Meet The Gallery – The iMuseum Vegas
The iMuseum Vegas is a privately owned gallery dedicated to the exhibition of modern and contemporary American and European abstract art.
Q1. Where is your gallery based?
Henderson, Nevada, USA.
Q2. When was the gallery established?
2018.
Q3. What is the history of the gallery?
The gallery follows my private art collection which began in 1980.
Q4. In the early days of your gallery, what are some of the artists, prints or artworks that you dealt in?
Josef Albers, Al Held, Alexander Liberman, Robert Motherwell, Max Bill, Dorothy Dehner, Larry Zox, and Nicholas Krushenick.
Q5. Who are the main artists or art movements that your gallery now specialises in?
20th Century European and American Abstract and Geometric Constructivist.
Q6. If you could invite any three artists (living or no longer alive) to a dinner party, who would they be and why?
Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Marcel Duchamp. Mondrian, because of the highest level of educational attainment with prominent standing in the Bauhaus and originality of modernist thought; Kandinsky, because of the highest level educational attainment with prominent standing in the Bauhaus and unique modernist thought and visual vocabulary; Duchamp, DADA movement with his skill at playing chess; I would like the opportunity to play chess with him after dinner. Though he was not an outstanding student, his best subject was mathematics and he won two mathematics prizes at the school. Similar to me where I became a mathematics teacher. I feel we would have much in common as I was the chess coach at each school I taught.
Q7. If you could own any one particular artwork, regardless of value, what would it be (title, artist), and why?
Mona Lisa, I viewed the original at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1962.
Q8. Who is your favourite artist of all time, and why?
Leonardo da Vinci. The greatest genius.
Q9. What are some of the recent acquisitions made by your gallery?
Max Bill, Al Held, Roy Lichtenstein.
Q10. What advice would you offer print collectors in building a collection or simply buying prints?
Acquire work that you consider to be good and is within your budget.
