New York Art Forensics was formed in 2015 assembling a comprehensive team capable of covering all aspects of art authentication and appraisal, from title and provenance research to scientific material analysis. The two principle partners, Thiago Piwowarczyk and Jeffrey Taylor, founded New York Art Forensics as a way to provide such services to collectors, galleries, auction houses and museums, in a comprehensive, agile and affordable way.
Our laboratory is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with full logistics access and assets (art handlers and forwarders, loading dock, freight elevator, surveillance video). The laboratory location is easily reachable from all locations of the New York art market.
Our laboratory is located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with full logistics access and assets (art handlers and forwarders, loading dock, freight elevator, surveillance video). The laboratory location is easily reachable from all locations of the New York art market.
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Thiago Piwowarczyk is an Art Forensics Expert, Chemist and Conservation Science Expert. After a classical training in artistic techniques since an early age, Mr. Piwowarczyk received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from São Paulo University, Brazil. Looking for applying the methods and standards of criminal investigations onto art investigation, he received a Master Degree in Forensic Sciences from Pace University, New York. For over a decade Mr. Piwowarczyk has been in the forefront of the application of scientific tools to the study of art either for forgery detection and attribution cases or to address complex conservation questions. His past clients include governmental institutions, the United Nations, museums, private collectors and auction houses. He also held a Fellowship at the Frick Collection at its Center for the History of Collecting, researching the history of Art Forensics and its role in shaping the Frick Collection |
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Jeffrey Taylor traveled to Eastern Europe in 1990 to be part of the first Peace Corps contingent in Hungary, in fact the first to ever serve in Europe. In 1996 he founded his business to provide fine art shipping services to the growing art market in Budapest. His clients, however, needed more than just transportation services: they needed an expert to guide them through the pitfalls and dangers of the highly unregulated international art market. Since then Taylor Art Services has been serving the needs of Collectors and the Trade. He holds Hungarian state appraisers licenses in Antique Furniture and Oriental Carpets, and is USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) Complaint through to February 23, 2022. Dr. Taylor earned his PhD. in Comparative History at the Central European University in 2011. His dissertation on the history of the Hungarian art market was published by Helena History Press in 2014 as: In Search of the Budapest Secession: The Artist Proletariat and Modernism's Rise on the Hungarian Art Market, 1800-1914. He is currently the US Fulbright Scholar at the European Humanities University, where he teaches courses on the art market, curatorship, connoisseurship, and art forensics. He was the 2016 Leon Levy Fellow at the Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick Collection. He published his second book in 2017: Visual Arts Management with Routledge as part of their Mastering Management in Creative and Cultural Industries. Jeffrey Taylor is an internationally recognized expert on the art market and its problems. He has frequently spoken and published on the problem of art forgery. He has lectured at INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France, and his press appearances include: Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes, New York Times, CNBC, CBC Radio, The Village Voice, FoxCT, CoDesign, Artsy, Wired, Naked Scientists, ArtGuide East, and The New Republic. |
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