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LewAllen Contemporary is a premier gallery of contemporary art located in the heart of Santa Fe, the second-largest art market in the country. On Palace Avenue near the Plaza and the New Mexico Museum of Art, the gallery has been in continuous operation in its 11,000 square feet of museum-like exhibition space for more than 30 years. During that time, it has earned a reputation that is both national and international for representing some of the nation’s best-known living painters and sculptors alongside some of the freshest talent on the leading edge.
Originally the Horwitch Gallery, founded in 1976 by legendary Santa Fe and Scottsdale art dealer Elaine Horwitch, the gallery later became the LewAllen Contemporary when artist and teacher Arlene LewAllen became its owner and made great strides in advancing the gallery’s reputation and aesthetic. After her death in 2002, the gallery was purchased by Bob Gardner and Ken Marvel. They strive to carry on the legacy of both prior owners for refined taste in fine art and personable service to the collecting community. Like their esteemed predecessors, they search for the best in contemporary art and for artists whose vision is fresh and whose work shows original thinking, intelligence, beauty and technical prowess. The gallery’s roster also includes a growing number of late-career Modernist artists who were internationally acclaimed leaders and contributors to many schools of contemporary art during the late twentieth century.
The gallery features work in a variety of media and its artists represent many schools of late twentieth century and contemporary art, including Realist, Pop, Abstract, Color Field, Minimalist, Op, Geometric Abstraction and Expressionist. Though the gallery primarily handles painting and sculpture, it also represents artists working in glass, ceramics, tapestry, photography, jewelry, and works on paper. The current gallery roster includes such noted artists as Judy Chicago, Robert Natkin, Bernard Chaet, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Ben Aronson, Forrest Moses, Michael Roque Collins, Hiroshi Yamano, Janet Fish, Emily Mason, Meridel Rubenstein, Robert Brady, Beverly McIver, Katherine Chang Liu, Roy DeForest, Tom Palmore, Darren Vigil Gray, Ed Mieczkowski and Bill Barrett, among others.
Some 15-20 major solo and group exhibitions are staged in the gallery each year and often include informative lectures, artist talks, musical performances and other educational programs complementing the visual art on display.
With collectors from around the world, the gallery utilizes state-of-the-art technology, the Internet and other forms of distance communication in helping clients build important collections. The gallery has a large following among corporations, public art spaces, leading museums and prominent private collectors in whose collections the work of its represented artists appear.
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