Powell Fine Art Advisory

Powell Fine Art Advisory Powell Fine Art Advisory provides art consulting and advisory services for collectors of modern and contemporary art across all media.

Powell Fine Art Advisory provides art consulting and advisory services for collectors of modern and contemporary art across all media, including paintings, drawings, original prints, photography and sculpture. Whether you are an experienced collector or new to the field, interested in building a comprehensive art collection or purchasing a single work of art, we can guide you with objective professional advice.

06/14/2026

A successful sculpture installation often looks effortless—but getting there requires careful planning.

This granite work by Obadiah Buell demanded precise rigging, constant communication, and an understanding of how material, weight, and space interact. From crate to final placement, every step is about protecting the artwork while honoring the artist’s vision.

With the passing of David Hockney yesterday, the art world loses not only one of its most beloved painters, but one of i...
06/13/2026

With the passing of David Hockney yesterday, the art world loses not only one of its most beloved painters, but one of its most curious minds.

For decades, Hockney reminded us that innovation isn’t tied to age or medium. In his eighties, he embraced the iPad with the same enthusiasm he once brought to canvas and lithographic stone, creating radiant bouquets that felt spontaneous, intimate, and full of life. Flowers became more than a subject—they became a daily act of seeing, of paying attention.

Long before the digital drawings, his lithographs of tulips from the 1980s revealed the same fascination: bold color, elegant line, and an ability to transform something familiar into something utterly alive. Whether working in print, paint, photography, or pixels, Hockney approached each medium with wonder and play.

His swimming pools may be iconic, but perhaps his greatest legacy is his insistence that looking closely at the world is a radical act. He taught generations of artists and viewers alike that joy, beauty, and experimentation are not separate pursuits—they are one and the same.

Today, the bouquets feel especially poignant: vibrant celebrations of life from an artist who never stopped finding new ways to see. 🌷

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Maine’s coastline is less a place than a feeling—and in Outer Fog Bank, Martha Burkert captures that elusive atmosphere ...
06/09/2026

Maine’s coastline is less a place than a feeling—and in Outer Fog Bank, Martha Burkert captures that elusive atmosphere with remarkable sensitivity.

Working from observation but guided by intuition, Burkert pushes beyond literal representation, allowing color, light, and form to carry the emotional weight of the landscape. Soft bands of atmosphere dissolve into one another, evoking the quiet drama of fog rolling across the water and obscuring the horizon. The result is a painting that feels both familiar and abstract—a memory of the coast rather than a direct transcription of it.

Burkert’s work is rooted in the landscape traditions of Maine, yet her fearless use of color and simplified forms creates something distinctly her own. In Outer Fog Bank, stillness becomes the subject, inviting viewers to slow down and experience the subtle shifts of light, weather, and space.

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Blueprints of nature, captured in light.Botanical Rhapsody I (May) by Judith Allen-Efstathiou transforms the fleeting be...
06/05/2026

Blueprints of nature, captured in light.

Botanical Rhapsody I (May) by Judith Allen-Efstathiou transforms the fleeting beauty of the natural world into a luminous, layered composition. Created as a cyanotype on mulberry paper, the work draws on one of photography’s earliest processes, using sunlight to produce its signature deep blue tones while preserving the delicate silhouettes and textures of botanical forms.

In Allen-Efstathiou’s hands, the cyanotype becomes more than a recording device—it becomes a meditation on seasonality, growth, and memory. The organic fibers of the mulberry paper lend a sense of fragility and permanence at once, allowing the image to hover between scientific observation and poetic abstraction.

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We are so grateful for the teams we work with across the country who help facilitate our viewings and installations. Fro...
06/04/2026

We are so grateful for the teams we work with across the country who help facilitate our viewings and installations. From the galleries who lend work, shippers, installers and designers we partner with, it takes a village!

Every Christina Watka installation begins with a conversation—between light and space.Created specifically for this clie...
06/03/2026

Every Christina Watka installation begins with a conversation—between light and space.

Created specifically for this client, this commissioned work transforms the stairwell wall into a living composition of movement and rhythm. Drawing on the natural patterns that inspire much of Watka’s practice—flocks in motion, shifting landscapes, and the changing qualities of light throughout the day—the installation evolves as the space itself changes.

Composed of individually handcrafted elements and installed on site, the work is inseparable from its environment. What begins as hundreds of distinct forms becomes a unified gesture, creating a sense of lightness, wonder, and quiet energy.

More than 160 years after Manet’s Olympia changed the history of art, Dinorá Justice returns to the iconic composition w...
06/02/2026

More than 160 years after Manet’s Olympia changed the history of art, Dinorá Justice returns to the iconic composition with a perspective entirely her own.

In Portrait Seventy-five – after Manet’s “Olympia,” Justice transforms a familiar art historical image into a contemporary meditation on identity, presence, and representation. The result is both an homage and a reinvention—proof that the most important works of art never stop generating new conversations.

Some paintings shape history. Others remind us why that history still matters.

With the rare Blue ‘micromoon’ on May 31 and the meteor exploding over Boston this weekend, I’m reminded of our exhibiti...
06/01/2026

With the rare Blue ‘micromoon’ on May 31 and the meteor exploding over Boston this weekend, I’m reminded of our exhibition, “Address to the Moon” that was held two years ago in June 2024 . We loved having the opportunity to put together a thematic various artists show. 🌙 ☄️

Photography:

An Edo period screen graces the grand living room in this spectacular home in the clouds. Layers of antiques and artwork...
05/31/2026

An Edo period screen graces the grand living room in this spectacular home in the clouds. Layers of antiques and artwork make everywhere you look interesting.

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Few artists navigate the space between scientific observation and poetic expression as elegantly as . Drawing on the tra...
05/30/2026

Few artists navigate the space between scientific observation and poetic expression as elegantly as . Drawing on the traditions of botanical illustration while embracing a contemporary visual language, her work invites viewers into a world where flowers become vessels for memory, transformation, and wonder.

A favorite installation from a recent project.

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