck, New York. “Just for fun, I was painting the entrance of where I was staying at the time, which was my sister’s house,” Lee recalls. “A neighbor saw that and was like, ‘Oh…

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