The former tech executive has amassed over 300 pieces and showcases large-scale works by women in her exhibition, “Making Their Mark.
Artists Are Turning to Big, Bold Abstractions to Create Some of Freshest Work on Canvasa little over a decade ago, and by 2014, in her telling, “that crazy, obsessive collector was born.” Along with her husband, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Gaurav Garg, she supercharged her acquisitions and catapulted into the top rung of collectors.
Now having amassed more than 300 works, Shah recently published a book on their trove, then mounted a traveling exhibition curated byThis $12 Million Brooklyn Townhouse With a Glass Ceiling Used to Be a Former Pickle Factoryon view at the former Dia headquarters in New York through March 23, not only celebrates female artists, who comprise 90 percent of the Shah Garg collection, but goes big by highlighting their monumental works. Pieces by the likes of Mary Weatherford, Simone Leigh, and Firelei Báez command the space; some stretch more than 30 feet across. “There’s often this belief that women make small, pretty work, and I want to prove that scale is not something that women have been shy of,” Shah says. She also hopes to help put female artists on an equal financial footing; Shah cites a well-publicized study that found women artists make just 10 cents on the dollar compared to men. “My take on this is to seduce people, to show them how amazing the work is.” Embarking on this exhibition: creating a “museum” in the middle of the art district in New York. 911 Turbo. It’s like a zippy toy car—I’m sure all the Porsche fans will kick me for that. It’s low to the ground, you feel the road, you feel every time you step on the gas. It’s just a very responsive, fabulous car. I’ve been driving a version of the 911 since ’99. And my son now races. Today, he was trying out a GT3. He’s 21 and on a team that’s the precursor to Le Mans Prototype, LMP. He recently became the LMP3 champion. To be much more disciplined. That’s a trait of many successful people. I can procrastinate to the point of never getting back to something. , early on when I was not aware of a lot of contemporary art, introduced me to works by Jacqueline Humphries and Laura Owens. On one train from Zurich to Basel, he drew me a whole network of artists, women who were looking up to certain women. I wanted to understand all those chains of influences. Katy Siegel is an advocate for overlooked artists and opened my eyes to the fact that what’s called craft has been adjudicated to not be fine art by male critics. She freed me up to go collect textiles and craft. My third teacher is Gary Garrels. He’s really taught me how to look at a painting. For many years, I literally just followed him at art fairs. He was a walking encyclopedia. He was my greatest teacher—, who is now 88 years old. It’s one of her American landscapes. Jaune Quick-to-See Smithand Kay WalkingStick are the doyennes of painting as far as Indigenous artists go. I know both of them well, and I absolutely adore them. Syncing up with Gaurav in the morning. We’ll sit and chitchat. And I’m not very religious, but I have a five-minute prayer that I do every day. What’s the most impressive dish that you cook? I can create certain Indian recipes like nobody else. One is a lentil soup called dal. It’s comfort food for all of us, even my kids, and they don’t love Indian food that much. I would say Joan Mitchell. On one hand, she’s called a kick-ass woman, rude—incredibly rude. But she also got handed a set of circumstances where the machismo was so in the air and the entire art world was at that point tilted toward de Kooning and these crazy men. She had to create a space for herself. There’s not a dull moment in her entire body of work, from the ’40s until the ’90s. If you’re not doing something against the grain, you’re not achieving much. It was from my husband, who said, “You don’t have to chase people. They will come to you if there’s something great, so don’t worry about it. Take a breath. And let them come to you.” My husband’s birthday. I have lived in the Bay Area, California, for 32 years, but this was the first time he and I flew to the eastern Sierras and just hiked and sat by the water. himself and love the new designers in the house. He was the most wonderful person. He had all these stories about going to India in the ’70s and ’80s. It’s my go-to brand along with. Yesterday, Maria Grazia Chiuri saw the show. We were thrilled. She’s such a great supporter of women artists herself. founded by Jerzy and Aniela Gregorek. I did it for a bit very regularly and then lost momentum—this is the lack of discipline. Jerzy figured out a routine for me that would take under half an hour, and now I get it done every day. What kind of music makes you happy? Richard Neutra’s Taylor House Is Up for Rent in L.A. at $10,000 Per MonthBabe Ruth’s 1916 Rookie Card Fetches a Cool $630,000 at Auction
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