Flow Advisory

After beginning her career at MoMA PS1, Heather Flow founded Flow Advisory as a type of collecting laboratory. Flow is dedicated to collaborating with clients to create and maintain inventive and dynamic private collections.

Heather Flow helps clients break free from uniform collecting norms and to embrace a more complex approach to collecting. For Flow and her clients, building a collection is not simply the act of accumulation.

Post-Internet artist and New Media artist Neïl Beloufa’s work explores the representation of digital information systems and the often-conflicting desires for openly available information within mass media. Within his works, certain aspects of the images are able to be manipulated and fragmented throughout layers of screens within space. Feminist painter, Freida Toranzo Jaeger explores the paralleled gendered history of the car and gendered history of painting – both traditionally understood as steeped in masculinity. Jaeger explores these biases and their inevitable demise. Painter, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy plays with the passage between stratified modes of art-making. His material fluidity is grounded by his recurring set of symbolic, formal, and political concerns. Lutz-Kinoy’s works contain an emphasis on process and the performative dimension of art-making. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Private art foundation. Flow Advisory Collection.
Sculptor Piotr Łakomy’s artworks engage in a dialogue with architecture, through a shared interest in the human body and the evolution of the modernization of the corporal. Łakomy specifically investigates energy flow and labor. Łakomy’s artworks reveal inherent distortions in the capitalist proposed standard. Jeanette Mundt often works with ideas of appropriation and reinterpretation. By removing images, objects, and/or subjects from their original contexts, the artist evokes ideas of memory, perception and cultural constructs. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Private art foundation. Flow Advisory Collection.
Sculptor Rochelle Goldberg’s artworks are in a state of flux in which the boundaries and borders that serve as forms of containment are transgressed and undermined. Her ceramic artworks have a hybrid and organic appearance, poised between animate and inanimate, as if generated by continuous mutations and transformations. Goldberg refers to her works and installations as “digestive networks,” seething complexes of matter and meaning that perpetually turn towards new terrains of signification. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Private art foundation. Flow Advisory Collection.
Painter Nikolas Gambaroff is concerned with the processes of painting and the re-evaluation of traditional methods of production and display. Gambaroff's questions paintings’ sacred role in a particular art history. Gambaroff investigates how art, often imbued with multifaceted meaning, should place itself in a time when nothing seems to mean anything at all. Conceptualist Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) scientific methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Contemporary art in the kitchen. Flow Advisory Collection.
Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and designer, one of the strongest advocates of the expressive power of organic abstract shapes in 20th-century American sculpture. Painter Fredrik Værslev treats painting as an object in line with other objects, and his works are often created through laborious, serial, collaborative and deterministic processes, where time itself (as well as external factors including site, space and even the weather) become active co-creators in the making of the work. Photographer Elad Lassry defines his practice as consumed with “pictures” — generic images culled from outside sources. Lassry’s images suggest that the utilitarian function of clinical images is built into the dormant capacity of all photographs, and that the themes of technology and human progress have always been central to the photographic medium. Artist Steven Parrino is best known for his signature “misshaped” monochromes with slashed, torn or twisted canvases. This mutant form of deformalised painting provided Parrino with the platform to speak about reality through abstract painting. The artist was also an established pioneer in performance and video art. And in every medium, Parrino found creative potential in disruption and destruction. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Contemporary Art in the dining room. Residential. Flow Advisory Collection.
Painter Bernard Frize is a French abstract painter who creates process–oriented works that follow a set of rules. The techniques used for the production of his paintings are intertwined with their content and the flat surface of Frize’s works become a common ground on which concept, process, and materials are reconciled. Artist Jason Loebs reflects upon the limits and the new possibilities within conscious materiality. Loebs’ politically conscious, readymade language visualizes the constituting elements and structures of emergence. Utilizing a “biopolitics of the senses,” Anicka Yi challenges traditional approaches to the human sensorium, emphasizing olfaction as well as microbial and embodied intelligence. Through her research and “techno-sensual” artistic exploration, Yi is opening new discourse in the realms of cognition, artificial intelligence and machine learning, introducing concepts of the sensory ecology of intelligence, the machine microbiome, machine ecosystems, and “biologized” machines. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Contemporary Art in the bedroom. Residential. Flow Advisory Collection.
Painter Cheyney Thompson engages the status of painting within competing contemporary technological modes of image production. This has led to a rigorous interrogation of the medium itself via paintings, sculptures and works on paper that stimulatingly explore issues of pictorial, economic, and technological abstraction. From the minutely controlled brushstrokes of his paintings, to the exhibition and the market in which they are disseminated, Thompson’s queries ultimately address art as a system of production and reception. Yves Klein was a French Conceptual artist with a wide-ranging and highly influential practice. Perhaps best remembered for his creation of a vivid shade of blue, he began creating his monochrome series in the 1950s by developing and patenting his own signature hue known as IKB, or International Klein Blue. Klein’s blend of mysticism and performance art contrasted with the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art sensibilities of the time. Rick Owens is best known for his iconic clothing label, started in Los Angeles in 1994. Since 2007 Owens has applied a punk and anarchist sensibility to furniture design as well, creating brutal and elegant forms out of marble, alabaster, bronze, ox bone, leather, concrete, and plywood. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Private art collection. Private art collection. Residential. Flow Advisory Collection.
Sculptor David Adamo considers his sculptures to be similar to performances. Adamo’s sculptures are testaments to a specific performance, which is indispensable to the birth of the work. Adamo’s investigation includes a close study of action - effect. Trained in art and architecture, Klara Lidén often uses architectural interventions and hijacked materials to expose some of the conventions on which society is based. Liden's work focuses on intense exploration of the physical and psychological limits of the spaces we inhabit, both public and private. Conceptual artist Danh Vō works within the tradition of the readymade, combining approaches of a cultural anthropologist and a family historian to create poetically charged works that address the lingering social and cultural ramifications of colonialism. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Private art collection. Residential. Flow Advisory Collection.
Painter Leidy Churchman’s practice involves explorations of color and shape, positioned against process and situation, that manifest themselves as actions, video and ultimately painting. While the works in Churchman’s series may seem singular, he is attempting to commove the current social and economic order. Trained as a composer, Sergei Tcherepnin works at the intersections of sound, sculpture, and theatre. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art installation. Private art foundation. Artwork in a lobby. Flow Advisory Collection.
At the center of painter Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s investigations is the car interior, which she thematizes on two different levels. Iconographically, the artist interrogates the experience of driving as an incarnated fantasy of male control. Allegorically, the space of the car comes to stand for the space of painting itself. For over 50 years Vitra has been developing innovative, functional pieces of furniture for the office. In the office furniture domain Vitra continuously seeks solutions for modern and open-plan offices where to communicate and exchange ideas and projects to the best. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Private art foundation. Art installation. Artwork in a lobby. Flow Advisory Collection.
Adam Pendleton is interested in how the organization and narration of events orients us around a sense of our present moment. Pendleton shares in a post-modern lineage of intertextuality, one that stretches from Situationist détournement through the allegorical procedures of the Pictures Generation. As much as Pendleton’s work is premised on the strategy of fragmentation and disjunction, whereby the oblique relation of text and image confronts the viewer with pieces of an unfixed grammar of identity and artistic form, it nevertheless refuses that belief in the utter fungibility of images characteristic of other modes of contemporary Warholian appropriation. In the space of the canvas or the arena of performance, Pendleton juxtaposes incompatible forms, times, materials, contexts, and modes of identity in order to refashion history. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art installation. Private art collection. Residential. Flow Advisory Collection.
Adriano Costa appropriates everyday objects and arranges them in a state he describes as “pre-sculptoric,” in order to explore the undefined moment in which something has not yet been defined as art. The juxtaposition of craft elements (crochet, needlework, carpet weaving) and the formal geometric concerns of minimalist art, concepts of an antagonistic nature, are used by the artist to open a possible discussion on the aesthetic position of contemporary Brazil. Elements are arranged in what the artist calls a ‘pre-sculptural’ manner, which he describes as ‘a moment in the process of constructing a sculpture in which the final form still has not been defined’. His work is being inscribed in traditions of Brazilian modernism, such as Neo-Concretism, yet, he undermines the traditional notions of value by using cheap or everyday materials - adding a humorous contradiction. Heather Flow. Flow Advisory. Collecting artwork. How to collect art. Art advisor. Art consultant. Art Installation. Private art collection. Residential. Flow Advisory Collection.