In 2018, I started Restaurant Projects, a curatorial project and research-driven art advisory service based in New York City. Though I’ve always had a deep interest in performance and conceptual art, I've mainly collected sculpture and painting. With a clear reverence for emerging artists, I enjoy nurturing my clients in the discovery of an artist's practice I believe to be rooted in longevity. Which I occasionally share on Instagram @koartadvisory.

I have a soft spot for Miami and tender moments of leisure featuring cats. Brad Philllips' oil on canvas work portrayed in a photorealist style, is a loving real life moment between his spouse Cristine and their cat Cherry.

I've always loved Corey Lamb's portrayal of melancholy and absolute bliss that permeate throughout his painting, usually featuring lighthearted body positivity. Twined, 2021 is a great example of this.

The extraordinary dreamlike paintings of Alissa McKendrick's stand out for their satiric sensibility and mature color palette. The subjects within Untitled, 2021 skateboarding at dusk accompanied by a butterfly, a signifier for the total freedom McKendrick's subject possess.

Kadar Brock's cleaning brushes, a purple ochre, 2021 is the latest from the abstract painter. Through layering, erasing, and reworking his surfaces, a bright optimism is viewable once your eye acclimatizes to the surface. Upon my first view of this work, I imagined a eucalyptus plant blowing in the wind with a rustic sunset.