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Foundation is dedicated to curating exceptional art experiences and shaping spaces through a refined, client-focused approach. Our commitment to privacy, collaboration, and thoughtful selection paired with a genuinely personal and direct relationship with each client is what sets Foundation apart.

The Foundation Art and Design team delivers expertise at every stage. Every project is handled by seasoned professionals who have spent decades immersed in their craft – never amateurs - ensuring the highest level of precision and care. The team is curated and led by Jay Davis who brings nearly three decades of experience in the art and design world as a professional artist, curator, and consultant.

Our specialists provide tailored curatorial, installation, and advisory services for a wide range of clients, including private collectors, interior designers, healthcare environments, and hospitality spaces. Whether guiding a client’s vision, collaborating with designers and partners, or stepping in when you simply want everything executed flawlessly, we deliver a smooth, professional, and stress-free experience.

Based in the NYC / Tri-State / Long Island region, we travel wherever our expertise is needed.




    
past and present public clients include -


Mancini Burns Design (Formerly Bella Mancini Design)

David Howell Design (DHD)

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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