ArtAboveReaity is an art consulting firm focused on providing professional art services to private individuals, and corporations as well as exhibiting scholarly contemporary art globally. We assist in primary and secondary market art acquisitions for beginning collectors, investment opportunities and evaluation of existing collection(s). We act as an extension of the client providing strategy based on their personal goals protecting their interests while preserving their privacy. ArtAboveReality is based in Los Angeles.
Badir McCleary is an independent consultant. He holds a M.A. in Arts Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art (Los Angeles/London) where he focused on creating art markets and with an undergraduate degree in Internet Computing from Cabrini University focusing on e-commerce and digital trends. Badir enjoys working with artists and consider them crucial to informing his practice. Having extensive contemporary art history knowledge and experience, Badir is able to tackle large projects with confidence, protecting and tracking deliverables and ensuring high level success for clients. In 2015, Badir was the Co-Owner and Director of Gallery 38 (Los Angeles), a project that produced exhibitions for emerging artists of color in South Los Angeles and helped contribute to several public projects globally, helping artists transform communities through visual aesthetics.
Badir created the art review and critique web space ArtAboveReality.com to focus on the rising street art movement, artists of color in contemporary art, and essays on artistic culture. Through dialogue and research, he hopes to educate artists on a growing cultural marketplace simultaneously introducing underrepresented neighborhoods to fine art programming. Badir and his curatorial work has been featured in LA Weekly, WhiteWall and Artillery Magazine(s). Badir also volunteers as an advocate for Americans for the Arts as a California delegate through Sotheby’s Institute. In addition to curation, Badir is also a freelance journalist and photographer with recent work being included in Kenny Scharf: In Absence of Myth by G. James Daichendt.
- “Configuration” at 2018 Scope International Art Fair Miami Beach December 4th – December 9th, 2018 December 2, 2018
- Relational Chemistry: A Introspective of Urban Experience October 12, 2018
- Reality Talks: Episode One – Jane Golden August 16, 2018
- Digitalia: Examining Blackness in a Museum Through Technology July 31, 2018
- Black Bodies, Feminism and Representation. Is the use of the body in art the most effective way to examine social inequities and help to progress the surrounding conversation? January 24, 2018
- Santoro on Street Artist “MiMo” claims to be creative force behind the ALEC Monopoly art machine
- Ferrari Rachels on Street Artist “MiMo” claims to be creative force behind the ALEC Monopoly art machine
- Bob on Street Artist “MiMo” claims to be creative force behind the ALEC Monopoly art machine
- Steve Grody on #TheArtInfluencer – Steve Grody of Graffiti L.A.
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