I Look for Clues in Your Dreams complete press coverage in a single PDF now available! 

HMxAA has compiled the excellent press coverage for this exhibition into one file. Please check it out here to learn more about the show, its themes, and artists. 

I Look for Clues in Your Dreams exhibition catalogue now available

The digital catalogue is now available for the celebrated exhibition, I Look for Clues in Your Dreams, at the Berkeley Art Center which closed on July 21, 2016. An essay by Heather Marx and over 15 color reproductions including installation views are reproduced in the catalogue. Purchase HERE.

I Look for Clues in Your Dreams has been called "a compelling and remarkably cohesive exhibition," by Squarecylinder

Thank you to writer Lawrence Gipe for such an awesome article on the exhibition at Berkeley Art Center. Read the complete article HERE. 

Cover of the Berkeley Times

We are thrilled that I Look for Clues in Your Dreams made the cover and lead feature article in the July 7 issue of Berkeley Times. Read the complete article HERE and HERE.

San Francisco Chronicle writer Kimberly Chun writes piece about I Look for Clues in Your Dreams exhibition. 

HMxAA is thrilled to share more press for the exhibition currently on view at the Berkeley Art Center through July 17. Chun's piece, "I Look for Clues in Your Dreams' a tribute to California" can be read in full HERE. 

I Look for Clues in Your Dreams is "the best East Bay landscape show without actual landscapes" says the East Bay Express

Managing Editor Sarah Burke published an incredible review for the HMxAA curated exhibition I Look for Clues in Your Dreams now on view at the Berkeley Art Center through July 17. Read the full article HERE. 

Heather Marx curates I Look for Clues in Your Dreams at The Berkeley Art Center

Berkeley Art Center Agility Projects is pleased to present I Look for Clues in Your Dreams, a group exhibition curated by Heather Marx, featuring Bay Area artists: Leo Bersamina, Chris Duncan, Kristin Farr, Jenny Sharaf, Victoria Wagner and Amber Jean Young. Through site-specific installations, sculpture, painting and mixed-media assemblages, the artists examine the elemental spirit of the American West. I Look for Clues in Your Dreams will be on view at the Berkeley Art Center from May 21 through July 17, 2016 with an opening reception on May 21 from 6-8PM, which will feature a special acapella performance by Victoria Wagner and members of the CCA community. Please link HERE to read the email exhibition announcement. 

Heather Marx in San Francisco magazine State of the Arts May issue

San Francisco magazine State of The Arts issue is out and highlights the wealth of art and creativity in the Bay Area. Lauren Murrow's in-depth article, Turning Geeks into Collectors, is a treat to read and Heather Marx is thrilled to be a part of this ongoing and lively discussion. You can link to the complete article here. 

Heather Marx to speak at University of California, Santa Barbara AHGSA Alumni Panel April 30, 2016

Heather Marx will be speaking to Graduate students in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture as part of their annual Alumni panel series. Marx will discuss her career path in the non-profit and commercial art world post graduate school. Read the release here. 

Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine features Heather Marx Art Advisory in their March/April issue

Editor, Caren Kurlander, produced a beautiful feature on our client's new home overlooking Carmel Valley in California.  It was a pleasure finding artworks for key locations in this stunning home. With the stellar backdrop of the natural landscape and the sensitive and light filled modern home designed by Mary Ann Gabriele Schicketanz this was truly a dream project. Please enjoy an abbreviated look at the feature here published in the March/April 2016 issue. 

Christel Dillbohner's with earth in mind exhibition has been extended in San Francisco

In conjunction with Casey & Associates Art Advisors Christel Dillbohner's terrific exhibition, with earth in mind, has moved across town to 425 Market Street in San Francisco and will be on view through May, 2016.  

Christel Dillbohner is a researcher and explorer of the visual world. States of being are the subject of her luscious painterly explorations that respond to shifting landscapes and environments. She has presented her paintings, site-specific installations, and works on paper in many galleries and museums in the USA, Germany and Japan. Born in 1956 in Cologne, Germany, she studied painting with Renate Lewandoski and Karl Marx at the Kölner Werkschule (FHS Kunst + Design). Since 1996, her home has been in Berkeley, CA.

I Look for Clues in Your Dreams
For immediate release

The exhibition, I Look For Clues in Your Dreams, I am curating at The Berkeley Art Center is shaping up nicely. The artists are creating new work and installations for the show, and some exciting programming surrounding the exhibition and its themes are taking shape. The show opens Saturday, May 21st with a reception from 6 - 8 PM. Artists featured are Leo Bersamina, Chris Duncan, Kristin Farr, Jenny Sharaf, Victoria Wagner, and Amber Jean Young. You can link to the Press Release here. 

The Clarion List interviews Heather Marx

Read Heather Marx's take on her field, and the current state of the Bay Area art scene in The Clarion List's first interview for 2016.  The Clarion List is the leading directory of art service providers with ratings & reviews and their blog reveals the inside workings of the art world. HMxAA was excited to be a part of their San Francisco launch!  

Heather Marx interviewed for California Home & Design's Designer Crush feature

Thank you to California Home & Design for their recent feature on Heather Marx Art Advisory in their Designer Crush series. Download the interview here and learn more about Heather Marx's inspirations, art tips, and more! 

A wonderful feature on Andrew Schoultz for The Creative Lives series that features footage from his exhibition, Compound Eyes on the World, at my former San Francisco gallery, Marx & Zavattero, in 2010. This was one of the most significant shows we had the pleasure to host and produce and it is a real treat to see it live again! Enjoy the short feature here. 

HMxAA is featured on this beautiful new adventure site Zozi. In Beyond Fisherman's Wharf: 13 local favorites in San Francisco, I happily suggest going to Sutro Baths, The Legion of Honor and Nopalito. Read it here.
 

The seventh installment of our New Collections series which showcases work by contemporary artists in thoughtfully curated online exhibitions is now live. This month, I am happy to share the work of San Francisco artists Mary Button Durell and John Warren Travis. Each spent most of their working lives in other high profile creative mediums before devoting themselves full time to the visual arts. 

HMxAA has been helping to build a wonderful art collection for the tech company MediaMath. With offices all over the world, we have placed wonderful new works by emerging and mid-career artists for their new offices in New York City and San Francisco. HMxAA SHOP artist, Ray Beldner, has several works from his 101 Portrait series in both offices, and former Marx & Zavattero gallery artist, Yoon Lee's major painting, Breach, will be installed in their World Trade Center 4 building in NYC. LA artist Melissa Manfull's densely layered works on paper are now also part of the collection. This is one example of the many ways HMxAA diversifies their client's art holdings. 

With the generous support from the Peterson Foundation, HMxAA Is pleased to announce the acquisition of James Gobel's painting Now is Enough for the Grinnell College Art Collection in Grinnell, Iowa. 

James Gobel has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco and most notably at the UCLA Hammer Museum. He has been included in group exhibitions Leslie+Lohman Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Akron Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum and the New Museum in New York. Marx & Zavattero represented Gobel's work from 2006 - 2011.

Gobel's paintings of zaftig male figures, abstractions and text works composed of cut felt and yarn have been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other internationally recognized publications. 

Thank you ArtSlant for acknowledging HMxAA sponsorships of the artist performance series at the StARTup Art Fair in San Francisco. You can read Leora Lutz's comprehensive article covering the three art fairs in San Francisco May 1 - 3, 2015 here. Enjoy!