02 APRIL 2007
511 GALLERY TO OPEN BRANCH IN LAKE PLACID
511 Gallery, the Chelsea gallery of contemporary art located at 529 West 20th Street, has announced the forthcoming opening of a branch in Lake Placid, New York. The summer and winter resort town in the Adirondacks is best known for its hosting of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. The gallery will officially open on Friday, May 25th, at 2461 Main Street, in the village of Lake Placid, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. that evening.
Speaking on behalf of the Gallery, Mara Miller, Managing Director in New York, said: "We are thrilled to be able to launch this new enterprise. The gallery will exhibit contemporary work from our sixteen represented artists, as well as fine art from the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries in the "back room", on behalf of private and institutional collectors."
Lake Placid and the Adirondack region have historically been a source of much art-making: from the Hudson River School landscape painting of such artists as John Kensett, Samuel Coleman, Asher B. Durand, and Worthington Whittredge, to 20th century Modernists like Rockwell Kent, Harold Weston, David Smith, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and up to today's contemporary artists such as Shirin Neshat, Joel Shapiro, Ellen Phelan, and Matt Ernst, who have studios in the region.
511 Gallery Lake Placid will be the first fine art gallery located in the village. Its operations will be overseen by Janice Thomas and Ms. Miller, with staff support from the New York gallery.
For further information:
511 Gallery Lake Placid
2461 Main Street
Lake Placid NY 12946
518 523 7163
511gallery.com
