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Foundation is dedicated to curating exceptional art experiences, tailoring spaces with a refined, client-focused approach. Privacy, collaboration, selection, and high-end art installation combined with a more personalized and direct relationship with clients is what makes Foundation stand apart.

We specialize in working with private clients, interior designers, healthcare, and hospitality, ensuring that each space is thoughtfully curated and the installation is seamlessly executed. 

Design, curation and installation services by specialists who have been involved in the process for deacades - no amateurs


    
With nearly three decades in the art and design world, Jay Davis brings his expertise as a professional artist, curator, and consultant to Foundation Art and Design. Foundation offers tailored curatorial, installatation and advisory services for your art and design needs. 

Whether leading a client’s vision, collaborating with designers and partners, or simply stepping in when you want everything perfect, we ensure a smooth, professional, and stress-free experience. 

We operate predominately in the NYC/Tristate/Long Island areas, but travel where we are needed.



past and present public clients include -


Bella Mancini Design

David Howell Design

Kit Kemp

Windsor Art and Design

Kligerman AD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

The Smythe Hotel

The Warren Hotel

Emilee Pearson Design

Southampton Art Center



We partner with Windsor Art and Design to facilitate moving, shipping, and logistics.


     
About Jay Davis, founder of Foundation Art and Design -

As a professional artist, he has exhibited domestically and internationally, with solo exhibits at galleries such as Mary Boone Gallery (NY), Shoshana Wayne Gallery (LA), Motus Fort Gallery (Tokyo), and Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago). In addition to work held in major private collections, his work is also part of major public collections - incuding Citibank, Chase, Deutsche Bank, the Saatchi Collection, Fidelity Investments, and the Zabludowicz Collection. He has served as a visiting artist and lecturer at Cranbrook Academy of Art, the University of Alabama, the New York Studio Program, and Ringling College of Art and Design.

As a curator, he has put together many large and small scale exhibits in NY and LA, most recently Shelflife at the ACE Hotel NYC and Clearing the Air at Southampton Arts Center. 

Professionally, he served as Art Curator for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2016–2023), where he developed a new model for integrating transformative, healing art into clinical spaces, in NYC, Westchester, NJ, and Long Island

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