Montana Alexander

MONTANA ALEXANDER

Vorsitzender, Global Director
New York | Connecticut

Montana Alexander ist Partnerin bei Heather James Fine Art und arbeitet zwischen New York City und Connecticut. Sie leitet das Vertriebsnetz der Heather James Galerien weltweit und ist für die unternehmensweite Strategie zuständig, während sie gleichzeitig ihre Gruppe bedeutender Sammler berät.

Montana hat zuletzt bedeutende Gemälde von Ed Ruscha, Claude Monet und Mark Bradford bei privaten Sammlern platziert. Sie ist seit 2013 bei Heather James tätig und hat unsere bedeutende Expansion von zwei regionalen Galerien in den globalen Kunstmarkt vorangetrieben. In der Vergangenheit sicherte sie sich unter anderem eine große Gruppe von Nachkriegs- und zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Corporate Art Collection der General Electric Company sowie die Gemälde von Sir Winston Churchill für unsere Wanderausstellung 2018. Montana erwarb ihren Bachelor of Arts an der University of Connecticut in Kunstgeschichte und Business Management und absolvierte das Postgraduiertenprogramm Art Business des Sotheby's Institute in New York.

Julia Jackson

JULIA JACKSON

Leitender Direktor
New York

Julia Jackson ist in New York und Connecticut ansässig. Seit sie bei Heather James tätig ist, hat sie Einlieferungen gesichert und beim Aufbau bedeutender Privatsammlungen mit wichtigen Künstlern wie Alexander Calder, Richard Diebenkorn, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol und Tom Wesselmann geholfen. Julia erhielt ihren B.A. vom Rollins College. Sie ist Junior Associate am Museum of Modern Art und Mitglied von Soho House.

HEATHER JAMES FINE ART - NEW YORK hat sich zu einer wertvollen Ressource für lokale Kunden entwickelt und bietet eine breite Palette an Unterstützung und Hilfe für eine große Bandbreite an Objekten. Mit Hilfe der Experten von Heather James Fine Art sind unsere Vertreter in der Lage, Ihnen zu helfen, wenn Sie Fragen zum Kauf oder Verkauf haben oder ein Objekt aus Ihrer Sammlung schätzen lassen möchten.

Wir bieten eine breite Palette von kundenorientierten Dienstleistungen an, darunter Nachlass- und Steuerplanung, Inkassomanagement, Gutachten, Logistikmanagement, Akquisitionen und Finanzdienstleistungen.

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Heather James Fine Art bietet eine breite Palette von kundenorientierten Dienstleistungen, die auf Ihre spezifischen Bedürfnisse zugeschnitten sind. Unser Operations-Team besteht aus professionellen Kunsthändlern, einer kompletten Registrierungsabteilung und einem Logistikteam mit umfangreicher Erfahrung im Bereich Kunsttransport, Installation und Sammlungsmanagement. Mit einem weißen Handschuhservice und einer persönlichen Betreuung geht unser Team noch einen Schritt weiter, um unseren Kunden außergewöhnliche Kunstleistungen zu bieten.

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<div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>Clyfford Still occupies a monumental position in the history of modern art, often heralded as the earliest pure abstract painter to work on an expansive scale. By the early 1940s, Still had already arrived at a radically abstract visual language that transcended the aesthetic frameworks of his peers, rejecting representational imagery and producing canvases that were immense in size and conceptual ambition. Pollock famously confessed that “Still makes the rest of us look academic,” and Rothko once kept a Still painting in his bedroom as a guiding inspiration. His work was, as critic Clement Greenberg remarked, “estranging and upsetting” in its genuine originality, a raw and elemental confrontation of form and color that defied conventional expectations.<br><br></font></div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>For viewers familiar with Still’s oeuvre, his paintings typically evoke a powerful physicality: vast canvases covered in richly textured layers of pigment—earthy blacks, ochres, siennas, and cadmiums—applied with a trowel-like rigor that recalls weathered geological formations. These thickly encrusted surfaces often alternate with more thinly painted passages, all juxtaposed against large swaths of bare canvas that lend his compositions a sense of immense scale and open-ended possibility. This aesthetic, rooted in the grandeur of raw and elemental presence, often manifests as jagged, opaque forms whose stark contrasts convey a primal energy.<br><br></font></div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black><em>“PH-589”,</em> on the other hand, marks a transition in Still’s career, where his already profound engagement with abstraction began to evolve toward greater spareness and a deeper exploration of the expressive potential of voids and open space. Painted in 1959, the expected density of his earlier surfaces gives way to a lighter touch and a more restrained use of paint. Against largely unpainted ground, two jagged shapes of continental significance hang suspended, their edges torn and irregular, as if wrested from the canvas itself. The bare canvas, which had served as a compositional counterpoint in Still’s earlier works, now asserts itself as a dominant feature, heightening the power of the painted forms while introducing an ethereal sense of light and space.<br><br></font></div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black>This shift was both aesthetic and philosophical. By the late 1950s, Still had grown increasingly disenchanted with the art world, distancing himself from its commercial and critical structures<em>. “PH-589”</em> is an anticipatory event before his move to rural Maryland in 1961 that coincided with a period of introspection and formal refinement when Still began to strip his compositions down to their essential elements. As Still explained, he sought to fuse color, texture, and form into “a living spirit,” transcending their materiality to evoke the human capacity for transcendence.</font></div><br><br><div><font face=Lato size=3 color=black><br><br>This painting signals the burgeoning openness of Still’s later works, where the interplay of painted forms and unpainted ground would become a defining characteristic. By the 1960s and 1970s, Still’s palette grew lighter, his gestures sparser, and his use of emptiness more deliberate, creating compositions that were at once monumental and ephemeral. Yet the seeds of that evolution are already present here in the restrained yet powerful interplay of color and space. His revolutionary approach to abstraction—both in scale and in spirit—provided a foundation upon which the Abstract Expressionists built their legacy. At the same time, his work resists easy interpretation, demanding instead an unmediated confrontation with its raw, elemental presence. With its terse eloquence and rhythmic vitality, this painting is both a culmination of Still’s early achievements and a momentous portent of his later innovations.</font></div>

CLYFFORD STILL