„Buy What You Love“

This is Episode 94 of the Voices On Art Podcast, created in cooperation with the Independent New York.

Susan and Michael Hort have been collecting contemporary art for 40 years, with a focus on young artists, whom they follow in depth. They often buy early in an artist’s career and usually acquire at least five to seven pieces by any given artist.

Susan and Michael are also the creators of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, established in honor of their daughter Rema, who passed away from cancer at the age of 30 in 1995. The foundation funds travel and accommodations for families of cancer patients and also provides grants for emerging artists. Very recently the foundation supports young Los Angeles artists, who lost their studios in the fires.

Once a year Susan and Michael open their house for the public and share their love for art with the public.

In 2026 they plan to open their own museum space on the premises of the Art Omi Pavilions, with the intention to show some of the art that can't be shown in their house, but also to present artists that they collected early on, who deserve to be rediscovered.

Susan and Michael share their joy in collecting art, in connecting with the people of the art community and the hope to inspire the audience to start collecting themselves.

We're talking the love for art, how it can be reflected in an art collection and how art can fuel life in a powerful way. We talk past, present and future, their early beginnings as collectors, the differences in the art world and art community then and now, how they support artists and how much they value the friendships with artists and gallerists. Being connected to the art world keeps them going, let's them stay young and in tune with what's going on.

Recorded February 7, 2025. 39 min., language english.

Photo by Linda Farwell

We’re recording via the internet, please excuse any glitches in sound quality.

Links:

2024:https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-legacy-of-susan-and-michael-hort-2574473

2023:https://www.villazan.com/villazan-presents/collectors-susan-and-michael-hort-enjoy-being-alive-and-contemporary-art

2002:https://fineartmultiple.com/blog/collector-interviews-susan-and-michael-hort/

2016:https://www.vulture.com/2016/02/art-collectors-who-live-in-their-own-museum.html

2012:https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarawarren/2012/05/14/buy-what-you-love-the-art-of-michael-and-susan-hort/

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This episode is created in cooperation with the Independent 20th Century. It will be part of the fairs OVR.

Thiago Gomide is a founding partner of Gomide&Co, a gallery based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Artists Julia Isídrez, Paraguay and Maria Lira Marques, Brazil, will feature jointly in a presentation by Gomide&Co at Independent 20th Century this September.

Interested in art since his childhood, Thiago first followed another passion by studying architecture. Having to make a living in Brazil this seemed to cover basic needs and interests. His career in the art world started at the age of 20 with founding a small gallery for modern Brazilian furniture in his hometown Belo Horizonte, following an

He talks in depth about the two artists Julia and Maria Lira, whose works Gomide&Co. will show for the first time at the Independent 20th Century.

41 min., Recorded August 13, 2024, language english

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Book recommendation:

Brazilian Modern Design | Móvel Moderno Brasileiro

by Alberto Vicente, Marcelo Vasconcellos, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos

ISBN-13 978-8562114755

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Brad Kahlhamer is an artist of indigenous descent, adopted by German-American parents. Being a free spirit, a wanderer and a person with unquenchable curiosity, profoundly shaped his multidisciplinary work. Kahlhamer's art often incorporates themes and imagery from indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, aiming to

Growing up in Arizona, Brad enjoyed a childhood filled with freedom and outdoor adventures, which later fueled his creative expression. Music was integral to his early life, and he pursued it alongside visual arts, deeply influenced by differents bands and musical styles from rock, beat and soul to punk.

In the early 1980s, Kahlhamer moved to New York to immerse himself in the vibrant art scene. There, he worked at Topps Chewing Gum, where he met Art Spiegelman and became involved in the underground comic scene.

Currently, Kahlhamer is working on the Nomadic Studio project, creating a series of 100 Moleskine notebooks filled with drawings and ideas.

Kahlhamer's art uniquely fuses his personal history, and a wide array of cultural influences, making it both deeply personal and broadly resonant. His work spans various media, including monumental paintings, intricate sculptures, installations, and drawings, drawing inspiration from cartoons, pop art, graphic novels, indigenous art, and his prolific sketchbooks.

Brad will showcase paintings and drawings from the 1990s at the Independent 20th Century with Venus Over Manhattan and has a solo show planned with the gallery in 2025.

Recorded July 23, 2024, 32 min., language english, artist portrait Doug Miles

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Janis Provisor is a New Yorker, residing between Connecticut and New York City.

Janis is an accomplished artist with a vast career in the arts, showing in galleries all over the world as well as having her work in many museum collections. Janis will be having a solo-presentation of her work with Halsey McKay at the Independent 2024.

Now in her seventies Janis gathered a lot of experience in art and life and shares her wisdom in our talk.

Being very young she was taken to Museums by Family members. She already felt then she wanted to be an artist, not knowing at all what that was about. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, right after the Summer of Love, receiving her MFA in 1971. Although the 70s were a great time for experimenting and going new ways in the arts

In 1989, along with her husband and son, she left New York for an adventure in China and Hong Kong, they ended up staying for nine years, running their own company Fort Street Studios in China in the 1990s, designing, manufacturing, and selling hand-knotted silk

Janis often starts her paintings with writing and putting her thoughts, her feelings out on the canvas. In the process of painting those words often get obscured and a physical and emotional process starts, in which Janis let's loose and allows her body to paint the way it needs to. Being jewish, she now processes and expresses her torn feelings

For the presentation at the Independent she is now creating a new body of work, which will be as free and open as possible, while still being very concentrated and essential to fit the format of a fair presentation.

41 min., recorded February 21, 2024, language english

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artist website:

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artist history:

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