Reimagining the Gallery: 12 Hybrid Spaces on the Rise Trend Alert
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Reimagining the Gallery: 12 Hybrid Spaces on the Rise Trend Alert
"BCMT Gallery is an artist-forward gallery championing craft and the processes and people behind it. Based out of Kingston, New York, the gallery was founded by artist and furniture maker Joshua Vogel and Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. co-founder Kelly Zaneto. BCMT Gallery has sought out a growing collective of artists who share in the investigation of the elemental-offering both functional and collectible works."
"Established by the Estate of pioneering Northern California artist JB Blunk, Blunk Space was founded in 2021 by Blunk's daughter, curator and design historian Mariah Nielson. The Point Reyes Station space champions artists and designers working in a spirit of experimentation and tactility. Exhibiting contemporary and historical art and design, Blunk Space is made up of a gallery, studio space, and shop with a collection of homeware, jewelry, publications, and artwork."
A new crop of small hybrid spaces has emerged, part gallery and part shop, often artist-run, showing art alongside furniture and design objects. These spaces avoid traditional white-cube neutrality and concept-store commercialism, folding art, design, and craft into tactile, accessible, personal settings. Their modest scale emphasizes resilience, exchange, experimentation, and refinement rather than expansion. BCMT Gallery in Kingston centers craft and elemental investigations, offering functional and collectible works from a growing collective of artists. Blue Mountain School in East London combines exhibitions, a listening room, a restaurant, and a curated shop across six floors. Blunk Space in Point Reyes Station combines gallery, studio, and shop, championing experimentation and tactility with homeware, jewelry, publications, and artwork.
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