Art Advisory
About
I work with private clients to develop their taste and build intentional art collections over time. The focus is on cohesion, evolution, and selecting work that suits the client—not popularity.
I specialize in a broad range of contemporary work.
The Service
The curation, sourcing, and introduction of work that aligns with your taste and fits your budget.
The service will be provided in exchange for a fee, which varies depending on the price of the piece.
(For retainer-based services, please email me at advisory@cianstarr.com to enquire)
Gallery Partnerships
IOMO Gallery
Bucharest, Romania
IOMO represented artists
Emma Pavaloaia
In her works, Emma Păvăloaia explores spatial and temporal liminal territories, geographies made up of hypnotic landscapes, shrouded in twilight atmospheres, but especially the way in which the human psyche relates to supernatural realities.
Emma Isabelle Pavaloaia, First Rain After Many Years, 2026, Oil on canvas, 63 × 55 1/10 in | 160 × 140 cm
Emma Isabelle Pavaloaia, The Memory Of The Day I Killed The Goose, 2023, Oil painting on canvas, 77 1/5 × 90 3/5 × 1 3/5 in | 196 × 230 × 4 cm
Simion Cernica
Simion Cernica’s practice is at the intersection of philosophical and material investigation, involving an apparent endless redistribution, combination and recombination in different techniques and mediums. It thus reflects a changing condition of constant deconstruction and reconfiguration, in the idea of a non-hierarchical universe, without limits, which shares and redistributes intersubjective ideas and truths, dialogues between the ecology of the personal and that of the community.
Untitled (Fly over the sea of cables), oil and acrylic on canvas, 126 × 106 cm, 2021
Untitled (BUC Matrix Chemical Sunset #1), oil and acrylic paint on canvas, 160 × 130 cm, 2023
Alex Berns Gallery
New York City, New York, USA
Alex Berns Represented Artists
Curtis Mitchell
When Mitchell has his way with ordinary things, objects purchased in the day-to-day transactions of consumer culture, he is using them to forcibly recant the adamantine grip of kitsch upon American society. Often times, in their encounter with Mitchell, these “ordinary things”, the purchased objects, will become broken, soiled or ultimately vandalized. Plumbing fixtures, furniture, rugs, sometimes fine art objects find their way into his studio, and thence become damaged in some manner. Sometimes it seems that Mitchell has tried to repair, modify or improve the object.
Curtis Mitchell, Fast Rabbit 56, 2012, Altered C-print, 32” x 66”
Curtis Mitchell, I (3), 1997, C–print of anonymous snapshot ruined, revived, and reshot, 40 × 30 inches
Justin Adian
Justin Adian’s core practice involves stretching oil enamel- or spray painted canvas around foam cushions, often combining two or more shapes to form composite wall-mounted reliefs. His unfamiliar and colorful shapes are rooted in the Minimalist tradition of Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland, though Adian’s forms contrast sharply with the rectilinear frames and precise geometries of Minimalism. Adian’s process is an attempt to give colors a three-dimensional form without actually leaving the mounting wall and becoming a freestanding sculptural object.
Justin Adian, “Neverfull” (2019) Oil enamel on canvas and felt over wood
Justin Adian, (Noise) Induced, 2024, Oil enamel and spray paint on felt and canvas, 39 x 19 in
