Joyce Varvatos, art adviser to Hollywood, curates Hamptons gallery pop-up NYAcademyofArt
For the last three summers, art advisor Joyce Varvatos has curated a pop-up commercial gallery in New York's Hamptons to sell work by well-established artists to collectors that include some of Hollywood's elite.
"Last year, Neil Patrick Harris and his family were the first in the door," says Varvatos, whose Hollywood advisory clients include NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer; former MGM chair Roger Birnbaum, founder of Spyglass Entertainment; Propagate co-CEO Ben Silverman; Industry Entertainment co-founder Keith Addis; Golden Globe-winning producer Celine Rattray ; producer Keri Selig; andBut this year, Varvatos is presenting her clientele with something other the A-List artists...
, which was founded in Manhattan in 1982 by artists , scholars and patrons of the arts. The fellowship is awarded to the top three graduates of each year's MFA class and is the academy's highest honor. presents more than 30 artworks by the academy's graduates, with varying themes and artistic styles, ranging from a five-foot triptych landscape of St. Barts beaches to playful stop-motion animation to life size animal sculptures.
"There is a lot of figurative work," Varvatos says, since the academy is rooted in classical training, which tends to focus on live drawing. But, she adds, "It's a real range."
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