Postmasters Gallery
Postmasters opened in the East Village in December 1984, moved to Soho in 1989 and in September 1998 the gallery relocated again to a large ground floor space in Chelsea. Postmasters is the primary gallery for all the artists we represent.
On September 6th, 2001, German-born artist Wolfgang Staehle, installed three live-feed video projections in the gallery, one of which was a panoramic view of Lower Manhattan, which would remain on view for the rest of the month. In a strange coincidence, the feed captured the terrorist attacks of September 11th, transforming a fixed image of the city into what the art critic Roberta Smith of the New York Times called "a live history painting."[1]
On occasion, Sawon has allowed artists to direct the public's attention to her own role as an art dealer. In 1992 the gallery hosted an exhibition of work by Silvia Kolbowski, featuring posters of the gallery itself.[2] In an event called "Ask the Dealer," during the month-long hashtagclass series at Winkleman Gallery in 2010, Sawon promised to truthfully answer any question asked of her regarding her experience as an art gallerist.[3]
References
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "In New York's Galleries, a New Context Seems to Remake the Art". The New York Times. September 19, 2001.
- ^ Smith, Roberta. "The Gallery Is the Message". The New York Times. October 4th, 1992.
- ^ Goldstein, Andrew M. "In New York: Opening this Weekend". Artinfo.com. February 17, 2010.