INSPIRED WORKS
A Passion for Art Curation
As the Creative Director of Chandos Collective, Chandos possesses a unique ability to identify outstanding artists with blossoming careers. Each artwork showcased here reflects Chandos’ impeccable taste and her keen eye for emerging talent, offering a glimpse into her remarkable ability to curate meaningful and captivating collections.
The founder of C2 Art—a full-service firm specializing in investment-level art—Chandos collaborates closely with Mary Hammon Quinn, the president of C2, to curate exquisite artwork collections. With a team of experts, they meticulously source pieces from auctions and their trusted network of gallery partners—serving clients in residential, commercial, and general consumer spaces.
“As an art curator, my goal is to create collections that not only captivate the senses but also hold significant value. It’s about finding that perfect balance between aesthetic appeal and wise investments for my clients.”
– Chandos Dodson Epley
ARTIST
Andrea Fourchy
Andrea Fourchy (B. 1990) was listening to a few versions of “Blue Moon” while creating these works, layering, as the song does, darkness and light, washing color over earlier starts while letting these echoes and outlines act as the paintings skeleton. The silhouettes of California trees and the magnified flakes of snow falling behind globed glass appear not only super-saturated but as watery distortions, flattened copies, covers of a cover. They are as loud and incoherent as what one hears when diving into a blue-tinted pool just to stare at the sky from underwater, the sound of near-isolation and weightlessness. Fourchy’s “cover” of the song pushes up against its undecidedness, too. It is bright, but an eeriness seeps through it.
“You saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own.” It’s been said a million times, and yet, there are always other ways to say it.
With/out a love of my own…, 2023
oil on linen
Gathers //, 2017
oil on canvas
ARTIST
Patricia Treib
Patricia Treib was born in 1979 in Saginaw, Michigan, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Treib’s paintings are composed around sensuous details, absences, and shifts in perspective. While her work draws on far-ranging references – the outline of a sleeve, the contours of a 35 mm camera, a cornice, a ribbon – Treib’s true subject is the process of looking, through which she discovers new relationships while dismantling what is merely recognizable. The space in between forms become primary motifs, peripheral elements become central presences, shapes suggest calligraphic gestures. Although made in one sitting to sustain a sense of immediacy and directness, the paintings develop over time. The aim is to create a pictorial language that’s personal but not private, always open and in flux.
Treib received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2020) and has participated in residencies at the American Academy in Rome (2017), Dora Maar House (2014) and MacDowell (2013). Treib received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
ARTIST
Sam Reveles
Sam Reveles was born in El Paso and earned his M.F.A. in painting from Yale. Throughout his career, Reveles has explored the expressive possibilities of line and space to create abstract responses to familiar visual stimuli. In the early years, these stimuli were master paintings from the canon of art history. For the past decade, Reveles has drawn inspiration from the landscapes to which he is intimately connected. Over the course of his career, Reveles has participated in many important solo and group exhibitions, such as the prestigious Whitney Biennial in 1995. Most recently, he was featured in a solo exhibition at the Butler Gallery, the non-profit contemporary art space of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland. Reveles has had solo exhibitions at the El Paso Museum of Art; the Saint Louis Art Museum; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Hammer Art Museum in Los Angeles. The artist’s paintings are also included in the permanent museum collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. He was recently awarded a residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. He currently lives and works in County Wicklow, Ireland
The Pale 3, 2023
gouache, graphite and colored pencil on handmade paper
ARTIST
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) was born in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, the Ecole du Louvre and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Bourgeois moved to New York in 1938 with her husband, art historian and curator Robert Goldwater, and became an American citizen in 1955. Her sculptures, drawings and prints have been widely exhibited.
Whatever materials and processes Louise Bourgeois used to create her powerful artworks, the main force behind her art was to work through her troubled childhood memories. These memories were not specific, but a layering of emotional responses to the complicated relationship she had with her parents and their relationship with each other. Her father’s unfaithfulness, led to a fear of abandonment, a key theme in Bourgeois’s work. The backdrop of the First World War, which began when she was three years old, made her traumatic memories of childhood even more intense. Throughout her career, her work explored the human body, focusing on individual body parts. The color red in “Don’t Worry” captures a range of emotions: delight, violence, curiosity and pain.
ARTIST
Minoru Togashi
Japanese artist Minoru Togashi studied Buddhist sculpture under Hakuun Sakuma and began his “Stairway to the Void” series in 1964. “Voidness”, more commonly known as “emptiness” in English, is one of the main insights of Buddha. Buddha realized that the deepest source of everyone’s problems in life is their confusion about how they, others and everything exists. Their minds project impossible ways of existing onto everything. Unaware that what they project does not correspond to reality, people create problems and sufferings for themselves. Reaching a state of “voidness” allows for liberation from pain.
The artist intended for people to interact closely with his work – to see and to touch them. His hope was for them to bring peace and harmony to viewers. In fact, he donated many works to his hometown of Tsuruoka, Japan, where it is on view to the public free of charge
marble
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