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Things You Can Touch

by Stephanie Meissner
|September 14, 2009
|Categories: Ceramics, Fiber, Glass, Mixed Media, Painting

The Duane Reed Gallery celebrates 15 years presenting "objects with craft roots."

Furniture Extraordinaire

by Shannon Sharpe
|July 02, 2009
|Categories: Furniture

"We've always loved he idea of this furniture being part of someone's daily life."

—Bebe Pritam Johnson and Warren Eames Johnson

Standing for Jewelry Arts

by Joyce Lovelace
|May 12, 2009
|Categories: Jewelry

“I wear jewelry even when I go to the grocery store,” asserts Karen Lorene, owner of Seattle’s Facere Jewelry Art Gallery.

Fruitful Partnership

by Joyce Lovelace
|March 11, 2009
|Categories: Baskets, Fiber

Two heads are better than one when textile dealer Robert Coffland and his wife, Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, merge strengths and styles to operate TAI Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Down East in Chelsea

by Shannon Sharpe
|January 06, 2009
|Categories: Ceramics, Mixed Media

Nancy Margolis brings a love of clay and savvy as a gallerist, both honed in Maine, to her Chelsea showplace for international ceramics and other art.

Bringing it All Together

by Joyce Lovelace
|Photography by Trevor Dixon
|November 03, 2008
|Categories: Mixed Media

 

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).

Where I'm Coming From

by Joyce Lovelace
|Photography by Andrea Rugg
|September 03, 2008
|Categories: Mixed Media

The Grand Hand Gallery
619 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55102
(651) 312-1122

After 15 years as a commercial banker on the fast track, Ann Ruhr Pifer switched careers in 2004 to open the Grand Hand Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota. Oddly for such an "intensely arts-aware, design-oriented community," the Twin Cities had very few retail outlets for fine craft, she'd observed: "This was a way I could use my business skills to help artists make a living doing what they love."

Northern Exposure

by Shannon Sharpe
|Photography by Nicholas Haggard
|July 02, 2008
|Categories: Mosaics, Mixed Media, Sculpture

Engaging with Ceramics

by Joyce Lovelace
|Photography by Sean Donnola
|May 15, 2008
|Categories: Ceramics

Her two sons were nearly grown and she'd done 25 years of solo studio work, so the artist Rebecca Cross decided to do something "more engaged with the world." In 2006 she opened Cross MacKenzie Ceramic Arts in Washington, D.C. With support from her husband and business partner, the architectural photographer Max MacKenzie, she showcases the "incredible breadth of the clay medium" in pottery, sculpture and custom tilework.

Starting Fresh

by Shannon Sharpe
|Photography by Chip Williams
|March 07, 2008
|Categories: Mixed Media

In 2001 Sue Bass opened the Andora Gallery in Carefree, Arizona, a small town on the outskirts of Scottsdale. After operating there for six years, Bass, a midwesterner, decided to return to Chicago, the city she considers home. Upon her arrival she joined forces with Sandra Rusnak to bring Andora to Chicago.

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