2019-03-01_American_Art_Collector

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Sungjoon Joh’s Confucian Alter, in a show
for emerging artists. The gallery sales rep
offered to walk the painting to our home
so we could see it in place...which he did
two hours later, walking through knee-
high snowdrifts!
“On a late evening neighborhood
walk years later, we saw Mark Hachem
installing some new works in his gallery,”
she continues. “We walked in and were
drawn to a sculpture by Oriano Galloni. We
wanted the piece, but hesitated, given the
hour. As it happened, Mr. Galloni was in the
gallery. We enjoyed meeting him and that
sealed the deal....providing that he sign the
piece then and there. He signed the base
with a magic marker.”
The Galloni sculpture is in the couple’s
California home next to a painting by
Youri Leroux, also purchased at the Mark
Hachem Gallery. “The Leroux piece had
already been sold to a collector in Florida,”
the wife recalls. “We were so sorry not to be
able to buy it. Soon we left for LA. When
the painting found its way back to Mark
because it did not fit into the purchaser’s
space, Mark phoned us. We purchased it
and had it shipped to our new home.

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The floral painting in the dining room was purchased
at a Park Avenue Armory show and was made with
rubber-tipped makeup applicators. At the end of the
room is Ron Hicks’ Single and Looking, oil on canvas.

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On the left in the kitchen is Synthesis of Transitory
Moments, oil, text and photo imagery on wood, by
Sherry Karver. On the far right is Boats, collected
hardwood bowls, by Aaron Kramer. The orange boxes
are a department store display find.

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