Are Dallas collectors the honey badgers of the art world? Dealers at the ninth annual Dallas Art Fair seem to think so.
The Sharmas jokingly call themselves "ambassadors" for the acquisition fund, happy to talk to anyone about what it has purchased and why, in order to generate critical dialogue among the city's professional class. The acquisitions-seven pieces by six artists-were announced Thursday morning, and included an acrylic and mesh piece, Bread Winners (2017), by Summer Wheat of Fridman Gallery in New York, two paintings by Derek Fordjour, No. 73 (2017) and What will you do to help us Win? (2017), from Turin's Luce Gallery, and a sculpture, Levelland (2017), by Justin Adian of New York and London's Skarstedt.