The Lodge Gallery was a contemporary art gallery located in New York City's Lower East Side and was active in the primary market. [1] The gallery was owned and directed by founders Keith Schweitzer and Jason Patrick Voegele.
Voegele and Schweitzer were named as "Young New York Art Dealers to Watch" by Artnet News. [2]
Voegele is the Executive Director of NY Art Consultant and Republic Worldwide. He is also a recurring critic for the NYFA Doctors Program. [3] He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute master's program in painting and art history. [4]
Schweitzer is also an owner/director of DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary, a gallery located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He has been a guest speaker at the Brooklyn Museum. [5]
Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Art in General was a non-profit contemporary art exhibition space known for its vibrant and ground-breaking projects as a formidable and longstanding New York City alternative space, focused on giving meaningful resources and opportunities to artists early on in their careers. Founded in 1981 by artists Martin Weinstein and Teresa Liszka and originally located in the General Hardware building in New York City — hence the organization's name, Art in General — the institution produced and presented distinctive programs and exhibitions featuring new work by local and international artists.
New York Film Academy – School of Film and Acting (NYFA) is a private for-profit film school and acting school based in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. The New York Film Academy was founded in 1992 by Jerry Sherlock, a former film, television and theater producer. It was originally located at the Tribeca Film Center. In 1994, NYFA moved to 100 East 17th Street, the former Tammany Hall building in the Union Square. After 23 years of occupancy, the academy relocated from Tammany Hall to 17 Battery Place.
The Luhring Augustine Gallery is an art gallery in New York City. The gallery has three locations: Chelsea, Bushwick, and Tribeca. Its principal focus is the representation of an international group of contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, sculpture, video and photography.
The Brooklyn Rail is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics. The Rail is based in Brooklyn, New York. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, critics, and curators, and reviews of art, music, dance, film, books, and theater.
Derek Fordjour is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator of Ghanaian heritage who works in collage, video/film, sculpture, and painting. Fordjour lives and works in New York City.
Augusto Arbizo is a visual artist, gallerist, art advisor, and art curator. As an artist he exhibited at White Columns, NY; Sandra Gering Gallery, NY; and Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY. Group exhibitions include Artists Space, NY; PS1 MoMA, NY; and The Queens Museum of Art, NY. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for Rachel Uffner Gallery; Chapter NY; Greenberg Van Doren Gallery; and White Columns. He was director of 11R Eleven Rivington, NY from 2007–2017. Arbizo joined the New York art advisory firm Schwartzman& in 2021. Arbizo was educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Cooper Union School of Art, NY, and The University of Michigan.
Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea and the Los Angeles neighborhood of West Hollywood. Founded in 1991 by Matthew Marks, it specializes in modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, film, and drawings and prints. The gallery has three exhibition spaces in New York City and two in Los Angeles.
Roberta Smith is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art. She is the first woman to hold that position at the Times.
The Brainstormers are a group of young American women artists whose performances mostly address gender inequity in the US art world. Consisting of fellow Hunter MFA graduates Danielle Mysliwiec, Elaine Kaufmann and Maria Dumlao, their most well-known work is one where they stood in costume, at the entrance of P.S.1 during the Greater New York show in 2005, pointing accusingly at the institution for its gender discrimination in its selection of artists.
Eva Presenhuber is an Austria-born, Zürich-based art dealer, owner of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, based in Zürich, Switzerland and a second space in New York City.
Swati Khurana is a writer and contemporary artist of Indian-American origin. She was born in New Delhi, India in 1975. She emigrated to New York in 1977, where she lives and works. She graduated from Poughkeepsie Day School in 1993. She holds a B.A. in history from Columbia University, M.A. in Studio Art and Art Criticism from New York University, and an MFA in creative writing at Hunter College.
Jacolby Satterwhite is an American contemporary artist who creates immersive installations. He has exhibited work at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the New Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. In addition to MoMA, his work is in the public collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kiasma, and the San Jose Museum of Art. Satterwhite has also served as a contributing director for the music video that accompanied Solange's 2019 visual album When I Get Home and directed a short film accompaniment to Perfume Genius's 2022 studio album Ugly Season.
Michael Alistair Findlay is an art dealer and author residing in New York City. Findlay is a Director of Acquavella Galleries, which specializes in Impressionist and Modern European works of art as well as Post-War American painting and sculpture. Findlay is also the author of three books, The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty (2012), Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art (2017), Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man (2024).
Greene Naftali is a contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
Lina Puerta is a Colombian-American mixed media artist based in New York City. She was born in New Jersey and grew up in Colombia.
Robert Bittenbender is an American mixed media artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. In 2019, Bittenbender was selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial 2019.
Derek Lerner is an American contemporary artist primarily known for his ink on paper abstract drawings, currently living and working in New York City. Lerner's art has been exhibited nationally and internationally including; Robert Henry Contemporary in Brooklyn, NY, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Montserrat Galleries – Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Centre d'Exposition de Val-d'Or in Quebec, Canada and University of Massachusetts.
Tara Downs is a Canadian artist who jointly owns and operates the Downs & Ross gallery in New York City. She previously was a founder and director of the Tomorrow Gallery in Toronto and later relocated to New York City.