Independent artists · New York · Est. 2024

Original work, on more walls than a gallery can reach.

Be Vulnerable. Be Natural. Be Creative.

One-of-one paintings, straight from my studio in Queens — to collectors, and to the hotels, restaurants and offices that hang art every day.

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For collectorsBuy an originalOne-of-one paintings. I sign each one, catalogue it, and ship it ready to hang.Shop the collection For venuesHang art for freeRestaurants, bars, lobbies: I hang original work on your walls at no cost, and you take a share when it sells.How placements work For designers & tradeBuy at volumeHotels, offices, developments. One contract, one invoice, delivered to your install date.Start a project For artistsJoin the collectiveNo fees. You set the price, keep the majority, and keep your rights.How to apply

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Selected work

Beautiful Disaster, original acrylic painting by Charles Black, catalogue number 013

Beautiful Disaster

Beautiful Disaster

$3,100.00
$3,100.00
Untitled, original acrylic painting by Charles Black, catalogue number 036

Untitled

Untitled

$1,300.00
$1,300.00
Anxiety on Canvas, original acrylic painting by Charles Black, catalogue number 025

Anxiety on Canvas (II)

Anxiety on Canvas (II)

$3,200.00
$3,200.00

The studio · Queens

Where it's made.

Two rooms at the back of a warehouse, and the roof. Canvases on the floor, paint still wet.

  • The walk in, through the warehouse

  • The table

  • Morning light

    Morning light

  • Red and white, first pass

  • No. 037, still wet

  • Three new works on the floor

    Three new works on the floor

  • The artist, in the studio

  • On the roof

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On the wall

Then it goes on a wall.

Mezcalum, the office and the bar; a few homes. If you've hung a piece, send me a photo and I'll add it.

See everything on the wall

From the catalogue

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Most art never reaches a wall.

The hard part of being an artist isn't making the work. It's finding anyone to sell it to. Galleries take a small number of people and the rest never get through the door — not on merit, on access. So the work stacks up in studios. Mine did.

Meanwhile the places that hang art constantly — hotels, restaurants, offices, developers staging a building — have almost no way to buy original work. They default to prints because prints are easy to source and originals are not.

I started ABB Collective to connect those two facts. I sell to collectors the usual way, and I sell into the rooms galleries were never going to serve. More routes to a buyer means more work sold, which is the only thing that actually helps an artist.

38Originals available
$1,200–$4,800Price range
24–108 inLong edge
SignedEvery piece, certified
The Charles Black painting studio in morning light — ABB Collective

The studio

Painted in one room, hung in the other.

Two rooms at the back of a warehouse in Queens. I paint on the floor of the first, paint still wet; the work dries and hangs in the second until it leaves. Everything in the catalogue starts here.

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