Amanda Baker, Art Advisor and Nuria Richards, Art Market Specialist on Buying Art.
Art Collecting takes many things into consideration, like personal taste and budget. It's good to know what to consider when you are bringing an artwork into your life. How to select pieces, get to know more about artists, support local, and create a satisfying relationship with art. We'll talk about our experience and respond to What? How? and When? of art acquisitions, and review the current show VISION ACUITY
AMANDA BAKER SELECTED WORKS
LEO CASTAÑEDA
EDWARD HOLLAND
MONIKA BRAVO
JOHNNY ROBLES
Amanda Baker
Amanda Baker is a Miami based Art Advisor with over ten years of experience working in New York City and San Francisco galleries. She maintains a passion for working with both established and new collectors. Her goal is to build exceptional art collections that reflect her client's diverse interests, while maintaining an eye toward establishing a sound group of investments. Amanda's present focus is in prints & multiples by established Post-War and Contemporary artists.
Amanda began her career working at the prestigious Marlborough Gallery, where she developed a strong interest and understanding in the Contemporary Art market. She developed a unique experience working in primary market sales having had the opportunity to work with prominent figures in Latin American Art such as Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Juan Genovés, and Manolo Valdés. Amanda later moved to San Francisco to gain experience in the Bay Area markets. As the Associate Director at Andrea Schwartz Gallery, she has a full understanding of the distinct behaviors and drives that confront west coast artists, clientele, and market trends. As a young Art Advisor, she understands the needs and interests of a new generation of collectors that are developing in an always evolving digital market.
Amanda was born in Mexico City and grew up in the suburbs of New York City. She is fluent in Spanish. She studied Art History & Spanish at Marist College with a minor in Latin American & Caribbean Studies.
Nuria Richards
Nuria is an Art Market Specialist and founder of Art Market Consulting, she holds one the most holistic approaches about the commercial life of art; she has hung mid-career Latin American artists in the walls of stubborn blockbuster collections, the same way that she has managed to bring the Boston MFA Board to an art studio in Downtown Mexico for a private visit, all before turning 30, being an immigrant, and starting with just her savings.
She has helped clients decide the faith of their collections, newcomers to believe in conceptual art, and has connected the worlds between secondary and primary market for a generation of artists and collectors that were caught in the middle of a rapidly changing art world.
In 2019 Nuria founded Clandestina, an appointment only gallery at her apartment in Midtown Miami, in a socializing move to build a contemporary art program; a curated community of outsiders that thrive on academic technique as much as coding, curating the views of unexplored feminists, and buffering complex proposals with origin in the Bauhaus residency (to mention one) in a domestic environment. On the business side Clandestina is making big bids for breaking ground, either presenting a solo-female lead booth in January 2020 for an art fair in San Francisco with pieces of museum complexity level, or by pledging to change the distribution of sales revenue mostly based on traditional gallery/artists structures.
Nuria is the Chair of Programming for ArtTable Florida, Chair of Committee for Women for the United States - Mexico Chamber of Commerce. She sees art as a very expectant object that (like every human) activates with proximity.
