About
Image credits: Gaetano Pesce, Vase #6, 2018, Courtesy of Salon 94 design and the artist; Susan Cianciolo, Game 3. UNDFEATED WAKE UP, I AM AT YOUR FEET, 2018, photograph by Gregory Carideo, © Susan Cianciolo, courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue, NYC; Donald Judd, Stool 5, Designed 1984 (Fabricated 2019), 50 x 50 x 50 cm (19.75 x 19.75 x 19.75 in), painted aluminum in Traffic yellow/RAL 1023, Donald Judd Furniture © Judd Foundation.
Object & Thing reimagines the art and design fair concept, by bringing together both disciplines through a focus on the object. Launched in 2019 as an exhibition in New York City, as well as through a corresponding e-commerce site, Object & Thing presents object-based 20th and 21st century works, collaborating with artists’ studios and leading international art and design galleries.
The Team
Abby Bangser
Founder and Creative Director
Abby Bangser is the founder and creative director of Object & Thing. She is former Artistic Director of Frieze Art Fairs for the Americas and Asia and the founding head of the Americas Foundation of the Serpentine Galleries. She has additionally worked for nonprofit arts institutions in both New York City and Los Angeles including Dia Art Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Advisory Committee
Glenn Adamson, curator and writer
Rahim Amlani, founder The Amlani Group
Rafael de Cárdenas, founder, Rafael de Cárdenas, Ltd
Martino Gamper, designer
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, founder Salon 94 and Salon 94 Design
Armand Limnander, writer and Executive Editor W Magazine
Mariah Nielson, curator, director J.B. Blunk Estate, and co-founder Permanent Collection