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Artnet’s Buy Now platform

Earlier this year, Artnet partnered with art dealer William Leung to create an exciting new platform, Buy Now, featuring works by emerging female artists. The artists are characterized by their unique styles, which are rooted in dark existential themes. Moreover, each one uses an unusual medium for their work – a combination of oil paint and sand.

With its innovative buy and sell tools, Artnet is making the art market more accessible and international. Moreover, it helps emerging artists access the secondary market earlier and reach higher price thresholds. For example, Rokkaku, who was just 26 years old in 2008, achieved a price of $50,000 at auction. Murakami, on the other hand, achieved this price at the age of 40.

Phillips New Now sale generated record sales for emerging artists

The Phillips New Now sale generated record sales for artists who are relatively new to the market. The auction house has established a reputation as a pioneer in contemporary art sales. The highest total was $225 million (premium), driven by a sale of a 1982 Basquiat by Yusaku Maezawa. The artist had previously sold the painting for $57.3 million to Christie’s, and the Phillips sale surpassed that price by a factor of more than two and a half times. The sale also featured separate evening sales featuring contemporary and female artists.

The Phillips New Now sale, which was held in London on 6 June, raised more than $21.3 million, and set new records for the auction house’s upcoming series of sales of 20th century and contemporary art. This series of sales will be held in Hong Kong and Beijing in association with Poly Auction.

Shane Walsh’s fabric collages

Shane Walsh is a painter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He earned his MFA at the University of Washington in 2006 and a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2001. Walsh’s paintings are a tribute to the punk and hip-hop culture of his youth and modernist collage traditions. The artist builds his compositions out of multiple layers of photocopies, and his work celebrates the distortions and repetitions that come from the process.

Walsh is a three-time Mary Nohl Suitcase Fund recipient and has featured his work in several publications, including New American Paintings, Artsy, Shepherd Express, and the Journal Sentinel. His work is a reinterpretation of the everyday through metaphor. His works reflect our altered time and distorted culture.

Christina Quarles’ portraits of black women

Christina Quarles’ paintings depict bodies in various states of abstraction and figurative entanglement. Her work, which has been compared to Willem de Kooning’s, explores queer female identity and the ambiguities it brings. The work also challenges the viewers’ notions of gender and race.

Quarles’ ambiguous figurative style contributes to her rapid rise to prominence as a compelling painter. Her works have been included in major museum exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, and have been exhibited internationally, from Shanghai to London. Her most ambitious presentation is slated to open at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Boafo’s celebration of the black experience

Throughout the exhibition, a focus is placed on the Black presence, articulating the connections of the Black diaspora. The paintings feature confident, assertive figures, and are intimately linked to the artist’s experiences in Ghana. As a result, they serve as a form of self-preservation and assert the dignity of Black people.

Boafo’s paintings are often bright and luminous, with exuberant color palettes. He also uses thick finger-painting gestures to accentuate the black experience in his work. As a result, his work is distinctly centered on Black subjectivity, joy, and radical care.

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