Anita shapolsky gallery new york
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery
Anita Shapolsky, the owner and proprietor of Anita Shapolsky Gallery has been involved in the visual art world for over 40 years. She is a celebrated curator, art advisor, collector, and patron of modern and contemporary art. The gallery specializes in promoting artists of the New York School (Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s). Shapolsky opened her first gallery on Spring Street in Soho in 1982. She has worked extensively and has been successful in exhibiting underappreciated artists who had celebrated careers in the 1950s and are in numerous museum collections. Her career has been spent fostering and championing their art, including Latin American and women artists of the period. She was also one of the first of the mainstream galleries in NYC to exhibit the work of African American abstract artists.
In 1997, Shapolsky moved her gallery from Soho to 152 East 65th Street, a brownstone, where it continues operations today. She also maintains the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, which houses, preserves and documents the works of artists of the 50’s as well as of contemporary artists in the abstract tradition. The foundation provides summer art programs for children and exhibitions of abstract expressionist artists
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ANITA SHAPOLSKY ART FOUNDATION
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery
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The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is an art gallery that was founded in 1982 by Anita Shapolsky. It is currently located at 152 East 65th Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in New York City.
The gallery specializes in 1950s and 1960s abstract expressionist art, known as the New York School. It exhibits expressionism, geometric abstraction and painterlyabstraction. The gallery most frequently exhibits works in oil and acrylic, as well as sculpture. It focuses on second-generation abstract expressionists, while also representing younger artists, older Latin American abstract artists, women artists, African-American artists and established artists.
History
[edit]Anita Shapolsky was born in New York as Anita Kresofsky.[1] She attended Hunter College, where she earned a B.A. and where her interest in art began, and New York University, where she earned an M.A.[1][2] She married Martin (Meyer) Shapolsky, a realtor. They had a son, Ian, and a daughter, Lisa, together. Martin died in 1992.[1]
Shapolsky began collecting ancient art, and in the 1970s started to collect contemporary art, focusing on abstract expressionism.