Services
Noel Art Liaison, Inc is a client-focused, bespoke advisory and acquisition service that offers objective recommendations based on your collecting aspirations and budget. With a concentration on African American and African Diaspora artists, I can develop and expand your collection across mediums such as photography, contemporary craft, painting, sculpture and assemblage.
Acquisitions – Purchases
Noel has nearly twenty-five years of experience working with the foremost African American artists of our time. Her network also includes master printmakers; and on occasion, she can offer her clients “pre-release” sales on limited edition fine art prints, which affords them access to the work and the greatest potential for appreciation on the investment.
As you will see in her travel log, Noel travels to keep her finger on the pulse of contemporary art and to maintain the artists and the professional network required to secure work that is much in demand.
Charitable Gifts
Noel has nearly twenty-five years of experience working with the foremost African American artists of our time. Her network also includes master printmakers; and on occasion, she can offer her clients “pre-release” sales on limited edition fine art prints, which affords them access to the work and the greatest potential for appreciation on their investment. Noel travels to keep her finger on the pulse of contemporary art and to maintain the artists and the professional network required to secure work that is in demand.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Berkeley Museum
Commissions
Commissions can consist of site-specific paintings or sculptures for home, office, or public art. Examples of Noel’s projects include the commission of three crosses by renowned sculptor Richard Hunt for University Park Baptist Church, Charlotte NC, a Sam Gilliam painting for residence, and a family portrait which she initiated and facilitated by renowned portrait artist Simmie Knox.
Simmie Knox was the first Black artist commissioned to paint the official White House portrait of President William Jefferson Clinton. He was also commissioned to paint the official White House portrait of First Lady Hilary Rodham Clinton.
He has painted US Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, numerous congressmen, statesmen businessmen, and celebrities including Oprah Winfrey.
Commission
Commission
Conservation
Noel’s client had been enjoying this beautiful drawing for nearly thirty years, completely unaware of the daily deterioration to the paper and acid burn from the mats both beneath and above the drawing. Note the brown core of this ‘decorative linen’ mat. Noel had the work removed from old frame and had the paper cleaned stabilized by a professional paper conservator. Noel supervised the design of the reframe emphasizing the essential acid free museum mat board and UV protection, non glare museum acrylic glaze and a custom handmade frame worthy of this precious masterpiece.
Framing
Proper framing is essential! Far more important than the aesthetic quality of the frame are the components that will conserve and protect your artwork for generations.
Be it a precious small work on paper that you may want to modernize to a large canvas that needs to be stretched and framed, having expert framers is essential to securing your art collection.
New Musem Conservation Materials and Glaze
Reframed for client’s new modern
open concept condo
Museum-quality, 100% cotton rag mat board is naturally acid and lignin-free for the highest levels of art conservation. Premium matboard features solid color throughout. Ideal for original artwork, historical documents, and fine art photography
Installations
Beyond navigating the market to secure a work of art, Noel can facilitate national and international art handling to assure the work arrives safely. She is aware of the mechanical and spatial considerations that impact how you experience a work of art in your environment and she recommends single placement to complete reinstallation of your art collection.
Loans
Noel has worked with curators from major museums to facilitate exhibition loans. One such case was to facilitate the loan of Kehinde Wiley’s “Design for a Stained Glass Window with Wildman II, 2007″ to the National Academy of Art Museum. NYC
“Design for Stain Glass Wildman II”
Salon Events
Carlos Basualdo – Argentinian Curator, Lowery Stokes Sims – American Historian
Salon event on art of Barbara Chase Riboud featuring Carlos Basualdo is an Argentinian curator who is now the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art[1] and Curator at Large at MAXXI-Museo Nazionale Delle Arti del XXI secolo in Rome, Italy. Basualdo has written extensively for scholarly journals and art publications, including ArtForum, ArtNews, and The Art Journal (Rt) Lowery Stokes Sims is an American art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Native and Asian American artists such as Wifredo Lam, Fritz Scholder, Romare Bearden, Joyce J. Scott, and others. She served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She has frequently served as a guest curator, lectured internationally and published extensively, and has received numerous public appointments. Sims was featured in the 2010 documentary film Women Art Revolution.
2006 Salon event to present the art of Simone Leigh (standing) to art scholars curators & art professionals. Leigh says: “I came to my artistic practice via the study of philosophy, cultural studies, and a strong interest in African and African American art, which has imbued my object and performance-based work with a concern for the ethnographic, especially the way it records and describes objects”. She has proven to be a brilliant award-winning artist, working in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. She is the recipient of esteemed awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, Creative Capital Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Hugo Boss Prize. Considered one of the most influential artists today, Simone Leigh was selected to represent the United States in the 2022 Venice Biennale, thereby becoming the first African American female to hold this auspicious position.
Support
Noel secures and shares pertinent exhibition text and information to support the art placed in her clients’ collections. She keeps them apprised of artists’ careers by sending art reviews, notices of awards, residencies, and auction records.
And she works with her clients and appraisers to provide support material required for thorough accurate appraisals
Researched and found by Noel to support client’s Norman Lewis painting
Noel found a print edition to support the client’s collection
