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Dubhe Carreño Gallery
1841 S. Halsted St.
Chicago, Illinois 60608
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Wexler Gallery 201 North 3rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 (215) 923-7030
For Lewis Wexler and Sherry Apter Wexler , it all began at Christie’s. Their personal and professional partnership took root some 20 years ago at the New York auction house, where he was a decorative arts spe-cialist and she dealt with Latin American prints. They married, moved to Philadelphia and, in 2000, opened a contemporary art gallery in the Old City district, in a large two-level space (once home to the Black Banana nightclub, Philly’s answer to Studio 54).
Though Wexler Gallery is a shared vision, their roles ...
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Blue Spiral 138 Biltmore Ave.Asheville, nc 28801800-291-2513, 828-251-0202 bluespiral1.com
Asheville's Blue Spiral 1 is one of four distinct galleries (and a two-screen art-film house) owned by John Cram. The 15,000-square-foot gallery opened in 1991, and its three levels house Southern fine art and studio craft by 80 to 100 regional artists. We spoke with BS1's gallery director, Jordan Ahlers, to learn more about the gallery's unique approach.
How did the name Blue Spiral 1 originate?There was a naming party, and the elements were decided collectively by friends. The gallery's name is symbolic: "Spiral" is a circle in ...
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Show of HandsGallery of Fine American Craft210 Clayton St.Denver, co 80206303-399-0201http://showofhandsdenver.com
In 1983, 16 artists pitched in $400 apiece to open Show of Hands gallery in Denver.
Woodworker Deb Kneale was among them, and today she co-owns the business with Douglas Brugger, who traded in a career in corporate retail management-with the likes of Banana Republic and Barneys New York-for the more intimate, inspiring and little-bit-crazy world of running a gallery.
Show of Hands is fine American craft with a contemporary flair. Longtime customers and tourists alike smile as they navigate a labyrinth of color, sophistication ...
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Nancy Margolis Gallery 523 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 242-3013
Nancy Margolis doesn’t remember a time when art didn’t play a significant role in her life. Her parents, both from Eastern Europe, instilled in her a love of art, music and literature at a very young age. An enlightening trip to Europe when she was 19 years old reinforced this passion. “It opened my eyes to another culture, its marvels, its history and its art. I have never lost my attraction to the world abroad and the arts,” she says. “It was a world I ...
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Cross MacKenzie Ceramic Arts
1054 31st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202)333–7970 ...
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TAI Gallery
1601b Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
(505) 984-1387
“We are the fun part of our clients’ lives,“ says the textile dealer Robert Coffland, who with his wife, Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, operates TAI Gallery in Santa Fe. “Because we’re both art collectors, too, we understand that.”
Their partnership is a blend of distinct yet complementary styles and strengths. She’s a New Englander with formidable textile expertise: a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, she studied industrial textile design and tapestry weaving in Europe and spent a decade as curator of costumes and textiles at the ...
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Pritam & Eames29 Race LaneEast Hampton, New York 11937 631-324-7111pritameames.com
On May 21, 1981, Bebe Pritam Johnson and Warren Eames Johnson opened their studio furniture gallery, Pritam & Eames, in a converted 19th-century steam laundry building in East Hampton, New York. Exhibiting a mix of renowned and up-and-coming furniture makers, such as Richard Scott Newman, whose recent work includes Child Chairs, the show marked the beginning of the couple’s long and exciting professional journey into the world of studio furniture.
Prior to opening the gallery, Bebe worked at the Council on International Educational Exchange and Warren worked in documentary ...
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Mariposa Gallery3500 Central Ave. S.E.Albuquerque, NM 87106505-268-6828mariposa-gallery.com
Located in Albuquerque's lively Nob Hill retail district, Mariposa Gallery is a beloved local institution, having showcased fine craft by southwestern makers since 1974. When founder Fay Abrams retired in 2005, she sold the place to her employees Liz Dineen and Jennifer Rohrig, who have preserved its original spirit in their own accessible, community-oriented style.
You specialize in supporting the emerging artist. Has that always been a focus at Mariposa?JR: A lot of successful New Mexico artists had their first gallery experience with Mariposa, and it's an ...
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Jewelers' Werk Galerie3319 Cady's Alley, NWWashington, DC 20007202-337-3319
In 1984 the Dutch jeweler Joke van Ommen opened vo Galerie in Washington, DC. The tiny space broke ground as a showcase for contemporary jewelry, primarily from Europe. When van Ommen died in 1988, one of her American artists, Ellen Reiben, took over the business and renamed it Jewelers’ Werk. It endures as one of the few and foremost galleries for leadingedge art jewelry.
How has Jewelers' Werk evolved?Reiben: Well, we got a new location [in 2007]; that's been the biggest change. I had a fullpage review in the Washington ...
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Luke & Eloy Gallery5169 Butler St.Pittsburgh, pa 15201412-784-1919lukeandeloy.ning.com
From the time she was very young, Brigitte Martin, a jeweler and the owner of Luke & Eloy Gallery in Pittsburgh, has been surrounded by art. While growing up in Cologne, West Germany, she traveled with her parents throughout Europe, where they spent hours visiting museums and castles. It was this love of art combined with a fascination for how pieces are formed that led to Martin's subsequent apprenticeship with a German master goldsmith. In September 2008 Martin, who moved to the U.S. with her American husband ...
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Look North Gallery
275 Conover Street Suite 4E
Brooklyn, New York 11231
(347) 721-3995
In 1991 Jim Clark , now the owner of Look North Gallery in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, left behind his life in the fishing town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the wilds of Alaska. For the next 15 years he spent an average of six to eight months out of the year as the first mate on an Alaskan crab boat (during which he appeared on the Discovery Channel’s The Deadliest Catch) while spending the off-season in New York City. In 2007, at ...
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Mark Ginsberg owns and operates a destination jewelry store in Iowa City, Iowa, a three-story shop that won a national award for its first-floor retail space redesign in 2004. Ginsberg wanted to do away with the barrier of display cases between staff and customers, so he tucked jewelry into cherrywood cabinetry, encouraging customers to dig like archaeologists for their treasures.
Why? He wanted customers to feel "the heart flutter" that accompanies first discoveries: "the first date, the first kiss, the first time we traveled alone," he says.
The shop's second floor has, from the start, been a dedicated gallery space, with room ...
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Sherrie Gallerie694 N. High St.Columbus, OH 43215614-221-8580sherriegallerie.com
When Sherrie Riley Hawk describes her Columbus, Ohio, gallery's success in the über-artsy Short North neighborhood, we learn it's all about connections. Someone will walk through the door, pause in front of a piece of sculpture or jewelry, and ask for the story behind it. "There is nothing more gratifying than connecting the artists to the people who appreciate them," she says. "It makes my life much richer. I learn from everyone who comes into the gallery."
Sometimes Hawk gets a good story out of telling a ...
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I Like You501 First Ave. NEMinneapolis, MN 55413612-208-0249ilikeyouonline.com
When did craft earn its street cred? In Minneapolis, it happened right around April 2009. That's when the independent boutique I Like You moved into the city's vanguard Northeast neighborhood, shacking up next door to an accounting-office-turned-art-gallery and throwing open its doors to the bohemians prowling the block. With its Astroturf carpeting, re-appropriated library furniture, and tattoo-sleeved spitfire owners, the shop embodies the new vogue for urban craft. Specializing in "small things for a prettier life," I Like You sells work produced almost exclusively by Minnesota artists. ...
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Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery 1420 Fifth Avenue, #108 Seattle, Washington 98101 206-624-6768
Karen Lorene launched her career as a dealer in 1972, selling “turn-of-the-century furnishings and doodads” on her front porch. Twelve years later, she opened the elegant Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery in downtown Seattle. “I still can hardly wait to get here every day,” Lorene says of Facèré (pronounced fa-cherry, it’s a made-up name, she cheerfully admits, meant to evoke handwork and sophistication). The gallery is itself jewel-like, a 250-square-foot freestanding space in the lobby of the City Centre building, offering vintage pieces as well as ...
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Andora Gallery
77 West Huron Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
312-274-3747 ...
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Shibumi Gallery1402 Fifth St.Berkeley, CA 94710510-528-7736shibumigallery.com
“I like making things look good,” says the jeweler/gallerist April Higashi, be it the right accessory on a client or the warm, serene, “earthy-modern” environment of Shibumi, which offers contemporary art, jewelry and clothing by established and emerging makers, including Biba Schutz, Eric Silva and Karen Gilbert, who made Towered Earrings, Antler Necklace and Seed, respectively.
How did you become an artist?My grandfather was an artist. He was Japanese American, and more kinesthetic about the way he interacted with me when I was young. Instead ...
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Duane Reed Gallery4729 McPherson AvenueSt. Louis, Missouri 63108314-361-4100duanereedgallery.com
After years working as a ballroom dance instructor, Duane Reed put away his dancing shoes and focused on a different kind of creative outlet. Having taken time away from the art world he fell in love with as a student, Reed “could think of nothing except working with fine art.” In 1994 he opened the Duane Reed Gallery and since then has been presenting “objects that have craft roots,” such as Margaret Keelan's Journey and Bonnie Seeman's Untitled Gravy Boat and Tray, along with paintings, drawings and photography. He ...
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Douglas Dawson Gallery400 North Morgan St.Chicago, il 60642312-226-7975douglasdawson.com
As a boy growing up in South Dakota, Douglas Dawson inherited his great-grandfather’s small local museum of Indian artifacts, natural oddities and “just curious things,” which he operated through high school and which inspired his passion for archaeology and anthropology. After stints as a potter’s apprentice in Japan, a field researcher in a Mayan Highland ceramics village in Guatemala, and a studio potter living in a commune in Iowa, in 1982 he opened the Douglas Dawson Gallery in Chicago. Today it is a leading venue for ancient and historical ...
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