Art Advisory & Acquisition
We simplify the art acquisition process through a thoughtful, consultative approach. Our team curates distinctive works that align with your vision—whether for a private collection or a professional environment.
Fine art doesn’t have to feel intimidating. We believe it should feel personal and considered. By working across a range of artists, styles, and investment levels, we guide clients toward confident decisions—discovering works that carry meaning and elevate their spaces.
Reach out to begin a conversation about building an art collection with clarity, intention, and ease.
James Ferrari
James Ferrari is an American sculptor, with deep Italian ancestry, known for his unique signature of incorporating upcycled Ferrari car parts into his sculptures. These original, contemporary sculptures are created by combining exotic car parts with other metal mediums to compose abstract and representational fine works of art.
These highly collected works exemplify high quality design aesthetics and time consuming attention to detail. Ferrari uses his talents to enhance the lives of his collectors and community by using his metal working skills and giving a second life to used Ferrari car parts, in which the majority cannot be reused. This gives James the ability to bring awareness to upcycling, reusing, and recycling.
For over 30 years, Ferrari’s sculptures have been collected and commissioned by art collectors and luxury car collectors, and have been placed in corporate, private, and public collections.
Cecil Touchon
Cecil Touchon was born in Austin, Texas, where his artistic curiosity was sparked early and carried through his formative years. He earned his BFA from the University of Texas at Arlington and has since built a career spanning more than three decades. His work is collected worldwide, held in over 45 corporate and international collections, and he is recognized as a leading figure within the Massurrealism movement.
A founding member of the 1987 Post-Dogmatist Group, Touchon is also deeply connected to the Art Mail and Fluxus communities. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2001, 2009). Beyond the studio, he is the founder and director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, as well as founder of La Sociedad Massurrealista de México. His work and ideas have been widely featured in exhibition catalogues, magazines, and scholarly publications.
Debra Ferrari
An acclaimed contemporary artist best known for her paintings inspired by nature and light, artist Debra Ferrari relies on the processes of layering and rendering organic shapes and patterns to narrate the relationships and experiences seen and felt in our natural world. Her unique painting techniques of brush work and troweling punctuate her art with depth and light, drawing the viewer closer to the story that lies inside the painting.
Ferrari explains, "My paintings are emotional stories about my love for nature depicting beautiful spaces and transporting my viewers to places in time and memories of their own experiences in the natural world."
Ferrari's work is collected both privately and publicly, within the United States and Internationally.
Costa Christ
Costa has designed and crafted exclusive Editions from his Art series, wrapped on top of genuine Porsche hoods and deck lids, including several one-of-one designs.
Gotham | Batman Edition
Edition 04 of 15 (one-of-one design)
Metalo Form
Pearl metallic (left), aluminum metallic (right), Super gloss (left), matte (right)
Genuine Porsche 918 Spyderhood
Liquid Metal Metallic carbon fiber | Turbonite crest
Joe Turner
Joe Turner is a Birmingham, Alabama–born artist and designer now based in Dallas, Texas. Raised in a low-income African-American household with limited exposure to the arts, Turner’s path toward a creative career began to take shape after his high school commissioned a series of paintings in recognition of his talent. That early encouragement—followed by winning “Best in Show” at a local exhibition—solidified his belief in art as a viable pursuit.
Turner earned a BFA in Interior Design from Samford University in 2023 and is now a full-time artist. His abstract works have gained national attention, appearing in galleries and retail spaces across the U.S. His work has been featured in Architectural Digest and LUXE Interiors + Design, and in 2023 he released a collection with Crate & Barrel, with an ongoing relationship continuing today.
Eric Breish
Breish is known for his abstract paintings on metal that create holographic illusions, engages the viewer in mesmerizing planes of light and color that constantly shift before the eye.
Using a combination of tools and unique methods, each mark on the metal is strategically placed to absorb and reflect light, creating the dimensional effect that separates Breish’s work from traditional abstract paintings. Aluminum, copper and steel are the substrates on which he primarily works, while layered transparent paints and varnishes create a glass-like finish that enhances depth, dimension and color.
Julie Maren
Colorado native and Boulder based artist, Julie Maren, originally began her career as a painter and stone carver. However, her desired to combine the two and blur the boundaries of both led to an intense period of experimentation known around her home as “The Emergency.” During this time, she cut up her paintings with a jigsaw to reconfigured them into large dimensional collages, took up ceramics, and began experimenting with filling acorn caps with paint.
Ultimately, this journey led her to the wall based installations she is now focused on creating. As an artist, Maren is driven by materials and experimentation, color and pattern, microscopic and macroscopic perspectives and creating depth, both dimensional and illusionary. Loose narratives are often woven throughout her works, expressed through color and her unique vocabulary of imagery and symbolism.
Janak Narayan
Janak Narayan is an award winning Indian American Fine artist focusing on acrylics and oils.
Janak gets her inspiration from nature and her free spirit which transcends into unique, Post– Impressionist inspired, stylized landscapes. Lately her work is constantly about testing the boundaries between abstraction and representational art – her landscapes are becoming more abstract and her abstracts barely hanging on to reality thanks to lucid brushstrokes in fantasy color palette.
Beyond our featured artists, The Char Network collaborates with galleries and independent creators across the United States and Europe. Whether sourcing works for a personal collection, commercial space, commissions, or as part of a thoughtfully built art investment, we offer thoughtful guidance and support throughout the process. Reach out to begin the conversation: char@thecharnetwork.com