Art Space
Gallery was founded in 1986 by Michael and Oya Richardson and soon came
to be recognised as one of London's foremost venues dedicated to showing
and promoting serious painting. In 1993 the art critic and writer Keith
Patrick, then chairman of the British section of the International Association
of Art Critics wrote that:
"Art Space Gallery
is one of those rare galleries which spontaneously attract the interest
of artists and many distinguished names are frequent visitors to its
exhibitions. This is even more remarkable given that the gallery is
situated in a quiet corner of Islington and not in the commercial centre
of Bond Street.
We may take this ground-level
support as an indication of the success of the gallery's policy. Over
a period when the art market has been particularly prone to the vagaries
of fashion Art Space has followed its own instincts. Above all its directors
- Michael and Oya Richardson - have maintained a commitment to painterly
figuration and have come to identify the gallery with a direction which
has remained significant in British art for forty years. It is to their
credit that they have extended our knowledge of the contemporary end
of that tradition.."
Since then
the gallery has grown along with many of its earlier artists to become
one of London's leading galleries for contemporary painting where the
work of young artists can be seen along with those of established reputations.
As David Lee commented in Arts Review in 1998:
"
Art Space
Gallery has an eye for the more refined art student and is always worth
visiting with a view to buying now what will indubitably be more expensive
later
"
The Gallery celebrated its 21st anniversary with a major exhibition of JEFFERY CAMP in April 2007 and continues to have showcase exhibitions of foremost British painters including the recent "Unique Prints" by LEON KOSSOFF, TERRY SETCH and the forthcoming MICHAEL SANDLE sculpture and drawings.
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