ARTISTS
The featured artists represented by Spirit Art Gallery are shown in our gallery and promoted at other art shows we’re involved with. Our special relationship with these artists enables us to offer exclusive pieces from their catalogues to interested buyers and other art galleries. Get to know some of our valued artistic partners below.
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The gallery represents local and international artists and collaborates with others, including emerging as well as established mid-career artists and estates. We believe that a diversity in age, background, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and perspective are central to our identity as a gallery and a platform for new ideas. Today, our art space includes artists from all over the world.
Isabelle Lindbergh
Spirit Art Space is delighted to collaborate with Space Gallery St Barth to present new work by Isabelle Lindbergh, notably her Between Realms. This captivating series celebrates the raw beauty of nature and humanity’s connection to it. Her work is minimalist yet powerful and her signature silver veil harnesses the wind’s essence, leaving a poetic narrative through the untouched landscapes of St Barth and beyond.
In 2022, tired of the rigidity and artificiality of large productions, Isabelle salvaged a simple piece of fabric, which became the central thread of her work. Models participated voluntarily, driven solely by the desire for photography in harmony with untouched landscapes free of human intervention in Saint Barthélemy. Using a 16 metre-long silver sheet, Lindbergh harnesses the power of the wind - making the invisible, visible.
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This veil, an airy and poetic element, traverses her compositions as a visual signature and a universal metaphor. It captures the wind’s breath, connects locations, and reveals the invisible. Through this minimalist yet symbolic gesture, Isabelle subtly links humanity with nature, infusing her photographs with a vibrant and mysterious intensity. Nature is part of the storytelling and its unpredictability plays the co-starring role in these pieces. It is a dance between the elements and the model. These innocent moments are always organic and free-spirited.
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Blending classical inspirations with contemporary sensitivity, Isabelle has developed a deeply personal, bold, and timeless style. Each shot invites one to fully experience the moment, carried by this veil that never moves the same way twice.
Christopher Makos
Makos first art show in St Barts:
The story of Basquiat is brought to the Caribbean for the first time depicting the captivating spirit of the artist through the lens of renowned photographer Christopher Makos.
Christopher Makos is a contemporary photographer and artist known for his bold photojournalism and innovative ‘insider’ perspective. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the IVAM in Valencia (Spain) and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
Makos continuously documented the New York scene throughout the 1980’s, using his Interview Magazine to present up and coming stars such as Matt Dillon, Christian Slater, Robert Downey JR. and Tom Ford. Makos would regularly visit Madrid, where his portraits of Pedro Almodovar, Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Bibi Andersen and Miguel Bose helped identify La Movida. Makos’photographs have been featured in countless magazines and newspapers throughout the United States, Europe, China and Japan. His photographs have been published in Interview, Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, among many others. Christopher Makos is an influential figure in the New York art scene, where he continues to live and work today.
Jade Hirtle
Jade is an artist based in California, Los Angeles. Jade’s powerful works offer a vision of the human experience through energy. She views these unseen energetic vibrations as a form of non-verbal communication - a universal language.
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Self-awareness, transition, and connectedness are common themes to Jade’s work. Her vibrant paintings are filled with glowing light, lush colors and polished lines that alternatively evoke geometry, symmetry, and dynamism. Different combinations of colors and thicknesses represent a narrative; while body parts are clues to their meaning.
Since Jade was a child, sensitivity and over-stimuli have been a struggle. Sensing the feelings, life force, thoughts, a pulse of people was normal. Jade’s catharsis is through art and used to tune in to this existing part of her life.
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Jade’s mission is to create transformative art that inspires and empowers human connection with ourselves and others.
Cory Silken
ABOUT CORY SILKEN PHOTOGRAPHY:
Based in Newport, Rhode Island, Cory Silken is one of the world's preeminent nautical photographers. His creative imagery has been on the cover of every major yachting magazine, appears as set dressings for TV and film, and is published in several books. Providing commercial photography and film production for the luxury lifestyle market, as well as private commissions for ultra-high net worth clients, Silken also maintains a fine art photography gallery on Thames St. in downtown Newport.
Silken loves the ocean even when not at work. In his free time, he can be found racing his Herreshoff S Class sailboat Firefly on Narragansett Bay, or promoting sustainability through his position as an 11th Hour Racing Ambassador.
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ABOUT SPIRIT ART SPACE:
Located in the heart of Gustavia, Spirit Art Space stands as a beacon of modernity and contemporary expression in the art world. Founded by Claudia Carpentier in 2021, this gallery occupies a unique eighteenth-century space with a rich history rooted in its past life as the shipping warehouse for the island of St. Barts. With a profound connection to sailing vessels, Spirit Art Space seamlessly blends tradition and modernity in its captivating exhibitions.
Claudia Carpentier, a native of St. Barts and the great daughter of ship captain, has deep ties to the sea. Her family's boats, Ipanema and Neptune, underscore her familial connection to maritime life. Moreover, Claudia's commitment to sustainability and ocean conservation is evident through her role as an ecology ambassador. Her dedication to protecting the oceans resonates throughout the gallery's ethos and programming.
ABOUT ROYAL HUISMAN:
Some names need no introduction. To anyone who ever genuinely considered acquiring a luxury super yacht, hearing the name “Royal Huisman” as the builder of those finest and most distinctive yachts in the regatta or marina will be a familiar experience.
When admiring the build quality and attention to design detail on a particular yacht, the reply from her owner or crew “It’s a Royal Huisman!” is virtually regarded as self-explanatory. Royal Huisman sailing and motoryachts are deemed unique in conception, quality and execution. Award-winning superyachts that are rare, beyond compare.
More and more superyacht owners have come to recognize that the thrill of the regatta circuit coupled with the relaxed social ambiance they can enjoy ashore with fellow owners, guests and crew at a regatta makes the perfect complement to their ocean cruising itineraries.
Royal Huisman was an early supporter of the original Nantucket Bucket regatta in 1986 and has continued to support the Bucket Regattas in Newport and St Barth’s ever since.
In 2014 Royal Huisman teamed up with regular supporters to acquire the Bucket Regattas and so to secure the relaxed, owner-focused culture of these special “industry supported” events for the long term.
ROYAL HUISMAN - THE ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF PERSONAL FREEDOM
ABOUT TIDE MAGAZINE:
TIDE Magazine - A way of life. A life of Adventure.
TIDE offers an authentic and sophisticated perspective, exploring the shifts and changes at the very core of the sailing Superyacht world and the ocean adventure: the yachts, the people, the experiences, the destinations— the many facets that entice so many individuals around the world to pursue this alluring form of exploration.
It’s adventure, travel, design, environment, technology, culture and cuisine.
We seek to expose the locale, the adventure, the fare, and to recognize and celebrate the sense of community shared by those who are drawn to this exciting lifestyle.
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