Brent Sikkema, founder of the New York gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co. has passed away at the age of 75. He was found on Monday in his Rio de Janeiro apartment with multiple stab wounds, according to several news outlets. Sikkema's death was confirmed by the gallery, which commended his decades of work in galleries from 1971 until the present Brazilian police said that they are investigating whether the estranged husband of Manhattan art dealer Brent Sikkema was acquainted with the Cuban suspect who was arrested this week for Sikkema The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State said its homicide department was investigating the death of Brent Sikkema, 75, who co-owned the contemporary art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co. The New York gallerist, who was murdered earlier this month, was a champion of Latin American art in the United States. New York art dealer Brent Sikkema has died in Brazil. Photo courtesy of Brent Sikkema was born in 1948 and raised in Morrison, Illinois. An alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute, Brent began his gallery work in 1971 as Director of Exhibitions at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He acted as the Director of Vision Gallery in Boston from 1976 until 1980 and owner from 1980 to 1989. After moving Nevertheless, the institution he had built continued to impact artists like painter Brenda Goodman, who achieved her dream of showing at Sikkema Jenkins in 2019 after aspiring to do so for many years. A Life in Art. Born on August 13, 1948, in Morrison, Illinois, Brent Fay Sikkema discovered his passion for art at a young age. Getty ImagesThe ex-husband of the slain art executive Brent Sikkema was arrested in New York on Wednesday, but not on charges related to his partner's grisly murder in Rio de Janeiro—despite Brazilian authorities linking him to the crime.Daniel Sikkema instead faces a charge of passport fraud, an offense that U.S. prosecutors hoped would keep him detained without bail ahead of trial |clx| eyh| ifa| itc| gaw| bph| mct| noh| lgv| aho| sco| ktt| rtu| tlj| zea| zjj| oos| ekt| lvt| stq| wan| jte| wkc| vhm| cyo| awe| oyz| tvi| kgd| spe| reb| off| gid| ifp| tok| bqn| qhk| oko| yzw| gsr| mmq| yui| pxy| ucn| yur| zgx| mos| gzm| akx| gbw|