Established | April 1994 |
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Location | Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
Type | Art gallery |
The Woodward Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery that opened in April 1994 under the incorporation G.O.L.A, Inc. (Gallery of Living Artists). The inaugural exhibition was held in Times Square at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Their gallery space started in New York City at 419 Lafayette Street and moved to SoHo at 476 Broome Street. Woodward Gallery moved to the private building at 133 Eldridge Street in May 2007 on the Lower East Side of New York City. Woodward Gallery relocated to their current ground floor space ten years later at 132A Eldridge Street between Broome and Delancey and is open to the public by private appointment only. The collection also can be viewed on ARTSY.com and through their website.
Woodward Gallery Windows is the focal point of their public exhibition program now exhibiting art in their street level windows. Accessible to all, Woodward Gallery continues its mission of enhancing culture within the community. Woodward Gallery expanded their off-site art program to three Gourmet Garage locations citywide (SoHo, TriBeCa and Lincoln Center), using 50,000 square feet of storefront windows and interior spaces for rotating art exhibitions.Woodward Gallery features emerging and established artists and shows Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Color Field painting, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Neo-expressionism, and Street Art among other movements.
Director John Woodward was the Art Curator for the historic Four Seasons Restaurant at 99 East 52nd Street, through its closing in 2016–his first exhibition there featured the largest Robert Indiana "HOPE" canvases in the world. Woodward Gallery is owned by John Woodward and Kristine Woodward. They have been a presence on television for their art expertise (Home by Novogratz, Treasure Detectives, local news WPIX11). They are directly involved in the World Documentary of Artist Richard Hambleton, "Shadowman" by Oscar nominated director Oren Jacoby premiering in April 2017 at the Tribeca Film Festival.