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Ylise Kessler is a private art advisor and founder of YLISE KESSLER FINE ART LLC. Established in New York in 1997, our mission has been to provide clients with a focused resource for developing and maintaining art collections by offering leading market experience, art historical expertise, and consummate professionalism. For more than thirty years, YKFA has provided art advisory services for corporations, residential clients, and the architecture and design communities in New York and Santa Fe.

After receiving her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Kessler began graduate work in the inaugural Museum Studies program at F.I.T. Mentored by renowned scholar, critic, curator, and leading art historian, Richard Martin, and co-chair Harold Koda, former curator-in-chief of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Kessler soon realized that she would be better suited to working within the exhilarating contemporary art world of New York than in an institutional position. Shortly thereafter, she founded YKFA and became an independent art advisor.

During the advisory’s early years, Kessler placed works by leading blue-chip and emerging artists Frank Stella, Lynda Benglis, Jeff Koons, and John Chamberlain. Ylise Kessler Fine Art has since expanded to include modern and post-war masters such as Picasso, Matisse, O’Keeffe, and de Kooning, and as well as contemporary and historic Native American art and Southwestern regional works.

A partial list of artists whose original works have been placed by YKFA:

Marsden Hartley
Pablo Picasso
Howard Hodgkin
Milton Avery
Louise Nevelson
Richard Diebenkorn
Frank Stella
Christo
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alberto Giacometti
Lita Albuquerque
Ryan Wolfe

Edward Hopper
Joan Mitchell
Hans Hofmann
Henry Moore
Willem de Kooning
Lynda Benglis
Dale Chihuly
Henri Matisse
Jane Hammond
Philip Guston
Nicholas Africano
Stuart Davis

James Lee Byers
Agnes Martin
Roxy Paine
John McCracken
Leonardo Drew
Jason Middlebrook
Harmony Hammond
John Chamberlain
Suzanne Caporal
Susan York
Judy Tuwaletstiwa
Lucas Samaras

Based in Santa Fe, NM since 1999, YKFA is considered the premier resource in the contemporary and ethnographic art arenas.

Ryan Wolfe, Branching Systems, mixed media, click for video

Ryan Wolfe, Branching Systems, mixed media, click for video