Dam Stuhltrager Gallery
38 Marcy Avenue, Store Front
Brooklyn NY
11211
www.damstuhltrager.com

Rating – Good
Level – Intermediate/emerging
Type – Contemporary
Subcategory – Slick, humorous, conceptual

Their Published Description:
Founded in 1991 Dam Stuhltrager is a contemporary art gallery located in Williamsburg Brooklyn. The gallery’s mission is to: emphasize the importance of art, promote artists professionally, and build financial support for the arts. Exhibited artwork is driven conceptually not commercially.
Strong exhibits and unique promotional campaigns have propelled Dam Stuhltrager from a young gallery into a critically acclaimed powerhouse for emerging artists. The gallery represents some of the most recognized names hailing from Williamsburg, including William Powhida, Breuk Iverson, Loren Munk and Mark Esper. Limited edition invites created fir each exhibit is now sought after collector’s items.

Editors Description:
They show several artists with a sense of humor, which I think is the mark of the new contemporary. The work on their site is all very well done and sexy looking. It’s a typically Williamsburg Gallery, which depending on who you are could be a good or a bad thing. If you don’t know what that means than you would be lucky to get a show here so congratulations and go for it. Unlike a lot of these kinds of galleries however they have an interesting addition in their mandate, to propel art conceptually and not commercially. I like their mandate a lot, and if its true it sets them a part.  I need you guys input to tell me if this is an actual fact however.

31 Grand St.
Brooklyn (Williamsburg), NY
11211
718.388.2858
www.31grand.com

Rating – Good
Level – Intermediate/Emerging
Type – Contemporary
Subcategory: Commercial

Their Published Description:
Co-directors: Megan Bush and Heather Stephens Exhibits: Group shows and solo shows featuring a diverse selection of local, national and international contemporary artists. Represented Artists

Editors Description:
I have been to this space and met one of the directors several times. She is always pleasant but I don’t know her. She is a business woman though and at all the fairs selling away and unquestioningly I would know her better if I was a collector or some other art fair hot shot. This gallery is in the Scope fair, so its not one to ignore. However, this would not get it a good rating from me and if anything may push it in to the evil category. What does give her a good rating is the artists she represents. If the artists she works with in any way represent the directors then this is a place you would want to work with. I have met several people who work as artists or employees for this gallery and I think that as people they are fantastic. Her artists are all characters, and the ones I know are dedicated, friendly, down to earth and they make kick ass work. I would want to show with this gallery so I could go to the Company Christmas Party to have beers with these nice kids.

Friends Comments: None at this time.

Nelson Hancock Gallery
111 Front St. #204
Brooklyn NY
1`1201
718-408-1195
Web: www.nelsonhancockgallery.com

Rating – Okay
Level –Advanced / Intermediate
 Type – Contemporary
 Subcategory: Photography/Commercial

Their Published Description:
Nelson Hancock Gallery specializes in contemporary photography. Nelson Hancock opened the gallery in the spring of 2005. Hancock has studied visual and cultural anthropology at Columbia University, receiving a PhD in 2001. He is also a successful fine art and commercial photographer and is on the faculty at the Pratt Institute of Design.

Editors Description:
Well I wasn’t blown away by any of the photographers who show here. And  it all seems like just another commercial dealer who specializes in photography…..and well that is okay, but not super exciting.

Friends Comments:
None at this time.

Kentler International Drawing Space
353 Van Brunt Street
Brooklyn NY
11231
www.kentlergallery.org

Rating - Excellent
Level –Advanced/Intermediate
Type – Drawing Center
Subcategory- Non-profit
www.kentlergallery.org

Their Published Description:
The Kentler International Drawing Space located in a storefront space in Red Hook Brooklyn, open its doors in April of 1990. The Building was built in 1877 by the Kentler family as a men’s haberdashery which served the seaport community and was renovated in 1987 by artists as part of New York City Artist Housing Program.
The gallery is dedicated to bringing important and timely contemporary art to the public, by artists both nationally and internationally. A flat file of work on paper is available for viewing by artist’s curators, collectors and the general public. The gallery is a non-profit artist run space, which presents monthly and bi-monthly exhibitions and installations of Drawings and Works on Paper. Using the means and accessibility of drawing and paper as a basis, artists are invited to experiment, explore and expand the definitions and the parameters of drawing and art.

Editors Description:
This place has shown a lot of interesting drawings.  They have a great mandate and display an incredibly open and unrestricted idea of what drawing can be.  They are a little bit out of the way but the work and their reputation will get an audience to your show. They even have directions to get to their place from a Kayak so maybe the people in Tevas at your opening are not water sport art posers but the real thing.

Friends Comments: None at this time.

RKL Gallery
349 Leonard Street
Brooklyn NY
11211
www.rklgallery.com

Rating – unknown
Level – Intermediate/emerging
Type – Contemporary

Their Published Description:
RKL redefines itself every month, with unpredictable exhibitions and events. Eclectic group and solo theme based shows bring together emerging artists and technologies with older established traditions. Breaking down boundaries in the arts, RKL is expanding and enriching the dialog between the two.
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Editors Description:
Located right of the L on Lormier its just on the outskirts of the deep depths of hipster Williamsburg. I can’t seem to find more about them at this time, so to say anything would be unfair.

Friends Comments: None at this time.

Tabla Rasa Gallery
Brooklyn NY
11220
917-880-11220
www.tablarasagallery.com

Rating – Good
Level – Intermediate/emerging
Type – Contemporary
Sub – Photography/ Drawing/Figurative

Their Published Description:
Tabla Rasa is an art gallery that profiles works of emerging, mid-career, and established artists of Brooklyn, New York, and the US. Located in a turn of the century carriage house in industrial Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Tabla Rasa presents solo and group exhibitions in a wide range of styles, themes and media.  Artist/Directors Audrey Frank Anastassi is committed to the visual arts as an expression of the human’s spirit and a voice for social issues. Bringing their experiences with nonprofit art organizations to Tabla Rasa, they are committed to presenting an accessible, friendly, non-intimidating, yet high quality art-viewing venue.

Editors Description:
This gallery seems to specialize in Photography and Drawings. They have a nice looking space in Brooklyn.  I have been following their web site for a while and they are either hit or miss. When they are one, they are very good but when they miss, it’s not worth your viewing time and it’s mediocre at best.  You need to be a decent artist to show here but not on fire.

Friends Comments: None at this time