The
Bastoky Gallery officially opened its doors on August 1st, 1995, (as the
Greenwood Gallery) with an exhibit by the very talented artist and former
co-worker at Microsoft, Tina Anderson. The Grand Opening drew a crowd
of more than 250 people into a 750 sq.ft. exhibit space. Throughout the
night, people and champagne overflowed on to Greenwood Ave. and beyond.
It was said that “this is the biggest party that Greenwood's seen
in 20 years!”
For
two years following the Anderson exhibit, the gallery was host to a series
of month long, well received exhibits. Exhibitors included some of the
finest established and emerging artist from the Northwest and the West
Coast.
The online gallery, one of the very first in the area,
went online in October, 1995. The website was thereafter updated monthly
to reflect the current physical gallery exhibit. A number of pieces
were purchased via the website, by local clients as well as from other
areas of the Northwest and as far away as Chicago. The online gallery
also received an MSN “Pick of the Week” for Arts and Entertainment
during the week of 6/19/96, and Microsoft’s Seattle.Sidewalk gave
it a “Sidewalk’s Choice” award and a review
on 4/25/97.
Even
though the physical gallery was well received by the community —
taking a number of risks by showing California artists such as Teresa
Moore, as well as local artists such as Sally
Banfill — it was forced to close its doors for good exactly
two years after opening. One of our goals was to keep prices reasonable,
with artwork averaging $1,500 on the high end, and always a range of
pieces costing $300 or less on the low end.
The
Online Gallery has now been reopened after a hiatus of approx. 18 months.
We will continue to show the work of some of the artists we represented
previously in the physical gallery and we will be looking at new work
as well. We will present monthly online exhibits of the highest quality
artwork, offered at affordable prices. We also hope to continue our
tradition of education with on-going articles for the beginning art
collector, on how to look at art and what art is all about, written
in plain English. We expect, from time to time, to have a guest reviewer
who will discuss some of the art you will see here. These reviews will
be informative and enlightening, not mean-spirited critiques that do
nothing more than obfuscate and condescend. (NOTE:
The online gallery is closed, offline, gone. We are no longer reviewing
porfolios. I am now concentrating on my own painting, as much as possible.)
Thanks
for visiting the Bastoky Online Gallery. Please come back soon and often.
We'd also like to hear from you. Let us know how we're doing, any suggestions
you may have for improvements to the website, or anything you might want
to discuss or debate relating to the art and articles you see here.
Remember,
artists have to make a living too. Support the arts by supporting the
artists.
This
slightly off-center gallery presents a wide range of contemporary painting,
sculpture, and photography from regional, national, and international
artists.
