Art Filled Brooklyn Apartment Tour with John & Kirby
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Testudo co-founders John Dennehy & Kirby Voigtman take us on a tour of their art-filled Brooklyn apartment. John and Kirby discuss their art collecting, their love for queer artists, and why they think art is important:
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As a practicing visual artist seeing these collectors’ deeply felt connection to their art, and artists is truly heartwarming.
Thank you Siobhan!!
I enjoyed listening to your appreciation of art and how it makes you feel. I'm a collector, but also an artist and have been inspired by so many others. It's really refreshing to hear about your feelings on art. I'm an unusual case in the arts because most of my professional forty plus years were in illustration and graphic design holding senior positions within design studios. I did a lot of commercial work for major clients. There was always a constant thing in my background that I constantly did and that was the fine art end of painting and drawing for gallery shows and exhibitions as my dueling occupations. I'm sixty-four years old now and have received recognition as a realist painter over the years, but now have made shifts into abstract painting which is garnering wonderful recognition. It's very uplifting in that my work has attracted diverse likes from people. I think my fascination with art as an eclectic collector surely plays a big role. I learned to steer away from the idea of "The one and only sad and lonely art" in which people can't see beyond things or value and appreciate something different. I see equal value in all forms of art. Cheers to your collecting and your spaces are inspired. I think some of my work ends up in Brooklyn. There's a few art dealers in the area that like what I do. I heard I was in a Hoboken Gallery as well. I never know where things end up. I just keep painting. I hope someday to do a video on my collection of others works.
I love how beautifully curated is their art collection. I really love their personal connections to the art world and living artists.
Thank you for watching! We love the connection to living artists for sure!!
I recognize one of the pictures here! Behind John and Kirby when they are on the sofa is a 1959 Slim Aaron's portrait of Lady Daphne Cameron taken at the Stanford mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. -- This is an interesting turn: many years ago I wrote a short story about a young man who is house-sitting in an old house. He finds a concealed door in the basement and then a corridor that takes him to the deserted Gilded Age mansion across the street, a house on an overgrown property surrounded by a high spiked fence. The house-sitter explores the house, does no damage and takes nothing, but in a tower window he places a cobalt blue glass vase that even years later and from a distance he can see in the window. The name of the character in the story is John Kirby.
Theirs is a beautiful home with beautifully curated objects. Great job guys. 10/10 👍
Thanks so much! We appreciate it!
So great to hear how you speak about art. I wish you had one of my paintings in your home. They are life prints, a bigger version of a finger print. Xx
Thanks for supporting the art - love all the good energy in your home!
I love homes like this, none of that minimalist austerity. Wonderful.
We completely agree!
Nice to see you guys! Thank You for procuring wonderful things.✨🖼🎨🖌🏳🌈⚜🔱♐
Thank you for watching!
Lately, my partner and I are trying to move our work around to different places in the house. When we repainted, we decided nothing would go back to the same spot. John and Kirby, we are considerably older, and accumulating more work becomes ever more challenging.
A fun challenge nonetheless!! Thank you for watching!
This is lovely. I make art, as well as collect it with my husband. I too are always interested in who the artist is and how their work evolves. Our collect adds to our well-being. Being able to come home to it and get lost in the uniqueness of each work is so special to us. And, of course, it is an interest that we enjoy together.
Thank you - we have also found that our collection adds to our well-being!!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful home.
You are so welcome!
Nice small museum.. love it...
Thank you!
Such a feast for the eyes and for the love of art! Thanks guys :) ~Rob
It's quite interesting that you feel as though you really know a couple after looking at their art and what and why they collect each piece.
It is interesting! That's why we've found art collections can be so personal!
@@testudo_art Ours is so vast that you'd have a hard time getting through it all!
Wonderful home!!!
Thank you for watching!
Awesome! 👍😎🇨🇦
I like the collection and their commitment. I do worry about the amount of sunlight and its affect on the exposed pieces of art in the long run.
We try to be mindful of that - we keep them out of direct sunlight and rotate pieces frequently to steward them as best as possible!
Anyone know who the Ceramic artist is who did the plate with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg portrait on it?
That's by the artist Roberto Lugo!
@@testudo_art thank you so much for responding. I just found him on Insta. Love his work and i’m so happy to discover your channel. ❤️
I think they have open relationships on Grindr 😅
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Für mich stellt sich gerade die Frage, inwieweit das meiste inszeniert ist, um dem Zeitgeist soziale Medien zu entsprechen ...es ist ganz schrecklich voller Klischees und es wirkt sehr unnatürlich und aufgesetzt...sorry...plötzlich ist man Kunstsammler und Designexperte...klar😏😶
Rutro look out gay Dems....rbg
Smells like sweet disposable income...
John and Kirby take this way to serious. In the end there is but a small difference between collecting and hoarding.
To each their own, but we love our collection!!
Hoarding ??? I don’t think so. It is not an mere accumulation of raggle-taggled disparate artworks. Their collection is all cohesive. And beautiful.
P.s. I could well see one of my cut-out collage artwork hanging on one of their wall 😉.
Thank you Evelyn!!
They have a collection of rigorously curated pieces of art that mean something to them. Hoarding is accumulating things just for the sake of it regardless of their value - sentimental or otherwise.
Gotta say, it must be wonderful to be a gay guy and spend all your money on an art collection, instead of on a wife and kids... maybe in my next life folks.
Surely your wife and kids have value...
Not all of us gays have money to throw around. You made,a choice to marry and have children so stop complaining.
Gays do have families too but not necessarily related by blood. Some of them even have kids of their own - imagine that! 🙄
John should spend a little of that art collecting money studying basic English grammar.
Be better.
@@jamesrightasrain795I caught that too. " a illustrator". A lot of collectors collect known artist prints instead of discovering new artists. Art for investments sake instead of noblesse oblige.
We agree that art is not a commodity and discovering new artists is an incomparable joy. John and Kirby, who co-founded Testudo, believe firmly in championing the work of emerging artists. Check out any of our other documentary videos that showcase the practice of artists with whom we have partnered.
Thanks, John & Kirby. Lovely. F.
thank you for watching!
you guys need some abstract art..........@lincolnhowardart