Bowling spent a decade at the global auction house Phillips, where she ran the midseason and day sales, before moving to LA and focusing in part on client development. She joined Citi in July.<\/p>\n
Her day-to-day can include keeping clients in the know about auctions, suggesting artists who might fit well in their homes or collections, or planning events.<\/p>\n
In her mind, it’s not wise for anyone to buy art they don’t actually enjoy \u2014 “you will only be disappointed,” \u2014 but she knows that many are concerned with finding artists who represent good value.<\/p>\n
Start with emerging artists<\/p>\n
For anyone who is just getting into collecting<\/a>, Bowling said focusing on galleries that represent emerging artists is a good place to start. These days, Bowling said, historically underrepresented or overlooked artists are gaining attention.<\/p>\n Many of Ruth Asawa’s sculptures are woven.<\/p>\n Giuseppe Cottini\/Getty Images<\/p>\n High-net-worth individuals <\/a>were increasingly open to buying art from artists they hadn’t known before, according to Art Basel and UBS’s 2025 Survey of Global Collecting<\/a>. Sixty-six percent bought work from artists they discovered in 2024 or 2025, a rise of 8% from the year prior. Although the art market is experiencing a downturn \u2014 global sales value decreased by 12% year-over-year, according to Art Basel and UBS’ 2025 Global Art Market report <\/a>\u2014 some galleries have been bucking the trend. The smallest dealers posted a 17% increase in annual sales, according to the report.<\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Business Insider tells the innovative stories you want to know<\/p>\n Textile trends<\/p>\n Bowling told Business Insider that institutional support<\/a> for artists who toe the line between fine art and craft is “very strong, which has led to soaring prices for these artists at auction.” Sculptor Ruth Asawa and textile artist Olga de Amaral are among those gaining traction, she said. In September, one of de Amaral’s pieces sold at an auction for around $1.14 million, almost three times the low-end estimate according to Christie’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n Olga de Amaral’s work was on display in Paris.<\/p>\n Luc Castel\/Getty Images<\/p>\n Asawa isn’t underground \u2014 her retrospective recently opened at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan \u2014\u00a0but Bowling said that Kay Sekimachi is an artist who fits into the same market trend and remains somewhat under the radar. She’s a fiber artist who was friends with Asawa, and her work is currently being shown at a gallery in Manhattan. The prices aren’t listed on the gallery’s site, but a group of three woven bowls recently sold<\/a> for $3,800 at an auction in California, exceeding the high-end estimate, per Invaluable<\/a>, a <\/a>fine art marketplace.<\/p>\n No matter the potential monetary gains, though, Bowling says it’s crucial to be guided by taste.<\/p>\n “From an investing perspective, you really shouldn’t buy anything that you don’t love,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you’re looking for art advice, consider asking your bank. Rebekah Bowling, an art advisor at Citi, helps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-254229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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