Chelsea Gallery, 459 West 19th Street @ 10th avenue
Postmasters Gallery opened in East Village in December 1984. In 1989 Postmasters moved to Soho to its location at 80 Greene Street. In September 1998 the gallery relocated again to a new ground floor space of a former 4,000 square feet garage in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street.
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Chelsea Gallery, 459 West 19th Street @ 10th avenue
Postmasters Gallery opened in East Village in December 1984. In 1989 Postmasters moved to Soho to its location at 80 Greene Street. In September 1998 the gallery relocated again to a new ground floor space of a former 4,000 square feet garage in Chelsea at 459 West 19th Street.
During its 23 years Postmasters is showing young and established artists of all media. We actively seek new forms of creative expression and show them in a context of painting, sculpture and photography. Painters (Steve Mumford, David Diao), sculptors (David Herbert, Jack Risley), installation artists (Diana Cooper , Sally Smart), and artists for whom form follows conceptual ideas (Spencer Finch, Mary Kelly, Claude Wampler) are represented along the video and new media artists like Katarzyna Kozyra, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Omer Fast, Eddo Stern, Guy Ben-Ner, Anthony Goicolea, Natalie Jeremijenko, 0100101110101101.ORG (Eva and Franco Mattes), and Wolfgang Staehle. The artworks are generally content oriented, conceptually based, and – most importantly – reflective of our time. Given the configuration of the space (two large rooms) we are often able to present two exhibitions simultaneously.
Postmasters is one of the few galleries committed to showing art associated with new technologies. It began with – now seminal – "Can you Digit?" an exhibition of digital projects on 30 computer stations in March 1996. Most recently Postmasters exhibited "13 Most Beautiful Avatars", a project by well known culture jamming media artists Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.ORG) The Matteses currently live an alternative life in the online virtual world Second Life where they created a post-Warholian series of digital paintings of avatars.
Extensive archives of all exhibitions since 1999 are available online www.postmastersart.com
