Limitlessly Creating Connection Through Art
Charting Transcendence seeks out art that lays the foundation for meaningful dialogue between your soul and the mysteries of the world.
This unique practice guides you on a search for beauty, art, and moments of transcendence and awe, generating limitless possibilities for connection.
Recently spotted on Miami Design District’s Jungle Plaza, Dreamscape by veteran Argentine artist Marta Minujin (b. 1943) is an oversized, bouncy house-like recapitulation of seminal political activist work she created from the 1960s.
Combining Art with Music to Create Consciousness
In recent presentations in Palm Beach, FL and Austin, TX, Charting Transcendence wove the timeless resonance and contrapuntal bliss of classical music into art narratives, linking stories across centuries to elevate audiences’ appreciation of culture.
We shared stories of Matthew Wong’s introspective, expressionistic landscapes — mirrors of our own searches for belonging — as haunting strains of Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 lingered in the room.
The rhythmic cadences of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos were paired with Tia Keobounpheng’s colorful and meditative geometries, which slow time in a digital age, mirroring the mathematics of her meticulous practice of mapping threads over pencil marks into pulsating objects of wonder
Meanwhile Colleen Herman’s lyrically abstract paintings, pulsing with the serendipitous rhythm of life, seemed to danced to the tune of Mozart’s glass harmonica compositions, their ethereal lightness, shared wildness, and vitality amplifying the energy in the room.
These moments underscore CT’s philosophy, namely that art is a catalyst for consciousness, inviting you to see yourself in its layers, breathe with its patience, and move with its energy — all while music’s timeless language deepens the conversation.
Tia Keobounpheng (b. 1977), FOUNDATION No 9 (2024), pencil and colored pencil on board, 24” x 18,” placed by Charting Transcendence with private collectors in Texas.
An emerging expert in expressing complex emotions through geometric abstraction, Tia will be showing work in New York for the first time this month at Scandinavia House on Park Avenue as well as at EXPO Chicago in late April with Weinstein Hammons Gallery of Minneapolis.
As the peak of the spring art acquisition season approaches, Charting Transcendence is redefining what it means to engage with art through cultural exploration and collecting.
Drawing inspiration from synesthetic connections between art and music, these presentations became immersive and inspiring journeys. Our city tours of New York, Miami, and other art metropolises do the same by placing the art in the context of where it is created and exhibited.
This approach isn’t just poetic; it’s a methodology that helps clients bypass trends to discover pieces that resonate on a visceral level.
Imagine a day when every acquisition becomes a note in your own life’s symphony, played against the timeless score of human creativity.
Now is the time to explore! Let Charting Transcendence help you find art that doesn’t just fill a wall but rewires your mechanics of understanding and experiencing the world. Please Contact CT today for details.
Your Chance to Experience Art’s Electricity and Magic
Early 1930’s maquette of a sculpture dedicated to Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia (and not executed until the 1980s in a modified form) by legendary Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), on display at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, in an exhibition curating Noguchi’s work with that of his colleague Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), a European exile in New York who had a tremendous influence on midcentury American modern and contemporary artists.
April and May are the crown jewels of the contemporary art world’s calendar. In the coming weeks, Dallas, New York and Chicago promise some outstanding discoveries at fairs and galleries.
Firstly, the lynchpin of CT’s art-hunting repertoire, New York’s art scene comes into full bloom this month.
Meanwhile, the Dallas Art Fair (April 10–13) anchors a citywide cultural explosion, with over 90 leading galleries transforming the Fashion Industry Gallery into a modern and contemporary art nexus. Dallas Art Week also spills beyond the fair, with an outstanding satellite fair, artist talks, and gallery events amplifying the city’s claim as a sophisticated and well-curated cultural destination for the American heartland.
Further north, EXPO Chicago (April 24–27) at Navy Pier gathers roughly 140 local, national, and international galleries. This is the largest art fair between New York and Los Angeles and one with substantial support, with most Chicago galleries and institutions putting on excellent concurrent programming.
Both cities are well worth dedicated trips for the curious, and these “art weeks” offer far more to see than fits inside a convention center hall.
May beckons us back to New York for a crescendo of art and culture. Frieze NYC (May 7–11) returns to the Shed Hudson Yards, with several other fairs such as NADA, Future Fair, and Independent NYC competing for traffic, while auction houses ignite with marquee spring sales.
Then at the end of May comes the pinnacle of the classical music lover’s season: Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic in Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 11—a work that has soared to critical acclaim since its 2017 Los Angeles debut. Now hailed as one of the 21st century’s finest symphonies, its hypnotic percussive rhythms and structural ingenuity promise an unforgettable performance, echoing the innovation that defines this era’s art.
The Kennedy Center Commissions a Classical Symphony for the Ages
Philip Glass (b. 1937) is America’s greatest living classical music composer.
He recently announced that his Symphony No. 15, commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the National Symphony Orchestra, would be entitled “Lincoln” and would debut in June 2026 in anticipation of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Celebration.
Scored at 40 minutes in length, “Lincoln” appears to be a choral symphony or oratorio like his Symphony No. 12 “Lodger” and his epic Symphony No. 5, “Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya.”
Why is this announcement important? Given recent changes to the Kennedy Center’s board and President Trump’s desire to overhaul its programming, the announcement of what is likely to be the composer’s swansong symphony as honoring Abraham Lincoln in 2026 speaks volumes about the composer’s intention to create a masterpiece for all time in an age of tremendous upheaval, much as Beethoven did with his Symphony No. 3, originally dedicated to Napoleon but eventually titled Eroica or “dedicated to the memory of a heroic man.”
A Few Recent Art Encounters Worth Mentioning
For sale exclusively through Charting Transcendence are several 20” x 30” egg tempera paintings from the 1990s and 2000s by Cuban-born outsider artist Joel Palacio Llorente, whose visions are compelling and mysterious. Acquiring one or more of these before his oeuvre is “discovered” by major collectors or institutions could be a great first purchase for newer collectors.
An uncomfortable wooden sculpture typical of the neo-surrealist, often racially- or politically-charged work of Hugh Hayden (b. 1983), in the collection of Marquez Art Projects, a private-collection-turned-museum in Miami, evokes a visceral reaction for those who look at it.
Mark Dion (b. 1961), Cabinet of Marine Debris – East Coast/West Coast (2022), consisting of a cabinet (wood, glass, metal, paint), glass vases, and found marine debris, is currently on display in an ecologically-focused show at the University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum. Dion is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
The Idle Servant, (2020) by Emily Mae Smith (b. 1979) known for her neo-surrealist depictions of anthropomorphic broomsticks, is also in the collection of Miami’s Marquez Art Projects, a collection that treasures popular blue-chip contemporary artists alongside emerging artists, many with connections to Latin America or Miami.
Andy Burgess (b. 1969), represented by Cynthia Corbett Gallery, is a British artist living in Arizona who specializes in semi-abstract paintings, screenprints, and collages of mid-century architecture. His work is energetic and available at several accessible price points.
Mainstays at mid-range art fairs such as Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary are paintings like these from the late 1960s and early 1970s by Hungarian-French artist Victor Vasarely (1906-1997), more relevant than ever given contemporary tastes in geometrically abstract art.
French-Caribbean artist Marielle Plaisir (b. 1978) explores themes of identity, memory, and the intersection of personal and collective histories, celebrating the beauty of Caribbean culture against the complex backdrop of colonialism. Her work is currently exhibited at Artis-Naples / the Baker Museum of Art in Naples, Florida.
Lastly, this modern print, cropped from a much larger medium-format negative (one of just a few hundred extant) of a woman in a bathing cap swimming in a South Beach Miami pool in the late 1970s by the legendary Andy Sweet (1954-1982) was placed in a Florida collection by Charting Transcendence. Other modern prints, as well as a limited number of one-of-a-kind vintage photos, are available.
