Office Installations

Lobby of 2100 Powell, Emeryville, CA | Artist: Micah Crandall-Bear (Photo credit: Mo Saito)

Lobby of 2100 Powell, Emeryville, CA | Artist: Micah Crandall-Bear (Photo credit: Mo Saito)

Lobby of The Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA | Artists: Maya Kabat and Amy Ellingson (Photo credit: John Janca)

Lobby of The Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA | Artists: Maya Kabat and Amy Ellingson (Photo credit: John Janca)

Venture Capital Firm, San Francisco | Artist: Henry Riekena (Photo credit: Ken Holden)

Venture Capital Firm, San Francisco | Artist: Henry Riekena (Photo credit: Ken Holden)

AI Company, San Francisco

AI Company, San Francisco

Tech Company, Oakland

Tech Company, Oakland

Tech Company, Oakland

Tech Company, Oakland

Tech Company, Oakland

Tech Company, Oakland

Corporate Office, Concord

Corporate Office, Concord

Corporate Office, Concord

Corporate Office, Concord

Waiting Room, San Francisco | Artist: Carol Inez Charney

Waiting Room, San Francisco | Artist: Carol Inez Charney

Lobby of 44 Montgomery, San Francisco | Artists: Robin Denevan + Thea Schrack

Lobby of 44 Montgomery, San Francisco | Artists: Robin Denevan + Thea Schrack

Law Firm, Oakland | Artist: Robin Denevan

Law Firm, Oakland | Artist: Robin Denevan

Biomedical Firm, Pleasanton

Biomedical Firm, Pleasanton

SLATE Art Consulting offers businesses an independent art source in all media, styles, and price points. We understand that each client is unique, and our goal is to produce a bespoke collection that communicates our clients’ brand values, completes their interior design, and takes it to the next level.

Drawing upon its database of artists across the US, SLATE has access to work by emerging, mid-career, established, and blue chip artists, and can commission site-specific artworks. From start to finish, SLATE can provide architectural plan review, project planning and budget development, acquisition, custom frame design, warehousing, artwork delivery, and installation with security hanging systems. SLATE has extensive experience collaborating with designers, architects, and general contractors on both tenant improvement and new construction projects.

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SPOTLIGHT: KAISER CENTER LOBBY

Downtown Oakland’s Kaiser Center has undergone a stunning renovation designed by Gensler, creating a space that is bright, accessible, and inviting to both tenants and visitors. SLATE was charged with commissioning three large-scale, site-specific paintings for the lobby by selected artists Amy Ellingson (San Francisco), Audra Weaser (Los Angeles), and Maya Kabat (Berkeley). While all three artists are working in abstract styles, their individual visual languages evoke different references and subjects. “We felt that the triad of technology (Ellingson), architecture (Kabat), and nature (Weaser) summed up several of the most important forces at play in Bay Area life today,” explains SLATE principal Danielle Fox. “Each tells a different story, but together they tell a story of a time and place that many people here can relate to.” SLATE is also pleased to have placed a series of four acrylic on dyed paper paintings by Oakland-based artist Kelly Ording in the Kaiser Center’s upstairs space.

Lobby photo credit: John Janca

Ording photo credit: Lauren Edith Andersen

SPOTLIGHT: VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM

This SOMA venture capital firm and incubator had worked with a team of architects to convert an old gymnasium into a contemporary workspace. The goal was to create a vibe that was hip and cosmopolitan. To create a collection with this tone, SLATE sourced art not only from its own gallery, but also from other galleries in San Francisco, from a European publisher, and directly from emerging artists’ studios.

Photo credit: Ken Holden

SPOTLIGHT: AI TECH COMPANY

This San Francisco artificial intelligence firm was interested in Op art, modernist abstraction, and artwork generated through computational models. To answer this brief, SLATE sourced reproductions of 1960s-era Op paintings, limited edition prints from local digital artists, select open edition works, and went as far as Austria to purchase images created through the artist’s algorithms, which were then used to make custom metal prints here in the Bay Area.

SPOTLIGHT: 44 Montgomery Lobby

SLATE was tasked with sourcing artwork for the lobby of this 43-story skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco that was the tallest building west of Dallas when it was completed in 1967. The challenge was to balance a walnut feature wall on the opposite side of the lobby. So, the client was seeking large-scale work with strong materiality, darker colors, and a nature theme to bring the outdoors in. SLATE commissioned three local artists to create large scale (10 to 12 foot wide) encaustic paintings, as well as a steel and stone sculpture to complete this special space.