Bad Penny
Fine Art Acquisitions
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Curatorial Projects
Bad Penny has curated and managed exhibitions across international art fairs, galleries, and private collections. Our curatorial approach emphasizes rigorous research, strategic placement, and meaningful dialogue between artists and collectors.
Bob Stanley: Selected Works
This exhibition presented a focused selection of works by Bob Stanley, a significant figure in American Pop Art whose practice emerged alongside and in dialogue with the movement's defining voices. Stanley's oeuvre bridges the playful irreverence of Andy Warhol's celebrity portraits with the formal rigor of Tom Wesselmann's compositions, creating works that are simultaneously art-historically literate and visually exuberant. His large-scale paintings and mixed-media pieces engage with themes of consumer culture, sexuality, and mass media through bold color, graphic simplification, and strategic appropriation. The exhibition featured figurative works that demonstrate Stanley's sophisticated understanding of Pop Art's visual vocabulary—flat planes of color, hard-edged forms, and the elevation of commercial imagery to fine art status. Through this selection, viewers encountered an artist whose contribution to Pop Art deserves broader recognition within the movement's canon.
Freedom of Choice
Presented in partnership with New Wave Art Weekend 2023, this thematic group exhibition examined the multifaceted relationships between art and belief systems, exploring how religion, fanaticism, devotion, and idolization shape cultures and worldviews. The exhibition featured works by Jean Michel Basquiat, Faig Ahmed, Studio Job, and other contemporary voices engaging these enduring themes. Bad Penny worked closely with the exhibition to place works by Aladdin Garunov from his Zikr series and by Vasily Ivanovich Denisov, presenting practices grounded in spiritual ritual, cultural memory, and the material languages of devotion. The exhibition marked the inaugural show at TW Fine Art's new West Palm Beach location.
The Midsummer Art Exhibition
Victor Gallery presented this summer showcase featuring contemporary artists Mila Akopova, Diane Detalle, Maya Frank, and Anna Zaia in dialogue with blue-chip Modern masters Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Salvador Dalí. The exhibition explored the enduring vitality of painterly abstraction and figurative expression across generations, demonstrating how contemporary practitioners engage with and extend the formal innovations of mid-century giants. This intergenerational presentation highlighted the continuity of gestural freedom, material experimentation, and psychological depth that connects post-war American and European masters with today's emerging voices.
Influences of Time: Art of the 20th Century in Pursuit of Freedom and Enlightenment
This exhibition traced the evolution of 20th-century art through the lens of Heinrich Wölfflin's theory of artistic development, presenting major movements that shaped contemporary practice. Structured as a theatrical narrative in four acts, the exhibition explored how geopolitical upheaval, scientific discovery, and revolutionary fervor propelled artists toward new formal languages. From Toulouse-Lautrec's impressionistic foundations through Georg Grosz's emigrant experience, to Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov's embrace of Russian folk traditions in their Diaghilev ballet designs, the show illuminated the transnational dialogue that connected European and Russian avant-garde movements—tracing the arc from Futurism and Cubo-Futurism to Suprematism and the threshold of pure abstraction.
In a Mystic Land: Alexander Panov's Impressions of Asia
This exhibition presented Alexander Panov's sculptural explorations of Asian mythology and symbolism. Working primarily in bronze and mixed media, Panov creates mythological creatures and figures that draw from centuries of Asian artistic traditions while maintaining a distinctly contemporary sensibility. The exhibition featured works spanning over a decade, demonstrating the evolution of the artist's engagement with form, texture, and narrative.
In Other Worlds of the Russian Avant-Garde 1910-1930s
Organized by Gallery Shchukin from the collection of Marina Achenbach, this exhibition presented masterworks of the Russian Avant-Garde including paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and other pioneering figures of early 20th century abstraction. The exhibition explored the revolutionary period when Russian artists redefined the boundaries of visual expression, creating works that bridged spiritual inquiry with formal innovation.
Aladdin Garunov: Selected Works 1998-2013
A comprehensive survey of Aladdin Garunov's practice spanning fifteen years, this exhibition presented the artist's distinctive approach to material and abstraction. Garunov's work explores the tension between surface and depth, employing industrial materials and minimalist composition to create meditative fields that reference both Russian Constructivism and contemporary conceptual practice.
MA+D Miami Art and Design 2014
Gallery Shchukin's presentation at MA+D Miami featured contemporary works exploring the intersection of traditional artistic techniques with modern conceptual approaches. The booth showcased a carefully curated selection that demonstrated the gallery's commitment to both established and emerging voices in contemporary art.
Shanghai Art Fair 2012
Gallery Shchukin's presentation at the 16th Shanghai Art Fair featured a curated selection of contemporary Russian artists, including Michail Molochnikov alongside other significant voices from the Russian contemporary art scene. The selection emphasized sculptural and mixed media practices engaging form and materiality in innovative ways.
