An exhibition at Chappell Gallery's 2,100-square-foot space in Chelsea which has since been closed as the gallery relocates to a smaller space in the same building.
Opening in Chelsea in October 2000, Chappell Gallery was early in setting up shop in what has become New York City’s red-hot contemporary art district. But then the gallery, which also had a Boston location from 1997 to 2004, has always been bold, a quality well-suited to an important outpost for emerging artists working with glass. Founded by Alice Chappell, a former vice-president at Steuben Glass, who became enamored of Japanese contemporary glass sculpture during her decade as president of the United States branch of Japan-based Hoya Crystal Corporation, the gallery quickly set itself apart for a willingness to identify new talent from Asia, Australia, and the United States, and for the care that went into producing serious exhibition catalogs. Continue reading
