What is Annie Wharton Art Consulting?

We love helping clients find works they love for their homes and places of business. Annie Wharton Art Consulting specializes in art acquisitions, art advisement, art consulting, and curatorial services for private individuals, corporate, and real estate clients. LA County Department of Arts and Culture selected Annie as a Prequalified Art Consultant for public art projects, and we have a solid team in place for the selection and fulfillment of fine art, murals, and installations for the Public Art in Private Development Ordinance / 1% for art program throughout Southern California. With a strong background in project management for art in capital improvement and private development projects, each endeavor is handled using impeccable attention to detail and ultimate discretion. We will work on almost any project size, and are able to create efficient timelines that stay within budget.

Annie Wharton Art Consulting champions the work of the artists with whom they work to museums and institutions. Wharton, a Los Angeles-based art advisor, has secured placement of artists’ works in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Fundación/Colleción Jumex in Mexico City, The Hammer, LACMA and MOCA in Los Angeles, Sarasota Art Museum in Florida, 21 C. Museum in Louisville, and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Nice (France). As well as an impressive list of private art collectors, a small selection of the corporate art clients who have purchased works via Annie Wharton Art Consulting includes Broadway Elite, Central City Development Group, Creative Artist Agency, Fox Rothschild LLP, Hirsch-Bedner Associates, KNA Design, Kelly Wearstler Interiors, Kneedler-Fauchere, Millennium Partners, Sagamore Art Hotel, Shanghai Construction Group, and Surfcomber Hotel. Wharton served as project manager and advisor for a public art installation in the technologically-advanced San Jose Airport (SJO), liaising between fabricators, designers, technicians, and city officials and staff to facilitate the project from idea through fruition. She also recently oversaw the creation of a series of colored glass transom windows for a public school in Brooklyn, NY, where one of her artists combined ancient fusing techniques with the most ultramodern glass technologies available. Annie Wharton Art Consulting is currently overseeing museum, private, and public projects in California, Florida, and New York and would be happy to help you, too!

How can Annie Wharton help you?

Annie Wharton Art Consulting has built a comprehensive database of thousands of works by hundreds of contemporary artists working in ceramics, drawing, glass, installation, murals, painting, photography, prints, public art, sculpture, and video art. Ranging in scope from abstraction to hyper-real and conceptual to hard-edge and utilizing a wide variety of media, we are interested in furthering a new and refreshing aesthetic dialogue with collectors and developers.

Wharton and her art advisory team have the acumen to navigate the contemporary art world via a well-informed comprehension of its language (one that is initially daunting to many), where relative values of art are confounded by its unregulated market. We educate our collectors about market values and investment practices in contemporary art, historical precedents for the kind of works they are seeking to acquire, how each work of art being considered can either detract from or benefit existing works in their collection, and the theoretical and logistical frameworks for building an important and viable collection.

Annie Wharton Art Consulting can swiftly negotiate art business transactions, and contribute to all projects on which they work with the dedicated professionalism, well-informed aesthetic, and sense of humor required to satisfy the most discerning client.

Who does AWAC influence?

Annie Wharton Art Consulting has garnered many international reviews and feature articles in a variety of publications for their artists, exhibitions, and projects and will continue to seek global visibility for all of their endeavors. Some of the publications who have written about Annie and Annie Wharton Art Consulting include:

• ArtForum • Art in America • Art News • Art Review (UK) • Artslant • The Art Newspaper • Contemporary Art Review LA • Domus (Italy) • Flash Art (Italy) • Flaunt Magazine • Frieze (UK) • LA Weekly • Los Angeles Times • Miami Herald • Minneapolis Star Tribune • Morgunblaðið (Iceland) • Nordstjernan (Sweden) • Ocean Drive • Saatchi Online’s “Best Exhibitions in LA” (UK) • The New York Times • Wired • X-tra Magazine