Salon Series Short & Sweet invited Nina Johnson, of her eponymous Miami gallery, to talk about meaning, Miami, art matchmaking and more.

Hello, Elena Frampton here. I run Frampton Co, an interior design studio and art advisory with two gallery spaces named Exhibition, in Bridgehampton and New York City.
Elena Frampton in Miami
In a pre-covid world, I loved welcoming guests into the galleries for Salon Series, in-person conversations with some of my favorite artists ? or sometimes, artists whose work I?d just encountered, but knew they were on the rise.
The live version is still on hold, but thanks to Design Milk, there?s good news ? Salon Series is back, and this time around it?s ?Short & Sweet.?
These six-ish minute episodes offer condensed stories and moments of insight from some of our favorite creatives from around the world. (The perks of virtual, we get to go global!) For our first episode, we invited the visionary Nina Johnson, of her eponymous Miami gallery, to hop on the phone.
Nina Johnson portrait by Gesi Schilling
Calling in from her gallery, Johnson took us back to the start of her career. ?I was growing up in Miami, and nobody knew what to do with me,? she said.
Her stories brought me back to my own foray into the art world, and the inclinations that brought me to where I am today. There is a gut instinct that attracts me to art, and guides a lot of how I work with clients, whether they?re established collectors or just starting out. As a c...