Art Documentation in New York

On White Wall Studio captures the power of art in all its forms. Based in NYC we collaborate with leading artists, galleries, and museums to share the aesthetic, social, and historical value of art.

We specialize exclusively in art documentation. Our services include fine art photography, visual storytelling, cultural heritage digitization, and artwork visualization.

On White Wall Studio

Email: info@onwhitewall.com
Phone: (+1) 917 512-5707

265 Canal St, STE #210
New York, NY – 10013
– By appointment only
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Close up of the reflection of a blue artwork in an eye

Film Production: Explore Color: Modern and Contemporary Art Auction
May 2025 – Phillips

Exhibition photography: Tracey Emin: Lovers Grave.
4 November 2023 – 13 January 2024. White Cube.
Exhibition view of a large abstract colorful painting by Gerard Richter.
Exhibition Photography: 20th Century & Contemporary Art, New York Auction
November 2023. Phillips.
Phillips Modern and Contemporary Art Auction New York

Modern & Contemporary Art Auction, November 2024 – Phillips

A foot with a shoe in front of the stary night painting by Vincent Van Gogh. Black Power Naps at MoMA

Night Night at the Museum with Black Power Naps – MoMA

An impressionistic landscape painting by Monet on a white wall with a blurry viewer looking at it.
Scale photograph of Claude Monet’s painting Coup de vent, 1881.
Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 × 25 5/8 in, 81.6 × 65.1 cm.
An organic metal sculpture in an art gallery
Documentation of Richard Hunt‘s, Opposed Forms, 1965. Welded chromed steel. 113 x 154.9 x 99.1 cm | 44 1/2 x 61 x 39 in.
White Cube. © 2024 The Richard Hunt Trust/ARS, NY and DACS, London. Photo © On White Wall.
Claude Monet's video of painting

Focus Artwork: Claude Monet’s Coup de vent – Heather James

BTS video production of artwork documentation of a red painting in a viewing room gallery with multiple lights, cameras and a viewer.
Video production set for the painting Gallaxy by Barnett Newman,
Oil on Canvas, 24 ⅛ × 20 ⅛ in.
Video Artwork documentation. BTS of a cinematographer shooting a large painting with lights on stands and a slider.
BTS videography with a painting by Joan Mitchell
Heather James Fine Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA.

Artwork documentation services


Film & Video Production

Artwork Digitization Photography

3D Visualization

On White Wall Inc. Studio in New York City offers a range of imaging, artwork documentation, and visualization solutions for the fine art, cultural, and creative industries. Our portfolio includes videography and film production, photography of fine art, 3D visualization, and digitization of cultural heritage material.

We are dedicated to creating beautiful presentations of works of art, photography and video of paintings, drawings, prints, and other works on paper, three-dimensional sculptures and artifacts, art events, gallery shows, exhibition photography and video, site-specific installations, performance, or time-based multimedia artworks.

Our studio is conveniently located in NYC’s Chinatown / SoHo / Tribeca district to offer high-quality artwork reproduction and professional art documentation services in New York City.

We also shoot on location worldwide.

Close up of an eye seen on a video monitor during a video shoot of a painting by Monet

Art Video Production

Film and video storytelling for the arts. Narrative production for artists, galleries, and museums. Video tours of exhibitions, dedicated sales videos of individual artworks, artists’ interviews, studio visits, and commercial shoots for art and culture.

We tailor our team to the complexity of each film and videography project including: direction, production, cinematography, grip and lighting, sound mixing recording, video editing, and post-production.

Two hands with white globes setting a pencil drawing to be captured –artwork documentation– on a black background with a color target.

Photography of Artworks

Digitization of 2D flat artworks –paintings, drawings, prints, documents, and other works on paper– following cultural heritage imaging guidelines (FADGI / Metamorfoze).

Professional artwork reproduction photography, large archives, documentation of sculptures and historical artifacts, art exhibition documentation, gallery installation photography, cultural programs, and art events.

Our digital images of art bring color accuracy and sharp detail in medium format resolution. We photograph with a Phase One IQ4 150MP camera system to obtain outstanding image quality in artwork reproduction.

3D visualization of a reflective sculpture composed of 2 spheres installed next to a large red and blue neon artwork by Dan Flavin in Dia Beacon, NY.

3D Art Visualization

Virtual exhibitions, 3D tours, hyper-photo-realistic stills & animations of art installations and 3D works of art. Integration of virtual models in existing locations.

Site-specific, large-scale projects, and photographic pre-visualization of sculptures and 3D artwork models with accurate shape, textures and lighting.

Collaborations with artists, galleries, architects, designers, and engineers to create accurate digital representations of proposed artworks and art installations before they are built.

Film recording of a wooden sculpture by Elizabeth Catlett placed on a pedestal. The cinema camera is rig into a slider and has two small monitors on the top.
Filming Elizabeth Catlett’s Magic Mask with a Sony FX6 cinema camera.
c. 1970–80. Carved mahogany wood. 30.5 x 9.5 x 8.9 cm | 12 x 3 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
White Cube, New York.
The hand of a photographer shooting a 150MP Phase One XF Medium Format Camera used for artwork digitization.
Art digitization using a 150MP Phase One XF IQ4 camera with Schneider Kreuznach lenses. This medium format system captures artworks with exceptional resolution, color accuracy, and sharpness.

Certifications

Phase One logo

Phase One Cultural Heritage Specialist

Maxwell Render logo

Maxwell Render Certified Xpert

The Essence of Art - An art manager looking at a laptop in an art storage

The Essence of Art – Film storytelling for Heather James Fine Art Gallery

A detail of a coloful sculpture by David Altmejd

Video of sculpture by David Altmejd: The Lydian Chord – White Cube

Adjei Tawiah Studio Visit in NYC

Adjei Tawiah: Studio Visit video – Opera Gallery

A viewer in front of a painting by Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell: ‘Untitled’ – White Cube

Art Advisory Video. An art advisor holds a phone to take a picture of an artwork

Film production: Heather James Art Advisory Services

BTS video production with large skypanels, slider and cinema camera of a viewer looking at art in an gallery
Behind the scenes film production for Heather James, Palm Desert, LA.

High-quality powerful art imaging

We are prepared to work on large or small projects that require technical precision and artistic sensibility.

On White Wall Studio creates moving stories, documentation videos and high-resolution pictures used for archival purposes, commercial & marketing campaigns, and exhibition catalogs, as well as a variety of publications, portfolios, and online media.

We believe that artwork documentation is an essential aspect of preserving culture, and we take pride in our role in the ongoing conversation between artists, society, and history.

A viewer exploring Cezanne's painting A Color Tour through MoMA
A viewer exploring Henry Matisse’s painting Dance (I), 1909.
Oil on canvas, 8′ 6 1/2″ × 12′ 9 1/2″ (259.7 × 390.1 cm).
A Color Tour through MoMA program. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Wide exhibition view of 4 large geometric sculptures and a model wearing white posing still in front of a bright yellow wall.
Event photo-documentation Drawing in Space: David Smith ‘No One Thing’
Hauser & Wirth, New York.
Artwork documentation of a bold painting of black person with green background. The work was documented using cross polarization.
Reproduction of a painting by Ludovic Nkoth, Blood on the Leaves (detail), 2020. Oil on canvas.
François Ghebaly Gallery.
Henry Taylor exhibition and Hauser & Wirth NYC

Exhibition video: Catherine Goodman: Silent Music – Hauser & Wirth

Recent Projects

We have recently worked on large on-site art digitization and training projects for the Taller del Prado, Madrid, Spain, and the Centro Cultural Eduardo Leon Jimenez Art Museum, Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Other digitization of artworks, art documentation, and exhibition photography clients include: White Cube, Hauser & Wirth, Phillips Auction House, David Kordansky Gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Heather James, Maison Valentino, François Ghebaly, GRIMM Gallery, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, Opera Gallery, Whaam Gallery, Broadway Gallery, Jessica Silverman Gallery, New York Life Gallery, Stand4 Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Projects, Night Gallery, Nina Johnson, Center for Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Public Library, ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, Hall Art Foundation, Chrysler Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art.

Events or cultural programs documentation for MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Arts and Design, El Museo del Barrio, Americas Society, American Folk Art Museum, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Queens Museum, NADA – New Art Dealers Alliance, BioBAT Art Space, SUNY New Paltz, SVA NYC – School of Visual Arts.

Digital film, storytelling and video production of artworks by Claude Monet, David Hammons, Vincent van Gogh, Tracey Emin, Camille Pissarro, Richard Hunt, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Barnett Newman, Bruce Nauman, Roni Horn, Theaster Gates, Isamu Noguchi, Howardena Pindell, Jenny Holzer, Pat Steir, Louise Bourgeois, Ad Reinhard, Diego Rivera, Anish Kapoor, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and many other artists.

Crozier Fine Art Video Production

Video Production for Crozier Fine Arts.

Photo shoot tethered to a monitor displaying an overhead view of a oversize book and a person with gloves adjusting the position of a page.
Overhead camera live-view; photoshoot of an art book by Rachel Rose
On White Wall Studio, NYC.
Two light stone sculptures of a small figurine.
Photography of a sculpture from the Eduardo León Jimenes Cultural Center Collection, Dominican Republic.
The verso of a stretched canvas with stickers and marks, including Miro's signature.
Verso of Joan Miro’s Constellation, 1933. Oil on canvas.

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