Art Collector (Private Home)

“*We entered a home where art was no longer decoration—it was a dialogue. Every wall answered back.”*

What We Did

This project began in quiet confidence: a collector couple, eager to deepen their love for art, opened their home to us. KIN stepped in to curate objects that felt like memory, not museum pieces—interweaving artists like Nancy Rubins, Claire Sherman, Jessica Rankin, Katherine Strause, and Dylan Martinez into the architecture of the intimate. We didn’t just place art; we built connections between object, owner, and the stories they carry.

Why It Matters

This collection lives like a landscape of identity—each piece cradles a moment in time, a feeling, or a memory. It’s art as autobiography, art as intimacy, art as invisible threads weaving through daily life. The home doesn’t just hold the collection—it becomes part of it.

Collection Highlight

One of our client’s favorite works they collected is by Josephine Halvorson. She painted it while staying at Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch as the first artists in residence in the newly established program. This piece, which is a painting of a skull in O’Keeffe’s studio, contains so many incredible elements connecting to Halvorson’s experience. There is dirt and sand in the plaster surround from Ghost Ranch. The left side of the object is a painting of O’Keeffe’s yard stick.

Because of the exceptional quality of the work and connection to Santa Fe, this work was requested to be in a focus show at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. You can see Halvorson speaking in front of the piece here.