Bernard Toale Gallery
450 Harrison Ave
Boston MA
02118
617-482-2477
www.bernardtoalegallery.com
Rating –Good
Level – Advanced
Type – Contemporary
Subcategory: Commercial Blue Chip
Their Published Description:
The Bernard Toale Gallery was established by Bernard Toale in 1992 at 11 Newbury Street in Boston. Over the years, the Gallery has shown cutting-edge contemporary art in all media by internationally-known as well as emerging artists. In the spring of 1998, the Gallery moved to 450 Harrison Avenue in Boston's South End.
Editors Description
They show and sell the big names like Tomaselli. If you don’t know who he is then don’t even consider applying here. They also represent a lot of good cotemporary photography.
Friends Comments:
None at this time.
Boston Center For the Arts
Mills Gallery
539 Tremont St
Boston, MA
02116
617-426-8835
Web: http://bcaonline.org
Rating – Good
Level –Advanced / Intermediate
Type – Contemporary
Subcategory:
Their Published Description:
The BCA presents exciting contemporary works by established and emerging local regional national and international visual artists. The BCA mounts approximately six large scale exhibitions in the 2200 square foot Mills Gallery each year, Also, other visual art projects such as temporary or site-specific works, are exhibited in other arts of the BCA throughout the year. During each exhibition, the BCA provides multiple opportunities to engage with the artwork and artists through artistic talks curator talks and other related events.
Editors Description:
I was reading about Boston galleries and a few strong players galleries have closed down there in the last year. The article in the Boston Globe was saying it was the pressure of art sales on the internet and the big Fairs like Basel, and the Armory. So unless you’re a really big established gallery which a budget to travel you may have a hard time getting foot traffic. I found this a sad sign of globalization and bad for the local community art scene. Well this same article gave this gallery the award for the most innovative show of the year. They are that. This is a fare size space, with satellite galleries and a theater whose mandate is to bring art to the community. They bring all kinds of art at all levels from all over, to enrich the experiences of their patrons. And they get the foot traffic lament at the beginning of this article because they do so much. They are also funded the College Art Association which means that they have an academic image to maintain.
Friends Comments:
None at this time.
Chase Gallery
129 Newbury Street
Boston MA
02116
www.chasegallery.com/
Rating –Good
Level – Intermediate
Type – Traditonal
Subcategory: commercial/painting/realism
Their Published Description:
Since its inception in 1990, Chase Gallery has become well known for exhibiting outstanding contemporary artists working today with a clarity of vision and integrity of form. Broadening its spectrum, Chase Gallery has built on its original premise of exhibiting representational painters to be inclusive of abstract artists, both of which have strong narrative elements. Artists represented by the gallery are primarily well known regionally, however, several have national and international recognition.
Editors Description
If you are a good traditional realist painter, or a painter who tends to make painterly slightly abstracted landscapes of still lifes, you should have nice Chianti with these people. Especially if your goal in life is to sell the fore mentioned styles of painting.
Friends Comments:
None at this time.
Judi Rothenberg Gallery
130 Newbury Street
Boston MA
02116
617-437-1518
Rating –Good
Level –Intermediate
Type – Contemporary
Subcategory: Commercial
Their Published Description:
The Judi Rotenberg gallery was established in 1971 at our present location on Newbury Street in Boston. Over the years the gallery has represented a variety of regional and nationally known contemporary painters who explore the genre of still life and nationally known contemporary painters who explore the genres of still life, landscape, figurative and more recently, abstract painting and sculpture. Presently the gallery sustains two major projects over the course of each year the Heritage project and the Annex project- and exhibits from these areas rotate in each of the gallery’s spaces on a monthly basis.
Editors Description
Either hit or miss in the art they chose to show. Its not consistent but they do have some very good stuff for sale. This is a commercial gallery.
Friends Comments:
None at this time.
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