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Harvey Rayner: The Subtle Virtuoso of Generative Art
June 23, 2023 Harvey Rayner's work is a celebration of the limitless potential of generative art. We at Vertu Fine Art are thrilled to showcase his new body of work and invite you to join us in appreciating the creativity of Harvey Rayner. In contrast to conventional methods, Rayner's approach to artistic expression embraces the vast potential of algorithmic design. His artwork combines creativity and accuracy in a way that captures the viewer's attention. Every algorithm demonstrates his distinct fusion of technical proficiency and aesthetic vision. Read more -
Harland Miller and Mel Bochner Use Their Words
June 21, 2023 After graduation from Chelsea School of Art with an MFA in 1988, Harland Miller (b.1964) spent a year in Paris.... Read more -
Recent Acquisitions at VFA
Works by Michael Craig-Martin, Alex Katz, Ian Davenport and En Iwamura June 14, 2023 Some of the new works that we have in our gallery come from three amazing artists who, it turns out, are connected by six degrees of separation. All three of these fine artists, Alex Katz, Michael Craig-Martin and Ian Davenport, are masters of color, design, composition, painting and printmaking. Michael Craig-Martin’s most recent show was at the Seongnam Cube Art Museum in South Korea last month. Read more
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Thrifting Picasso
May 23, 2023 If looking for bargains in thrift stores doesn’t appeal to you, the story of a New York thrifter’s purchase might... Read more -
A Look at the Works of a Young Picasso
May 18, 2023 We’re going to be hearing a lot about Pablo Picasso this year. Museums in Europe and the United States are... Read more -
Remembering Julia Warhola, Andy Warhol's Mother
Happy Mother's Day May 10, 2023 Family played an important role in the life of Andy Warhol . His two older brothers were very protective of... Read more
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Yoshitomo Nara Garnering Gen Z Audience. Continued Fascination with Warhol-Basquiat Collaboration
May 2, 2023 The images that Yoshitomo Nara creates are both cute and cunning, innocent and angst-filled. The images, with large, trusting eyes, often holding weapons, have created a new Gen Z audience, that relate to the complex feelings that Nara’s work evokes. Young people, who experienced the angst of the pandemic, discovered his art and have been sharing Nara’s images on TikTok and other social media sites. Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective Planned at Whitney; Liliana Porter's Retrospective in France
April 26, 2023 The United States Post Office and the Whiney Museum are celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Roy Lichtenstein’s birth. On Monday,... Read more -
Damien Hirst's Statue Hit by Rolls | Larry Poons Works on Exhibit in New York
April 18, 2023 A woman driving her Rolls-Royce in Palm Beach crashed into a multi-million dollar Damien Hirst sculpture in the yard of... Read more
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Commemorating Picasso. Katherine Bernhardt in Hong Kong. The Works of Carmen Herrera in LA
April 11, 2023 Museums and galleries around the world are observing the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death. Picasso was born in Spain in 1881 and died in France on April 8, 1973 at age 91. Read more -
Julian Opie in VR, Ugo Rondinone in Geneva
April 6, 2023 Julian Opie’s latest show, at the Lisson Gallery in London, forces viewers to put down their cell phones and look at what’s going on around them. One of the gallery’s rooms is a large space, with white walls, and appears completely empty. But slip on a VR headset and figures begin to dance, birds begin to fly and buildings appear to be floating in space. Read more -
Carmen Herrera and Ellsworth Kelly Exhibits
March 29, 2023 In 2021, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in Austin, commissioned Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera to... Read more
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VFA at The Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary International Fair
March 21, 2023 Vertu Fine Art will be at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary International Fair held at the Palm Beach Convention Center from March 23 through March 26, 2023. This is the sixth edition of of South Florida’s most celebrated winter art fair. Read more -
Red Grooms: Ninth Street Women meet The Irascibles; Robert Longo Wedded
March 14, 2023 Recent works of Red Grooms are on exhibit at the Marlborough Gallery in New York . The series was inspired... Read more -
The Restoration of Luna Luna, Banksy's Stamp for Ukraine
March 8, 2023 In 1987 the Luna Luna amusement park opened in Hamburg, Germany. The park was created by Austrian artist, Andre Heller.... Read more
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Robert Rauschenberg's Archive, New Yue Minjun, Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern in London
March 2, 2023 Robert Rauschenberg In 1965, before Robert Rauschenberg moved to Captiva Island, he lived in a building on Lafayette Street in... Read more -
Tyler Hobbs' New Algorithm, Alex Katz "Controls the Space"
February 20, 2023 Generative artist Tyler Hobbs has been experimenting with a new algorithm called QQL, that he developed with fellow generative artist Dandelion Wist. The new works were created with a plotter and painted by hand after their creation with QQL. Hobbs will be exhibiting new works at the Pace gallery in New York. Read more -
Tyler Hobbs at Art Miami, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara at the National Museum of Singapore
December 6, 2022 Tyler Hobbs at VFA, Art Miami The Art Miami Fair is always an exciting, uplifting event. This year it was better than ever, thanks to the visit by generative artist, Tyler Hobbs. Hobbs showcased his latest ioStream project at the VFA booth. “At this point I’m primarily known for my digital art, but the lovely aspect of a physical event is the opportunity to show works that cross the digital/analog boundary,” Hobbs said, “We ourselves coexist in both spaces, and work that reflects that is especially meaningful to me”. Read more
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VFA with Tyler Hobbs at Art Miami
November 28, 2022 Vertu Fine Art is one of premier galleries taking part in Art Miami 2022. Art Miami is the city's longest running contemporary and modern art fair. It is also recognized as one of the preeminent international art fairs globally. Galleries from countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East and the United States will be displaying paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, NFTs, video art, photography and fine art prints. Read more -
Through the Eyes of Julian Opie and Kenny Scharf
November 23, 2022 Every piece of art lets us see through the eyes of the artist. Why the artist chooses specific subjects, colors, materials and perspectives is sometimes a mystery, even to the artist. Julian Opie, whose works are simple, straightforward and instantly recognizable, hinted, in an interview with The Telegraph, that he might like to do things differently. “I’m always trying to somehow get away from the smell of myself, and the look of what I do.” he said, “I’d love to look more like Clint Eastwood, and I’d love to have long black hair that I could flick out of my eyes, but I don’t, and I never will. And likewise, I notice that every time I undertake a project, it always ends up looking like my work.” Read more -
Keith Haring: Off the Wall; Derrick Adams, Carlos Rolón and Kenny Scharf On the Walls
September 27, 2022 Keith Haring was both an artist and activist. He paved the way, in the 1980s, for street artists to gain acceptance in fine art galleries and museums. The world was Haring’s canvas. He drew and painted on subway stations, billboards and walls…walls of homes, offices, schools. Haring’s goal was to make art accessible. And that he did. Read more
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Art on Paper at The Armory Show; Alex Katz’s Upcoming Retrospective
September 5, 2022 In 1911, a few young American artists got together to try to figure out a way of presenting modern art... Read more -
Damien Hirst Burning His Paintings / KAWS Honored at the Hirshhorn / Reimagining Count Chocula
August 21, 2022 On September 9th, Damien Hirst will begin to burn about 5,000 pieces of his art. The move is a calculated act that he calls The Currency. Hirst created 10,000 small oil paintings on paper that he linked to corresponding NFTs in 2021. Buyers who bought the NFTs for $2000 were given a choice: keep the NFT or trade it for the physical painting. Holding on to both is not an option. Read more -
Vert Fine Art at Art Market Hamptons 2022
August 8, 2022 VFA at Art Market Hamptons 2022 New prints by Alex Katz and Kenny Scharf are among the works that we... Read more
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David Hockney: Moving Focus, Artle: Wordle for Art Lovers
August 1, 2022 David Hockney 1937 - David Hockney's works are currently on display in museums and galleries in Europe and the U.S.... Read more -
Claes Oldenburg Remembered
July 19, 2022 Claes Oldenburg: January 28, 1929 – July 18, 2022 I am for an art that is political, erotical, mystical, that... Read more -
The Collaboration: Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat
July 11, 2022 The art of Andy Warhol has been an exciting part of our fine art print collection at VFA. We have always appreciated his great style and masterfully done prints. We took for granted that the rest of the world knew and appreciated them, as well. The life and art of Andy Warhol has gotten increased attention recently. Every aspect of his life is explored in the Netflix docuseries The Andy Warhol Diaries. The documentary uses an AI voice to read the notes that Warhol dictated every day to his friend, Pat Hackett, for about a decade. Read more
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Derrick Adams’ Funtime Unicorns; Alex Katz on Park Avenue
June 27, 2022 Derrick Adams 1970 – The works of Derrick Adams focus on play and leisure in the Black community. In his... Read more -
Robert Rauschenberg: Seven Character Series
June 14, 2022 Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008 There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting. – Robert Rauschenberg Robert... Read more -
Kenny Scharf Paints the Earth, Jeff Koons Aims for the Moon
June 6, 2022 Kenny Scharf Kenny Scharf was born in Los Angeles in 1958. “And then, of course,” he said, in an interview... Read more
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Julian Opie’s ‘People’ in SoHo, Ugo Rondinone Curates in Long Island, Javier Calleja Collaborates
May 23, 2022 The lobby of a new office building, in New York’s SoHo district, has installed an artwork by Julian Opie to amplify the minimal design of its architecture. People 13, 2014, is an 11-inch by 144-inch LED, wall mounted work, of digitalized people walking. The building’s offices, at 2 Crosby Street, are leased by such notable tenants as French fashion designer Rick Owens and jewelry designer Maria Tash. Read more -
Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn Sets New Auction Record
May 9, 2022 Andy Warhol 1928-1987 Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $194 million at Christie’s New York on May... Read more -
Alex Katz Mural in Texas, Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide
April 12, 2022 Alex Katz 1927 - A 35,000 square-foot, hand-painted mural by Alex Katz , was unveiled in Woodlands, Texas, a planned... Read more
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Honoring the Printmaker
April 5, 2022 A current exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum pays tribute to master printers. It is their skills, talents and ability to... Read more -
VFA at the Palm Beach Contemporary + Modern Art Show
March 21, 2022 This weekend (March 24-27, 2022) Vertu Fine Art is taking part in the Palm Beach Contemporary + Modern Art Show... Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio Donated to the Whitney, Andy Warhol Heard with A.I.
February 28, 2022 Roy Lichtenstein 1923-1997 The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation has donated the artist's former West Village studio to the Whitney Museum. The... Read more
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VIPs at LA Frieze and more…
February 22, 2022 VIPs at LA Frieze This year’s LA Frieze art fair opened with a special V.I.P Day, attended by such celebrities... Read more -
Jonas Wood at Frieze LA and more…
February 14, 2022 Many galleries at this year’s Frieze LA require masking and proof of vaccine, but according to Los Angeles Times art... Read more -
Keith Haring, Derrick Adams and Roy Lichtenstein
February 7, 2022 Keith Haring was one of the twentieth century's most innovate artists. Haring took inspiration from Pierre Alechinsky, one of Europe's most avant-garde artists. Alechinsky was born in Brussels, but has spent most of his life living, painting and teaching in Paris. At the age of 94, Alechinsky is still very active. A survey of his work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 2017 and, in 2018, he was awarded Japan's Praemium Imperiale Art award for his work. Read more
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Andy Warhol: How He Saw Himself and Everyone Else
February 1, 2022 Two shows at the Warhol Museum bridge the gap between the way Andy Warhol viewed himself and the way in which he viewed others. My Perfect Body just ended and Stars of the Silver Screen is coming this month. Read more -
The Influence and Legacy of Wayne Thiebaud
December 27, 2021 Wayne Thiebaud, one of America's most beloved artists, best knows for his luscious paintings of cakes and pies, died at his home in Sacramento on Saturday, December 25th. He was 101 years old. Read more -
Added Dimensions: Fine Art Prints and more at VFA
December 13, 2021 It’s been wonderful to get back to seeing artworks up close and in person again. The ability to view fine... Read more
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Vertu Fine Art at Miami Art Fair 2021
November 22, 2021 We are pleased to announce that Vertu Fine Art will be exhibiting at the 31st Edition of Art Miami at... Read more -
The works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Derrick Adams at VFA
November 9, 2021 Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988 In 1983, a painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat , titled Equals Pi , was featured in GQ magazine.... Read more -
ELLSWORTH KELLY’S FINE ART PRINTS AT VFA
November 3, 2021 Ellsworth Kelly 1923-2015 I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms... Read more
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Works by Ugo Rondinone, KAWS and Keith Haring at VFA
October 11, 2021 Ugo Rondinone - 1964 New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is best known for his enormous sculptures and his brightly... Read more -
Hockney at Basel, Wood Connecting Dots
October 4, 2021 One of the highlights of this year’s Art Basel in Basel was the Unlimited exhibit, that displayed works that are too large to be shown in an average size gallery. The works are, instead, shown in the massive Hall 1. David Hockney’s Pictures at an Exhibition, 50 feet long by nearly 16 feet high, was one of the works featured in Hall 1. In a recent article in The Art Newspaper, titled Abstraction in art has run its course, Hockney looks at the importance of understanding the history of art and how it is created. His 2006 book, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters explored the way in which Caravaggio, Vermeer, da Vinci, and other hyperrealists actually used optics and lenses to create their masterpieces. Read more -
Yoshitomo Nara: Peace of Mind
August 17, 2021 Nara was born in 1959 in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan. He was a lonely latchkey kid, who read comics and listened to the music broadcast from a nearby American military base. The music, and the album covers, had a profound effect on his work. “As for records,” he said, “I bought a lot of imported records because they were inexpensive even for someone my age. But, you know, I couldn’t read the jacket cover of the thing I’d just purchased! Yet I pulled the record out of the cover and started listening with the cover in my hand. It got my imagination moving a lot and gradually I started picking up words. Little by little, I constructed the world of the record using imagination. I think I trained my imagination through the picture books and records, without knowing I was doing so.” Read more
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The Surprising Inspirations of Julian Opie and Andy Warhol
July 27, 2021 The influence of Michael Craig-Martin, one of Julian Opie's instructors at London's Goldsmiths School of Art, is apparent. Read more -
Andy Warhol Exhibits in China and Russia; Jean-Michel Basquiat Exhibit in Chelsea
July 6, 2021 In the early 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat was at the height of his career. Andy Warhol was experiencing a renewed burst... Read more -
Keith Haring’s Pop Shop Fine Art Prints at VFA
May 25, 2021 In 1986, Keith Haring opened the Pop Shop in New York to make his art more accessible to the public. The small space, at 292 Lafayette Street in Soho, was a small boutique that sold t-shirts, pins and other novelty items adorned with Haring’s images. The entire shop, walls, floor and ceiling, were painted with Haring motifs. Read more
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David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Julian Opie and Derrick Adams at VFA
May 10, 2021 As part of a £7 million Let’s Do London campaign, the mayor of London commissioned David Hockney to create a sign for the Picadilly Circus tube station. Hockney reimagined the original red, white and blue sign with a whimsical, typical Hockney-eske iPad purple and yellow design. Social Media users went wild, making fun of the iPad drawing…and saying that they could do better. Read more -
The Optimism of David Hockney
April 27, 2021 I’m pretty deaf. I don’t really like listening that much any more. I prefer just working, so it’s fine for... Read more -
Basquiat & Haring: Art + Music
March 9, 2021 The Art and Music of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”... Read more
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KAWS and David Hockney: Featured Works at VFA
February 17, 2021 The Brooklyn Museum is hosting the first major New York survey of the twenty-five year career of Brian Donnelly, the artists known as KAWS. KAWS is one of the world’s most beloved artists (with 3.2 million Instagram followers) whose works resonate with people around the globe.His Kimpsons Album painting sold to an anonymous bidder for $14.8m at a Sotheby’s auction in 2019. Paintings from the Kimpsons Series are available at VFA. Read more -
The Clean Lines and Bold Colors of Jonas Wood and Alex Katz
January 27, 2021 Jonas Wood 1977 – Present The clean lines and bold colors in the paintings and prints of Jonas Wood have... Read more -
Kenny Scharf Designs Fabrics for Dior and Dinner Plates for the Homeless Coalition
December 8, 2020 Kenny Scharf Dior is using Kenny Scharf's works from the '80s, as well as recent works, to create psychedelic, sci-fi... Read more
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The Works of Alex Katz, Jonas Woods and Robert Motherwell at VFA
September 22, 2020 The New York Guggenheim is set to reopen in a few weeks, with many of the same requirements that MoMA,... Read more -
The Works of Takashi Murakami, Sam Francis and Yoshitomo Nara at VFA
August 28, 2020 Takashi Murakami Takashi Murakami knows how to have a good time and he knows how to share the cheer. He’s... Read more -
Katherine Bernhardt's Slime, Alex Katz in Shanghai
July 21, 2020 Katherine Bernhardt spent part of the quarantine stranded (happily) in Guatemala. She is back at the home and studio in... Read more
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Julian Opie: Walking in Melbourne
June 5, 2020 The simplicity and clean lines of Julian Opie's work gives them a universal appeal. His paintings and sculptures can be found in major museums and public venues around the world. Read more -
Remembering Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring
February 2, 2020 The works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring gave credibility to graffiti artists and took their works from the street into fine art galleries and museums. The frenetic energy of the New York art scene in the 1980s was a perfect time for both Basquiat and Haring to work, play and get the attention they desired and deserved. Both Basquiat and Haring died young, each in a tragic way, yet, decades later, their art still has the ability to impact and inspire young artists and art lovers. Read more -
Supernatural Art at VFA
January 22, 2020 The Art Gallery of New South Wales recently commissioned Takashi Murakami to create a work for its permanent collection. Murakami... Read more
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Helen Frankenthaler: An AbEx Heroine
November 7, 2019 Helen Frankenthaler was just 23 years old in 1952 when she painted Mountains and Sea . It wasn’t well received... Read more -
Takashi Murakami: Happy! in Fort Lauderdale
October 2, 2019 Takashi Murakami is Japan's most well known contemporary artist. Murakami is known as The Warhol of Japan because of his... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud Likes Chocolate with Water
September 23, 2019 Wayne Thiebaud wakes up early every day, works in his Sacramento studio until noon, takes time out for a game... Read more
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Joan Miro: In Perspective
September 17, 2019 When I was painting the Constellations I had the genuine feeling that I was working in secret. But it was... Read more -
Salvador Dali: Selfies, Symbols and Elephants
August 13, 2019 If someday I may die, though it is unlikely, I hope the people in the cafés will say, 'Dalí has... Read more -
Arman: Production, Consumption, and Destruction
August 5, 2019 While Pop Art was taking hold in 1960s America, artists in France responded with the Nouveau Realisme (New Realism) movement, which questioned the idea of elevating or idealizing subject matter in art works. Arman was born in Nice, France in 1928. His father was an antiques dealer and collector and dabbled in painting, photography, poetry and played the cello. Arman completed Bachelors Degrees in philosophy and mathematics in 1946, and then he began to study art and judo. Arman’s work bridged the gap between American and European mid-century art. Read more
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Equitable Building Crash
June 11, 2019 Last Monday’s calamitous helicopter crash, into the roof of the 54-story Equitable Building on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, killed the... Read more -
Alex Katz and His Muse: “To Paint What’s in Front of You”
May 24, 2019 Ada was working as a research biologist at Sloan Kettering in the fall of 1957. She had recently returned from studying tumor genetics in Milan on a Fulbright when she walked into the Tanager Gallery for the opening night of an art exhibit. Alex Katz’s art was on the walls. The two met. She still maintains she was shy about visiting galleries. He’s adamant she was already a legend in the New York City art-world. Read more -
Robert Motherwell Prints at VFA
May 14, 2019 What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another... Read more
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The Influence of Victor Vasarely
May 7, 2019 The Pompidou Centre in Paris recently celebrated the life and work of Victor Vasarely, the Grandfather of Op-Art, with an exhibit than spanned the more than five decades of his work. Born in Hungary in 1906, Vasarely dropped out of medical school, at age 23, to study with avant-garde artist, Sándor Bortnyik. Bortnyik was a proponent of the Bahuas philosophy, which emphasized the relationship between art, society, and technology. Read more -
Roy Lichtenstein: Drawing in the Dark
April 17, 2019 In 1962, New York gallery owner, Leo Castelli, chose to represent Roy Lichtenstein. He had seen the works of Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, and considered representing one of them, but it was Lichtenstein who made the cut. The gallery show, which ran from February 10 to March 3, was the first exhibit of Lichtenstein’s comic book paintings, a big change from the Abstract Expressionist paintings, filled with emotional content, that gallery goers had gotten used to seeing. The comic book paintings sold out and made Lichtenstein, at age 39, a legend in the art world. Read more -
The Masters Behind the Matrix: Fine Art Prints at VFA
April 16, 2019 At Vertu, we are dedicated to the acquisition of, and education about, fine art prints. Fine art printmaking is both an art and a science. Over the centuries, artists have created masterful artworks on wood, copper and other matrixes to turn into high quality prints. The collaboration between artists and master printers often determines the quality of the work and, at times, the trajectory of an artist’s career. Read more
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David Hockney Goes Viral
March 11, 2019 David Hockney’s latest solo exhibition Something New in Painting (and Photography) [and even Printing] … Continued opened at the L.A.... Read more -
Jim Dine: Prints of Hearts
March 5, 2019 Jim Dine's work, in every medium he uses, is very physical; it has texture, form and a flow of energy that it difficult to achieve, especially with prints. "I like what you get" Dine said. "I like cutting wood. I like drawing with acid on copper. I like drawing with the grease crayon on litho stones, so there is a sensuous physical pleasure from it." It has been printmakers who have helped Dine find techniques that he has used for decades. When Dine wanted to find a way of making etchings that look like charcoal drawings, he asked Austrian printmaker, Kurt Zein, if such a thing was even possible. It took Zein a few months, but he actually came up with a solution. Read more -
Rene Magritte: Missing Piece of Painting Found
February 8, 2019 Rene Magritte died in 1967, at age 68, and left an unfinished painting sitting on his easel. The fascination with... Read more
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Julian Schnabel Does Van Gogh
January 21, 2019 Julian Schnabel’s latest film At Eternity’s Gate chronicles the last two years of the life of Vincent Van Gogh, a time when the artist lived in the south of France, was most prolific and most depressed. Van Gogh is played by Willem Dafoe, who was nominated for Best Actor in a drama at this years’ Golden Globe Awards. The role has also gotten Dafoe an Oscar nomination. He’s had three previous Oscar nominations, but this is his first in the lead actor category. Read more -
Chiho Aoshima Lithographs at VFA
January 15, 2019 I’m not very proficient in thinking of things in 3D and how they look in the real world. By drawing... Read more
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