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dvb gallery was founded to solve the need of bringing together emerging artist and art collectors:

Beginner collectors and art lovers, who are just starting to consider buying original art, are faced with many dilemmas multiplied by limited knowledge and experience, and will benefit from an expert advice.

The Emerging Art market provides a fruitful ground for beginner art collectors, since it offers a broad range of styles and genres at the best value point, at the same time, understanding what is valuable is not easy to decipher.

Seasoned collectors who are building collections based on their personal tastes, rather than investment value, should consider Emerging Art as a source of complementary pieces for their collections.

Emerging artists often find it very difficult to break through tastemakers and gatekeepers, who emulate global trends demanding more of the same, or turning to experimental works with dubious lasting value.

Buying Art

Buying art necessitates a clear understanding of your goals for each individual purchase. Consider the types of art you drawn to and the spaces where you plan to showcase them, ensuring everything is harmoniously integrated. Reflect on the style of your home and the purpose behind introducing art into your living space.

Buying Tips

Of all the art buying advice you may come across, we find the following tips to be particularly useful:

Understand what you are drawn to versus, what you think one should buy, because the art you buy should delight you every day. Learn about styles and genres, and which subjects attract you the most.

Be honest with yourself, why you want to buy art. Buying art just to decorate your space is a valid reason, but it requires a different approach from, when you buy art for the sake of art itself.

Bend conventions about how to bring art into your space. If your space is small you are not confined to buying smallish artworks. On the contrary, a large statement piece may widen horizons of your modest abode.

Think about opportunities of buying unconventional-sized art and how it may enhance the look and feel of your space by making your gaze travel horizontally or vertically.

Understand what changes should be considered in your place in order to present your art. This, primarily requires, placing art at the eye level and having adequate day and nigh time lighting without creating glare.

The most important thing to remember: art is not an impulse purchase. Take your time to evaluate what really draws you to a particular piece of art. Do not be afraid to ask questions about its origin, the way it was made and what might be the best framing option.

When buying online, make sure you read all the relevant policies to avoid any snags in case you need to exchange or return.

You can be assured when buying art online from Art B Gallery. You can always schedule a call with a gallery founder before buying. Please make sure to fill out the Contact Us form to set up a consultation.

Collecting Advice

Collecting art from emerging artists may prove to be highly rewarding and enjoyable:

The emerging art market can offer exceptional finds from the point of view of lasting esthetical value.

Price points are typically much lower than for the mid-career artists, but investment value is highly uncertain for both, so the latter better be ignored and should not become a sticking point in your decision-making.

What should be assessed is the lasting esthetic, cultural and sentimental value of the piece. At Valeri Fine Art we use our MOSS scale to make sure the artwork stands the test of time as least on those parameters.

The MOSS (TM) scale stands for

M = Mastery

"Mastery" means an ability for anyone to create artwork of the same caliber. How much talent and effort does go into the creation process? Does it stand the test of "My kid can do that!"

O = Originality

How original is the idea or its means of execution? Is it a duplicate of a true original or, is it a clever play on cultural references? Try to separate old from new and both from utterly boring. A high Originality score is typically hard to achieve, since the art history is long and artists traditionally tend to borrow and emulate each other.

S = Story

Think about what narrative a piece of art is conveying and how sophisticated is the storytelling.

S = Sentiment

This is a purely personal aspect which may be linked to a particular time, place, subject or color palette that awakens long-forgoten memories, brings joy and inspiration into your life.

Rarely a piece of art from an emerging artist can score highly on all four parameters. But we always insist on recommending artworks with strong Mastery and Story aspects.

One often overlooked factor pertaining to collecting contemporary art is artwork longevity. Starting in the second half of the XIX century artists began experimenting with mediums and substrates disregarding the rules observed for centuries that were based on the knowledge of how pigments and their bases interact with substrates and each other. That created a problem for art preservation. Although collectors may not experience such problems right away, it is not uncommon for museums and private collectors alike to deal with issues such as paint cracking, peeling, flacking, dulling and blending, as well as vanishing into unprotected surfaces and damaging them as well. At Valeri Fine Art we pay close attention to proper application of mediums to surfaces, to ensure that your acquisitions can stand the test of time.

If you are considering adding a piece to your collection, please make sure to fill out the Contact Us form to schedule a consultation. We will be honored to evaluate if we have a fitting artwork for you in our gallery.